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No Austerity For The Met Office!

July 27, 2015
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By Paul Homewood

 

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http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/d/b/AR1415_Revised.pdf

 

The Met Office’s Annual Accounts are now published for 2014/15, and once again we find that government funding has increased.

 

 

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In the last five years, while commercial income has stayed flat, funding from government has shot up by 15% to £187 million.

 

The top tier of management have benefitted well from this largesse.

 

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Julia Slingo does particularly well, with a nice fat bonus on top of her inflated salary, not to mention a pension pot of over £700K.

 

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No sign of austerity at the Met Office then!!

from → Climate Change
7 Comments
  1. BLACK PEARL permalink
    July 27, 2015 5:20 pm

    The Priests of Climate Change (whoever they maybe) always get first dip into the collection plate.
    Only fair I suppose when your aiding the collection of £42 billion year in emission taxes
    The most plausible ‘con jobs’ are always massive scams, because something that size and with so much support from “the top well connected people” must be true.

  2. oldbrew permalink
    July 27, 2015 6:23 pm

    Is that ‘performance related pay’ linked to successful climate crystal ball gazing? If so they won’t be getting any.

  3. tchannon permalink
    July 27, 2015 10:28 pm

    Remembering….
    http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Hundreds-Exeter-Met-Office-staff-strike-pay/story-26090140-detail/story.html

    And many more newspaper items.

  4. rhymeafterrhyme permalink
    July 28, 2015 6:36 am

    My experience is something
    The Met Office could use,
    So I’ve applied for a job
    To help rhyme their ruse;
    I thought false predictions
    Might be better in verse,
    Might disguise the fact
    They’re just getting worse,
    And the Met Office is a place
    Where I feel I could belong,
    Performance related bonuses
    For getting it wrong!

    http://rhymeafterrhyme.net/false-predictions/

  5. Phillip Bratby permalink
    July 28, 2015 8:10 am

    Who decides that they should get these massive salaries, huge bonuses and fantastic pensions (not to mention excellent working hours, holiday entitlements, expenses and sickness pay – so I won’t)? Are us taxpayers asked whether we are getting value for money from these troughers?

  6. Green Sand permalink
    July 28, 2015 8:52 am

    Whilst they are still not generating growth in commercial revenue, there is significant growth in propaganda. The MO and DT keeping up the drum beat:-

    7:29AM BST 27 Jul 2015 – “UK weather: First the rain, now gales batter Britain as summer holiday misery continues”

    “Met Office issues weather warning for ‘unseasonably strong winds’ that threaten holidaymaker misery and cause hazardous driving conditions…”

    Also contains:-

    “………..Hot conditions that a sun-soaked Britain enjoyed a few weeks ago produced the hottest July day on record as temperatures hit 98F (36.7C) – surpassing even Mumbai in India.

    The heatwave caused roads to melt and Britain’s commuters faced widespread train cancellations as parts of the rail network buckled under the pressure…….”

    Roads melting and rails buckling are nothing new, well known back in the 60s

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_stressing

    5:40PM BST 27 Jul 2015 – Will 2015 be Britain’s windiest year in two decades?

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather/11766178/Will-2015-be-Britains-windiest-year-in-two-decades.html

    Say what? ‘two decades’? News?

  7. Green Sand permalink
    July 28, 2015 8:54 am

    Sorry missed link to first article:-

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather/11764581/UK-weather-First-the-rain-now-gales-batter-Britain-as-summer-holiday-misery-continues.html

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