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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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In a couple of weeks\u2019 time, the Met Office is likely to announce another \u2018hottest year evah\u2019 in the UK. The message will be broadcast faithfully by trusted messengers in mainstream media, keen to prop up the fading Net Zero fantasy, but greeted with howls of derision across social media. Eye-opening investigative research over the last two years has revealed a national temperature network mainly composed of \u2018junk\u2019 inappropriate sites and massive data inventions across over 100 non-existent stations. Now the British Government has stepped in with the suggestion that questioning the Met Office\u2019s shoddy measuring systems \u201cweakens trust in science<\/a>\u201d. Misinformation is said to have proliferated on \u201cconspiracy networks\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step forward Lord Patrick Vallance, the former Government Chief Scientific Adviser at the heart of the Covid lockdown panic but now an unelected Science Minister in the Labour Administration. \u201cThere has been a growing online narrative in some online and social media spaces attempting to undermine Met Office observations and data,\u201d he observes. Vallance\u2019s conspiracy claims echo similar comments made earlier in the year by the Met Office. The investigative efforts of a small number of people were said by the state meteorologist to be an \u201cattempt to undermine decades of robust science around the world \u2018s changing climate\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only in the world inhabited by Vallance and the Met Office can a conspiracy be whipped up when rigorous examination and questioning is applied to scientific data. From Covid to climate, it seems the scientific process is a closed book to state scientists following the settled political narrative. One of the \u2018conspirators\u2019 is citizen sleuth Ray Sanders, who has undertaken a forensic examination of nearly 400 individual Met Office recording stations. Commenting on the official ministerial response, he observed that not one word constituted a scientific approach. \u201cIt is a political monologue of the lowest order,\u201d he opined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regular co-conspiratorial readers will of course be aware of the reporting problems at the Met Office. Over the last 18 months, the percentage of sites in junk CIMO Classes 4 and 5 with \u2018uncertainties\u2019 due to nearby unnatural obstacles of 2\u00b0C and 5\u00b0C respectively has climbed from 77.9% to over 80%<\/a>. In that period, the number of pristine Class 1 sites capable of measuring an uncorrupted ambient air temperature over a large surrounding area has fallen from 24 to just 19. Ray Sanders has catalogued most of the unsuitable sites producing measurements taken by airport runways, in walled gardens, near main roads and in the middle of solar farms. Daily high unnatural heat spikes<\/a>, amplified by the recent introduction of more accurate electronic devices, are an obvious unaddressed problem, but they are often fed into the official statistics. One such 60-second spike in July 2022 pushed the temperature at RAF Coningsby up to 40.3\u00b0C, a declared national record that is widely publicised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, temperature databases are awash with non-existent stations and invented data. Explanations that the \u2018estimates\u2019 are taken from \u2018well-correlated neighbouring stations\u2019 might be more convincing if those stations could be identified. Freedom of Information (FOI) efforts by Ray Sanders seeking such details have been dismissed as \u201cvexatious\u201d and \u201cnot in the public interest\u201d. The picture has emerged of a very rough-and-ready network, suitable for specific local temperature reporting at places such as airports, but unconvincing in promoting widespread average temperatures down to one hundredth of a degree centigrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vallance explanations are contained in a letter written to the Conservative MP Sir Julian Lewis following concerns raised by Derek Tripp, a local councillor in his constituency. He notes that in September, the Met Office decided to remove estimated data from three non-existent stations on its historic temperature database. \u201cThey recognised that confusion could be caused when there appears to be a continued flow of data on this website from stations that have closed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, the confusion was caused by the\u00a0Daily Sceptic<\/em>\u00a0seeking FOI details<\/a>\u00a0in November of well-correlated neighbouring stations responsible for data at one of the stations, namely Lowestoft. The well-correlated explanation is often used by the Met Office and formed the basis of an earlier \u2018fact check\u2019 by\u00a0Science Feedback<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that seems to have relied exclusively on text provided by the Met Office. Sanders had earlier determined that there were no such stations within a reasonable distance of Lowestoft. The Met Office admitted under FOI that it did not use such stations but rather made estimates using its HADUK-Grid. This was little more than passing the buck since HADUK-Grid inputs temperature information from nearby stations, none of which it seems can ever be identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vallance went on to note that the historic dataset was for \u201cgeneral interest only and is not intended for climate monitoring purposes\u201d. Curiously, Vallance failed to point out that this was a very recent explanation since it only appeared on the Met Office historic page after the Daily Sceptic<\/em> submitted its FOI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the 80% junk nature of the Met Office\u2019s temperature sites, Vallance rushes to the aid of the party. \u201cIt is misleading and inappropriate to interpret the CIMO classifications in isolation to question the quality of the Met Office\u2019s observing network or the integrity of the UK\u2019s climate record,\u201d he states. What pompous piffle. In-house activists have been allowed to leverage the reputation of the Met Office to produce a flood of dubious measurements and statistics designed to create mass climate psychosis with the aim of promoting a hard-Left Net Zero agenda. The World Meteorological Organisation could not be clearer in stating that a CIMO Class 1 location can be considered as a \u201creference\u201d site giving a true air temperature over a wide surrounding area. \u201cA Class 5 site is a site where nearby obstacles create an inappropriate environment for a meteorological measurement that is intended to be representative of a wide area,\u201d it notes. A site with a poor class number can still be valuable for a specified application, it adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, a Class 5 is useful for giving jet pilots a vital runway temperature, but less so for telling us that the annual temperature in the UK was 0.06\u00b0C cooler in 2023 than the \u2018record\u2019 year of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vallance also claims that the Met Office \u201cfollows a structured, requirements-driven process to identify and establish new land observing stations\u201d. It is reasonable to ask what \u201crequirements-driven\u201d process is being used by the Met Office, given that a large majority of sites started over the last 30, 10 and five years are to be found in the junk 4 and 5 Classes. Even worse, the Daily Sceptic<\/em> has disclosed using FOI information that 20 new sites have opened since April 2024, and of the 17 that have received CIMO classifications, a frankly incredible 64.7% started life in the Class 4 and 5 junk lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And they say we are the conspiracy nuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is the<\/em> Daily Sceptic\u2019s Environment Editor. Follow him on X<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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