When you think about it, the Met Office is a trading agency of the MoD, set up originally (and currently) to deliver weather forecasts – many of which it gets wrong.
Now, this lowly operation – staffed by taxpayer-funded civil servants – is telling us (actually, an international audience of policy-makers) to cut "pollution" from cars and factories at a rate of five percent a year by 2020.
And since when do the weather men have the power and authority to dictate policy? When did this happen?
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