The Met Office & The Civil Service Code
By Paul Homewood
h/t Anonomeuse
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2016/december-records
The Met Office has claimed that December 2015 was the wettest month since records began in 1910. As we know, they have records dating back to 1766 which totally demolish this claim.
Of course, the Met Office statement has this footnote, which covers its back.
However, there is something called the Civil Service Code, which states:
How “truthful and open” is it to make no mention at all of the longer running rainfall series for England & Wales, which confirms that the wettest December was in 1876, and the wettest calendar month was October 1903?
These facts are clearly an embarrassment to Julia Slingo and her colleagues, who have been determined to convince us that global warming is leading to more extremely wet weather. But “integrity” means putting aside such personal interests and providing both government and public with all of the information, and not just the bits that suit them.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
The BBC jumps through all sorts of linguistic hoops to call the ‘Islamic state’ by a name that won’t land them in any trouble. It should not be beyond the means of the Met Office to find a form of words that makes clear that the record they’re referring to is not the complete story.
How about “wettest month since at least 1910”?
Given the vast sums spent on logos that could be designed by any competent primary school class these kind of soundbites must be worth a non-trivial amount of money.
Indeed. I now call the BBC, the “so-called” BBC, as a result of them referring to “so-called” Islamic State. Twats
On December 4, 1770, John Adams (one of the US Founding Fathers and 2nd President) wrote in an argument in Defense of British Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials, the following statement which ever rings true and which a lot of people need to heed:
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
Nice … will have to remember this one
I have recently written to Dame Julia about the Met Office website which in its Climate Change pages has several untruths of an alarmist nature. Perhaps I will get a reply.
All government pronouncements go first to an tall structure of glittering white concrete with thousands of rooms. Therein workers of the Ministry of Truth, responsible for the falsification of historical events, convert the text into Newspeak for public release.
Example: “not a record” becomes “since records began”
Politicised “science”, AKA climate change/warming, means corrupt science.
As demonstrated by the Met Orifice.
I have a better name for “Islamic State”; Satanic State.
I quizzed the Met Office and got a reply of: “Prior to 1910 there were too few regional records. Further info here, http://bit.ly/1PLMA3T ”
I would be interested to hear Paul’s (or anyone else’s) appraisal of this “Newspeak” page obviously prepared laboriously by a worker at the Ministry of Truth.