Over eight in 10 of the 113 temperature measuring stations opened in the last 30 years by the U.K. Met Office have been deliberately or carelessly sited in junk Class 4 and 5 locations where unnatural heating errors of 2°C and 5°C respectively are possible. This shock revelation, obtained by a recent Freedom of Information request, must cast serious doubt on the ability of the Met Office to provide a true measurement of the U.K. air temperature, a statistic that is the bedrock of support for Net Zero. Over time, increasing urban encroachment has corrupted almost the entire network of 384 stations with 77.9% of the stations rated Class 4 and 5, but it beggars belief that new stations are being sited in such locations.
The siting situation is just as bad over the last 10 years where 81.5% are rated junk, while over the last five years, eight of the 13 newly-opened stations are Class 4 and 5. Only last year, Arthog No 2 was opened in Wales with a class rating of 4, and the year before another class 4 was sited at Neatishead. It is one thing to inherit a network, one of whose stations goes back to 1794, that has become corrupted, but serious questions must arise as to why the Met Office is planting measuring devices at sites that cannot provide a proper natural air temperature. Using these data to promote the Net Zero project by suggesting temperatures are rising faster than they are, while implausibly calculating warming down to one hundredths of a degree centigrade, risks the state-funded Met Office becoming a national joke.
Citizen journalist Ray Sanders is on the Met Office case and regularly contributes to Paul Homewood’s online blog. He noted that Neatishead was sited just 19 months ago and asked why sites are being opened of such poor quality. He observed that “someone of a suspicious mind might think that they are deliberately adding these junk sites simply to make current U.K. temperatures artificially high”.
The class rating system for temperature measuring stations is set by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). It reflects both human and natural impacts on temperature measurements caused by nearby activities, buildings and other structures. Class 1 is pristine and in a “perfect” world can be considered a “reference” site, notes WMO. Barely 6% of the Met Office stations are Class 1. Class 4 sites are heavily corrupted by artificial temperature changing sources and come with WMO “uncertainties” of 2°C. Class 5 sites have “uncertainties” of 5°C and with no siting requirements could be located by the door of a blast furnace, or, as happens at airports, the super-heated exhausts of jet engines. Under ISO/WMO standard 19289:2014 (E), a Class 5 site “is a site where nearby obstacles create an inappropriate environment for a meteorological measurement that is intended to be representative of a wide area”.
Earlier this year the Daily Sceptic exclusively revealed that nearly one in three (29.2%) of Met Office temperature stations were in junk Class 5. And astonishingly, 48.7% were in Class 4. Just 13.7% or a paltry 52 stations are in Classes 1 and 2, where no “uncertainties” are set. The scientific scandal here is that the Met Office has known about the situation for years, but far from improving the network by careful siting of new stations, it appears to be intent on making it worse. To date, the Met Office has resisted giving a public explanation and the Net Zero-obsessed mainstream media have ignored the story. Instead, the legacy press has concentrated on promoting a diet of Met Office “record” and daily high temperatures often set at the same heat-racked sites. “Speaking truth to power” in this case has been replaced with acting as a helpful and unquestioning messenger for Met Office claims. As is usual in these cases, whether it be Covid cover-ups or a spaced-out U.S. Democrat President, mainstream media are nowhere to be seen, although the subject is widely discussed on social media.
Last month, the Daily Sceptic analysed a week of these claimed highs and found the hottest day in the U.K. was set at Heathrow airport no fewer than five times. Every day, many of the same dud sites feature at the top of the local lists. In Scotland, the measuring stations at Edinburgh Botanic Gardens, Glasgow and Leuchars featured on four days out of seven. In England, Hull East Park was joined by Killowen on four days along with Usk, Durham and Pershore College on three.
Does the Met Office consider this is credible scientific information, presenting the same natural mini local heat spots as representative of the U.K. climate, or just Net Zero story telling? It is about time it provided an explanation.
Ray Sanders has been diligently researching the siting of Met Office stations. The situation at Neatishead clearly appals him since its recent siting was in a heavily-shaded location adjacent to a radar dome. Another new site in Kent is next to agricultural poly tunnels that change throughout the year. Others include sites in walled gardens deliberately intended to form micro climates of enhanced warmth, co-located with National Grid sub-stations, surrounded by newly-installed solar farms, in car parks and, “most absurdly, in exceptionally close proximity to aircraft”.
Aberdeen Dyce airport regularly records a regional high, and the photo above gives some clues as to why it does. Sanders comments that it is “staggeringly difficult” to understand how any rational meteorologist could defend the Dyce site. The square below the red marker is the temperature compound with what appears to be a nearby Airbus 320 with its engines pointing at the Stevenson Screen.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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“… the 1.4 million claimed sufferers of long Covid.”
Funnily, all of them are ‘vaccinated’.
Yeah.. funny that. It couldn’t be that toxic shite injected into people, of that we can be sure.
All those embalmers unable to embalm because of peoples arteries blocked by long rubbery clots were just making it up.. obviously ‘conspiracy theorists’..
