The Royal Meteorological Society (RMS) has had a long and a proud record since its inception in 1850. It was formed as “a society the objects of which should be the advancement and extension of meteorological science by determining the laws of climate and of meteorological phenomena in general”.
It began life as the British Meteorological Society. It became The Meteorological Society in 1866, when it was incorporated by Royal Charter, and the Royal Meteorological Society in 1883, when Her Majesty Queen Victoria granted the privilege of adding “Royal” to the title.
Its list of past presidents reads like a who’s who of British meteorology.
Sadly, however, it appears to have now become just another state mouthpiece for Net Zero propaganda.
It has just released a media briefing, deliberately timed to coincide with COP31 this week, warning of what it calls “a super-sized El Niño”. It states:
