Re: rotten eggs for Piers


"Martin Brown" <|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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On Nov 29, 6:34 pm, Richard Dixon <rdngem...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

I object to the use of the word "expert" in that sentence. It
tarnishes real forecasting experts in the public eye.

It is high time that meteorologists got together and demanded that the
tabloid halfwits that gave him all that headline billing for his doom
mongering crap publish an equal and opposite grovelling retraction and
apologise for being taken in by a blatant conman. His long range
forecasts are not even worth the paper they are written on.

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."

It is the stock in trade of charlatans and self publicists.

It takes less than half a brain to predict that it will be a bit
stormy sometimes in winter. And a lucky guess might convince the
terminally gullible. How about this for a possible long range weather
prediction :

It will snow in the second week of February 2008 with sub zero daytime
temperatures.
(based on careful examination of the entrails of flattened hedgehogs
today on the A19)


I agree. I looked at a squashed hedgehog just the other day outside Bovey
Tracey, and although the shape of the entrails would suggest cold the way that
some of them were elongated suggested a zonal spell. So a little bit of
uncertainty there.

:-(

Will
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