{"id":265750,"date":"2023-07-06T16:01:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T14:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=265750"},"modified":"2023-07-06T16:01:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T14:01:59","slug":"met-office-admits-to-promoting-u-k-heat-records-despite-knowing-they-could-be-out-by-2c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=265750","title":{"rendered":"Met Office Admits to Promoting U.K. Heat Records Despite Knowing They Could be Out by 2\u00b0C"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0CHRIS MORRISON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The U.K. Met Office routinely claims heat records from thermometers that are so poorly sited the World Meteorological Society (WMO) attaches an error estimate stating they could be out by up to 2\u00b0C. This shock disclosure<\/a> is contained in the reply to a recent Freedom of Information (FOI) request from the climate journalist Paul Homewood. One example is Porthmadog in North Wales that has provided a steady stream of Welsh records in recent years, and is sited in a vegetation sun trap near the North Wales coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WMO has five classes grading temperature-measurement suitability. There are strict requirements for class 1 to ensure accuracy while sources of corruption increase up to class 4, where the WMO states the temperature could be out by as much as 2\u00b0C. The fifth and last class has no requirements and an error estimate of 5\u00b0C. Homewood\u2019s FOI request drew the information from the Met Office that Porthmadog\u2019s surrounding vegetation led to a class 4 classification. \u201cThis classification is an acceptable rating for a temperature sensor, hence we will continue to quote from this site,\u201d replied the Met Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Far from being \u201cacceptable\u201d, this shocking admission reveals the site is completely unacceptable. The Met Office appears hell-bent on catastrophising British weather in the interest of promoting the collectivist Net Zero project. Temperature data corrupted to the extent allowed in WMO class 4 should never be used to make specific observations about the weather, let alone incorporated into long-term datasets. Homewood notes that he is \u201clost for words\u201d. The Met Office is happy to use a class 4 site for climatological purposes, \u201ceven though that class is next to junk status\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the end of May, NorthWalesLive <\/em>reported that Porthmadog recorded the hottest day of the year so far \u2013 \u201cand not for the first time<\/a>\u201d. The Met Office promoted the high on twitter, helpfully colouring the U.K. map orange, one step away from full blood red alert. NorthWalesLive<\/em> reported that this was by no means a first for the Gwynedd town, \u201cwhich is regularly Wales\u2019s and sometimes the U.K.\u2019s warmest spot\u201d. There is no mention that the temperature is so high because of the sensor\u2019s highly corrupted, sun-trapped location. Instead Met Office meteorologist Mark Wilson explained: \u201cWith the wind coming from the north-east, Porthmadog is getting a lot of shelter. Although it\u2019s by the coast it\u2019s not really getting a lot of breeze off the sea, meaning the temperatures keep rising and rising.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact it seems that the Porthmadog site is excellent value for all-year round records. Last November, the BBC reported<\/a>, under a \u2018climate change\u2019 heading, that the U.K.\u2019s warmest ever Remembrance Sunday had been recorded in the town. Temperatures soared to 21.2\u00b0C, beating the previous record, curiously by 2\u00b0C, set 33 years ago, also, less curiously, in Gwynedd. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The admission that heat records are being promoted from class 4 sites that could have errors of up to 2\u00b0C is the latest signal to the Met Office that it must issue a full explanation to quell the rising doubts surrounding its relentless propagandising of so-called temperature records. Last week, the Daily Sceptic<\/em> cast considerable further doubt<\/a> on 2022\u2019s 60-second 40.3\u00b0C U.K. record declared at RAF Coningsby on July 19th. Our FOI request found that at least three Typhoon fighter jets were landing at or around the same time the temperature briefly jumped to the new record. There are many airports feeding information into Met Office datasets, and they are unsuitable for accurately measuring purely weather and climatic conditions. Leaving aside any temporary heat distortions from passing jet traffic, they are often cauldrons of heat arising from runways and buildings. Of course none of this would matter very much if temperature readings were used for their original purpose to provide a rough guide to local weather conditions. Using these corrupted data as a primary \u2018climate breakdown\u2019 weapon to persuade entire human populations to drastically cut back on their lifestyles is another matter altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Homewood has also\u00a0raised questions<\/a>\u00a0about recent changes made by the Met Office to the Central England Record (CET), the oldest continuous surface temperature collection dating back to around 1660. He found that for most of the record up to 1970, the adjustments are small and have no obvious pattern, with ups and downs offsetting each other. Then, he notes, the years from 1970 to 2003 have been cooled quite markedly, and just as abruptly the temperatures over the last 20 years have been consistently adjusted up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The graph above plots the changes from the two versions. The cynical might note that the 1980s and 90s were strangely \u2018overestimated\u2019, while the last couple of decades were suddenly underestimated, for reasons that go unexplained. One effect noted by Homewood is that a 0.07\u00b0C cooling of the summer in 1995 now means it ties with 2022, instead of being hotter. In 2018, the summer was adjusted up by 0.13\u00b0C. Homewood concludes with the obvious point that changes to the CET are part of wider adjustments globally, \u201cand the tampering is always one way, cooling the past and heating the present\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is<\/em> the <\/em>Daily Sceptic\u2019s Environment Editor.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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