The BBC appears to have overlooked what the MET OFFICE told us the weather was going to be like but for your information here is what they said…
Confidence in the forecast for precipitation across the UK over the next three months is relatively low. For the December-January-February period as a whole there is a slight signal for below-average precipitation. The probability that UK precipitation for December-January-February will fall into the driest of our five categories is around 25% and the probability that it will fall into the wettest category is around 15% (the 1981-2010 probability for each of these categories is 20%).
Perhaps the BBC could investigate why the Met Office is allowed to pontificate on “climate change” when by its own words it has NO IDEA as to what our weather will do?
There is of course, a difference between the two.
The BBC is uniquely funded by a compulsory fee no matter how much they fail to deliver on any acceptable basis.
The Met gets its money via general taxation.
Interestingly, many seem to feel the BBC’s problems will be eased by moving to the Met model.
The actual output will be unlikely to change.
But at least many public servants will remain employed and well paid in the process.
The Met doesn’t even know what the weather will be like tomorrow, much less three days in advance, and as for their long-term forecasts, I thought they stopped those because people kept laughing out loud!!
I suspect their failure to forecast is a result of crypto nazi anarcho-syndicalist solicialist communist fascist tendencies deeply embedded
within a consensual liberal glaze.
It has always amused me how people like the Met Office can predict the climate 100 years ahead but cannot predict the weather 1 year ahead.
I might leave my job and set up as a climate scientist because I will be long dead and have been paid by the time my ‘guess’ has been rumbled. It’s similar to that speccy guy of Tomorrows World who set himself up as a Futurist making ridiculous guesses and getting paid for it.
Nice work if you can get it.
Never mind one year, it’s very difficult to predict the weather even one week hence. Remember also they are using the exact same computer and models to predict what the weather will be like in 100 years – which they insist is ‘correct’ – that they are using to produce “Confidence in the forecast for precipitation across the UK over the next three months is relatively low. For the December-January-February period as a whole there is a slight signal for below-average precipitation.”
That will be James Burke. Remember those programmes when he set up a scenario and challenged a team to come up with a strategy?
It always amused me that all their options were struck down by Burke because they weren’t allowed to happen, i.e. the ‘correct’ solution had already been scripted. This ignored the ‘Black Swan’ reality that most crisis occur with the ‘experts’ bleating “that can’t happen!”, even though it just has.
Yes, it’a a big house of cards. You must be able to accurately forecast weather in order to know what the weather will be like in a different climate system, decades ahead.
” What a complete parcel of molluscs”
By RICHARD LITTLEJOHN
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2559064/LITTLEJOHN-What-complete-parcel-molluscs.html#ixzz2tIvjuMki
Man-made climate warming in USA too, with record snowfalls?
“US Northeast hit with heavy snow from storm that kills 21; South still reeling from ice”
http://www.canada.com/news/world/Northeast+with+another+storm+South+still+reeling+from/9506420/story.html?
More extensive Beeboid political support for intolerant, dogmatic, expensive ‘greenies’ –
“Greens calls for clear-out of ‘climate change deniers'”
By Ross Hawkins (and who am I to question that?).
Political correspondent, BBC News.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26187711
And assuming her wish is granted, I wonder what her next step would be?
What a scary country we now live in.
The scary thing is that this draconian bum splurt of a policy was concocted after just one weather event.
And they say you can’t extrapolate from one weather event.
We have been warned.
1336.1776.1963 was the worst storms we ever had in the uk resulted in widespread damage and huge loss of life,i dont recall the scientists of the day blaming global warming or climate change on these weather disasters,here is the problem with these climate change propagandists,they wont listen to the alternative view,they are so smug and arrogant and cant answer the simple question you put to them about why did we have worst flood disaters going back centurys.that to me sums these lot up as complete global warming and climate change fanatics who frankly speaking are boring me to tears everytime they pop up on bbc news with there one sided biased propaganda.
I’ve watched quite a bit of BBC news in the past week, both on BBC1 and its dedicated news channel. Two things struck me:
1. The complete lack of curiosity as to what is causing the continuing heavy rain and strong winds. I think I heard a newscaster mumble ’caused by the Jet Stream’ once, but any in-depth analysis? – no.
2. No coverage at all of the incredible Arctic conditions prevailing in the US where at one point there was only one state that was free of snow. Polar Vortex? Never ‘eard of it guv. Do we understand it? – how can we understand summink we never ‘eard of?
‘Inform, educate, inform’? I don’t think so.
Stick to what you do best, BBC – that’ll be cbeebies 24 x 7.
Until now,the notion of global warming was off limits. I often heard people on phone ins being cut off as soon as it was mentioned. It was never mentioned on the BBC TV either . The reason I put it down to was that the government wanted to downgrade its commitment to green fuels and press ahead with exploiting fossil fuels particularly gas. Given that the BBC is state run this was hardly surprising. The State ,whether under Labour , which has rarely been a party of the left, or under Conservatism have always been staunchly right wing.
Now that Milliband has put GW on the political map ,Cameron and all his cabinet sceptics who previously would have just prefered the sun to have dried up Somerset, have been forced against their wills, to engage.
One things for sure the BBC will only promote a ‘responsible form of discourse on this subject’. There will be little mention of the fact that a 2 degree rise in temperature is unsustainable if a 0.7 degree rise is anything to go by. It wont mention either the fact that our whole society is based on oil ,( forms 70% of a box of cornflakes for example) and without it current population levels will have to fall to those of preindustrial times. Developed societies ,that can,will maintain fossil fuel burning ,which is why global warming will proceed along its natural course and why the almighty race for the artic has begun. Those societies that can’t will die off.
Of course the tories on this site wont recognise the signs and will continue to misappropriate the explanation for what that see to things like bad parenting or the EU ,muslims etc. whilst donning Camron’s current look of a rabit in headlights.
Why don’t they scrap trying to tell us what the weather will be like in a hundred years time and tell us the grand National winners in April ?