Climate Data Now State Secret In UK

The Met Office (weather office) in Britain has egg on its face for the third year in a row. They are now zero for three in predicting summer and winter weather in the UK. They said hot and dry, three years running it has been cool and wet. They said winters would be mild and damp, Britain got snow storms instead.

The Telegraph reports that now that scientists are requesting underlying climate data from the Met Office, the data has turned into a state secret. And you'll never guess why:

One cause of the blunders that have made the Met Office a laughing stock is less widely appreciated, however. It is that the multi-million pound computer it uses to assist its short-term forecasting for Britain is also one of the four main official sources of data used by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to predict global warming.

In this respect the IPCC's computer models have proved just as wrong in predicting global temperatures as the Met Office has been in forecasting those mild winters and heatwave summers.