Further alarming disclosures have come to light about the Met Office’s U.K. temperature measuring network following a recent freedom of information (FOI) request seeking details of its internal rating system for its 383 station-strong operation. Denial is the word that springs immediately to mind. According to World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) international standards, almost eight in 10 Met Office stations are in junk Class 4 and super junk Class 5 with possible errors of 2°C and 5°C respectively. But it turns out that over nine in 10 stations are internally rated by the Met Office as ‘Excellent, ‘Good’ and ‘Satisfactory’. Just 27 stations are considered ‘Unsatisfactory’.
It might be hoped that the Met Office is rushing to upgrade these unsatisfactory stations not least because they produce numerous ‘record’ highs, or ‘extremes’ as they are now termed, that litter the database. It is not a good look to be caught promoting all-time ‘extremes’ from recordings that you consider internally to be unsatisfactory. Nevertheless, two of the four national temperatures records were produced by this small band of unsatisfactory stations – on July 18th, 2020, Hawarden Airport in Wales recorded 37.1°C, while on July 21st, 2021 a temperature was recorded of 31.3°C in Castlederg, Northern Ireland.
The WMO applies strict standards on temperature stations and rates them from Class 1-5. Corruptions of natural air temperature from any source determine a rating. Class 1 and 2 are pristine, Class 3 has ‘uncertainties’ of 1°C followed by classes 4 and 5. Super junk 5 has no requirements for siting, meaning it can be based anywhere. Let us refresh our memories of how the Met Office sites rate under rigorous WMO standards.
Now look what happens when the Met Office marks its own homework.
According to information released under an FOI request to the investigative journalist Paul Homewood, the Met Office will only quote records from WMO Classes 1-4. Also known as CIMO ratings, the Met Office states categorically that the records “must” be between 1 and 4. “CIMO 5 will mean data from the site will be flagged and not quoted in national records,” adds the Met Office.
Presumably the instruction is not fully understood across the entire organisation. For instance, in a week analysed last June by the Daily Sceptic the Scottish Class 5 station Leuchars provided an area ‘extreme’ on four out of the seven days examined. In England, the Class 5 station at Killowen also featured four times, while Usk No.2 and Durham made the top spot on three occasions. From the Met Office’s own tiny ‘Unsatisfactory’ list we get Kinlochewe, which provided the highest January temperature ever recorded in Scotland at 19.6°C, and London St James’s Park, which holds the record for England SE and Central S. In fact, this record of 40.2°C on July 19th, 2022 was only pipped for 60 seconds near the runway at RAF Coningsby where 40.3°C was achieved at around the time three typhoon jets were attempting to land. Seemingly besides itself with excitement, the Met Office lauded the breaking of the 40°C barrier as “a milestone in climate history”.
The Met Office appears to be in denial about its temperature network. It notes that WMO Class 5 is not the same as its own ‘Unsatisfactory’ inspection, “which ultimately determines the ongoing use of a site”. The internal system is said to tell the Met Office how much confidence it can have in the data. Rather a lot, cynics might observe, given the continued presence of ‘Unsatisfactory’ stations producing well-publicised and frequently politicised ‘extremes’.
Is it legitimate to ask how much confidence we can have in the Met Office data used to spread alarm and promote the Net Zero fantasy? The BBC’s green activist-in-chief Justin Rowlatt noted in July that the Met Office had “confirmed” that climate change “is dramatically increasing the frequency of extreme high temperatures in the U.K.” In a period of gentle warming it might be expected that temperatures would rise a little, with unnatural urban heat corruptions warming both day and night-time measurements. But as we can see from an analysis of the source Met Office data, the alleged confirmation of soaring high extremes is an imaginative interpretation somewhat challenged by the underlying scientific work.
We might have more confidence in the Met Office’s ability or wish to provide uncorrupted figures if we did not recently learn that over eight in 10 of the 113 temperature measuring stations opened in the last 30 years were deliberately or carelessly sited in Class 4 and 5 locations. Shockingly, the situation was just as bad over the last 10 years, where 81.5% are rated Class 4 and 5, and it beggars belief that in the last five years, eight of the 13 newly-opened stations are at similar junk sites. Both Iver W. Wks and Stowe are to be found on the Met’s own small naughty step despite opening in 2016 and 2012 respectively.
We are obliged to citizen sleuth Ray Sanders for this latest FOI request to the Met Office that confirms the level of internal denial about the state of its temperature network. Noting that the Met Office says its own standards form the “official benchmarks” for assessing the suitability of temperature sites, and hence the data for the long-term climate record, he observed: “Screw international standards ISO 19289:2014 (E). We are going to use our own standards that we decided on; you cannot question them, and we will not allow any independent assessment of… What do you mean we helped arrange the ISO standard with the WMO… Who cares? So what you gonna do about it, eh?”
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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“Fears that restrictions could be in place until Spring”.
