For most people, a few days of 25°C sunshine on the Cornish Riviera would make for a balmy and pleasant holiday. Last year, the Met Office classified three days of this as a “heatwave”, claiming the move was necessary since such “extreme events” were more likely because of climate change. Now comes news of further tinkering, with some eastern counties in England being given a heatwave threshold of 28°C.
Faithfully reporting the Met Office news, the BBC noted that heatwaves were linked to historical climate data. “The U.K. has been experiencing rising average temperatures in recent years as a result of global warming.” Actual Met Office figures suggest otherwise.
Allowing for a margin of error, U.K. temperatures have barely moved for over a decade. In fact according to Met Office statistics, the average temperature across the 2010s at 9.17°C was lower than the 2000s recording of 9.31°C. According to accurate satellite data, global warming started to run out of steam two decades ago, and temperatures haven’t budged for over eight years.
The heatwave classification is a new invention from the Met Office. Introduced last year, it was noted that a scientific study into the 2018 summer heatwave found it was 30 times more likely to have occurred than before the Industrial Revolution. In fact, the “provisional” study was based on climate models which compared today’s climate “with those of the natural climate we would have had without human-induced emissions”. Since scientists cannot quantify the effect of human-caused carbon dioxide on atmospheric temperatures, this exercise is actually a guess. Meanwhile, the Met Office projections of future U.K. climate change “suggest” that the summer temperatures during the 2018 heatwave could be “normal” by 2050. Presumably, the Met Office suggestions were not based on the decade-wide fall in temperature during the 2010s.
Last year’s classifications were based on 1981-2010 data and this has now been moved to 1991-2020. It is not clear why the Met Office used data last year up to 2010, when 2020 data were available at the time. The cynical might observe, however, that the Met Office delayed ditching warming figures from the 1980s and adding the flatlining trend from the 2010s. Even with the jump in warming from the 1990s, the current level is only about 0.2°C above the 30 year average. If the 1990s were removed, the increase over 20 years would be minimal and within any margin of heating error. In effect, the Net Zero agenda is being followed, despite warming disappearing from both the local and global temperature records.
Meanwhile, the BBC quoted Dr. Mark McCarthy, head of the Met Office National Climate Information Centre, who noted that temperatures had risen by more than 1°C in some English locations. Areas of Scotland and Northern Ireland are said to have seen temperatures rise by closer to 0.7°C.
In fact, you have to go back to the 1960s to justify this statement for Scotland. The country has seen little warming for over a decade. Scots must be wondering where all this heat they’re told about is. Last month, the Chairwoman of the Climate Change Committee Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, told the BBC that the average temperature in Scotland over 30 years “has risen by over 0.5°C”. The figure is nearer 0.4°C, but it was clearly cherry picked since most of the rise occurred in the last century.
Let’s see how the 0.7°C stands up against the actual average temperature in Northern Ireland.
Even less well than Scotland it would seem. The average temperature in Northern Ireland has barely moved for two decades.
Again, the sceptical might suggest that the new heatwave classifications are an opportunity to link common summer weather to climate change, via the ever biddable mainstream media. For proper ‘Phew! What a scorcher’ heatwaves, the Met Office has an “Extreme Heat Warning” system in place. According to the Met Office, extreme heat warnings highlight the potential impacts of extreme heat in order to protect lives and property. Heatwave warnings, by contrast, are designed to provide the media and public “with consistent and reliable messaging”.
Few messengers come more reliable than the BBC. Announcing the latest Met Office heatwave changes, it added that human-produced CO2 was a key driver of global warming. “Left unchecked, humans will experience catastrophic warming, with worsening droughts, greater sea level rise and mass extinction of species,” it stated/modelled/thought/made-up.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor
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“Something must be closed. The schools are something. Therefore they must be closed.”
They are all guilty as hell.
Talking of the covid “inquiry”:
Allison Pearson on X: “Sunak did well so far in his evidence. Quite right to spell out the harm lockdown posed to hospitality and other industries employing some of our poorest. Hugo Keith KC grandly says, “We’re not interested in QALYS”. Well, the taxpayer is interested in vast sums the NHS would…” / X (twitter.com)
Hugo Keith KC grandly says, “We’re not interested in QALYS”.
Huge Keith KC doesn’t appear to be interested in very much at all…..apart from “gotcha moments,” rude WattsApp messages ….. and exonerating The Blob from any culpability in the destruction of our economy and millions of lives.
I’m sure he’s executing the script with aplomb. Whoever chose him, chose well, or briefed him well, or both.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Homburg absolutely nails the events of the last three years for Germany. We should have a UK version for our phoney covid enquiry. It would swing hordes away from the narrative!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/uM0dIv4nX1cM/
It says it’s a speech to the German parliament but not clear who exactly. Given the applause, if it was MPs it would only be AfD MPs, surely?
The truth remains the truth whoever is listening.
Oh I’ve nothing against those MPs (if that’s what they were) – quite the opposite. Just surprised that such a man making such a speech would be allowed anywhere near a German parliament building – though to be fair I suppose Bridgen hosted a similar session, albeit attended by only a few.
The AFD is mentioned and their logo shown on the screen behind Dr Homberg.
