"Met Office chairman Robert Napier spent eight years running the Worldwide Fund for Nature. He changed the emphasis of its work from the protection of endangered species to lobbying for tougher climate-change measures."
Communist regimes ALWAYS put bureaucrats in charge of important and critical infrastructure who have little or no experience in the basics of what they're charged with running.
These people are political appointees who have the correct political orientation and party allegiance, which for Commies, trumps real knowledge and experience. Disasters ALWAYS follow these appointments, as a result.
Welcome to the United Soviet Socialist Kingdom.