Extra horror photographs are rising displaying locations the place “excessive” document temperatures have been recorded, in response to the Met Workplace – what’s going on?
From THE DAILY SCEPTIC
by Chris Morrison
Recently the Met Office has been renaming its daily 'high' temperatures 'extreme', all the better of course to stoke heat fears as part of the Net Zero education process. Last Wednesday's 'extreme' reading of 20.4°C was recorded in Teddington Bushy Park. As the Google Earth photo below shows, the 'extreme' temperature is aided by an adjacent high wall reflecting heat onto the gauge and a large housing development warming the surrounding area. Teddington Bushy Park is a Class 4 junk station with internationally recognised 'uncertainties' of 2°C. 'Funny Class 4' station would perhaps be a more apt description. How anyone can believe that the information collected at this site is suitable for scientific work that ultimately establishes a global average temperature is a mystery.
According to a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) classification system that takes into account natural and unnatural temperature distortions, 77.9% of Met Office sites are classified as Class 4 and 5, with uncertainties of 2°C and 5°C respectively. The Met Office does its best to explain the poor location of most of its 380 temperature stations across the UK. Class 3 – uncertainties of 1°C – and Class 4 are intended to provide “valid data of high quality”, which may well be questionable given the Teddington photo. The WMO says it does not rule out the use of super-junk Class 5 data. For its part, the WMO states that Class 5 applies “when nearby obstructions create an unsuitable environment for a meteorological measurement intended to be representative of a wider area”. Almost one in three Met Office locations (29.2%) are classified as Super-Junk 5, and on this basis the Met Office appears to be able to calculate average temperatures to within one hundredth of a degree Celsius.
Earlier this year, a Freedom of Information Act request by the Daily Sceptic finally revealed what had long been suspected: that the Met Office's temperature measurement system is not capable of providing accurate temperature measurements at specific local locations, or national and global averages. To date, the Met Office has made no official statement on the growing concerns surrounding its scientific work following the startling revelations, but there are occasional comments suggesting that it is hiding from the consequences of growing criticism. Last June, it reported the highest – sorry, most extreme – temperature of the summer so far in Chertsey, another “record” that was called into question when it was revealed that the Chertsey water pumping station's gauge was surrounded by a newly constructed solar farm.
This is the solar farm in question, and it surrounds what appears to be the temperature-measuring station. To be fair to the Met Office, Google Maps places the station a few metres away – sometimes small errors happen in the exact location. What is undisputed, however, is that the site is next to a large solar farm with over 1,800 panels. Solar panels generate large amounts of heat in the surrounding areas, and scientists expect warming to be 3-4°C. Citizen journalist Ray Sanders recently challenged the Met Office about the Chertsey site, and the state-funded weather service admitted it was “aware” of the solar panels near its station. “The temperature measurements meet standards for publication and scientific use,” the Met Office noted.
In the US, meteorologist Anthony Watts has spent decades studying temperature data from the local weather service NOAA. He recently presented evidence showing that NOAA's temperature data is “fatally flawed”. An astonishing 96% of over 4,000 measuring stations are distorted by their poor placement. As in the UK, many photos of unsuitable locations have been published. The following photo from a site in Florida, showing measurements taken near a number of air conditioning units, is a particularly horror scenario.
In a recent podcast hosted by Tom Nelson, Watts was asked about the record temperature of 40.3°C that prevailed on the runway for 60 seconds on July 19, 2022, as jets landed at RAF Coningsby in the UK. He pointed out that such events were caused by new electronic measurements that responded to temperature changes within a tenth of a second. The earlier mercury thermometers took much longer to move and would never have captured temporary temperature fluctuations caused by gusts of wind or passing jets.
All of these numbers are collected and then adjusted, and the “end result” is that the data has been altered to amplify the warming trend. Numerous attempts have been made to estimate the changes caused by numerous manipulations. “We have about 50% less global warming than the media and activists would have you believe,” suggests Watts.
Chris Morrison is the Environment Editor of the Daily Sceptic. The image at the top of this article shows the location of the Met Office temperature station at Aberdeen Dyce International Airport. No further comment needed!
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