Re: rotten eggs for Piers

On 29 Nov, 18:11, lawrenc...@xxxxxxx wrote:

Piers has been at this nonesnse for years. I have a Dialy Teleraph
cutting from autumn 1980 where he's warning of the bitterest of
winters in the offing, with snowdrifts and common nighttime temps of
-15c; of course we know the opposite was the truth.

At least one national meteorological agency is taking an abrupt line
with him.

Richard

"Storm reports causing unnecessary panic"
6 November 2007

DE BILT - Meteorological institute KNMI thinks that British weather
expert Piers Corbyn's prediction of a "super storm" to hit the
Netherlands at the end of November is causing unnecessary panic.

Cees Molenaars of the weather institute says that the reports on the
storm are based on hype and have no scientific basis. "This is how you
make people afraid unnecessarily and that is dangerous."

Molenaars received a phone call from a woman in a wheelchair. "Because
of the sensational reports that are being spread, this woman is
worried she won't be able to leave her home if the storm hits. It is
terrible that a weather prediction can have this effect. We really
have to stay away from that kind of thing."

Meteorologists of the KNMI say that this coming weekend could be
stormy, but nothing unusual for autumn. If there is any reason for
alarm the KNMI will issue a weather alert.

Weatherman Piet Paulusma, who published the report on his weblog,
doesn't think that he is contributing to spreading panic. "Something
of that magnitude we wouldn't call a storm. And if that storm does
come, then we've all got a huge problem."
.

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