Sir John Beddington, the retiring UK Science Advisor decided to let forth last week on how we are all doomed, he said
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The variation in the temperature or rainfall, which Britain has been experiencing lately, is double the average rate.
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Nope
He also said
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The variation in the temperature or rainfall, which Britain has been experiencing lately, is double the average rate
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Er, nope
And this is a taxpayer paid official scientist ?
But lets go on, the head of the UK enironment agency, Lord Smith recently said :
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We are experiencing a new kind of rain.
Instead of rain sweeping in a curtain across the country, we are getting convective rain, which sits in one place and just dumps itself in a deluge over a long period of time. From the point of view of filling up the rivers and the drains, that is quite severe.
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Oh, ok - you are the "expert"
I suppose as opposed to someone who studied the weather...
(UK weather presenters used to be employed by the MOD and not the BBC, they were scientists)
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The veteran meteorologist, Bill Giles, has criticised remarks by Lord Smith, the chairman of the Environment Agency, who had blamed the growing threat of flooding on a new kind of precipitation, known as convective rain.
However, Mr Giles, who joined the Met Office in 1957 and was head weather presenter at the BBC between 1983 and 2000, insists that convective rain has been a regular feature of British weather since the “beginning of time”.
In a letter to The Sunday Telegraph this week, he says that the term is merely a way of describing a type of intense rainfall that typically occurs on warm summer days. He writes: “There is nothing new about convective rain. Perhaps next time he should get a meteorologist to check his answers so that he doesn’t appear so ignorant of simple straightforward facts.
Mr Giles says that Lord Smith’s comments show that he has “no concept or knowledge of meteorology”.
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And these are the people in charge ?