Articles Tagged "Climate Fools Day"

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The British Broadcasting Corporation has put its weather forecasting contract out to tender – the first time since its radio broadcasts began in 1923 – after taking heat from the public for a string of embarrassingly inaccurate long-range weather forecasts. The UK Met Office, the government-owned meteorological department that has had the BBC contract for almost 90 years, is a partner with the Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University of Climategate fame. CRU and the UK Met Office jointly provide the climate change data that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change relies on.

The BBC’s decision comes amid one of the fiercest winters in decades that has left the country unprepared for the snow-related chaos it has seen. In August, the Met Office had forecast a mild winter. Last summer, the BBC had again been embarrassed: Thanks to the forecasts it had received from the UK Met, the BBC had warned its audience of an "odds-on barbecue summer" that instead was cool and rainy. In both cases, the BBC has faced outrage from a public that had been misled by the information the BBBC had provided it.

Many blame the UK Met Office’s abysmal forecasts record on a climate change bias. The BBC’s own climate correspondent, Paul Hudson, who for a decade had been a UK Met forecaster, believes the UK Met’s problem could stem from flawed computer models at its Hadley Centre, which provides data to the IPCC.

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Also Listen to the Sammy Wilson YouTube below and hear what he says about the Met Office

Richard Black an environment correspondent for the BBC News website, takes the easy way out on his Earth Watch blog with the current cold weather and goes on about how the world is warm in other locations.

Richard can also be seen to be running into problems in the comments section of this article as people have reminded him about the Winter Forecast made by Piers Corbyn at the Climate Fools Day conference that he had attended (see below)

It is thanks to Ralph Tittley from Kane-tv.com we can now show you Sammy Wilson at his very best.

Weather Action's 'Climate Fools Day' Sammy Wilson Part 1

It is thanks to Ralph Tittley from Kane TV we can now show you the very part of the "Climate Fools Day" Meeting that mentioned the "North Sea Storm Surge".

More videos from the "Climate Fools Day" meeting will be on display soon at WeatherAction.Com

This is my daily Met Office update that I'm running to see how close the Piers Corbyn "North Sea Storm Surge", mentioned at the Climate Fools Day meeting on the 28th October, falls in line.

As you can see from my update on Monday, the Met Office are in a panic. They have now made the Wednesday forecast using just 12- 24 hours notice! This beggers the question do the Met Office know what make's the weather change, the answer to that is NO!

In the space of 24 hours the Met Office have gone from a "be aware" (yellow shade) to "be prepared" (orange shade), this warning now includes the Friday. Will the Wednesday forecast be RED "Take Action"?

I will maintain the daily Met Office forecast so we can look back and see how close Piers and the Met Office are, in the run up to the "North Sea Storm Surge", the day in question looks to be Thursday 19th November.

There's been interest on this blog and elsewhere about a meeting organised on Wednesday by Piers Corbyn, the independent UK weather forecaster who argues that the sources of modern-day climate change lie in magnetic interactions around the Earth rather than greenhouse gas emissions on it.

So - a genie to your Aladdin, though emphatically not all-powerful - I thought I'd go along.

Held at Imperial College London - Mr Corbyn's alma mater - the meeting featured presentations from Northern Ireland's famously "climate-sceptical" environment minister Sammy Wilson, botanist and ex-BBC TV nature presenter David Bellamy, and a handful of academics - as well as from Mr Corbyn himself.

(The meeting wasn't endorsed or sponsored by Imperial - I'm sure they'd want me to point that out.)

If you're a practising scientist reading this and are wondering "why did he bother?", by the way, read on... I've an assignment for you at the end.

Like other "sceptical" meetings I've attended, it featured a heady melange of science (some of which would be swiftly dismissed in some quarters as pseudo-science) and politics.

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Stop them, before they Deny again!

On my way to a climate conference yesterday, I wondered what £6m worth of TV advertising might look like if it climate sceptics dominated the political and media elites, rather than environmental activists. This campaign would obviously be targeted at the small minority of people who think that their lifestyles affect the climate.

Perhaps creatives could come up with a 'Numptie' Family - who run around the house turning off lights, spend hours doing recycling, demand to eat vegetarian food, and send back their energy bills because they're not high enough. The message would be don't waste your time on pointless activities. The tag line could "Don't be a Numptie".

I expect that this would become a national sensation, (but perhaps not with Guardian readers,) and possibly even generate spin-offs. It would surely draw fewer complaints than the current £6m "behaviour change" campaign featuring the drowning cartoon dog.