Global Warming Produces Average Weather?

Two years ago, after a hot and dry summer in the UK, radical warming pundits said "we told ya so." Then last year after a very cool and wet summer, the same gang, thinking no one would remember their year-earlier predictions said "we told ya so."

This year is pretty average. Not too hot, some rainy days, but not too many, and not too cool. If people are thinking that global warming causes every type of weather - they are probably right.

For an idea as to how right these people generally are, this was issued by the UK Met Office in April '07, predicting the 2007 summer.

The latest seasonal forecast from the Met Office issued today, reveals that this summer is, yet again, likely to be warmer than normal...The forecast for rainfall is less certain, and currently there are no indications of an increased risk of a particularly dry or particularly wet summer.

This was way off. In April 2008, here's what the Met said about 2007:

The main feature of Summer 2007 was the high rainfall experienced in many regions...Summer 2007 was relatively cool – the coolest since 1998.

Hmm. Pretty clueless, as expected. This year the same Met office first said that summer 2008 temperatures should be warmer than usual, although we should expect some cool days. That was said in April. In June, they backtracked slightly saying, there will be more cool and cloudy days.

It is unknown whether the same idiots who predicted UK temperatures in 2007 are continuing to be wrong in 2008.