There follows a guest post by journalist Chris Morrison on the latest U.K mean temperature data from the Met Office, where reality is letting the climate doomsters down.
Temperatures across the U.K. have barely moved for over a decade compared to the latest 30-year average. The Met Office has, belatedly, dropped the 1980s from its trend line (unbroken red on graph above) and added in data from the 2010s. As the graph shows, the move helps highlight the flatlining trend that has been evident for some time.
Across the planet, warming ran out of steam some time ago. Both surface and satellite data show no warming for over seven years. In the U.K., last year was 0.34°C colder than 2020 and the coldest year since 2015. The 2010s were colder than the 2000s. In central England, the year was as cool as 1733, 1779 and 1779. This sort of inconvenient data has led the Met Office and most mainstream media to focus on individual weather events. They have promoted the idea that such events suggest humans are changing the climate by burning fossil fuel.
In fact surface records such as those collated by the Met Office could be over-stating temperatures by recording growing urban heat distortions. The Met Office often refers to the temperature at Heathrow airport, while some “records” have come from within cities that have grown substantially over recent times
Yesterday both the Met Office and the BBC were running some climate change guff about two warm winter days. Such stories are given considerable prominence across the BBC, while the recent news about the coldest six month winter on record at the South Pole was ignored. In his recent book Unsettled, Steven Koonin, an Energy Under-Secretary of Science in the Obama Administration, was particularly contemptuous of promoting individual weather events to make political points. Weather, he shouldn’t have needed noting, is not climate.
Because actual temperatures are not playing ball with the Net Zero political agenda, almost all discussion of the subject surrounds the guesses made by always wrong climate models. Many of these forecast dramatic and sudden hikes between 3°C to 6°C in the near future, despite temperatures only rising 1.1C since about 1820. In 2019, the Guardian doubled down on climate change by favouring the term “climate heating” over “global warming”. Editor-in-Chief Katharine Viner noted: “We want to ensure that we are being scientifically precise”. Announcing the move, the Guardian quoted Professor Richard Betts from the Met Office who claimed, “global heating was a more accurate term than global warming to describe the changes taking place in the world’s climate”. Other housekeeping duties announced by the newspaper included updating the term “climate sceptic” to “climate science denier”.
Despite the immense efforts made to disguise current temperature trends, it will be interesting to see how long the Net Zero political project can survive actual Net Zero global warming, sorry heating.
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Their is evidence the Met Office and others have been doing this, with impunity, for years. Time for prosecution in front of jurors. Not sure what UK laws could be used, but in US could use RICO statues.
But the wagons get circled and the fraud is protected by the Climate Industrial Complex. We can do as much exposing as we like. Chris Morrison and the Daily Sceptic can write as many articles as they can possibly write, but NO ONE IS LISTENING. We are just shameless climate deniers that think we know better than the “scientists”, except this has nothing to do with “science”. It is “official science” for political purposes. It is the greatest pseudo scientific fraud ever perpetrated. We should remember the words of President Eisenhower “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist”
Indeed. Agree. Maybe someday.
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This has been going on for years. I can remember reading around 2007/8 on Wattsupwiththat how Hansen had adjusted the raw temperature records by removing the warm periods in the early part of the 20th century and increasing temperatures in the 60’s and 70’s to hide the cooling that had ocurred. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the relevant posts.
However, here’s an interesting article about Iceland’s temperatures and how they have been adjusted: http://euanmearns.com/re-writing-the-climate-history-of-iceland/
All this fiddling reminds me of an anomaly from a few years ago – ‘safe and effective’ I think it was called.
Being paid to lie cannot be very good for the soul.
They sold theirs a very long time ago
Definitely too much to lose by asking a few obvious and necessary questions ….. like their jobs, career prospects and a great deal of money.
