UKMO not ideologically motivated , eh? well Chris Booker is turning up some interesting snippets like about the Chair of the organisation Robert Napier here's some of Bookers article
"Nothing more tellingly reflects the Met Office's partisanship, however, than the fact that its present chairman is Robert Napier, a green activist who previously ran WWF UK, one of the most vociferous of the climate change lobby groups. Mr Napier now helps run not only the Met Office (which has been part of the Ministry of Defence ever since its forecasts came "from the Air Ministry roof") but also an array of other bodies centrally involved in driving the political climate-change agenda.

He is, for instance, chairman of the Green Fiscal Commission, charged with "greening the UK tax system" by shifting 20 per cent of government revenues to green taxes by 2020. He is a director
of the Climate Change Group,
an international lobby group involving "a coalition of governments and the world's most influential businesses", "helping to set the targets, create the policies, build the confidence and generate the political willpower needed to make the changes the world requires". He is chairman of the Homes and Communities Agency, which seeks to buy up land for "eco-towns" and dictates the need of new housing to comply with strict "green standards".

Mr Napier is a director of the Carbon Disclosure Project, which claims to hold the largest database in the world on corporate carbon footprints, so that companies that fail to support the green agenda can be vilified for their part in destroying the planet. He is also
a director of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation, a pressure group dedicated to using the world's religions to push the same agenda. (I am indebted
to a paper on the buythetruth.wordpress.com website -
"Eco-Imperialism: Every Environmentalist's Dream" - for pointing the way to all this.)

It might seem extraordinary that such a political activist should now be in charge of the government body responsible for providing our daily weather forecasts. But what makes it even more remarkable is that one reason why those short-term forecasts are often so comically wrong is that, as the Met Office likes to boast, they are produced with the aid of the same super-computer used to provide the IPCC with its predictions of what the world's climate will be like in 100 years' time."



UKMO politically motivated? Never http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/board/



Full article here. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/c...-so-wrong.html

Now I've always maintained that there is something 'nasty in the ideological woodshed' at UKMO and it's heavy propaganda grooming by this present government so it's good to be vindicated. Of course add the Briffa debacle to their sorry list of manipulations and we are really starting to get to the truth.

On Oct 3, 10:33*pm, "Lawrence Jenkins" wrote:
UKMO not ideologically motivated , eh? well Chris Booker is turning up some interesting snippets like about the Chair of the organisation Robert Napier here's some of Bookers article
"Nothing more tellingly reflects the Met Office's partisanship, however, than the fact that its present chairman is Robert Napier, a green activist who previously ran WWF UK, one of the most vociferous of the climate change lobby groups. Mr Napier now helps run not only the Met Office (which has been part of the Ministry of Defence ever since its forecasts came "from the Air Ministry roof") but also an array of other bodies centrally involved in driving the political climate-change agenda.

He is, for instance, chairman of the Green Fiscal Commission, charged with "greening the UK tax system" by shifting 20 per cent of government revenues to green taxes by 2020. He is a director
of the Climate Change Group,
an international lobby group involving "a coalition of governments and the world's most influential businesses", "helping to set the targets, create the policies, build the confidence and generate the political willpower needed to make the changes the world requires". He is chairman of the Homes and Communities Agency, which seeks to buy up land for "eco-towns" and dictates the need of new housing to comply with strict "green standards".

Mr Napier is a director of the Carbon Disclosure Project, which claims to hold the largest database in the world on corporate carbon footprints, so that companies that fail to support the green agenda can be vilified for their part in destroying the planet. He is also
a director of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation, a pressure group dedicated to using the world's religions to push the same agenda. (I am indebted
to a paper on the buythetruth.wordpress.com website -
"Eco-Imperialism: Every Environmentalist's Dream" - for pointing the way to all this.)

It might seem extraordinary that such a political activist should now be in charge of the government body responsible for providing our daily weather forecasts. But what makes it even more remarkable is that one reason why those short-term forecasts are often so comically wrong is that, as the Met Office likes to boast, they are produced with the aid of the same super-computer used to provide the IPCC with its predictions of what the world's climate will be like in 100 years' time."

UKMO politically motivated? Neverhttp://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/board/

Full article here.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/c...erbooker/62579...

