Last week saw a dramatic illustration of how far parts of the mainstream media has departed from the scientific process in its aim to catastrophise the climate and push society to accept the global Net Zero collectivisation. “London seeing more days above 30°C, experts say”, ran a BBC headline, with a reported suggestion that London must adapt to the “new reality”. But it turns out that the ‘experts’ have used “airport data for consistency across worldwide cities, including City Airport in London”. It is difficult to think of a more unsuitable dataset to promote notions of “extreme heat”, other than perhaps to take measurements next to the door of a blast furnace.
Similar versions of the story appeared in numerous mainstream outlets including Sky and the Independent suggesting the material was subbed from a circulated release. It originated from the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED,) a green activist think tank that collects funding from a wide variety of governmental and private sources. The analysis is said to be part of a larger project to look at how “climate change” is affecting the world’s most populated cities. Sky said the IIAD report was just one in a raft of warnings in the last year, “about the pressing need to adapt the country to climate change”. IIED researcher Tucker Landesman claimed it was clear that the “extreme heat is here to stay and London must adapt soon to remain liveable for everyone”.
Landesman is an urban studies graduate from the LSE and he appears big on woke woo-woo. ‘Connecting decarbonisation and social justice’ and ‘Towards queer-centred urban development’, are two of his recent publications. Tucker is said to be “particularly interested in intersectional approaches to urban poverty and inequality”. No doubt these are his areas of expertise, but in collating measurements next to the exhausts of multiple jet aircraft for the purpose of making predictions of Thermogeddon, he would appear to be operating outside his comfort zone. Given what scientists have discovered about the urban heat effect, and its dramatic short-term effect on temperature measurements, it is difficult to understand why the BBC is giving house room to this ‘new analysis’. Having to pass through airports that are noticeably hotter than surrounding areas in air-conditioned buildings is hardly front page news – unless, of course, there is some pseudoscientific agenda at work.
The use of data from unsuitable sites has bedevilled the recent collection of accurate temperature measurements in most meteorological operations around the world. Earlier this year, the Daily Sceptic revealed that nearly eight out of ten of the U.K. Met Office’s measuring sites had huge scientifically-designated ‘uncertainties’ that effectively disqualified them from providing accurate data. Despite such large potential corruptions, the Met Office was able to claim to a hundredth of a degree that last year in the U.K. was only 0.06°C cooler than the year before.
The World Meteorological Organisation rates weather sites from class 1 to 5 based on the amount of human-caused heat corruption that is likely to occur next to the measuring devise. Class 4 comes with ‘uncertainties’ of 2°C and these accounted for 48.7% of the Met Office’s 380 recording stations. Class 5 comes with ‘uncertainties’ of 5°C and these applied to 29.2% of the total, with many of the stations set down the runways at local airports. For instance, frequent reference is made to high readings at the class 5 military airport at Northolt.
The BBC report claims that “really extreme temperatures” have become more frequent with seven days above 35°C in the past three decades, five of which occurred within the last five years, statistics from 1994-2023 show. Statistics also show that passenger numbers at the enlarged City Airport tripled over that period, although numbers are still well down on the years before Covid.
According to the official Met Office figures, which as we have seen need taking with plenty of salt, there has been a small rise in the average summer maximum temperature since the mid 1990s. It is about 0.8°C, but the recent rise is only 1.2°C higher than the averaged maximums recorded in the less urban heat corrupted records from around 90 years ago. Given that the global temperature has been gently warming over the last 150 years as a recovery from the Little Ice Age, this is not surprising. What would have been considered a ‘nice’ summer in the mid 1930s is now, one degree centigrade later, promoted in politicised alarmist terms with weather maps painted in hellish reds and purples.
In 2022, an insight into the heat corruptions at airports was provided by two former NASA scientists working out of the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Dr. Roy Spencer and Professor John Christy found massive human-caused heat distortions in the temperature record across the United States. Airports were found to be particularly prone to higher temperatures compared with those recorded in surrounding less urbanised areas.
