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Jan 3, 2013 Climate: WG2 Climate: other The Met Office and Channel Four combine in spectacular fashion to produce what may be one of the worst pieces of TV science for quite some time.
I love the bit where Tom Clarke says there are "clear signals of wetter weather emerging" and then we hear from a scientist about what his computer model predicts. And the bit where we hear that the globe has got warmer since 2000.
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That about sums it up for me, the Met Office is a political advocacy organisation which makes weather assumptions, prediction - well take a guess.
This is the same Met Office whose scientists give input to the IPCC. How do you think that'll turn out to be?
I've also seen a statistic that (globally) 2012 was the ninth warmest in the last 34 years....
Yawn....
Richard Betts is looking more and more like McCavity's cat.
Don, I feel that you are being too harsh on Richard. From what I have seen he is doing his best to promote rationality on climate within the Met Office, within the constraints of a bureaucracy he does not control. Quite likely there are several 'camps' within the MO, ranging from lukewarmer to full-blown catastrophist. We know that Richard is not one of the latter.
I believe that it would be good for the two of you to meet face-to-face in an informal off-the-record setting to iron out your differences and start up a dialogue that could eventually influence policy change. You may well find that your positions on AGW have more in common than you imagined. It may be worthwhile for Paul Matthews and other sceptic academics to do likewise.
@Chris. I do not see much reason from the met Office to change my opinion.
If there are several "camps" within the MO, they are exceedingly cryptic.
Do the words "double agent" and "false flag" ring any bells?