Note: Oldbrew informs me: “It’s a £3 million contract not £30m so the MetO may just about survive :/”
http://www.thegwpf.com/bbc-pulls-plug-on-met-office/
I must learn to stop saying “we’ve won” – because each time I do, something even better comes along which seems a better point to mark the end.
So, again, it is just beginning to dawn on me that if reports that some £30million of the Met Office budget of £33million are true, it now appears the end of the BBC contract with the Met Office is not only the end of “credible” global warming climate extremism on the BBC (fuelled by the Met office), but quite possibly the end of the Met Office.
And if so, the “head” & much of the body and several arms and legs of the global warming beast will have been removed in the UK. The UK climate extremists will once again be relegated to a few leather-patch-on-elbows pipe-smoking sandal-wearing hi-vis jacket wearing academics, ready to be wheeled out once in a blue moon.
In other words, it now seems likely that it will be the end of the Met Office contract with the BBC that history will mark as the end of the global warming scam in the UK.
And if only I hadn’t already said “we’ve won” – I could now say “we’ve won”.
Moreover, because this came out of the blue in a way that must have been unexpected, it will certainly send a cold shiver of realism down the backs of other government climate extremist organisations, particularly in the US, where similar draconian action against e.g. the EPA, NASA or NOAA looks highly likely when the Republicans win the presidency (even without it still looks probable!)
It might be a smidge premature, the current contract still runs till next autumn. They’ll probably still call on the MET if they want a talking head. But you’re right, losing the BBC contract could decimate them. I’m in two minds if it’s a good thing. The UK climate gang aren’t quite as bad as the US. However it seems that they’ve now decided to play follow the leader so their value is fading away.
After seeing the Chinese stock market collapse, I was tempted to write an article this morning called “the dead dead-parrot talks”.
Even if the Dead Parrot talks had not already been dead, no government is going to dare do something as daft as cut back on energy use at the moment for fear of creating a global melt-down.
Forecasting is always dangerous, but I think we are pretty safe from any significant alarmist regrouping before the middle of next year – which then makes the US elections the next significant point. So if Republicans look like getting in, we are almost certainly home and dry and the scam cannot revive. If however the democrats get a president, we might see a few more years of hot air talk about doing something, before they too stop yanking the green chain.
It’s a £3 million contract not £30m so the MetO may just about survive :/
http://www.thegwpf.com/bbc-pulls-plug-on-met-office/
Thanks!
Oh darn it, and I did so much like saying: “soon children won’t know what the Met Office is”.
We can hope that it’s the first rat leaving the sinking ship?