Makes sense. They were the only ones to oppose covidianism at a national political level in Germany, to my knowledge. Horrible right wing racists of course.
They were the only fascists in favour of freedom, funny that!
AFD
That’s definitely not in parliament. It seem to be some sort of recorded AfD conference.
Interesting. I thought it might be some kind of meeting room within the parliament building.
That’s from the 11th and 12th of November 2023 and – as also seen on the German sign in the background – is from the 2nd corona symposium/ conference of the AfD faction in the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag).
It should also amply demonstrate why the parties of the current coalition (SPD, Greens, FDP) would very much like to outlaw the AfD which is already observed by the German inland secret service.
Complete recordings (in German and presumably, without subtitles) can be found on YouTube by looking for
2. Corona-Symposium der AfD-Fraktion im Deutschen Bundestag
Thanks for the link. I had already come to the same conclusion, but just intuitively. It’s nice to know that someone collected the necessary informations. Summary of factual key claims:
According to official statistics released by various German government offices (all quoted),
The only epidemic which occurred in Germany was an epidemic of positive PCR test results of overwhelmingly healthy people and an epidemic of sensationalists headlines about the purported horrors of COVID.
Politicians playing God.
I hate the bastards.
Back in March 2020 was an interview with a Korean COVID-19 ‘expert’ and as well as the assertions that China controlled this well with strong restrictions there is this answer about education.
Stephen Park (Interviewer): “In Korea the start of the school is being postponed, people are practicing social distancing, and the government even sends regular updates via texts. How well do you think this is all being handled?”
Professor Kim Woo-Joo “On March 20th, a couple days ago, the prime minister made a special announcement that he strongly recommends social distancing. So religious facilities, places people hang out, like bars, and indoor gyms… From march 20 for 2 weeks, these 3 types of places were strongly recommended to shut down. But this is not mandatory. People who are over 50 or 60 are following these protocols well. But teens and those in their 20s are not, because for teens in Korea, their education is very important. Even if they are sick and have a fever, they have to go to school and academy. The school year was postponed for elementary, middle, and high school because of COVID-19, but in the evening kids go to academies. So even if the government pushed back school, kids will still go to academy to study at night. Since I checked last weekend 90% of academies are open. In Asia, the college you go to determines your future.”
So not only did the kids continue their education, even when infected, but they were taught, presumably by someone much older!!!
Evidence is at 25:11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAk7aX5hksU&t=1808s
You Need To Listen To This Leading COVID-19 Expert From South Korea | STAY CURIOUS #15
Schools, shops, who cares?
Rishi Sunak “admits” covid was a scam and he is guilty of malfeasance in public office – that would be worth reporting
An even better ending would be one of the leading figures committing suicide due to being plagued by his conscience and leaving a long letter of possibly tearful confessions. Sadly, due to the need for cost savings, they don’t build public officials or politicians with consciences anymore these days.
Ah secondary school transmission…. The old orange juice on the lft giving a positive trick….
Neither should have been closed in the first place.
The Government knew Covid was a Low Consequence Infectious Disease, with low mortality rates and really only dangerous to the very elderly and people with serious co-morbidities.
They should have shielded the vulnerable and let everyone else get on with their lives and develop herd immunity.
But I believe Johnson was ordered to lockdown – probably by the CIA which knew it was a bio-weapon and wanted a mass human medical experiment to test the “vaccine” against it.
The Government knew Covid was a Low Consequence Infectious Disease, with low mortality rates and really only dangerous to the very elderly and people with serious co-morbidities.
This is still standing on its head: What’s dangerous (in the sense of risk of death) to these people is that they’re very elderly or have serious comorbidities aka already very frail. Which means that even generally harmless diseases may push them over the edge. So-called elderly people are at least a large fraction of those still running around masked and someone really ought to tell them that it’s not the Chinese mummery¹ which stopped them from dying during the last three years but their generally still robust enough constitution which enabled their bodies to cope with everyday diseases like colds.
¹ I have no proof for that but judging from observations, I’m pretty convinced that Chinese mummery, insofar actually done by the Chinese, is not so much about real-world protection but more a social status symbol for those who can afford it which roughly means I’m sufficiently well-to-do that I don’t have to breathe the same air than those of the lower orders and they’re certainly not entitled to see my face when I can’t avoid interacting with them. Maybe with some additional I don’t have to expose may face to the sun and risk it getting brownish thrown in — prior to holiday beach culture, a tan used to be a mark of people who had to work out in the open all day.
But I think here in the West a tan now represents affluence because those with a tan can either afford a sunbed, or they can afford to travel to warm destinations. All those wonderful things the West once prided itself of, now TPTB want to slowly remove those opportunities without the majority noticing.
Middle-class affluence — can afford package holidays, as opposed to being stuck in an eternal on work – off work zero hour contract loop in some low-level service job.
“It was designed in the context of a safe reopening.”
Posturing or did and does he still really believe this cr*p?
Safe like giving James Bond’s name and tel.no, or like walking in with masks and taking them off when sitting down?
Nothing made and could have made a difference.
Until he gets that, he has not understood a thing
And don’t forget the substantial meal (is a Scotch egg one)!