On Tuesday, 29 January 2013 08:55:58 UTC, Martin Brown wrote:

Their main website rants away in much the same fashion.

Herein lies part of the problem. If Piers is on to something (and the Dennis Wheeler paper, although being in a relatively limited period with some - as far as I'm aware - relatively straightforward statistics - showed a small level of skill) he could go about his daily business with so much more integrity.

Simply taking the opposing stance to everything the Met Office says and coming out with wild proclamations surely isn't brilliant PR, is it? His Mad Scientist look doesn't help, either!

But for the moment it is
more fun to poke him with a sharp stick from time to time.

Quite. I quite like having him here, actually...

Richard