Another Met Office missive misses the mark

Is the UK's state weather watcher any more useful than another green campaigning organisation? Let's defund it.

The Met Office (MO) has today published another of its annual weatherporn reports, “State of the UK Climate in 2024”. These reports are very obviously fig leaves for Westminster’s cross-party political consensus on the green agenda. And the MO’s standing orders are to support that agenda, no matter the cost, and no matter the liberties they need to take with science. The MO’s press release shows it plainly:

“Annual climate stocktake shows weather records and extremes now the norm in UK Climate”

Really. Really?

The idea of “extremes” becoming the “norm” is in any case so clearly a mark of a thumb on the scale, that it is safe to begin with the conclusion that the MO has departed from science, and require it to justify its existence and its value to Britain.

The success of the political messaging is demonstrated by the BBC dutifully — and characteristically uncritically — reporting these absurd claims. And it’s all the more remarkable that one state agency reports another. So let’s start there, with the BBC’s chosen emphasis…