Now I've always maintained that there is something 'nasty in the ideological woodshed' *at UKMO and it's heavy propaganda grooming by this present government so it's good to be vindicated. *Of course add the Briffa debacle to their sorry list of manipulations and we are really starting to get to the truth.

You've maintained several things. None of which are being proven true.
It's a number 4. A rant against the establishment and not worth taking
in the slightest bit seriously.

On Oct 3, 10:33*pm, "Lawrence Jenkins" wrote:
UKMO not ideologically motivated , eh? well Chris Booker is turning up some interesting snippets like about the Chair of the organisation Robert Napier here's some of Bookers article
"Nothing more tellingly reflects the Met Office's partisanship, however, than the fact that its present chairman is Robert Napier, a green activist who previously ran WWF UK, one of the most vociferous of the climate change lobby groups. Mr Napier now helps run not only the Met Office (which has been part of the Ministry of Defence ever since its forecasts came "from the Air Ministry roof") but also an array of other bodies centrally involved in driving the political climate-change agenda.

He is, for instance, chairman of the Green Fiscal Commission, charged with "greening the UK tax system" by shifting 20 per cent of government revenues to green taxes by 2020. He is a director
of the Climate Change Group,
an international lobby group involving "a coalition of governments and the world's most influential businesses", "helping to set the targets, create the policies, build the confidence and generate the political willpower needed to make the changes the world requires". He is chairman of the Homes and Communities Agency, which seeks to buy up land for "eco-towns" and dictates the need of new housing to comply with strict "green standards".

Mr Napier is a director of the Carbon Disclosure Project, which claims to hold the largest database in the world on corporate carbon footprints, so that companies that fail to support the green agenda can be vilified for their part in destroying the planet. He is also
a director of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation, a pressure group dedicated to using the world's religions to push the same agenda. (I am indebted
to a paper on the buythetruth.wordpress.com website -
"Eco-Imperialism: Every Environmentalist's Dream" - for pointing the way to all this.)

It might seem extraordinary that such a political activist should now be in charge of the government body responsible for providing our daily weather forecasts. But what makes it even more remarkable is that one reason why those short-term forecasts are often so comically wrong is that, as the Met Office likes to boast, they are produced with the aid of the same super-computer used to provide the IPCC with its predictions of what the world's climate will be like in 100 years' time."

UKMO politically motivated? Neverhttp://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/board/

Full article here.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/c...erbooker/62579...

Now I've always maintained that there is something 'nasty in the ideological woodshed' *at UKMO and it's heavy propaganda grooming by this present government so it's good to be vindicated. *Of course add the Briffa debacle to their sorry list of manipulations and we are really starting to get to the truth.

Actually the rant is combined with a number 2 as well - probably
apposite. A straight lift from Christopher Booker in the Torygraph.
Would anyone with any sense believe this?

..

Actually the rant is combined with a number 2 as well - probably
apposite. A straight lift from Christopher Booker in the Torygraph.
Would anyone with any sense believe this?

Could you please explain yor rant guidelines. For example do you use a
rantimometere?

On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 13:19:38 +0100, "Lawrence Jenkins"
wrote:


.

Actually the rant is combined with a number 2 as well - probably
apposite. A straight lift from Christopher Booker in the Torygraph.
Would anyone with any sense believe this?

Could you please explain yor rant guidelines. For example do you use a
rantimometere?




Interesting and entertaining concept, Lawrence! Do you envisage this
being some kind of device that has similarities to an anemometer
except it monitors the results of ideas spinning round and round
inside someone's head, and that are reported as an output that ranges
from "calm" to "full of wind"?

Geoff

On 4 Oct, 20:49, wrote:
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 13:19:38 +0100, "Lawrence Jenkins"

wrote:

.

Actually the rant is combined with a number 2 as well - probably
apposite. A straight lift from Christopher Booker in the Torygraph.
Would anyone with any sense believe this?

Could you please explain yor rant guidelines. For example do you use a
rantimometere?

Interesting and entertaining concept, Lawrence! Do you envisage this
being some kind of device that has similarities to an anemometer
except it monitors the results of ideas spinning round and round
inside someone's head, and that are reported as an output that ranges
from "calm" to "full of wind"?

Nope, it is merely gusts of Adjectivity and nothing much better to do.
I wonder how its site is coming along. I might even delve therein for
a bisquitit extract if its in shape by now.

(Not.)