I believe it was East Anglia which was commissioned by Millibacon back when Labour were in power. They found that the modelling in no way resembled the real world so they simply altered the data from the model to deliver what Millibacon asked for. Funding confirmed, Millibacon happy and here we are today with a parliament of numbskulls who all know the data they rely on to “confirm” what they want is falsified.
The Sheeple simply “maah” and carry on grazing the verdant fields of lush lies. Millibacon may well be back this year, crazier than ever. Be careful what you vote for. I’m voting Reform the only party with sane people.
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UK Column made a good point in their Friday show: Make the election ‘Independents Day’
Remember when Brian from UKC was campaigning to be an independent in Plymouth some years back on an anti corruption ticket. When interviewed be the BBC they gave him just 6 seconds.
Climategate blew the lid off this fraud. And as we would expect, they just carry on – fuelled by money, and the ‘powers that be’ pace Mannpig.
Sheeple don’t know any of this. The sheeple will mRNA jabbinate for weight loss, climate ‘protection’, the next fake flying scariant, and whatever else the quacks and charlatans are selling.
The climate cult (and the scamdemic cult) simply assume that most people are stupid. They are certainly not wrong.
The challenge will be keeping the propaganda levels high enough to reach the sheeple especially in nut zero induced blackouts!
Yes when living standards start taking their toll, people will pay more attention.
Many who have been looking into this issue for years have been aware of this fiddling of the stats. I have been reading about this and investigating it since 2007 since I saw Martin Durkins first film on it “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. Not long after that the Government funded data adjusters were exposed as Charlatans (Climategate) keeping the true state of climate from the public, by deleting emails, manipulating data, tagging different temperature series onto each other, (Mikes Nature Trick) where as warming from tree rings seemed to stop they simply added real temperature data onto the end and declared warming was still continuing. They threatened the editors of scientific journals who published stuff not in line with the narrative of dangerous warming.
Net Zero and the trillions of pounds/dollars involved in this absurd energy transition mean there simply has to be Global Warming and if the facts don’t fit then the facts will be changed. The general public still mostly believe there is dangerous climate change afoot, which is lucky for the pretend to save the planet governments and ofcourse mainstream media are complicit in keeping the public in the dark and keeping them believing there is a climate emergency. Simple investigative journalism would expose this eco socialist fraud, but the BBC especially never investigate any climate change claims, and simply repeat the UN IPCC dogma as if it were all ultimate truth. ——-FRAUD.— But Why? ——-Sustainable Devlopment. Only by understanding this political agenda and who is imposing it on us and why can anyone realise what is really going on with the climate emergency scam.
The fundamental questions that needs to be asked of these people is why are they doing this? who tells them to do this? and what is the objective of doing this?
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all they knew). Their names are what and why and when and how and where and who. Rudyard Kipling.
They are doing it because the one world government people at the UN and WEF need a very plausible excuse to get control of the world’s wealth and resources, and because they have a Political Agenda called Sustainable Development. The idea is in their own words that “the lifestyles of the affluent middle classes is too high”. So we in the wealthy west have to lower our standard of living which was achieved by using coal oil and gas, because it is deemed we have used up more than our fair share of it. The pseudo science likes to call this “appropriation of the atmosphere”. The very plausible excuse for this reversal of western prosperity and the anti capitalist agenda to bring about a world run on Liberal Progressive (communist) lines is “climate change” and climate policies like Net Zero. ——-We are to believe this is all about science. But it is actually just “official science” or “Post Normal Science” in support of the Political Agenda called Sustainable Development. But don’t take my word for it. The UN do not hide their objectives and state them clearly in Agenda 21 and 30.
The earth has no average temperature!
-50c to +50c are rough extremes and livable for life on this planet. It’s a broad spectrum of survivable temperatures that life on this planet has adapted to cope with over millenia. There are not enough thermometers in the galaxy to find an average!
That’s just mean
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Clever!😉👍
A survey of Australian census results produced, statistically, the average Australian. Something like female, 38 yo, 2.4 kids, 30k income etc. Anyway, someone then searched databases for the actual average person and, if I remember, failed to find them (they then reduced variables and only foundone or two).
