More Met Office and statistics
Apr 10, 2013
Bishop Hill in Climate: Parliament, Climate: Statistics, Climate: Surface

There is more evidence of parliamentarians' attention being focused upon the Met Office's statements climate change. This question to ministers in the Department of Business Information and Skills (the department that sponsors the Met office) has been tabled for a reply next week. 

Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the claim that (a) every year since 1998 has been significantly warmer than the temperatures you would expect if there was no warming and (b) for the last three decades the rate of temperature increase is significant made by the Met Office in a climate science briefing sent to the Chief Scientific Adviser on 8 February 2010 was supported by any statistical time-series analysis.

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