OKAY ENOUGH OF THE TOM (WHAT A WONDERFUL NAME) FOOLERY, BACK TO WHAT GOD MADE ME TO DO
And that is not to argue with people who know nothing about what I do. So I have lifted my response to the "wonderful" Telegraph article that involved me.
To Tom's credit, Garrett, my son, got on his twitter site and he seemed to understand he may have been a little misinformed about me. and he gave me something to write about.
In the end, I have said this a million times, to me it's about the weather. I get no benefit from this stance; this is the labor. However, the fruit of my labor will not be saving the planet, it will come from hitting the forecast so people will then come to me for a forecast, and I can continue to feed my family and do what I believe I was made to do. That's all there is to me. Perhaps because it is all I have, I pursue it with as much gusto as I can muster, and that can rub people who are more balanced in their pursuits the wrong way. I have discovered that to be true, so in a way, journalists, and artists, many times have a greater ability to see things that those of us less gifted can't. We know and cherish the one thing we believe we have and work every day to justify that. But knowing a lot of artists, and obviously I love writing, though my style is an editor's nightmare (believe it or not I used to be in a rock band, a very different crowd from whom I am normally around), it's something that I wish I had more of. So some of these attacks are by people that believe what they think is from a grander, more open viewpoint and single-purposed folks can be threatening. What I try to do is use what they see to test me, and if it's right, I need to adapt it, not reject it. But I most certainly try to use the visions of others to help me, whether they like me or agree with me. That people don't understand that one must understand the past and present to forecast the future, and of course when out to years and decades it becomes a trend forecast, well then they really are missing the point. I am not your standard "denier." There are far bigger things that drive me in life. In weather, there is no benefit to being wrong, and at the very least, what the weather is proving is this debate is far from over.
So in the spirit of letting bygones be bygones, I want to point out that the rest of the winter, and I think you are starting to see this now, is much more back and forth than what we have had. This is for the UK and Ireland. The farther southeast one goes, the more cold wins out over any mild air. However, we still can have a merry time from time to time even though pushes of maritime air make it in. One of these times, the push will be stopped and instead of drizzle and temps in the 40s, a snowy pattern will result. Winter is over, but the worst of the cold, relative to averages, is for the northwest part of Europe.