When you make claims that can’t be backed, polite people will call your assertion unsupported, and the no-bullshit types will simply call it a lie. From Chris Morrison at dailyskeptic.org:
The Met Office has been unable to back up a claim that storms in the U.K. are “more intense” due to the effects of climate change. The claim was made by senior Met Office meteorologist Claire Nasir on January 22nd on BBC 5 Live Breakfast in the aftermath of Storm Isha, and led to a freedom of information request for an explanation by investigative journalist Paul Homewood. The Met Office has replied that it is unable to answer the request due to the fact that the information “is not held”.
In fact the Met Office could have addressed the claim that storms are growing in intensity by referring to its own ‘State of the Climate 2022’ report:
The most recent two decades have seen fewer occurrences of maximum gust speeds above these thresholds [40/50/60 knots] than during previous decades, particularly comparing the period before and after 2000. This earlier period [before 2000] also included among the most severe storms experienced in the U.K. in the observational records including the ‘Burns Day Storm’ of January 25th 1990, the ‘Boxing Day Storm’ of December 26th 1998 and the ‘Great Storm’ of October 16th 1987. Any comparison of storms is complex as it depends on severity, spatial extent and duration. Storm Eunice [in 2022] was the most severe storm to affect England and Wales since February 2014, but even so, these storms of the 1980s and 1990s were much more severe.
An explanation for the remarks broadcast unchallenged on the BBC was provided by the Met Office, “in order to provide advice and assistance”. The statement about more intense storms being due to climate change was, the Met Office explains, in reference to “our published U.K. Climate Projections, looking at projections in the future”. This is straight out laughable, since it seeks to justify a statement firmly in the present with waffle about future modelled projections. Paul Homewood comments that it is “small wonder that so many have little confidence in the Met Office anymore”. Meanwhile, the Global Warming Policy Foundation has demanded that the Met Office retracts the “false ‘more intense storms’ claim”. The foundation notes that there is no compelling trend in maximum gust speeds recorded in the U.K. since 1969.
Meanwhile in FUSA comradette (?) Levine said that climate change is racist.
King Canute must put a stop to this by imperial decree or stone tablet etching, maybe a climate free zone sign?
Comrade Pope is way behind in enshrining the new Gaia religion for the world but still has some burning it all down to do.
Terminator II was right with the scene we aren’t gonna make it (as a species) are we?
But, but, but, it’s on teevee that means etched on a stone tablet. (s/)
March someone out in a lab coat to make it more believable or show someone standing out in the rain in a puffer coat.
They use the almost all red weather map for summer why not have a blue or gray one for winter.
The Frank Zappa quote about 85% morons in the universe is spot on and why we can’t have nice things.