Forecasters who won’t forecast and a sixties icon of getting it all wrong are just what we need on a Monday morning.
The Met Office.
You might think I’ve been picking on the Met. Office recently, and you’d be right. But they make it so easy.
First, at the very moment when their credibility is at an all time low and the general populace is starting to think that all that doomsaying was a crock, the geniuses at the Met claim to have found the AGW fingerprint. They say that it proves man is to blame for pleasant weather, to a 95% certainty.
If you’re wondering what new science they did to reach this near-certainty… they didn’t do any. They re-reviewed over 100 peer-reviewed papers and rehashed the results for a supportive press release to stem the tide of skepticism. For good measure, they claim the discredited IPCC with underestimating mans impact:
The panel assessed more than 100 recent peer-reviewed scientific papers and found that the overwhelming majority had detected clear evidence of human influence on the climate. Peter Stott, head of climate monitoring and attribution at the Met Office, who led the study, said: “This wealth of evidence we have now shows there is an increasingly remote possibility of climate change being dominated by natural factors rather than human factors.”
The comedy gold comes from a second press release: ‘Met Office seasonal forecasts to be scrapped‘
…[The Met Office] was berated for not foreseeing that the UK would suffer this cold winter or the last three wet summers in its seasonal forecasts. The forecasts, four times a year, will be replaced by monthly predictions. The Met Office said it decided to change its forecasting approach after carrying out customer research. Explaining its decision, the Met Office released a statement which said: “By their nature, forecasts become less accurate the further out we look.
They said it, not me.
World’s Worst Scientist Arrives to Save World’s Worst Science
Paul Ehrlich, the man behind ‘The Population Bomb’ and many more predictions of doom that failed to materialize, has scurried to the aid of the global warming ‘scientists’ who punk’d science with their junk data and ideological agendas:
“Most of our colleagues don’t seem to grasp that we’re not in a gentlepersons’ debate, we’re in a street fight against well-funded, merciless enemies who play by entirely different rules,”
And by ‘entirely different rules’ Ehrlich means the ‘merciless enemies’ are demanding real results from real science from shared data that can be tested and verified indepently. Sort of like oh, the scientific method. Evil bastards.
You can tell a lot about people from the company they keep, and the people rushing to defend thoroughly discredited climate science have revealed far more about themselves than they may have intended:
“This was an outpouring of angry frustration on the part of normally very staid scientists who said, ‘God, can’t we have a civil dialogue here and discuss the truth without spinning everything,’” said Stephen H. Schneider, a Stanford professor and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment who was part of the e-mail discussion but wants the scientists to take a slightly different approach.
Jones Gets Sweded, IPCC gets Soviet Boot to Groin
Phil ‘The Decline’ Jones told a parliamentary committee that one reason he ‘couldn’t’ share data for FOIA requests was restrictions from foreign partners. Inconveniently for Jones, the Swedes say he lied. Keep digging, Phil, there’s a cell warming for you.
In Soviet Russia, dirty laundry airs you:
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Old and Busted: Al Gore
The Guardian wants a fresh prophet to replace the old, busted prophet. Al Gore’s stock is so low that there is now open talk about needing a new spiritual leader:
…the plain fact is that we surely need a prophet, not yet another committee. We need one passionate, persuasive scientist who can connect and convince – not because he preaches apocalypse in gory detail, but in simple, overwhelming terms. We need to be taught to believe by a true believer in a world where belief is the fatal, missing ingredient.
What is it with lefties and hippies that make them so averse to doing a little thinking for themselves?
Ginger, Explained
Scots and Irish people have red hair in disproportionate numbers. It’s the weather, apparently, so maybe global warming can rid us of the ginger menace:
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