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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Slingo out to dry
Feb 18, 2014 Appearances Climate: MetOffice I have written up the story about the travails of Professor Slingo for the Spectator's Coffee House blog.
See here.
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When, eventually, someone in authority at the Met Office is brave enough to say: 'Look, mate, we haven't got a bloody clue whether this weather (whatever it happens to be at that particular moment in time) is linked to climate change' - then I'll listen.
In the meantime, as my dear departed mother-in-law used to say, they tend to talk as their belly guides them...
Got slingo'd under a bus, you could say.
There's another element to all of this.
Supposing you are on the telly - being interviewed (probably by video link) as a 'climate expert' by one of the well-known 'anchors' of BBC or Sky News - and this question is put to you:
'Is the present extreme weather linked to climate change..?'
This is your fifteen minutes of fame. Are you to say: 'Yes, its consistent with climate change..'...? Or: 'No - no connection whatsoever..'
Funding stopped..? Dressing down (or worse) by relevant government minister/department boss..?
Well - what would you do in that situation..?
Sherlock, she should be asked that question in court.
With climate science funding coming from politics, 'publish or perish' gets supplanted by 'be politically correct or perish'.
Stephen Richards, thank you for your interpretation of post of 9:25pm last night.
I believe the copy and paste in my post last night was an extract of a Met Office briefing document presented to the Enviroment Agency and discussed at their September 2012 Board Meeting. Which basically states that they haven't a clue what causes the jet stream to loop so low and its persistence in holding that low loop causing the prolonged wet summer weather that year
We are told this year that the jet stream is again holding a low loop and is causing the significant amounts of rainfall. But this time Slingo seems to be able to link it to climate change. Which begs the question what ongoing research has evolved in the last 18 months or so to enable Slingo to blame climate change.
Slin-going it alone?