Slingo & The Met Office Lose The Plot
By Paul Homewood
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2013/meeting-unusual-seasons
Last week, the Met Office held their summit meeting to discuss the UK’s “run of unusual seasons”. In particular, they looked at the “cold winter of 2010/11”.
This is all very strange, because only two years ago Julia Slingo signed off the Met Office’s “Climate: Observations, Projections & Impacts” publication. It had this to say about the winter of 2010/11:-
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/t/r/UK.pdf
Just to recap:-
“The season lies near the central sector of the temperature distribution and would therefore be an average season.”
Indeed, looking at the record since 1910, the winters of 2009/10 and 2010/11 were not uncommonly cold.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/summaries/actualmonthly
It appears that only in the LaLa land of climate models was the winter “unusual”.
So, Met Office, who is right?
Is the Met’s Chief Scientist, Julia Slingo, right in saying the winter of 2010/11 was “average”? Or is the Head of the Hadley Centre, Stephen Belcher, correct when he says it was “unusual”.
Or might I make a suggestion and say that it was “unusually average”!
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Yes, the Met. Office is getting increasingly schizophrenic.
In their list of university attendees at the conference of “Weather & Climate ‘experts’ “, they make no mention of UEA/CRU. Would it be completely wrong to infer that the MO considers that organisation to have none?
Or, that any ‘experts’ at UEA/CRU considered the junket ‘not worth attending’?
A new addition to newspeak! Warmcold, meet UnsuallyAverage.
LOL!!! Very nice, Paul.
Last week’s gathering at the Met Office could also be described as “unusually average”, being simultaneously an urgent review (Slingo) of unprecedented weather weirdness and a routine research meeting (Betts).
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Slingo should sling her hook and go.
She’s ridden the AGW career train as far as its going. It’s stopped.
They will probably be touting for a better computer system soon, you know, so that they can improve their forecasting. Now where have we heard that before?