Okay just to clarify the facts. Our friend Jim felt that due to their AGW stance that Julia Sligo and John Hirst were named in the honours list. I agreed with him but facts have to back that up so I emailed UKMO and asked how many previous UKMO individuals had previously been awarded . The answer came back 15 in 20 years and that included the latest two so that leaves thirteen in 19 years and then two in the twentieth year.

That tends to make me still agree with Jim.

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Lawrence Jenkins writes:
Okay just to clarify the facts. Our friend Jim felt that due to their
AGW stance that Julia Sligo and John Hirst were named in the
honours list. I agreed with him but facts have to back that up so I
emailed UKMO and asked how many previous UKMO individuals
had previously been awarded . The answer came back 15 in 20
years and that included the latest two so that leaves thirteen in 19
years and then two in the twentieth year.

That tends to make me still agree with Jim.

I suspect that if you did a statistical analysis of those figures, then
based on 13 in 19 years you would find that two in one year was not that
unlikely to occur if the awards can be considered to be made at random.
After all, if - as might easily have happened - Julia Sligo had been
honoured last year and John Hirst this year, or vice versa, it wouldn't
have seemed at all out of the ordinary.
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John Hall "He crams with cans of poisoned meat
The subjects of the King,
And when they die by thousands G.K.Chesterton:
Why, he laughs like anything." from "Song Against Grocers"

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In article ,
Lawrence Jenkins writes:
Okay just to clarify the facts. Our friend Jim felt that due to their
AGW stance that Julia Sligo and John Hirst were named in the
honours list. I agreed with him but facts have to back that up so I
emailed UKMO and asked how many previous UKMO individuals
had previously been awarded . The answer came back 15 in 20
years and that included the latest two so that leaves thirteen in 19
years and then two in the twentieth year.

That tends to make me still agree with Jim.

I suspect that if you did a statistical analysis of those figures, then
based on 13 in 19 years you would find that two in one year was not that
unlikely to occur if the awards can be considered to be made at random.
After all, if - as might easily have happened - Julia Sligo had been
honoured last year and John Hirst this year, or vice versa, it wouldn't
have seemed at all out of the ordinary.

It is Julia Slingo not "Sligo".
She thoroughly deserves her award. Well done Julia!

Will
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In article ,

Lawrence Jenkins writes:

Okay just to clarify the facts. Our friend Jim felt that due to their

AGW stance that Julia Sligo and John Hirst were named in the

honours list. I agreed with him but facts have to back that up so I

emailed UKMO and asked how many previous UKMO individuals

had previously been awarded . The answer came back 15 in 20

years and that included the latest two so that leaves thirteen in 19

years and then two in the twentieth year.



That tends to make me still agree with Jim.



I suspect that if you did a statistical analysis of those figures, then

based on 13 in 19 years you would find that two in one year was not that

unlikely to occur if the awards can be considered to be made at random.

After all, if - as might easily have happened - Julia Sligo had been

honoured last year and John Hirst this year, or vice versa, it wouldn't

have seemed at all out of the ordinary.



It is Julia Slingo not "Sligo".

She thoroughly deserves her award. Well done Julia!



Will

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Nah you got that wrong, Slingo is a county in Ireland.

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In article ,
Lawrence Jenkins writes:
Okay just to clarify the facts. Our friend Jim felt that due to their
AGW stance that Julia Sligo and John Hirst were named in the
honours list. I agreed with him but facts have to back that up so I
emailed UKMO and asked how many previous UKMO individuals
had previously been awarded . The answer came back 15 in 20
years and that included the latest two so that leaves thirteen in 19
years and then two in the twentieth year.

That tends to make me still agree with Jim.

I suspect that if you did a statistical analysis of those figures, then
based on 13 in 19 years you would find that two in one year was not that
unlikely to occur if the awards can be considered to be made at random.
After all, if - as might easily have happened - Julia Sligo had been
honoured last year and John Hirst this year, or vice versa, it wouldn't
have seemed at all out of the ordinary.

It is Julia Slingo not "Sligo".
She thoroughly deserves her award. Well done Julia!

I agree. I reckon the only reason John Hirst got his knighthood this year
was because they did not think that they could give one to Julia and not her
boss.

Cheers, Alastair.

On Friday, January 10, 2014 5:50:41 PM UTC, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
Okay just to clarify the facts. Our friend Jim felt that due to their AGW stance that Julia Sligo and John Hirst were named in the honours list. I agreed with him but facts have to back that up so I emailed UKMO and asked how many previous UKMO individuals had previously been awarded . The answer came back 15 in 20 years and that included the latest two so that leaves thirteen in 19 years and then two in the twentieth year. That tends to make me still agree with Jim.

Thanks for the support, Lawrence. Unlike you many on here cannot see the OBVIOUS and are happy to go along with the tripe our government puts out. Did you see the codswallop that PM Dave spouted today? Its obvious the AGW liars have now got him over a barrel with his pants down. We need a change of government. NOW

On Friday, 10 January 2014 22:49:19 UTC, Jim Cannon wrote:
On Friday, January 10, 2014 5:50:41 PM UTC, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:

Okay just to clarify the facts. Our friend Jim felt that due to their AGW stance that Julia Sligo and John Hirst were named in the honours list. I agreed with him but facts have to back that up so I emailed UKMO and asked how many previous UKMO individuals had previously been awarded . The answer came back 15 in 20 years and that included the latest two so that leaves thirteen in 19 years and then two in the twentieth year. That tends to make me still agree with Jim.



Thanks for the support, Lawrence. Unlike you many on here cannot see the OBVIOUS and are happy to go along with the tripe our government puts out. Did you see the codswallop that PM Dave spouted today? Its obvious the AGW liars have now got him over a barrel with his pants down. We need a change of government. NOW

Change to what though?

Politicians represent fewer and fewer people with each passing second and that's all of them .