Posted on 01/29/2011 7:46:33 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
From the blog autonomous mind, a cold ill wind blows from Britain. At least this time, FOI requests weren’t quashed like they were with CRU. Below are excerpts. The photocopy of the email from the FOI request is telling.
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autonomous mind writes:
A look at the information makes clear there is nowhere left for the Met Office to hide. The Met Office has been caught ‘cold’ lying about its winter forecast in a disgraceful attempt to salvage its reputation. Its claim that it forecast the cold start to the winter lays in tatters thanks to an exchange of emails between the department and the Cabinet Office.
As a result the Met Office is completely discredited. Also utterly discredited is the BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin, who on the Met Office’s behalf used a column in the Radio Times (later carried in the Telegraph and the Daily Mail) to state that:
In October the forecaster privately warned the Government – with whom it has a contract – that Britain was likely to face an extremely cold winter.
It kept the prediction secret, however, after facing severe criticism over the accuracy of its long-term forecasts.
Harrabin went on to say in his piece that:
Why didn’t the Met Office tell us that Greenland was about to swap weather with Godalming? The truth is it [The Met Office] did suspect we were in for an exceptionally cold early winter, and told the Cabinet Office so in October. But we weren’t let in on the secret. “The reason? The Met Office no longer publishes its seasonal forecasts because of the ridicule it suffered for predicting a barbecue summer in 2009 – the summer that campers floated around in their tents.
The email exchange in the screenshot below proves this is a lie. The Cabinet Office civil servant (bottom message) confirms the weather outlook supplied by the Met Office earlier that day is what the government will use in its ‘Forward Look’. The Met Office employee (top message) agrees with it.
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Thanks! The differences in Brit-speak and American-speak are always fun.
the Met Office is completely discredited. Also utterly discredited is the BBC environment analyst Roger HarrabinThanks Ernest_at_the_Beach. The consequences? Probably no punishments, no firings, no reassignments, no reprimands, no blacklisting -- but plenty of new attention given to Harrabin by the global warming shills running and ruining US media.
Not so fast here Ernest, this proves beyond a shadow of doubt that global warming causes cooling!
102 replies at WUWT on this article....some interesting stuff....
This is particulary noteworth...see if I can cobble together....:
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First:
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frank verismo says:
Chairman of the Met Office: Robert Napier
Chairman of the Carbon Disclosure Project ($64 trillion under management): Robert Napier.
Any questions?
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frank verismo says:
@RockyRoad:
This is what happens when a cult replaces science. The faster the MET and BBC are discredited the better.
Funny you should mention those two in the same sentence. Further to my previous post:
Head of the BBC’s pension fund: Peter Dunscombe
Head of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change: (wait for it . . . . ) Peter Dunscombe!
Does anyone else detect a pattern here?
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frank verismo says:
P.s. – any wild guesses where Mr Dunscombe invested the BBCs pension funds?
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Geoff Sherrington says:
If Ayn Rand was writing ‘Atlas Shrugged’ today, she would have real names to put on the goodies and baddies.
If this blog is accurate about the conflicting positions of Messrs Dunscombe and Napier and the investments of the BBC pension fund and other commercial enterprises of the carbon type (and I have nothing to say it is wrong), then the situation is rather drastic.
I have already ranted how lax the current generation became in allowing such potential conflict of interest appointments. How active are you younger people going to be in redressing the anomalies? You can live without this type of structure.
Interesting — I have always thought that the truth will eventually be revealed in court when powerful investors sue Al Gore and his cronies for selling them a lie.
Interesting — I have always thought that the truth will eventually be revealed in court when powerful investors sue Al Gore and his cronies for selling them a lie.
And they pretty much have!
One of the most frustrating things is our EPA blindly continues to “rein in” the main cause of AGW, CO2. All of the green energy options were based on this, regardless of how much money they waste, “it’s for a good cause”.
Ignorance and oblivion rules the country!
Now who ...other than Gore ...is invested in this in the United States....that is the question.?
Though much of the global warming nonsense started in the UK, they seem to be doing a much better job than we are at exposing it.
the climax hoax theme song.... Elvis....
i’m caught in a trap
I can’t hold back
Cuz I love you (theory) too much baby
Gore’s toast — Zero will strike at all his rivals prior to the primary season, and the unraveling of the global warming demagoguery will make a perfect opportunity for Obama’s capo at the DoJ.
The lists will emerge in due time I am sure. Big banks like Goldman Sachs who has been a intimate part in setting up the CCX surely will surface as investors. We may find the USA L/MSM’s invested much like the BBC. GE comes to mind also.
It’s been obvious for a while, yet the march to stupidity continues.
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