The most dramatic finding occurred at Orlando airport where decadal warming since 1973 of 0.3°C is slashed to just 0.07°C after the data has been ‘de-urbanised’. The number of passengers has soared in recent years with over 50 million people passing through the ever-growing airport, the gateway to Mickey Mouse and the Magic Kingdom. Interestingly, the divergence between the two temperature datasets becomes more pronounced from the turn of the century.
Unsurprisingly, many of the Met Office’s heat ‘records’ have been recorded since the turn of the century. Almost all of them are from ‘junk’ class 5 and ‘near junk’ class 4 sites. Class 5 maximum temperature records, with their ‘uncertainties of 5°C, have been declared in Northern Ireland and three U.K. areas. The record in Central S was measured in St. James’s Park in London, site of one of the five 40°C plus recordings of July 19th, 2022. Class 4 record holders are even more numerous with the highest Scottish record set at Charterhall. Hawarden Airport is home to the highest Welsh recording. No less than five U.K. areas have records attributed to this class which comes with ’uncertainties’ of 2°C.
And, of course, who can forget the national joke record of 40.3°C declared on July 19th, 2022 at Coningsby – or more accurately, RAF Coningsby. Blink and you might have missed it since the 60-second record was caused by a 0.6°C spike either side of 3.12pm. As it happened, it appears that no less than three typhoon fighter jets were landing at or near that time.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor
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Outlandish fraud. All Totalitarian theologies enage in massive fraud. Rona fascism was a case in point. The Climate tards have been doing it for 140 years. When I was young I was told an Ice Age cometh, and New York City would be under water by 1995 and all raw materials would be used up by 1990. Massive famines, most would die and peak oil was pronounced every day. All rubbish and anti-science crap.
Where I am in Sussex, March-April-early May has been one of the coldest wettest ugliest springs in recent memory. But. I am waiting for these idiots to tell me that April was the hottest April evah in the UK! Records everywhere no doubt.
Maybe they will put their temp reading units in the oven at the BBC office and regale us with the boiling temps.
Agree, wettest coldest April I can remember in my 50 years. Yet I heard either BBC or Independent not sure that April had the hottest day on record. I genuinely think people believe this s**t ahead of their own experience.
But it is getting hotter. Climate scientists’ models show that all 12 months were warmer than normal this year, making 2024 the hottest year ever.
I heard that too. I had to light the wood stove a few weeks ago after a break from having to do so. some people need a permanent warm house, I just vent where I can and keep the living room warm enough!
Germany saw record levels of snowfall last winter and – this certainly hasn’t ever happened during my conscious lifetime – heavy snowfall as late as late April. However, as some climate guru declared on TV, due to global boiling this was unsually warm snow.
According to my personal experiences, since 2000, when snow reappeared after years without it, it’s generally getting colder and not hotter and that’s why the global boilists have to resort to ever more elaborate fakery to keep the 1990s narrative of climate change driven by global warming alive.
Wealthy individuals throughout history have made attempts to ‘corner’ certain markets. States do the same thing. China, for example, controls a huge proportion of global copper production. Copper is the foundation stone for electricity powered systems.
The Chinese Communist Party, as we have seen on our streets, can deploy a lavishly funded lobby at any given moment, in support of its own interests.
That is as true of the nut zero ‘green’ lobby as it is of the rabid faux ethnic clothed pro Palestine paid claque infesting the streets of London.
That is the reason, pure and simple venality, that so much poorly evidenced nut zero tripe finds its way into Britain’s public discourse.
the rabid faux ethnic clothed pro Palestine paid claque infesting the streets of London.
yes what happened to the ‘cultural appropriation ‘ faux pas. why aren’t they up in arms about that. very strange
Some wise poster on here said something like it’s not the cause it’s the revolution, they were right. This is a great example, they don’t give 2 turds about the environment, in fact they love filth and ugliness, they just seek control.
Collection of data from ‘non standardised’ data collection stations is a scientific waste of time!
…… unless of course, you’re collecting ‘data’ for non-scientific purposes.
