And each of those alarmist predictions was hyped endlessly by the media.

Via Daily Caller:

A BBC weather forecaster is claiming that the United Kingdom’s Met Office’s method of predicting annual increases in global temperatures may have a “warm bias.”

The BBC’s Paul Hudson said that the yearly climate predictions made by the UK climate authority have been “too warm” for thirteen of the last fourteen years.

The Times reports that in “December 2012, the Met Office gave a ‘best estimate’ based on computer models that the global temperature would be 0.57C warmer than the 1961-1990 average of 14C… Last month, it said that a ‘central estimate” of real measurements up to the end of October showed an increase of 0.49C in 2013.”

This makes 2013 provisionally the 9th warmest year in data which goes back to 1880,” Hudson, who worked for the UK’s Met Office for 15 years, wrote in his BBC blog. “This compares with a headline anomaly prediction of 0.57C.”

“It means that so far this century, of 14 yearly headline predictions made by the Met Office Hadley centre, 13 have been too warm,” Hudson added. “It’s worth stressing that all the incorrect predictions are within the stated margin of error, but having said that, they have all been on the warm side and none have been too cold.”