Met Office really ought to be abolished...what's the point?

Instead of cutting the semi legitimate government functions, how's about cutting these incompetents and/or anti-CO2 propagandists, first. Oh and the wars, did I mention them?

Met Office knew big freeze was coming but hushed it up

The Met Office warned ministers to expect an ‘exceptionally cold winter’ but then kept the prediction secret from the public.

The forecaster decided not to reveal the information because it was embarrassed after wrongly predicting a ‘barbecue summer’ in 2009, BBC analyst Roger Harrabin said.

Instead of a seasonal forecast, it offered only monthly snapshots.

The disclosure raises questions over whether transport authorities and councils could have been better prepared for the cold snap which brought chaos before Christmas.

As temperatures fell to a record low, train services were badly disrupted, roads were covered by snow and thousands were stranded at Heathrow as flights were cancelled and the airport struggled to clear the backlog.
Last night Mr Harrabin said: ‘With Britain shivering through a third winter in a row, shouldn’t the weather forecasters have warned us well in advance? Why didn’t the Met Office tell us?

‘The truth is it did suspect we were in for an exceptionally cold early winter, and told the Cabinet Office so in October.

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I can't decide whether or not they are simply trying to reverse-engineer a 'correct' prediction by waiting until after the event then saying, "ah I told you all so! (secretly!)"

Something stinks, and it couldn't be a bunch of AGW bandwagoneers looking to save their taxpayer subsidised skins now could it? Kind of funny in a way. This country, I dunno. Like Gerald Celente says, he'd be out of business if his predictions were that bad. These nice people however get unlimited funding from Charlie's Church for a Common Purpose. All I can say is thank Gaia for Climategate.

It Just Keeps Snowing

This isn't the Grampians or the Highlands or the Pennines. This is low land NE England. Conservatively, we have had about 10 inches of snow (as the press predicted) , probably a full foot all tolled. And I should know as I made the mistake of standing in it yesterday and it is surely 10 inches plus. Highly unusual as a weather event. Sometimes you hear about more wild snowfalls to the north a little (Durham is another of those 'cities built on seven hills') that cuts off villages or something, but as I say, not here.

I actually watched the other day as a car was stuck trying to get out of its own street, for about 5 mins as the owner dug his way out with the help of a neighbour. I thought back and I don't recall ever having seen that happen before. Now if you are reading this and you are from Germany or Russia or Canada or somewhere, this will probably bring you much amusement I suppose, but it just doesn't happen here. Some older people here can still hark back to times when they could not leave their houses due to snow, back before 'global warming' (the Sun cycle shifting to a high period of activity). Maybe we're in for a sustained cooler period again thanks to the new low activity phase of the sunspot cycle. Thankfully it seems to have put an end to Al Gore's shenanigans at least.

Has The North Atlantic Current Stopped Due To Gulf Oil/Corexit?

Life on this Earth Just Changed: The North Atlantic Current is Gone

"The latest satellite data establishes that the North Atlantic Current (also called the North Atlantic Drift) no longer exists and along with it the Norway Current. These two warm water currents are actually part of the same system that has several names depending on where in the Atlantic Ocean it is. The entire system is a key part of the planet’s heat regulatory system; it is what keeps Ireland and the United Kingdom mostly ice free and the Scandinavia countries from being too cold; it is what keeps the entire world from another Ice Age. This Thermohaline Circulation System is now dead in places and dying in others."

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A little reminder about our (Britain's) latitude: ~53 deg north
That is comparable to the Hudson Bay in Canada, for instance..in other words it is the ocean currents that cause our climate to behave as if we were ten or twenty degrees closer to the equator.

All I will say is, if he's right, you'll know in a couple of months. Brrrrr

"Food and Ethanol Shortages Imminent As Earth Enters New Cold Climate Era"

Forget global warming...

Food and Ethanol Shortages Imminent as Earth Enters New Cold Climate Era
Space and Science Research Center

The Space and Science Research Center (SSRC), the leading independent research organization in the United States on the subject of the next climate change, issues today the following warning of imminent crop damage expected to produce food and ethanol shortages for the US and Canada:

Over the next 30 months, global temperatures are expected to make another dramatic drop even greater than that seen during the 2007-2008 period. As the Earth’s current El Nino dissipates, the planet will return to the long term temperature decline brought on by the Sun’s historic reduction in output, the on-going “solar hibernation.” In follow-up to the specific global temperature forecast posted in SSRC Press Release 4-2009, the SSRC advises that in order to return to the long term decline slope from the current El Nino induced high temperatures, a significant global cold weather re-direction must occur. According to SSRC Director John Casey, “The Earth typically makes adjustments in major temperature spikes within two to three years. In this case as we cool down from El Nino, we are dealing with the combined effects of this planetary thermodynamic normalization and the influence of the more powerful underlying global temperature downturn brought on by the solar hibernation. Both forces will present the first opportunity since the period of Sun-caused global warming period ended to witness obvious harmful agricultural impacts of the new cold climate. Analysis shows that food and crop derived fuel will for the first time, become threatened in the next two and a half years. Though the SSRC does not get involved with short term weather prediction, it would not be unusual to see these ill-effects this year much less within the next 30 months.”

The SSRC further adds that the severity of this projected near term decline may be on the order of 0.9 C to 1.1 C from present levels. Surprising cold weather fronts will adversely impact all northern grain crops including of course wheat and the corn used in ethanol for automotive fuel.

In pointing out the importance and reliability of this new temperature forecast and its effects on North American crops, Director Casey adds,” The SSRC has been the only US independent research organization to correctly predict in advance three of the most important events in all of climate science history. We accurately announced beforehand, the end of global warming, a long term drop in the Earth’s temperatures and most importantly the advent of a historic drop in the Sun’s output, a solar hibernation. The US government’s leading science organizations, NASA and NOAA have completely missed all three, as of course have United Nations climate change experts. It is only because of the amount of expected criticism we received because of our strong opposition to the Obama administration’s climate change policies and our declaration of the end of global warming, that the SSRC is not more fully accepted for its leadership role in climate change forecasting. The facts and reliability surrounding our well publicized predictions however stand as testament to the SSRC’s proven ability to understand the nature of global climate change. In view of the importance of this new forecast I have notified the Secretary of Agriculture to take immediate actions to prepare the nation’s agricultural industry for the coming crop damage.”

The SSRC places only one caveat on this forecast. Casey elaborates, “Only a stronger solar cycle with a period longer than the 206 year cycle can cause us to alter our projections. Although more research is needed in this area, none have yet shown themselves. The present hibernation is proceeding in almost lock step as the last one which occurred from 1793 to 1830. If it continues on present course, while the cold weather impacts on food and fuel announced today are certainly important, they do not compare with what is to follow later. At the bottom of the cold cycle of this hibernation in the late 2020’s and 2030’s there will likely be years with devastating to total crop losses in the Canadian and northern US grain regions.”

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They can say what they like about the Sun and stuff, but I know the truth - man was responsible for causing global warming, but thanks to piracy, we have held off judgement for a while...

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