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I have been fortunate to have visited the Met office in Exeter a number of times. I mostly scoured the excellent archives-general records back to the 13th century on vellum- plus a good library. I also had meetings with several of their scientists. Someone from this site helped translate a 700 year old document of manorial records which highlights the conditions of each season.
Coincidentally I used to live near their previous offices in Bracknell and saw an early version of the model that predicts climate. Britain has difficult weather to predict, sitting where it does but a business with tens of millions of pounds worth of state of the art computers and hundreds of top staff should really do better with their forecasts than they do. I certainly wouldn’t trust a forecast more than 3 days ahead and even those are often wrong.
So my question is why does what is essentially a meteorology organisation concerned with weather, think it is able to predict the climate up to 100 years ahead and be taken seriously?
In that of course many other similar organisations around the world also hold great credibility with their respective governments. Why?
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Dartmoor is an upland area close to me, famous for its wild photogenic ponies that have been there for 3500 years.
The title says it all and can be usefully tied in with the news that the eco nuts at Sainsburys-one of our top supermarkets-intend to phase out brown eggs in favour of white omnes, so they can help reach their net zero targets
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/eco-nuts-will-kill-off-dartmoors-ponies/
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This article about Mad Miliband can be usefully put with the news that Airlines are becoming increasingly concerned about lithium batteries used by passengers on planes, especially battery charging packs and especially when they are put in the hold. The number of incidents is small but the dangers of a lithium battery experiencing a runaway fire at 30000 feet does not bear thinking about. Or in a train tunnel, or on a ferry, or in a multi storey car park….
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/06/06/milibands-new-net-zero-ev-targets-are-not-credible-warn-carmakers/
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