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Why haven’t Bureau executives been sacked? “Two of the most senior executives at the Bureau of Meteorology have been castigated for giving evidence to a Federal Circuit Court judge that was false and unreliable in a “deliberate attempt to mislead the court”, prompting the intervention of Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek. Federal Circuit Court Judge Douglas Humphreys launched a scathing attack on BoM chief executive Andrew Johnson, his right-hand man, Peter Stone, and an HR manager, Simone Keenan, for their conduct in a case involving the redundancy of a general manager who was headhunted to join the agency in 2018. The decision and the judicial comments have reopened a significant fissure at the meteorological agency over the quality of its leadership, which has been beset by accusations of waste, dysfunction and a decline in data and forecast reliability. “The court formed the view that Dr Johnson managed the Bureau using a close and detailed management style, in which his views were final, and not subject to any challenge,” Judge Humphreys wrote in his published reasons on February 9. “The fact that the applicant pushed back, seeking examples and justifications for positions, in the court’s view, would have been a matter that would have exacerbated Dr Johnson’s negative views of the applicant.” The case comes more than a year after The Saturday Paper first revealed the bureau was no longer meeting its World Meteorological Organization obligations in upper-air monitoring, a critical data source for climate models. The agency is still failing on this measure. Since then, other monitoring metrics at the bureau have also declined substantially. Accounting errors worth tens of millions of dollars have been uncovered and had to be corrected. Sources say a major upgrade of technology has been poorly managed and led to the cancelling of other projects.” ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Ask a straight question. Get a convoluted answer. Some might even call it lying. The fact that Andrew Johnson and Peter Stone still have their jobs after so many years of abysmal performance just goes to show how easy it is for bureaucrats to fail upwards in Canberra. The fact they are still there isn’t just the current Labor Government's fault. Numerous coalition backbenchers including myself either lobbied Tony Abbott or Scott Morrison about the dodgy practices of the Bureau in manipulating raw observation data (I.e. the actual temperature recording) into homogenised data that suited the global warming narrative. If this manipulation didn’t occur the temperature change within the last hundred years would be within the margin of error. The practice of homogenisation is just straight out lying in order to deceive Australians into wasting billions of dollars on climate change. Quote from: https://t.co/1LlurpD1nN #auspol