Talking of long rubbery clots.. if you’ve a strong stomach.. see below..
https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com/p/hydrogel-coagulates-blood-and-causes?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Huge rubbery blood clots..
https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com/p/huge-rubbery-blood-clots-in-an-unvaccinated?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
How are the 1.2 million that arrived last year getting on ?
Ok I expect.. I doubt they’ve been jabbed!
Time to reshare Ed Dowd’s UK data. Lockdowns don’t cause disabilities. Enough of this ridiculous ignoring the obvious. ”The great resignation” indeed!
https://twitter.com/DowdEdward/status/1679185829372268544
Ignoring the obvious is the only game in town I’m afraid..
Here’s John Campbell’s latest ( 15mins ) and he takes us through the Australian data, which is shocking and even more so when comparing the adverse effects of the Covid jabs to those from traditional vaccines. At the 2min mark he even states he would never have taken the shots himself had he known what he knows now. Fair play to him for coming out and saying what many are probably feeling. So don’t tell me, you intelligence-insulting and patronizing MSM rag, that any of the above in your article is to do with flaming lockdowns! It’s all lies and you know it! We all know what’s killing and disabling people, both quickly and over the long term.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l6Q2r5VWLo&ab_channel=Dr.JohnCampbell
Damn right we do.. the wretched injections, and many of them pushing the things knew they were harmful too..
But if I knew the virus posed a trivial threat to almost everybody and the gunk couldn’t possibly have been properly tested, why didn’t he?
(I stopped watching him when it became clear that he believed the CCP)
I think at that stage he simply trusted the establishment. He had no idea of what we know now.
Nothing to do with anything safe and effective?
How dare you!!!!!!!
While it could be that some of us have quit work a little earlier than normal, could it be that the attitude to minor illnesses has changed? A few decades ago, it was unusual to take time off sick due to minor “common colds”, for example. In those days most of them did not want to have too many days off in case it affected their chances of promotion.
Sort of on topic. I worry about being injured and requiring a blood transfusion from an infected person. (Vaccinated)
Don’t worry. It’s unlikely you’d get a transfusion (person to person). More likely you’d get an infusion of red cells from a donor. These are pressed by separating the plasma and white cells, rinsing, then adding saline. Effectively “red cells in brine” if you like. So nothing like small proteins that were floating about in the plasma, and red cells don’t have a nucleus, so no issues there.
Thank you. Not a scientist and when I read that this crap is found in every cell for me this means EVERY cell.
let’s just pay people to stay home and do nothing for months. what could possibly go wrong, they said.
Workers will get right back in as soon as they’re allowed, of course.
WTF did they expect?
When they censor the truth bad things happen. Any comment, Marianna Spring??
”The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is in charge of the Ministry of Truth, which the government of the United Kingdom established in 2019 in reaction to what they claimed was the overwhelming volume of false information and fake news flowing online.
They called this Ministry of Truth, The Trusted News Initiative (TNI).
The AP, AFP, First Draft, Google/YouTube, Twitter, Reuters, Financial Times, Meta (Facebook), European Broadcasting Union, CBC/Radio-Canada, The Hindu, Microsoft, and The Washington Post are just a few of the influential partners in the BBC’s Trusted News Initiative.
It is the only “forum” of its sort in the entire world created to accept information that has not been authorized by The Ministry of Truth in real-time.
The Ministry of Truth’s (TheTrusted News Initiative) strategy was quite effective in preventing the dissemination of accurate information that jeopardized their attempts to completely dominate the information landscape.
Experts and scientists were effectively kept in the dark, with any research or conclusions that didn’t support the government’s version of events about COVID-19 being labeled as “fake news.”
It also resulted in a culture where people were reluctant to express their opinions, where governments exercised excessive control over what people knew and believed, and where freedom of expression and independent thought were suppressed.
The Ministry only provided the public with material it deemed to be “true,” although frequently this meant withholding crucial information that may have saved lives.
Millions of lives were tragically and needlessly lost as a result of the Covid-19 injections.”
https://theleadingreport.com/2023/07/13/bbc-could-be-responsible-for-majority-of-2m-excess-deaths-in-europe-due-to-misinformation-campaign-used-to-censor-the-dangers-of-covid-vaccines/
That just reminds me, I first complained to the BBC in early April 2021 –
YOUR COMPLAINT:
Your continual covid 19 fear propaganda
You are supposed to be independent. Your covid 19 coverage is nothing but government and big pharma’s propaganda. You refuse or are incapable of asking their “experts” any critical questions. You refuse to give any truly independent experts opportunity to give alternative views regarding vaccine safety, quarantines, actual covid death figures, masks etc. In no small measure you have propagated the totally unwarranted climate of fear which exists.
Do your job. Rediscover the art of investigative journalism and actually THINK. Do some research – look at what proper experts have to say – John Loannidis, Bryam Bridle, Geert Vanden Bossche, Mike Yeadon, Carl Heneghan, and if you want your eyes opening re the safety of vaccines – which you promote without question- read vaccinepapers.org .
