{"id":387124,"date":"2025-07-05T19:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T17:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=387124"},"modified":"2025-07-05T19:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T17:39:13","slug":"why-is-the-met-office-adopting-the-language-of-climate-alarmism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=387124","title":{"rendered":"Why is the Met Office adopting the language of climate\u00a0alarmism?"},"content":{"rendered":"\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

h\/t Ian Cunningham<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s about time the legacy media criticised the Met Office!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt Ridley in the Telegraph:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I gather it\u2019s been hot down south. My sympathies. As Londoners were sweltering, we had a chilly breeze off the North Sea in Northumberland. The UK <\/em>Met Office<\/em><\/a> says it is \u201cvirtually certain\u201d that June (the hottest in England since 1884, second hottest in the UK) was <\/em>made hotter by human activity<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duh! Even if temperatures were not affected by <\/em>greenhouse gases<\/em><\/a>, which they are, the 34.7C (94.5F) recorded in St James\u2019s Park on Tuesday might have something to do with that weather station being a low-reliability \u201cclass 5\u201d site with an error rating of \u201cup to 5C\u201d. It\u2019s next to a very busy tarmac path. Plus, it is in the middle of a city and therefore subject to a more general \u201curban heat island\u201d effect. Research by Arup reckons London\u2019s heat island is worth 4.5C extra warmth on average. So yes, the heat is indeed partly man-made \u2013 but not necessarily in the way the Met Office means.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides, it\u2019s not exactly unusual to have <\/em>hot days in summer<\/em><\/a>: it reached 36.7C (98.1F) in Northamptonshire in 1911.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Met Office exists to forecast the weather. But increasingly it seems bored by the day job so it likes to lecture us about climate change. And here it seems to have been embarrassingly duped by activists. Go on its climate pages and you find a forecast for the year 2070, that summers will be between one and six degrees warmer and \u201cup to\u201d 60 per cent drier, depending on the region. A lot of wriggle room in those caveats, note.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then it admits: \u201cWe base these changes on the RCP8.5 high emissions scenario.\u201d Aha! Unbelievably, shockingly, this national forecasting body has chosen as its base case for the future of weather a debunked, highly implausible set of assumptions about the world economy that was never intended to be used this way.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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