Christopher Booker of the UK Telegraph incisively recounts how British response to the third-in-a-row, record-cold winter has been dangerously hamstrung by government-wide adherence to climate predictions based on global warmist dogma originating in the UK Met Office, the equivalent of our federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Services agency, The reason why the Met Office gets its forecasts so hopelessly wrong is that they are based on those same computer models on which the IPCC itself relies to predict the world's climate in 100 years time......Its senior climate change official, Peter Stott, said in March 2009 that the trend towards milder winters was likely to continue. There would not be another winter like 1962/3 "for 1,000 years or more". Last winter was colder still. And now we have another even more savage "random event", for which we are even less prepared. (The Taxpayers' Alliance revealed last week that councils have...(Read Full Post)