Project Gaslight Backfires Big Time - Met Office Blogger Dismisses Critics As 'Barrage Of Bots'
LOL.
The cynical response to the original Met Office post has been overwhelming:
The Met Office (and the BBC, the Guardian and others) are learning that you cannot alter the public perception of the British weather by feeding the British people with dodgy data and analysis. They got away with Covid but they sure as hell are not going to gaslight us into believing in a non-existent ‘climate crisis’. The British weather is deeply embedded in the British psyche and we experience the weather, directly, via our five senses. The ‘nudge’ merchants might think we have short, pliable memories, but it’s not so, in relation to the weather. Millions still remember the summer of 1976 like it was yesterday. We certainly are not going to ‘forget’ a cool, wet, thoroughly miserable spring which just happened at the behest of the Gaslighter Brigade!
I get it that if it has been cloudier than usual, then overnight temperatures will be higher than usual. The flip-side, though, is that an absence of sunshine probably means cooler daytime temperatures, and the two things should cancel out. Match and April were cold where I live - I have never used our log burner so consistently so late in the year as well have done this year. May was nothing to get excited about. We finally got our outside table and chairs out of storage, and the weather was good enough to sit out for only two short periods. Here we are in early June, and it's 12C and wet.
If it isn't gaslighting from the Met Office, then it certainly feels like it.
The 'powers that be' have forgotten that Britain is " a green and pleasant land" and that Ireland is "the emerald isle" . You don't go naming your countries after cool wet weather conditions, unless you have a lot of cool, wet weather.