Nothing seems to go right for our poor under-secretary of state for roads, trains and drains. When news of his announcement as minister of railways was given the good Lord showed what He thought by smiting Ipswich station with lightening. Now he’s on the hook for the lack of rock salt.
It seems that there was a phenomenally poor prediction and calculation of the rock salt needed. While I could get out Hayek and talk about how this failure is bound to happen, why not look at something less controversial, how rubbish the Met Office proved to be?
They are continually erring on the warm side of any medium term predictions and while this is merely annoying when they predict a “barbecue summer”, people are dying because of their poor predictions this month. Piers Corbyn, left of Labour activist and brother of ultra left wing MP Jeremy Corbyn, says that he has predicted the cold snap with far greater accuracy far in advance.
His contention is that the Met Office didn’t just believe in global warming, they really, really believed it and were prepared to predict on the basis of it. And that’s why people are dying on the roads and we don’t know whether we’ll have to ration gas through the cold snap.
This is not to say that global warming is nonsense. As the BBC and the government (or did I repeat myself?) have been telling us for the last week the weather is not the same as the climate. A pity the Met Office seems to have forgotten.
(Just to cheer you all up, Piers Corbyn reckons that the cold snap will prove more than a snap and despite a couple of warm spells go well into February.)
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