From the organization that can’t forecast its way out of a paper bag, and then can’t bring itself to tell the public about long range forecasts anymore, it has come to this. OK, I’m not against citizen science, but when you start asking the “Chemtrail” watchers to do “science” to help check your models, there’s no hope for you. They apparently have no idea what they are getting themselves into asking for contrail watching. If they thought they were going to catch flak for long range forecast issues, just wait until the Chemtrail people start in on them.
Check out these statements:
Researchers are also urging schoolchildren to blow bubbles to measure wind speed and direction near the ground, to reveal how the built environment affects the wind, as well as watching cloud movement to record wind direction in the sky.
The Open Air Laboratories (Opal) survey also involves the public recording how hot or cold they feel as part of efforts to see how people might cope with temperature changes.
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Scientists are also keen to discover what confuses people about climate change so that they can widen public understanding of the topic.
Dr Geoff Jenkins of the Met Office said: “We’re asking people to get outside observing and measuring the weather.
“What they see and record will be useful for checking the systems we use for forecasting weather and predicting climate.”
How hot or cold they feel? Sure that will reduce the “uncertainty” The only thing missing is tea leaves or tarot card readers.
Barking mad they are. Either that or this is simply a propaganda tool to engage children in the idea that they can do something supposedly useful to “change the climate”.
Full story here
Details on the project here: http://www.opalexplorenature.org/climatesurvey
The contrail submission page is here It’s a hoot.
Watching Gardeners World last night, weatherman Peter Gibbs turned up in Carol Klein’s garden with a portable weather station AND a bubble blowing machine to show her how the wind blew around in her garden. Bubble machines are obviously the new toy du jour. Sad, isn’t it? UK is the laughing stock of the world.
I’ll guess this has nothing to do with the Met Offices curiosity about their systems or what confuses people about climate.
I detect the hand of some psychology consultant employed to come up with ways “to engage” the public about climate, to draw them in, get them “on side”, feeling cosy and warm about the Met Office, who can then play them and make them more susceptable to the climate change propaganda. It is a ‘rope-dope’ manoeuvre.
Shouting and arm waving did not work as it scared the herd which bolted, so now entice them back into the pen; whisper softly and gently and often in their ears, get them eating out of your hand, then slam the five bar gate firmly closed on them once you have them lulled and trapped.
well look where sticking to the peer reviewed process has got them. Don’t you rather think it’s the Met that are confused, but at least re-connecting with well meaning amateurs will get them more credibility right now, now that their cred. Is in the shredder.
Children blowing bubbles is probably more accurate than their computer programs.
Propaganda tool, but it will be self-defeating in the end. Cult priests should never invite people to use their own senses and make their own measurements. People in touch with Nature can tell when it’s cold and when it’s hot.
When you know from your own records that it’s getting colder and colder and colder, you can’t listen to nonsense about the Dark Warmth that keeps on getting hotter and hotter and hotter, just waiting to BUST THROUGH THE DOOR AND ROAST US ALL! JUST YOU WAIT, SINNERS!
As a farmer in NW England and directly under a major flight path to N. America, I’ve ‘used’ contrails to predict the weather for years..
Basically, if the planes leave a very short trail, the weather will stay dry for the next day or two, if the trails are long (or last for a long time), rain is imminent. In no way can they be used to predict next week/month/year/decade’s weather.
Of course, in NW England, you cannot see the trails most of the time because it usually raining anyway. sigh
At least it gets people watching the weather and hopefully making their own minds up..
It makes a joke of the ‘weather is not climate’ meme, unless it suits your purpose, of course.
So lemme get this straight: they’ve finally admitted that the most accurate scientific meters are unable to record credible data records, so they are falling back on eyewitness reporting, which any fool knows is completely unreliable?