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12 good reasons to scrap the Met Office – Telegraph Blogs

I love the Met Office, as you know.

That's why, I can't resist celebrating this compendium of its achievements prepared by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Whenever it's criticised, the Met Office like nothing better than to have its extensive PR operation (funded with the help of the £200 million we pay the Met Office each year out of our taxes) go into extreme denial mode, knowing that its mendacious, straw-man-filled defence will be reported uncritically everywhere from the BBC and the Guardian to the New Statesman.

So, Met Office Reality Denial Machine: get weaving with this lot…

NOAA 2013 – Brutally Cold Spring | sunshine hours

3rd coldest Spring out of 119 in Minnesota.

Settled science: Met Office brainstorms UK bad weather | UK news | The Guardian

Official records show that above-average temperatures in summer last occurred in 2006

BBC News - Science must end climate confusion

[Met Office's Richard Betts, 2010] The focus on climate change is now so huge that everybody seems to need to have some link to climate change if they are to attract attention and funding.

U.S. Tailors Regional Climate Plans to Help Farmers Beat the Heat - Bloomberg

A U.S. effort that will tailor climate-change relief for farmers by region may help build support for efforts to cut carbon emissions tied to global warming, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said.
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“You’re going to see a lot more stress” on crops and livestock from climate change, he said yesterday in an interview. “You’re going to see crops produced in one area no longer able to be produced, unless we mitigate and adapt now.”