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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Chris Morrison<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How we laughed when the Met Office declared a UK temperature record of 40.3\u00b0C at 3.12pm on July 19th 2022, halfway down the runway at RAF Coningsby at a time when it later transpired three typhoon jets<\/a> were coming into land. Mirth was unconfined when the \u2018record\u2019 that stood for 60 seconds as the temperature briefly spiked by 0.6\u00b0C was later declared by the Met Office to be a \u201cmilestone in UK climate history\u201d. Now it appears that another nearby and busy RAF station in Lincolnshire is getting in on the \u2018joke\u2019 record business. It appears that RAF Waddington also declared a record high on the same day of 40.3\u00b0C and this has been entered into the archive run by the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). This is despite the Met Office itself calling the Waddington reading \u2018suspect\u2019 due to an application of weedkiller. Quite why this should disqualify a temperature recording four feet from the ground when jet exhaust does not is unclear, and the excuse has a touch of the \u2018dog ate my homework\u2019 about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weedkiller or not, the 40.3\u00b0C recording at Waddington has found its way into the Met Office Midas Open dataset<\/a>. This is said to be one of CEDA\u2019s most popular datasets, containing historical meteorological observations back from the present to the 18th century. Popular with future scientists no doubt who will be able to point to two 40.3\u00b0C records, happy to disregard any airport heat corruptions and the even more severe warmth that seems to emanate from an application of paraquat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shout out again to citizen super-sleuth Ray Sanders who is undertaking a forensic review of the Met Office\u2019s UK temperature stations (existent and non-existent) along with an examination of the operation\u2019s published readings and data. He recently queried the archived Waddington recording and was told that \u201cat the time\u201d the data point was suspect due to the\u00a0weedkiller treatment<\/a>. He notes that the Met Office is clearly in a quandary since it has claimed the reading is suspect, but the numbers passed into the archive can only have come from it. Any doubts about Coningsby can be hand-waved away with \u201c\u2018peer-reviewed scientific\u2019 data proving that such a high temperature was also \u2018recorded\u2019 elsewhere\u201d, suggests Sanders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Met Office clearly owes the public and the scientific community a full explanation. Mistakes may be made with routine numbers, \u201cbut how likely with the alleged all-time UK high?\u201d asks Sanders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regular readers will recall that Ray Sanders was behind the recent discovery that the Met Office had been inventing temperature averages at\u00a0103 non-existent sites<\/a>. The Met Office even went so far as to supply coordinates, elevations and purposes of the imaginary sites. Following massive interest across social media and frequent reposting of a\u00a0Daily Sceptic<\/em>\u00a0article, the Met Office\u00a0discretely renamed<\/a>\u00a0its database as \u2018location specific\u2019 and removed station coordinates. A\u00a0subsequent \u2018fact check\u2019<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0Science Feedback<\/em>\u00a0that appeared to have been largely written by the Met Office claimed that average data from some stations was not \u201cfabricated\u201d but estimated using \u201cwell-correlated related neighbouring stations\u201d. This is said to be a scientific method that is published in peer-reviewed literature. At the time, the\u00a0Daily Sceptic<\/em>\u00a0highlighted the case of Cawood in the West Riding of Yorkshire, a pristine class 1 site with no unnatural heat corruptions and a record of excellent readings going back to 1959. Insert Cawood into the Met Office\u2019s renamed \u2018location specific\u2019 database and no record of 30-year temperatures is available. Instead, there is a reference to four other estimated stations that no longer exist, and a fifth that is 27 miles away and at a higher elevation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanders has now come up with an\u00a0even worse example<\/a>\u00a0of these imaginary readings. Just when you thought things could not get worse, he investigates the location of Norwich. This is an area closely associated with some of the Met Office\u2019s work, with connections to the University of East Anglia and past TV recordings from a local weather centre. There have been numerous temperature recordings in Norwich since 1873, but none are supplied under \u2018location specific\u2019 Norwich. Instead, the long-term average temperature for the cell area is provided from five closed stations inventing data, despite nearby open sites. Sanders is not inclined to be charitable, noting: \u201cThe facts are quite simple, the vast majority of all the Met Office\u2019s supposedly Climate Average data is covertly concocted by a system only accepted by a tiny cabal of anonymous peer reviewers operating a witches brew of contrived data that is a closely guarded secret.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Temperature measurements play a vital role in promoting the politicised Net Zero fantasy, so it is no accident that green activists in state-run weather operations such as the Met Office have weaponised the data. But the collecting systems were never designed to offer the precision claimed down to one hundredth of a degree centigrade. Almost the entire Met Office temperature network is blasted by unnatural heat, while rough estimates of data are widespread throughout the system. Under the World Meteorological Organisation classification system, almost 80% of the Met Offices sites are in junk classes 4 and 5 with \u2018uncertainties\u2019 of 2\u00b0C and 5\u00b0C respectively<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims that humans have caused most global warming over the last 100 years, but the UN body cannot know this, and it is actually unprovable. All of these anthropogenic scares that lead to mass science ignorance and psychosis are the product of computer models attempting to measure a chaotic and non-linear atmosphere. Many of the important influences on weather and long-term climate such as water vapour and clouds are little understood. It is impossible to measure the contribution of a greenhouse gas such as carbon dioxide to any current warming (or cooling) and estimates for a doubled atmospheric amount vary widely from almost nothing in a \u2018saturated\u2019 environment to 10\u00b0C and over. An unreliable temperature record from both national and frequently upward-adjusted global datasets do little to improve what are just speculative forecasts. In the world of climate computer modelling, making small changes to data going in can lead to large changes in the forecasts going out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in the world of \u2018settled\u2019 climate science, possibly the most corrupted branch of science the world has ever seen \u2013 it\u2019s Garbage in, Gospel out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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How we laughed when the Met Office declared a UK temperature record of 40.3\u00b0C at 3.12pm on July 19th 2022, halfway down the runway at RAF Coningsby at a time when it later transpired\u00a0three typhoon jets\u00a0were coming into land. Mirth was unconfined when the \u2018record\u2019 that stood for 60 seconds as the temperature briefly spiked by 0.6\u00b0C was later declared by the Met Office to be a \u201cmilestone in UK climate history\u201d. Now it appears that another nearby and busy RAF station in Lincolnshire is getting in on the \u2018joke\u2019 record business. It appears that RAF Waddington also declared a record high on the same day of 40.3\u00b0C and this has been entered into the archive run by the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). 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