Similar analogy to average world temperature which doesn’t exist.
This takes me back over twenty years, when the Climategate scandal was brewing! What seemed to be happening is that NASA/GISS and UEA/CRU were making seemingly unaccountable “adjustments” to individual weather station data. To be fair, some were adjusted down, but many were adjusted with an uptick or an overall slope. (Dublin Airport was the first that came to my attention. Kathmandu is a classic overall slope adjustment..The essence of the confusion that it became unclear what was raw data (i.e. thermometers on the ground), what was adjusted data (i.e. data made by adding or subtracting figures to allow for non-climatic effects, such as physical move of the station, urban creep, painting the Stephenson screen and the yard, tarmacking previously grass runways, installing incinerators. what was “homogenized” or “kridged” (both meaning mixing up with neigbouring stations to fill in missing data in order to make tidy graphs and graphical images) and what was model output (i.e. estimates based on mathematical modelling. The situation seemed fairly chaotic, like the infamous HARRYREADME commenter found out.
It was fairly easy to go to each weather station data and subtract the original temperatures from the published temperatures, thus arriving at a graph of how much had been added or subtracted to give the final result (“homogenized”). These were called DELTA files, where DELTA = HOMOGENIZED-RAW.
It’s fairly clear and open WHAT adjustments were made; what was opaque and refractory to the investigators was WHY the adjustments were made. You can’t just take all the global data and add in a hockey-stick uptick; you need to study each station’s data separately, which is at best tedious and at worst a hopeless task. Studying the data, which was often missing for long periods, showed more about political stability in third world countries than about climate. The best continuous records were in Turkey, Japan and most of the US, especially Texas. The most fragmentary records were in the Arctic (typically seasonal fish-canning factories) and various African colonies. The longest continuous record outside China was Hoherpeissenberg, which shows the descent into and the recovery from the Little Ice Age, unless you are an alarmist, in which case it shows an abrupt catastrophic shift in the Anthropocene Epoch.
In other words the temperature record of earth is a dogs breakfast of heavily manipulated data that has been fiddled about with more than a prostitutes knickers.
You could say that, but you might run into the editor’s black pen at Elsevier Global.
Fiddling while Rome Burns 🥵
Who are they doing this for and why? It goes right back to CHINA.
Please read my note below which proves that net zero is an almighty scam and should be abolished ASAP.
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Hi JerryWr –
‘Just catching up on my Climate-Scam reading.
In your attachment you say “Firstly, for more information on the numbers and figures involved it is necessary to refer to my note referenced below:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=f96df54420&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-a:r-8725386989335802803&th=18f4c85a7c53cd66&view=att&disp=safe&realattid=f_lvbqnqvh0 ”
Unfortunately, the link isn’t working. Can you please advise ?
Thanks – Chris Williams
Surely this should be considered fraud? Falsifying data?
Just wondering what the point of a met office is. How about shutting it down and putting ALL the tax money towards private schools. Kids need a good start in life so they don’t end up like dummies currently working at the met office. This organisation serves no purpose, is gagged by gov’t, and either cannot or will not be transparent. Time to stop throwing my taxes down the toilet.
As a WEATHER reporting and short-term forecasting organisation derived from the days of the Air Ministry, it provided a good service to aviators, farmers and the general public. However it came off the rails when it was required to be a CLIMATE reporting and long-term pys-ops organisation, specifically set up to create alarm in the populace by drip-feeding misinformation and nudging in order to effect global political and asset transfer.
If readings from the past, taken by professionals, require adjustment now, what assurance is there that adjustments made by professionals today are any more accurate, apart from the fact that those professionals tell us.
PS I use the term “professional” advisedly, based mainly on the fact that they are well paid for their efforts.
When the ideology is not supported by facts then change the ‘facts’?