Articles Tagged "Met Office"

Readers may recall some months ago that the Met Office planned to “do over” the surface temperature data sets:

Met office pushes a surface temperature data “do over”

The effort has started, and a website has been setup at http://www.surfacetemperatures.org

They write:

Surface temperature datasets for the 21st Century

To meet 21st Century requirements it is necessary to reconsider our analyses of historical land surface temperature changes. This is about much more than simply re-engineering existing datasets. These datasets were adequate for assessing whether climate was changing at the global scale. This current exercise should not be interpreted as a fundamental questioning of these previous efforts. But these pre-existing datasets cannot answer all the questions that society is now quite rightly asking. They do not constitute a sufficiently large sample to truly understand our uncertainty at regional scales. At monthly resolution they are also of limited utility in characterising extremes in climate and their changes.

The last time I produced a "Solar Climate Change" forecast from Piers Corbyn's work I expected to see a dramatic change to the weather in the UK, however it was not until the UK rainfall measurements had been summarised by the Met Office for the entire month of July I noticed the effect of this WeatherAction prediction. In all fairness the forecast did contain a succession of solar activity from the initial burst starting on the 10-12 July, and if I had followed this to the letter I would have been able to demonstrate the "Record Wet July" in more detail.

The July "Solar" climate change for the UK summer period started bang on cue and continued throughout July, but it also heralded the start of the Moscow heatwave and the Pakistan Floods, according to Piers Corbyn these two events have been predicted to end from Mid August when another change to the Earth's climate takes place with a major "Solar Climate Change".

The August "Solar" climate change starts from the 15th (give or take a day), and no doubt we will see changes in the "jet stream" location with major weather reports concerning "floods" "storms" and who knows, a +7 Earthquake or a Volcanic eruption or both. The "Solar" climate change runs between 15th - 19th

Is “climate change” to blame for the smog in Moscow and the peat fires which have swept across Russia and devastated 30 per cent of its wheat harvest?

But of course, says a man from the Met Office, as reported in a BBC bulletin so predictably skewed towards AGW alarmism it might just as well have been taken from a press release by the World Worldlife Fund. (And which is the other expert the BBC decides to quote on this issue? Why none other than the Russian head of “Climate and Energy Programme” at the WWF, who – quel surprise! – sees the fires as a clear sign that greenhouse gases must urgently be reduced).

For a more balanced perspective, try this interview with Pat Michaels on RT.



Or this interview with Piers Corbyn.

The hosepipe ban imposed on seven million homes in the North West is likely to stay in place for the rest of the summer - despite the torrential downpours and floods which have swamped the region for weeks.

United Utilities said reservoirs in Cumbria and Lancashire were still too low to lift restrictions imposed last month after the unusually dry start to the year.

The warning came after the Met Office revealed that July was the wettest month of the year so far for the whole of the UK - and predicted that the rest of the summer would see mixture of sunshine and showers.

Despite parched conditions in the South of England, parts of the North of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland had twice the normal rainfall for the time of year.

The following page is taken from the Met Office site, it's a typical one sided view of climate change that should NOT be part of our child's education. If any of you can get together and put forward a counter view of climate change for child education from a Climate Realist perspective, please contact us.

Live resources for Key Stages 1 through to 5

The Met Office is hosting a series of free video conferences for schools and colleges in England. Offering a unique and interactive aid to learning in the classroom, each 45 minute presentation is bespoke, having been tailored around the questions your students want to put us and is delivered by our own weather and climate experts.

This service is funded by the Department for Education

Before you apply, please read the following important information.

Please ensure your school or college has the facility to run a video conference before applying.

Schools and colleges must be registered with JANET. You will be required to enter your venue address as registered with JANET in our online booking form. Please ensure this is entered accurately as the video conference will be booked using these details.

As the number of available video conferences is limited, schools and colleges can only participate in one conference during the 2010-11 programme.

The month that brought us a hosepipe ban, melting tarmac, health warnings about too much sun and a lot of very sunburnt bodies was also the wettest on record.

Despite a heatwave and the hottest temperature in decades, England suffered the wettest July ever recorded - and there is more to come forecasters have recorded.

According to provisional statistics from the Met Office, the UK was 46 per cent wetter than average and parts of the country also faced devastating floods.

Yet at the same time, the south east of the country was basking in temperatures well into the twenties as thousands of southerners took to parks, beaches and gardens to enjoy the heatwave.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has taken notice of the meteorological department’s poor performance, which has led to the prevailing disaster in the country.

A senior official told The Express Tribune that PM Gilani has sought an explanation from the director-general of the meteorological department, Qamar Zaman Chaudhry, over his department’s performance.

He said that authorities responsible to avert any disaster-like situation informed the PM that the meteorological department had forecast light monsoons this year. “Gilani has not only sought an explanation but also directed Chaudhry for helpful and effective forecast advisory in the days to come,” he added. “We can’t see hundreds of thousands people losing their homes only because of poor forecast,” he quoted Prime Minister as saying in a meeting.

The official said the DG Met office had claimed on June 28 during a briefing at the Prime Minister’s Secretariat that the upcoming monsoons will be normal and there won’t be any heavy rains. “Monsoons will only fill our water reservoirs and no floods are expected,” he quoted Chaudhry as saying.

The official said that on the same occasion the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) chairman, General (retired) Farooq Ahmed also claimed that all preparations had been made to avert any eventuality, though no floods had been forecast by the Met office.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik also told The Express Tribune that the prime minister wants to upgrade the Met office to increase its efficiency.

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Two part YouTube from Piers Corbyn

Part 1


Piers Corbyns review of the July Forecast and Weather forecast for August 2010

See below for Part 2 (Climategate & Met Office News)

The new Met Office report, saying that the effects of climate change are now “unmistakable”, is interesting. It seems to be the most comprehensive measure of global change yet, taking into account atmospheric temperature changes at sea level and in the upper atmosphere, ocean temperatures, and sea level rises. We are told “unequivocally that the world is warming and has been for more than three decades”.

What to make of this?

Well, it depends. If you’re a reader on these blogs, almost certainly you’ll say that this is yet another example of the conspiracy by various shadowy forces – the government, grant-hunting climatologists, the Met Office, Al Gore, Big Windfarm – to enforce ineffectual yet economy-crippling measures on the public in an attempt to stop an imaginary threat. You may use the phrase “ManBearPig” at some point.

Conversely, if you work in the press office of an environmental charity, you may see this as an opportunity to push the fear of global warming a bit harder: it’s definitely happening, you could say, and we all know global warming is going to be a catastrophe, so quick, let’s throw a few more billions at it, eh?

A new climate change report from the Met Office and its US equivalent has provided the "greatest evidence we have ever had" that the world is warming.

The report brings together the latest temperature readings from the top of the atmosphere to the bottom of the ocean

Usually scientists rely on the temperature over land, taken from weather stations around the world for the last 150 years, to show global warming.

But climate change sceptics questioned the evidence, especially in the wake of recent scandals like "climategate".

Now for the first time, a report has brought together all the different ways of measuring changes in the climate. The ten indicators of climate change include measurements of sea level rise taken from ships, the temperature of the upper atmosphere taken from weather balloons and field surveys of melting glaciers.

New technology also means it is possible to measure the temperature of the oceans, which absorb 90 per cent of the world's heat.

The State of the Climate report shows “unequivocally that the world is warming and has been for more than three decades”.