{"id":272745,"date":"2023-08-11T13:32:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T11:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=272745"},"modified":"2023-08-11T13:32:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T11:32:53","slug":"the-tale-of-two-summers-2023-v-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=272745","title":{"rendered":"The Tale Of Two Summers\u20132023 v\u00a01976"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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heatwave-1976<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-66084543<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems an age since we had that couple of weeks of nice sunny weather in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, it generated all sorts of extravagant claims, and we were told it was evidence of climate change in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then the month has been brought up routinely whenever discussion of the \u201cheatwave summer\u201d has reared its head, ignoring the inconvenient fact that the British summer since has been distinctly cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I pointed out at the time, it was a long way from being the hottest June on record here, with the longer running CET series showing that it was only the fifth warmest, with June 1846 being more than a degree hotter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The warmth this year arose from the fact that the warm, sunny weather lasted pretty much from start to finish of the month. But at no stage did temperatures become exceptionally high:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CET daily max temperatures only reached 28.6C, which is not unusually high for June at all:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/hadobs\/hadcet\/cet_info_mean.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the most deceitful claim was that it had been \u201ceven hotter than 1976\u201d, which the\u00a0Met Office<\/a>\u00a0described as\u00a0part of the well-known summer of 1976.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This statement was deliberately intended to fool the public into believing that June 2023 had been in some way exceptional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was of course no such thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I explained at the time, any comparison with 1976 was meaningless, as the heatwave that year really only got going in the last week of the month, unlike this year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/hadobs\/hadcet\/cet_info_mean.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when it did get going, it was far more intense and longer lasting than anything we have seen this summer. Now we have the July data, we can see fully that there is no comparison between 1976 and this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During most summers we see a week or so of hot weather. This year it just happened to arrive in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is nothing unusual or untoward about that fact. It is merely weather, and has nothing whatsoever to do with climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is nothing unusual or untoward about that fact. It is merely weather, and has nothing whatsoever to do with climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":272756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818056],"class_list":["post-272745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0heatwave-1976-keyart.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-18X7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":277386,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=277386","url_meta":{"origin":272745,"position":0},"title":"Our Global Boiling Summer Was As Hot As\u00a01857!","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/05\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"They knew, of course, that it was not the hottest on record, because they have the Central England Temperature series, and this dates back further their UK records.","rel":"","context":"In \"Central England\"","block_context":{"text":"Central England","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=central-england"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/00wp6691790.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/00wp6691790.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/00wp6691790.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/00wp6691790.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/00wp6691790.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":258007,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=258007","url_meta":{"origin":272745,"position":1},"title":"What I Learned about What Exxon Knew","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"05\/18\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Accusatory polemics disguised as climate science news is a commonplace these days. 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