The UK’s weather will become both too wet and too dry – and also too cold and too hot – as climate change increases the frequency of extreme events, the Met Office has warned in a new report.
There, fixed, anything can be excused, same ploy as before.
Out of curiosity what is not too wet too dry too cold too hot?
And another thing, it seems the Met Office has selectively leaked to friends of the Met Office, BBC had it, The Guardian (quote source) had it. The Met Office web site Press Releases has nothing, the Met Office blog has nothing.
That’s too too much.
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Saw this on the BBC News channel earlier. The logic of the Met Office’s pronouncement as presented by the beeb in the segment was so tenuous I had to wait for the news cycle to come around again. It made no more sense the 2nd time around, either.
Rog will rempart me for putting a pink dress on his front page. 🙂
On WUWT still do not know what the polar vortex and why in Washington snowing.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#2014/03/29/0300Z/wind/isobaric/70hPa/orthographic=-30.49,87.66,481
I am sure that with more resources (code – taxpayers’ moolah) they could eventually accurately forecast the weather a week in advance.
The comments on the BBC site were rather scathing of the report 🙂
TC: Rog will rempart me for putting a pink dress on his front page. 🙂
Not at all. There is a precedent:
By the way, I hope that photo wasn’t taken in Denmark. Risky business impersonating a giraffe there.
What’s the scientific evidence in the MetO report? They’re now saying (quoting the BBC article):
‘The assessment of future weather extremes finds the role of human influence is “detectable” in summer heatwaves and in intense rainfall.
However, the Met Office says a lot more work must be done to confirm the links.’
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So they have no proof of any links to human influence. And ‘detectable’ is a big step back from claims that man is mainly responsible for whatever they think ‘climate change’ actually is.
How much more public money do they plan to blow on looking for these supposed ‘links’ that they still haven’t shown after years of shouting about them?
A collection of sound bytes framed around the ‘extreme weather = global warming’ meme, arranged in such manner as to give the impression to the gullible, the uneducated and ill-informed (i.e. most of Parliament, in particular the oaf in charge of DECC) that the Met Office knows what the hell they are talking about, in spite of the fact that, most obviously to people who fall into the category opposite of that above, they haven’t got the foggiest clue. Probable result: shower them with more public money.
With Shukman live on yesterday’s 1pm News; and, he & McGrath both given pages on the Sci/Env section of Auty’s web site, I suspect producers are simply collecting 28-Gate brownie points.
The comments are fantastic.Even for the bbc. The “public” are basically laughing outright at climate scientists now… Their credibility is “almost” in tatters. And its ENTIRELY of their own making, of the entirely stupid decision post adhoc events to link them to “climate change”
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This Behemoth is bleeding from a thousand cuts, many self inflicted. Bureaucracies grow until they are starved to death. Like all socialists, Ecoloons gravitate toward the money. Too bad that they will just sneak their way into another agency if you starve this one. As long as universities keep training new ones we will be overrun with these pests. GOD is attempting to lure them out into the open so we can herd these lemmings over the cliff of public opinion. Just keep yelling at them and they will herdup as they are frighten of our well organized, well funded effort. 😆 pg
Tim, nice skirt! yours? The mask is a good touch. Gave me a smile last night as well as this morning. thank you. pg
WJohn says:
March 26, 2014 at 7:07 am
I am sure that with more resources (code – taxpayers’ moolah) they could eventually accurately forecast the weather a week in advance.
REALLY ?
Just to play Devils Advocate : Are the Met being more devious that we are giving them credit for?
More heatwaves, more frequent and longer cold spells, stronger storms and more frequent droughts. There is some historical evidence that these conditions prevailed during the “Little Ice Age” associated with the Maunder Minimum.
Given that many solar scientists are predicting a prolonged period of reduced solar magnetic activity, are the Met hanging their hat on this, with the intention of blaming it on our CO2 emissions, rather than ascribing it (should it actually verify) to the Sun?
Yes an increased variability is quite possibly so but in that case the Met Office staffers involved are demonstrating foolishness by calling a brick a tart.
For those in search of the elusive giraffe in a tutu … Earn more coins during Slingo Happy Hour Events every day 🙂
[mod: being a spoilsport the direct link has been removed, a US based gambling organisation is a poor link for a non-commercial UK based blog.
It is amusing… “www.slingo.com/games/detail/slingo-safari-slots” –Tim]
Fairy nuff Tim but results from this former game are obviously being pressed into service here:
http://www.thedrum.com/news/2011/08/23/met-office-launch-online-weather-game
Question is, does the ensemble manager now wear a pink tutu to work with or without green wellies and a neckless giraffe mask? Met Office amusement currently relegated to:
http://zone.msn.com/gameplayer/gameplayer.aspx?game=slingosupreme
No gambling (apart from flash) but attractive themed graphic!
Slingo Ensemble coming soon. In the meantime you can run multiple simultaneous instances in most browsers 🙂
“Are the Met being more devious that we are giving them credit for?”
Indeed, I can certainly give them plenty of credit for being devious. Predicting ‘everything’, and later claiming credit, is, of course, not new.
Increased variance is an extra twist (and a possibility). But the cynic can rightfully also claim that it is simply a ruse to claim hot&cold and wet&dry and sunny&cloudy as all being proof of global-warming because you can find more examples of variance by simply taking more observations.
No new extremes needed!
All that is needed is to say nothing when the weather is precisely average. Which is almost never.
I thought this particular nonsense had originated in Australia because I had heard similar meandering statements about what is supposed to be the ever-changing effects of climate change on our weather patterns. Never mind that such patterns always come in cycles, and never mind that the poet Dorothea Mackellar wrote the poem “My Country” based upon the precise patterns that we are now experiencing at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. She wrote about Australia as a “sunburnt country” and of “drought, fire, famine and flooding rains”. I guess that about sums it all up!!
The new word of the year is “unprecedented” even when the record temperature set in 1960 at Oodnadatta has not fallen, or that a few days of very hot temperatures is in no way unprecedented or even evidence of anything catastrophic looming.
Over the past 2 years I have moved from Canberra to the Central Coast of NSW, where areas are divided by City Councils. The Lake Macquarie City Council is a little further north of our location. It is notorious for its decrees regarding Climate Change, including decrees about house structures… a floating house (which has never been built in Australia). It is not just the Greens who come up with this kind of nonsense!!
Also, the latest in a long line of rubbish has seen climate change being blamed for the failure to find the missing Malaysian Airlines aircraft. It seems that climate change is supposed to have messed with the currents in the Indian Oceans… hmmm…. that is why that region is known as the roaring 40s. The currents are very fast….. nothing to do with climate change!!