Doubts are rising about the recent U.K. record high temperature, measured by the runway at RAF Coningsby on the afternoon of July 19th. Over six minutes, the temperature jumped suddenly by 1.3°C to 40.3°C at 15.12 (3.12pm), and was 0.6°C lower just a minute later. In just two minutes from 15.10 the rise was 0.6°C. The record was set during a mini-heatwave last summer, and has rarely been out of the headlines promoting climate ‘breakdown’ and the need for a Net Zero solution ever since.
Air temperatures can rise over short periods if weather conditions change – for instance, if the sun appears quickly from behind a large cloud, or the wind direction moves. But July 19th in Coningsby, Lincolnshire, was more or less cloudless around 3pm (see below), and the wind direction from the south-west was constant. Another explanation might be sought in the movement of two squadrons of Typhoon fighter jets at the large base that employs up to 3,000 people. The thermometer at Coningsby, the RAF’s primary Typhoon station, as with all airports, is placed next to the runway to provide vital operational information. In the absence of credible meteorological explanations for such a large spike, aeroplane movement must be suspected as the most obvious cause.
According to the plane spotters guide website Thunder & Lightnings, on a good day at Coningsby, “it can be wall-to-wall action” with never more than half an hour or so quiet. Modern fighter aircraft are extremely powerful machines. Spotters note fence panels blown away by the after-burners, while photographers are warned that “heat haze” can spoil pictures. When the jets are taking off or taxiing, they are pumping considerable amounts of hot gas into the surrounding atmosphere.
This is not the first time that concerns have been raised about Met Office claims of a temperature record at an airport. In 2015, it claimed a U.K. July record temperature of 36.7°C. Soon after, a number of journalists including Paul Homewood and the late Christopher Booker from the Sunday Telegraph raised doubts about some of the circumstances surrounding the record at Heathrow airport. It was noted that the temperature jumped by 0.9°C in two minutes.
Homewood remarked at the time:
No engineer would trust such a spike in any other field, and would throw it out unless he had firm evidence that it was correct. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the reading at the Met Office station at Heathrow is either incorrect, or has been artificially inflated by local, non-climatic factors.
The Met Office responded to the concerns by floating the possibility that breaks in cloud cover were the main cause. Dr. Mark McCarthy from the Met Office told the green activist site Carbon Brief that solar radiation is “the most plausible and sufficient explanation” for the peak in temperatures. It would seem that another “plausible” explanation is required for Coningsby, since, as noted, clouds were absent.
Whatever the reason for the sudden spike at Coningsby to produce the now official U.K. temperature record, there can be no doubt that temperature data taken by busy airport runways are of use only to ground crew and pilots. They are far too corrupted to be used for plotting local or global trends in temperature, and are being used as a political tool to influence progress on the command-and-control Net Zero project.
But as we have seen, airport temperature data are widely used in all the major global datasets. In 2010, Professor Ross McKitrick discovered that about half of all land surface temperature measurements were taken near or adjacent to airport runways. The U.S. meteorologist Anthony Watts has worked for over a decade looking at U.S. weather stations. His recent report noted that 96% of the weather stations used by the U.S. weather service NOAA were “corrupted” by the localised effects of urbanisation. Watts found that a “slight warming trend” when data were compared with “unperturbed” stations, was “approximately half the claimed rate of increase promoted by many in the climate science community”.
Others are more brutal in their conclusions. Emeritus Professors William Happer and Richard Lindzen recently told the U.S. Government that over the last several decades, “NASA and NOAA have been fabricating temperature data to argue that rising CO2 levels have led to the hottest year on record”. These false and manipulated data were said to be an “egregious violation of scientific method”.
Over the last few weeks we have had the first fruits of ground-breaking urban heat research by atmospheric scientists Dr. Roy Spencer and Professor John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Their work attempts to remove the effect of urban heat from surface temperature datasets. Looking first at the United States, they found 50% less warming over the last 50 years across the eastern U.S.
As the graph above suggests, some of the greatest urbanisation impacts on warming were found at airports.
The Met Office supplied the Daily Sceptic with the detailed temperature record for Coningsby and the satellite photo that shows no significant cloud over Lincolnshire at 3pm on July 19th. It also confirmed the wind was from the south-west throughout the day. The Met Office is welcome to reply to this article and address the issues raised, including the continued use of airport measurements in its own datasets.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Plod are basically out of control and are effectively making up the law as they see fit. This cannot continue. Yesterday also saw the arrest of Tommy Robinson for having the nerve to be out celebrating his twelve year old daughter’s birthday – vid posted earlier by Mogwai.
Once again if No10 wanted to stop this it could but clearly the Hindu poodle is under orders to allow these actions. Fishy is very much a guilty party in all this.
A single man peacefully displaying a poster which simply confirms government protocols on Hamas is breaking the law how exactly? And the terrorist sympathisers who attack this brave young man and attempt to do him injury are not even cautioned let alone arrested. Britain’s finest eh?
But if the intention is to stimulate unrest and mistrust in institutions, all going as planned it seems.
Absolutely.
“Hindu poodle”!! PMSL…..
Actually, due to the amount of footage of this incident posted online it was easy enough for people to identify the nutter that instigated the assault on Niyak. Bet he wishes he’d worn his tea towel now. His mate seems to have also been identified in the comments section;
”Abdul Madi an employee of Pinnacle Wealth is allegedly the person seen assaulting @GhorbaniiNiyak
in London yesterday.