You are promoting an ideology. Your censorship would make Goebbels proud.
I used to value the BBC. Not any more.
Finally what about your virtually non existent reporting of the “lockdown protests”.
Needless to say I got the usual fob off.
At the time I didn’t realise the extent to which they’d already been captured.
I don’t suppose any of this will feature in the “inquiry.”
Cost / benefit analysis. What’s that when it’s at home?
As soon as a ‘benefit’ is ‘one human life’ the discussion stops.
My mother died at age 93. She was desperate to avoid going into hospital where she thought they could keep her alive almost indefinitely. She didn’t like people ‘fussing’ over her but tried to be polite (not always successfully). I hope I’m a bit like her.
Correlation only proves causation when it supports the narrative, ergo ‘global warming’ did it, in the dining room with the lead piping. This story is very insulting to a thinking person’s intelligence. A higher than average number of people died in nursing homes, where they aren’t sat in the greenhouse but in a lounge with aircon and/or fans, out of direct sunlight, therefore the common denominator must be the excess heat. But we know that in the winter they’d blame the cold. Give me strength!
”In the second quarter of 2023, over 39,000 people died in the Netherlands, 1,900 or 5 percent more than expected for this period. In three weeks of June, there was excess mortality among people in long-term care and senior citizens. This coincided with a heatwave in the country, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reported on Friday.
June 2023 was the warmest June since temperature measurements started in the Netherlands in 1901. Temperatures were over 3 degrees higher than typical. Elderly people and people with weakened systems are vulnerable to heat.
In the second quarter, about 150 more people died per week than expected, but there was only excess mortality during weeks 23, 24, and 25 – the three weeks in June when there was a heatwave in the country. Excess mortality is when the number of deaths is so much higher than expected that it exceeds the accounted-for fluctuations.
The higher-than-expected number of deaths in the second quarter can also partially be attributed to a flu epidemic in the Netherlands in April. Covid-19 is also still circulating in the country, though the number of virus particles in sewage water decreased in the second quarter. According to CBS, 319 people died of Covid-19 in February, the latest known figures.”
https://nltimes.nl/2023/07/14/heat-wave-causes-5-percent-deaths-expected-june
I am not alone in my scepticism. So all these elderly people ”dying from the heat”, what exactly do the doctors put as the cause of death on the certificate? ”Heat stroke”? From sitting in a lounge in the shade, far away from any actual direct sunlight? Crazy. A heat wave = causation of death but all of those serious adverse event reports = coincidence.
https://twitter.com/BareReality/status/1679772952139649025
I asked a friend of mine about these absentee rates – had he noticed this in his business? He said no, there is no difference whatsoever in absentee rates in his business with about forty people. He was aware of these figures (and most are vaccinated, he assures me although he never asked them, considering it wasn’t an appropriate question to ask employees) and he put it down to them having stayed open all the way through the lockdowns, if only with a skeleton staff initially and then staff coming back as soon as they felt able. I’m not a fan of vaccines (and that’s been the case for at least twenty years) but I think it is too easy to just jump on that as a reason for this increase in absenteeism. I think there are many factors at play here including psychologically it being OKay to be off work for a sniffle (fear of contaminating the office) as mentioned by another commenter.
I somewhat disagree – but have an up-tick for a sensible argument.
Except for the pesky fact of continuing excess deaths, I would suggest malingering, quiet quitting, and hypochondria are causes of the disability increases in the UK and in the US. Are people sicker–the excess deaths would indicate so. I personally don’t know anyone with a chronic illness, new disability, adverse jab effects, or death from covid. Maybe I need to get out more….
He’s not in the public sector!
Britain’s public finances crippled by 26 years of mass immigration.
I’d love to know what the supposed skills shortages are, whether they are in the private or public sector, and where they are geographically. Maybe they are just down to vacancies in zero hours jobs that people only do short term until they find something else. Does anyone know of any statistical analysis?
Trying to remove those stupid 2m lines from our church floor. Governments have left humanity a catastrophic legacy eminating from the big Covid-19 lie. History will judge them harshly. The golden rule is NEVER believe what the government tells you.
Hmmm.. Elephants and rooms spring to mind.
I’m largely economically inactive by choice. (I have an arrangement (you can’t really call it a contract) with a small local company which means I work when they need an extra pair of hands and IF I want to.)
Fortunately, I have a pension, savings and a BtL which means I can afford not to be a wage slave. I’m prioritising a very nice lifestyle over working and paying tax to the moronic Government which stripped me of my Civil Liberties and Human Rights over a virus they KNEW was only dangerous for a small and easily-identified section of the population.
I didn’t cause the devestation.
Lockdown served to erode the work ethic of much of the nation and embedded a dependency culture. The benefit system in the UK incentivises chronic sickness particularly. Decades of welfare statism were causing society and economy to decay gradually and Lockdown greatly accelerated the decay. It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that we’re doomed.