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2010-01-17 Britain

BBC Considers Changing Weather Forecaster

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-01-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I would suggest thare are more reasons to "cancel" the connection to the BBC and the MET Office as the below article points out:
Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation
Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with the Climategate whitewash, says Christopher Booker.

The MET is out of touch by using "corrupt data" to make weather predictions:
Professor Philip Jones, the CRU's director, is in charge of the two key sets of data used by the IPCC to draw up its reports. Through its link to the Hadley Centre, part of the UK Met Office, which selects most of the IPCC's key scientific contributors, his global temperature record is the most important of the four sets of temperature data on which the IPCC and governments rely not least for their predictions that the world will warm to catastrophic levels unless trillions of dollars are spent to avert it.

Posted by Snereng Hapsburg1595 2010-01-17 07:38|| 2010-01-17 07:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Seems a little mean to diss the Met just because they have been completely and utterly wrong in their forecasts for the last couple of years. A compass that reliably points south instead of north is still useful.

Besides, they just bought that big honking super-computer which will let them be wrong much faster.

Posted by SteveS 2010-01-17 15:28|| 2010-01-17 15:28|| Front Page Top

#3 and they were so accepting of constructive criticism too!

Posted by Frank G 2010-01-17 15:53|| 2010-01-17 15:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Snark o' the Day award to Frank. A round on me at the Club for that one.

Posted by lotp 2010-01-17 16:23|| 2010-01-17 16:23|| Front Page Top

#5 All this cost only 2 billion pounds in the last decade...

That's more moolah to add to the AGW scam costs.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-01-17 18:31|| 2010-01-17 18:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Wish they could stick around long enough for me, Ali-Gore and the boys at Goldman to make some quick $$$$$$$$$ in the carbon futures markets...

Posted by lex 2010-01-17 18:59|| 2010-01-17 18:59|| Front Page Top

#7 We call our local weather show "The weather Guessers? their accuracy is around 50% at best,
I can do as well looking out the window.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-01-17 19:13|| 2010-01-17 19:13|| Front Page Top

#8 See above post:

Met Office computer accused of 'warm bias' by BBC weatherman

for more detail....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2010-01-17 21:02|| 2010-01-17 21:02|| Front Page Top

#9 "Met Office computer accused of ~~'warm bias'~~ lying by ~~BBC weatherman~~ just about everybody"

Fixed.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-01-17 23:36|| 2010-01-17 23:36|| Front Page Top

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