{"id":368966,"date":"2025-03-07T13:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T12:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=368966"},"modified":"2025-03-07T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T12:01:08","slug":"the-gaping-holes-in-the-bbcs-boiling-spring-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=368966","title":{"rendered":"The Gaping Holes in the BBC\u2019s \u2018Boiling Spring\u2019 Story"},"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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Green Blob-funded Climate Central is celebrating a significant fearmongering coup having persuaded the BBC\u2019s lead weather presenter Simon King to sub and publish its press release claiming that since 1970 the average UK spring temperature\u00a0has increased by 1.8\u00b0C<\/a>. It is said to be the fastest warming season in all the UK\u2019s four nations. Alas, it is almost a shame to spoil such a good story by noting an obvious cherry-pick missed by King and the fact that the warming according to the Met Office was only 1.3\u00b0C. As the graph below shows, 1970 was a low point in the UK temperature record at a time when global cooling was all the rage. The rise from 1945 is just 0.8\u00b0C, a figure that happens to approximate with a 1\u00b0C rise in global temperature over the last century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Needless to say, the longer-term trend is not such a good yarn and not one likely to appeal to\u00a0Climate Central<\/a>, a green billionaire-backed activist operation that produces custom-made climate catastrophe agitprop specially curated for unquestioning activists working in mainstream media. For Simon King, the \u2018boiling\u2019 spring story is another BBC classic, following hard on the heels of his suggestion that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) \u201cappears to be getting weaker<\/a>\u201d. This story was timed just days after an important paper in\u00a0Nature<\/em>\u00a0inconveniently stated that the AMOC current that includes the Gulf Stream had shown no decline in strength since the 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The average spring temperature for the UK has increased 1.8\u00b0C since 1970, making spring the fastest warming season for the UK as a whole.Climate Central Press Release<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The average spring temperature has increased by 1.8\u00b0C since 1970, making it the fastest warming season for all four nations of the UK.Simon King, Lead Weather Presenter, BBC<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Regurgitating pre-prepared, cherry-picked material does of course serve a useful purpose since the regular \u2018Spring has Sprung Early\u2019 story can be given its annual outing. King notes that data given to BBC Weather by Nature\u2019s Calendar \u2013 a \u201ccitizen science\u201d project by the Woodland Trust \u2013 are said to demonstrate how climate change is triggering natural events. Both bluebells and frogspawn are appearing earlier in March and April respectively, it is reported. Inevitably the disinformation Net Zero lecture follows: \u201cAnd climate change is leading to more extreme weather which is also causing confusion among some species.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On balance, a slightly warmer climate with longer growing seasons is almost certainly good for nature. But, as ever in the UK, the climate picture is mixed. March is the start of Spring but April is when it starts to really build. As the graph below shows, the average April temperature in the UK has actually fallen over the last 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course caution is required in taking Met Office temperature figures at their face value following recent revelations, covered extensively in the Daily Sceptic<\/em>, about massive unnatural heat corruptions around measuring sites and the invention of figures at no less than 103 non-existent locations<\/a>. Nearly 80% of Met Office weather stations across the UK are rated in junk classes 4 and 5<\/a> with internationally-recognised \u2018uncertainties\u2019 of 2\u00b0C and 5\u00b0C respectively. The Met Office has failed to preserve the integrity of its network, with sites commonly next to busy roads and car parks, airport runways, solar farms and electricity substations. The recent growth of urbanisation and the massive heat it generates across many Met Office sites has corrupted the data. Thus, it might be considered scientifically reasonable to knock off some warming when comparing recent temperatures to possibly more accurate measurements 80 years ago. Using current recordings, it can be observed that spring is on average 0.8\u00b0C warmer than around 1945, but the true figure could be closer to around 0.5\u00b0C, or even lower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate Central has impressive form in spinning climate catastrophe tales to gullible boobies. It had great success with the Mirror <\/em>in November 2022, which ran a load of hooey claiming that much of London would be under water within 80 years<\/a>. Climate Central provides a flood predictor tool that activists can use to claim inundation in a location of their own choosing. Local landmarks well above sea level can be shown to be disappearing beneath the waves since the tool uses sea level increases over 30 times faster than current rises. Reporter Sam Elliott-Gibbs noted the existence of \u201cterrifying new maps\u201d of the UK that predict towns and cities \u201cwill be vanishing into the sea\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate Central is a well-funded green propaganda operation based in Princeton, New Jersey. The group says it works with news outlets \u201cto produce compelling and scientifically accurate stories\u201d. No fewer than 33 foundations<\/a> and \u201cleadership donors\u201d are listed with heavy backing thought to have been provided by Eric Schmidt, the former Chairman and CEO of Google. Among the activist academics involved<\/a> is Michael Oppenheimer, Professor of Geoscience and International Affairs at nearby Princeton University. This chap is noted for once remarking<\/a>: \u201cWe can\u2019t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialisation we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.\u201d Perhaps he had Europe in mind as well, particularly the UK where the state-dependent broadcaster pumps out climate catastrophe copy that is used to provide cover for Net Zero-obsessed governing elites set on de-industrialisation, destroying food security and reducing living standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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