Matt Ridley has written an excellent article on this in the Telegraph (4th July) He points out that the Met Office make alarmist predictions based on an impossible scenario called RCP 8.5 which assumes we burn ten times as much coal in 2100 as we did in 2000 and that the world’s population grows to 12 billion – way more than any demographer thinks is likely. Also there is no improvement in technology to make us more efficient – completely mad! In 2020 the BBC admitted that this scenario was very unlikely. And yet the Met Office will not see sense.
Matt thinks they are using this deliberately in order to scare people by grabbing headlines. They believe their reputation is such that they are untouchable, but they may have miss-judged this and over-reached themselves. More and more people are beginning to look more closely at this taxpayer funded organisation and wondering exactly what are they up to other than weather forecasting.
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July 8, 2025 at 01:30AM
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