His profile has been taken down from his company’s site.”
https://twitter.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1766890580452249864
In past times when decency and standards of behaviour mattered this Madi thug would be in receipt of the wagging finger on his next day at work. In today’s climate of course it is a raging certainty that he will have his race card polished and ready to go as soon as he hears his boss announce…
“Madi, I’d like a word. In my office.”
You cannot polish a turd. Madi in a suit is still a third world islamist conducting himself as a, well, as a third world islamist in Londonistan.
Ticket back.
“it was easy enough for people to identify the nutter that instigated the assault on Niyak.”
I look forward to the Met announcing that a warrant has been issued for his arrest.
This is what we need more of for these entitled scummy crims who think they’re above the law. Justice served Indian style. Pretty sure there’d be a lot less shoplifting if staff fought back and had zero tolerance, like this guy;
https://twitter.com/PicturesFoIder/status/1766864137345212455
Terrific post Mogs. That will be one “converted” shoplifter.
Wonderful! All piss and vinegar until the whupping starts, then he suddenly cares. I’m glad he capitulates and then got several more licks just to drive home the point. Nobody else is likely to try that place.
I think it was a proportionate (and funny) response, but concerned if Plod try to prosecute the shopkeepers, which would be a travesty. A fine line between chastisement and ABH.
Yep, don’t mess with Mr Singh!
I like how the guy behind the counter was warning them against it then did a full 180. 
Well what do these scumbags expect will happen? Shopkeepers going to just sit back and watch their goods be leisurely stolen in the time it takes for the police to show up? I’m all for being proactive and sending a message that’s more effective than a few hours spent in a cell.
Deleted.
‘facing accusations of double standards’ ?
Eh?
We’re long past that.
An Islamist mayor who heads a wokist police stasi.
Allo allo allo.
What’s appenin ere.
We ave to be politicly crrect young fella mi lad.
That means allowin the baddies to ave their say.
An we can’t be seen to be opposin em!
So please allow us to put these cuffs on.
And ere’s the back of our nice van.
…
Oh what he’s a foreign who recognises police brutality? Oops, come on lads we’ve messed this one up
Nuffin to see ere, move along, move along!
Appalling double standards by the utterly woke and useless Plod.
Recall their response to anti-lockdown protests and the vigil, for Sarah Everard – wading in, batons flailing.
Say something nasty on social media, or make some stickers the elite don’t like and they’ll be down on you like a ton of bricks.
Anti-Semitic marches? OK
Been burgled? Tough luck.
Muslim grooming gangs? Nothing to see here.
I despair.
Spot on. Criticise a mentally ill retard tranny and off to Belmarsh. Rape a dozen white girls…nothing. Support Muslim terrorists publicly, or wave your bait and tackle at the no pride low IQ parade…nothing. Protest against Muzz terror or the Rona fascism, off to prison esp if you are white.
No wonder, really…..
The Mayor of London was given a direct mandate for policing in London in 2011, as part of the Police and Social Responsibility Act. As such, the Mayor is responsible for setting the strategic direction of policing in London through the Police and Crime Plan.
A number of powers are devolved to MOPAC, which is led by the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, Sophie Linden. This includes the delivery of efficient and effective Met policing, management of resources and expenditure (MOPAC is the functional body of the Greater London Assembly that sets the policing budget, holds the Commissioner to account and in partnership discusses progress against the Police & Crime Plan, assesses the strategic budget position and key risks to delivery).
The new London Policing Board, is a new element to the Met’s governance structures.
The London Assembly also has a role in providing the formal check and balance on policing in London. The assembly’s Police and Crime Committee is charged with examining the work of MOPAC and matters of policing interest in London, and in doing so publicly scrutinises the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime on a regular basis, alongside the Commissioner.
Post consultation with the Commissioner, the Deputy Mayor recommends to the Mayor an annual policing budget for the Met.
Linden’s entire career has been spent in politics. From 1992 to 1997, she was a researcher for David Blunkett MP. Following the Labour victory at the 1997 general election, she became a Special Adviser to Blunkett when he was Secretary of State for Education and Employment. She was in the role from 1997 to 2001, following Blunkett as Special Adviser when he was appointed Home Secretary.
Linden moved to become a Labour councillor within the London Borough of Hackney, for the Dalston Ward, from 4 May 2006 to 10 June 2016. During this period, she worked for Bell Pottinger political communications, and unsuccessfully sought selection as Labour’s Prospective parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn prior to the 2015 general election.
In 2016, she was appointed by the new Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to be the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime.
‘When William was our king declared
To ease the nation’s grievance,
With this new wind about I steered,
And swore to him allegiance;
Old principles I did revoke,
Set conscience at a distance;
Passive obedience was a joke,
A jest was non-resistance.
And this is law, I will maintain,
Until my dying day, Sir,
That whatsoever king shall reign,
I’ll be the Vicar of Bray, Sir.’
Good work. Thanks.
Gotta love the wording of this: A man was arrested and, after CCTV footage had been reviewed, de-arrested as if this would somehow neutralize the original event.
Our polices are cowards and a disgrace.
These latest shenanigans are adding to the feeling of a steady growing seething anger in the ,as yet, silent majority of the British public that’s only just under the surface! This feeling applies to most of the downtrodden western populations who are quite rightly feeling ignored.
History shows us these bottled up emotions lead to public unrest, Tptb will reap what they have sowed!
O/T How has Khan avoided criticism for the Forest Gate police station fire?
It was a new building, under 20 years old I would guess. Did it not have fire detection or sprinklers?
Khan is not only responsible for the police but also the fire brigade.