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Showing posts with label met office. Show all posts
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Talking of "powerful vested interests", it is interesting to see how much we, the taxpayers, are and have been paying those dedicated public servants at the Met Office to study climate change.

Two entries in the DEFRA science database give some hint. The entry for 1990-2007 puts the sum at £146,275,582, while the next tranche for 2007-2012 stands at £72,536,724.

That is a cool £218,812,306, paid in addition to the basic overhead payments. And on top of that, there are many millions more paid for specific research projects - the total funding declared by DEFRA amounting to £243,620,197.

These sums, themselves, are a tiny proportion of the overall money extracted from our pockets, to pay for the government's obsession with global warming. The problem is that the payments are spread between so many different groups, and made by so many different departments, that it is very difficult to put an overall figure on it.

Of one thing, I am certain, however, the total – over term – runs to many billions. These sums here are just the tip of the iceberg. We could have bought our aircraft carriers, with change to spare, from the amount of money frittered away on climate change.

CLIMATE CHANGE – FINAL PHASE THREAD

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After the false start just before Christmas, the Mail on Sunday has got the right Richard North this time - with a long piece on the failures of the Met Office.

And it doesn't matter how old and cynical you get, there is still a certain buzz when you see your own work up on the net under a familiar brand name – and more of a buzz reading it in the flesh. I shall enjoy going to the newsagent to pick up a copy.

By complete coincidence - honest Guv! - Booker has chosen the same theme for his column. His is entitled: "The Met Office gives us the warmist weather".

This must be a first – the Booker/North team writing on the same subject, in different newspapers on the same day.

CLIMATE CHANGE – NEW THREAD

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