Met Office Must Take ‘Junk’ Temperature Data into Account Creates Zero Madness – Are You Enjoying It?
VIA CHRIS MORRISON
Pressure is likely to increase in the coming days on the UK Met Office to issue a full public statement on the status of temperature measuring stations across the country. This follows sensational revelation last Friday daily doubt that nearly eight out of ten sites have huge scientifically indicated ‘uncertainties’ that essentially disqualify them from providing the accurate data needed to advance the Net Zero agenda according to collectivism. Our report went viral on social media with more than 1,300 retweets on X and it was reposted on several websites. Investigative journalist Paul Homewood has been reporting on the Met Office’s temperature claims for many years, and in light of the new revelations, he notes that if he wants to continue using his existing station measurements, then the warning should be given that the error rate is so great that they have there is no statistical significance at all”.
Specifically, almost a third (29.2%) of Met Office sites are classified as CIMO Category 5 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and this comes with a warning of “uncertainties The estimate added when determining the location is 5C°”. Category 5 can be called a ‘junk’ rating because the WMO does not give guidance on where it can be placed. The next Category 4 has an uncertainty level of 2C°, while Category 3 has a 1C° warning. From information disclosed under a Freedom of Information request, daily doubt have compiled the chart below showing that Class 4 accounts for 48.7% of the Met Office’s 380 recording stations. Only 13.7% or 52 stations had no ‘uncertain’ warnings.
The Net Zero promotion requires reasonably accurate measurements of both local and global temperatures, and these measurements are simply not available. Before last year’s COP28 meeting, the BBC organized one article explains about the significance of the 1.5C° threshold, the increase in Earth’s temperature based on the end of the Little Ice Age. Myles Allen, Professor of Geosystems Science at the University of Oxford, and coordinating author of the IPCC special report on 1.5C°, said: “Every tenth of a degree of warming matters, but as you get warmer, each increase is more important.” in 2018. It is difficult to see how much accuracy of 0.1C° can be achieved by reference to current Met Office data, let alone the possibility of claiming up to two decimal points, as the Met Office has do, that last year in the UK was just 0.06C° cooler than the all-time annual record.
Comments on social networks after the incident daily doubt Publishing is often damaging. On Homewood’s website, ‘YorksChris’ commented, “well, this is appalling… some of the positions of so-called professional radio simply amaze me!”, while ‘magasox’ comment that this is big, adding, “skeptics should shout it from the rooftops at every opportunity.” He felt heads should roll, “but of course they didn’t.” Above daily doubt blog, ‘For a fist full of rubles’ wants the mainstream media to follow this up, “and reveal how the powers that be deliberately mislead us”. Based in the United States Watts Up with that? location More than 300 articles welcomed the news, with ‘UK-Weather-Lass’ stating: “It’s time for a public inquiry into how corrupt and unfit for purpose the Met Office is and why it was allowed continue like that.”
Problems with Met Office data are mainly due to increasing urbanisation, encroaching on space around stations and distorting measurements with artificial heat. Similar problems have been identified around the world leading to growing doubts about the accuracy of often-cited ‘global’ temperatures. Scientists estimate that heat corruption could be responsible for up to 30% of warming according to meteorological databases. The Met Office adds its figures to global aggregates but the increasingly politicized state-sponsored operation also uses its data to post almost constant temperature ‘records’. The daily doubt investigated published thermal records since 2000 and found that all two standards were disqualified. Many of them were classified as Grade 5 ‘junk’ and most of the remainder were placed in Grade 4.
Category 5 records include the highest daily maximum temperatures in Northern Ireland, announced in 2021 at Castlederg. The highest monthly temperature for January this year was set at Achfary and this Category 5 site also holds the record set in December 2019. Three UK regional records were also set at other locations. Category 5 locations include England NW, East Anglia and England SE and Central S. The second record is provided by St. James, one of five locations expected to have a maximum temperature of 40C° on July 19, 2022. This special event is praised at the time considered a “milestone in climate history” by the Met Office. Another 40C° location, Northolt airport, is also in category 5.
According to the WMO, a Category 5 site is one where nearby obstacles “create an unsuitable environment for meteorological measurements intended to be representative of a large area.” Following Paul Homewood’s previous FOI request, the Met Office noted that Category 5 data “will be flagged and not cited in the national record”. This doesn’t seem to be happening. On 25 July 2019, the site at Cambridge Botanic Gardens recorded a new UK temperature record of 38.7C°. Cambridge Botanic Gardens is a Category 5 site and still holds the July record for the East Anglia region. All of these records should be discarded, or at least flagged given the great degree of uncertainty posed by the WMO.
Same goes for ‘near trash’ Class 4, which has a higher number of record holders. Category 4 locations include Charterhall, where the highest temperature in Scotland is set for 2022, and Hawarden Airport, which has the highest temperature in Wales. The UK monthly record for August was set in 2003 at Faversham, while no fewer than five UK regions have records believed to fall under ‘uncertainties’. of WMO is 2C°. The all-time British record was set on 19 July 2022 at a Category 3 site, which comes with a WMO measurement uncertainty of 1C°. Located in the middle of the runway at RAF Coningsby, the record stood for just 60 seconds at 3:12pm and was preceded by a rise and fall of 0.6C° on either side of the event. An earlier FOI from daily doubt revealed that three hurricane fighters were landing on the runway around the time the record was set. All these records should also be removed or appropriate warnings given.
To date, no Met Office temperature records have been set since 2000 at pristine Category 1 sites, which may not be surprising given there were only 24 of them. . Only two – UK February highs of 21.2C° and November highs of 22.4C° – were set in near-pristine Category 2 locations.
Most of the propaganda for Net Zero revolves around higher temperatures, and without this ammunition the project would quickly die. It explains why these so-called ‘records’ rarely make it out of the headlines of the mainstream media. High temperature readings are weaponized at the national level, but local media are also targeted. This can be demonstrated by examining the photo below from Google Earth.
This is the site of the Sheffield temperature station. On July 19, 2022, local govt Star Newspapers reported that the city had broken temperature records with more than 39C° in first time. According to the Met Office, the newspaper reported, the record reached 39.4C° on July 18. The red marker shows where Sheffield’s measurements were taken, which is near a busy road with a bus lane large, surrounded by city buildings or dense vegetation, and located at or near what appears to be a concrete park. It may come as no surprise to learn that Sheffield is a Category 5 location.
The Met Office’s chief scientist and leading Net Zero promoter, Professor Stephen Belcher stated that “in a climate unaffected by human influence, climate modeling shows that temperatures in the UK are almost like it cannot reach 40C°”. It is not believed he was referring to the impact of hurricane jets or the 95 bus.
Chris Morrison is Everyday skeptic Environmental editor
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