Failure shouldn’t be rewarded says Wilson
Sammy Wilson has criticised for MET Office for awarding £12.3million in bonus payments in the last 5 years. The figure was revealed to him through a parliamentary question.
The East Antrim MP said that an organisation which got its predictions so badly wrong shouldn’t be handing out bonuses to its staff.
He said:
“The Met Office has failed in regards to their predictions. Their short, medium and long range forecasts have been consistently inaccurate. On November 28th last year the Met Office declared that we were heading for a ‘milder than average’ winter. In fact it was the coldest for 30 years. Summer 2009 was going to be a ‘barbecue summer’ but it was a washout, as were many summers over the last few years, all of which the Met Office failed to predict.
Of course the Met Office has itself admitted its annual global temperature predictions were wrong for nine of the past ten years; however it rewards failure by paying millions in bonuses.
While the Met Office award themselves for their inaccuracy, it will be the British people that will again have to pay for their mistakes and error. Unable to predict weather one month in advance, they call on us to believe that they can predict the climate 100 years in advance and tell us to take drastic action at a huge cost in order to avert catastrophic climate change. The cost of ‘combating’ climate change will run into the billions and will dwarf the £12million awarded to those who have made these mistakes over the last few years.
The Met Office has lost credibility with the general public, and awarding bonuses following their abysmal record will not help to endear them to the public.”
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