Their data collection has the same meaning and veracity as the ‘89% of 57 wimmin swear on their granny’s grave that X face cream makes them look 100% younger’ adverts. And should be treated with equal distain.
As well of the national joke record at RAF Coningsby in 2022 there was the notorious joke record at Heathrow Airport when three passenger jets turned off on to the taxiway and blew their exhausts directly over the temperature monitoring sensor. The Met Office said it was due to a “break in the clouds” for a few minutes. Obviously, having temperature sensors at airports, close to runways, is exactly what is need for the intended purpose: to measure actual air temperature needed to ensure safety margins for take-off and landing of aircraft. However, such sensors are useless for originating climatic data, as the readings have to be “adjusted” to allow for the micrometeorology of tarmac, concrete, building and aircraft movements, such “adjustments” being extremely prone to inaccurate modelling, poor estimation and fraud. Even worse, if the climatic “data” is to be used to claim instantaneous temperature records (rather than deriving mean values over decades) then obviously people are going to scrutinize the precise circumstances under which the figures were obtained, which tends to show up anomalies such as aircraft movements.
A somewhat different “adjustment” should have been applied to the figures at Cambridge University Botanic Gardens, which not only showed a record but a general upward trend over decades. More likely than not this trend should be attributable to the way that the Botanic Gardens were originally in open countryside but have gradually been overrun by development of Cambridge city and are now surrounded by office block sun-traps.
Has anyone ever seen an elephant? How about a Zebra? How about a Pillar box? —-I know that Daily Sceptic subscribers are very observant so I am presuming most of them will have seen those things and will know they exist. They would not likely have to say something like “Elephants are real and happening now” though would they? —–But has anyone ever seen “climate change”? Where did you see it? What does it look like? Did you look out of your living room window one day say to your wife “Hey come and see all the climate change”?.—————- Ok so very smart climate hysteria people will laugh at me and say “But I have never seen a molecule and I know they exist, and I have never seen the planet Uranus but I know that exists, so you are simply a climate change denier. ——Oh dear what a fool I am. But hold on a second let’s take a look at some data. If this “climate change is real and happening now” we should see storms, floods, droughts, wild fires getting more frequent and worse and rate of sea level rise increasing. ——But in the real world there is no increase in the frequency or intensity of any type of weather event and no evidence that the rate of sea level rise is increasing, and remember sea level has been rising for 12,000 years, long before we burned any coal, because we are in a warmer Interglacial period. ———So the statement “Climate Change is real and happening now” is not a scientific statement, it is a political one. It is a statement that seeks to imply that climate change as a result of human activity is as plain as the nose on your face and anyone who says it isn’t must have some kind of agenda and are likely funded in some way by fossil fuel companies. —–But actually the people with the agenda are the people making unvalidated claims about a climate crisis they have no evidence for and who convince themselves that computer models full of speculations and assumptions are evidence of something. ———-They ARE NOT.
“Global temperature” ???? What is that exactly? Do the government funded data adjusters just stick a thermometer under the earths armpit and take a reading? ——The earth doesn’t have a temperature. All temperature is local. You can record a temperature anywhere you put a thermometer.
“Tucker is said to be “particularly interested in intersectional approaches to urban poverty and inequality”. No doubt these are his areas of expertise, but in collating measurements next to the exhausts of multiple jet aircraft for the purpose of making predictions of Thermogeddon, he would appear to be operating outside his comfort zone.”
Wow!
“intersectional approaches to urban poverty and inequality”.
Heady stuff – whatever this shyte is. No use to man nor beast but he’s an ex spurt.
Put him back in his pram and start again.
I don’t think the Climate Industrial Complex will be too worried that their scam is under any kind of threat and the public are going to see it for what a fraud it is if the response here is anything to go by. ——-Climate Change Eco Socialism pretending to be science is the greatest threat to our freedom and prosperity, and we are all just letting them get away with it, except for a few exceptions like some DS subscribers, they are getting carte blanche to do as they please.