Nah, it’ll be much longer than that. Would they bother with all this “vaxport” stuff and so on if this was going to end soon?
Oh and Fon et al, if those “vaccines” are so good, why would they be talking about continued restrictions with all the vulnerable having been offered these injections and 94% (or whatever) volunteering for these trials? An unprecedented rate and still not enough.
Spring? Which one?
I initially thought the vaccine passports were the end goal, but I now think that’s just part of the coercion campaign. The restrictions are obviously part of the coercion campaign, and the new goalpost shift is that not enough people have been stabbed twice.
The goal, in my opinion, is to inject as many people as possible ASAP.
My hypothesis is that they will release a new bioweapon (called “Covid-21”) that will be designed to bypass the s-protein antibodies.
I’m convinced that ADE will occur anyway, but it won’t happen fast enough to prevent the sheep waking up and going violently batshit crazy when they realize what has been done to them.
“Give us our liberty” – Sir Graham Brady.
A pity he’s too principled to be PM…
I think we just have to accept that the majority of the population don’t want liberty. They want to be swaddled, suck on a dummy and call that life.
Slow infantilisation of the British people especially since the death of saint Diana aided by MSM pushing moronic drivel such as “strictly”,repair shop and endless keep fit/exercise “stars” such as Joe Wicks, and don’t get me started on “footie” etc.
Sadly you are correct. Most people don’t want liberty, I find it very strange.
“Give me liberty, or give me death.”
Patrick Henry, 1775
And Fon, why do pharma need a trend of “altering Covid practices” to make “vaccines2 look “positive” if they are so good? Just asking, like.
(Don’t know why I’m asking, they has never once properly addressed my points. I’m all for free speech, but they seems more interested in rudeness and preaching than engaging in good faith).
Bunter is a weak coward, scared out of doing the right thing by a bunch of bought off scientists, if he really did want to end these ridiculous restrictions there are plenty of qualified people available to back that up. The buck stops with him he can’t stand behind Chris Whitty forever. There will be a brief respite over the summer school holidays to appease the middle class skive at homers and then it is another long winter.
Always was the plan. BLiar and co were always after stopping re-opening on June 21st, too risky to leave for too long, before the autumn virus season restarts.
I feel for the young who are destined by the million to a future with no purpose, not those supine middle classes who deserve what is coming.
You are correct. There will almost certainly be a lockdown again this autumn. As you say though sooner or later this will catch up with the self interested middle classes who have enjoyed the last 15 months lazing at home and they will richly deserve everything they get.
The only difference is how much of a reprieve they deign to give us in the meantime. The autumn.winter/spring lockdown is a done deal.
Johnson has abdicated his duty to a dubious group called Sage. He is allowing them to run the country as they see fit, and as they are communist members, anarchists, NGO’s, it’s not looking good. The Tory party need to get rid of Johnson, who got his majority by default.
“they are communist members, anarchists”
Grow up and stop sucking that ludicrous comfort blanket. There’s enough wild fantasy on the Covid side.
These down-votes are a useful measure of the ‘duggie quotient’ on the site – the proportion of hobby-horse jockeys using it to push political fantasies.
Theresa May speech is not good if you break down her speech she basically just saying. Give vaxxed the ability to travel abroad.
I suppose so but at least she is arguing for some form of foreign travel. Johnson seems hellbent on destroying the travel industry.
James Ward, mathematician:- “If you’re trying to run an NHS or even (sic) run an economy, the peak matters.”
These people have completely lost touch with any reality, even assuming they had it in the first place.
How can any country without an economy, which has been destroyed by the government of the day, assisted by the Opposition parties, think it can afford an “NHS”, let alone run one? The same applies to universities (e.g. Imperial, Warwick et al), the police, the Armed Forces, education, industry, transport, housing and the rest.
If you wreck the country, for personal and political reasons, and continue on this track, then the country is well and truly buggered. It’s high time people like Ferguson, along with the cretins that pass for politicians, have any pay withdrawn immediately.
“How can any country without an economy, which has been destroyed by the government of the day, assisted by the Opposition parties, think it can afford an “NHS”, let alone run one? “
It can, as it is demonstrating. The NHS is ‘afforded’ by the people that work within it. Since we are all clearly fed and watered with all our basic needs fulfilled, and yet we still have many people on furlough and the NHS is fully staffed, then we can obviously afford it. We don’t need those working in the NHS to do anything else.
The economy is doing its job and has been since the start of this. What is clear now is that the economy doesn’t work in the way that quite a lot of people believe it ought to. And it is that belief that many are struggling to let go of.
Those on the other side of the debate already knew that the economy can be run like this. So it isn’t a surprise to them when it functions perfectly adequately, nor have they any desire to return to a belief in the way the world works that patently isn’t true.
I don’t agree. The “economy” is now based upon yet more borrowing and QE, which bears no relationship to anything that is sustainable in the future, and won’t be if interest rates rise. The furlough scheme, if it indeed ever ends, will carry future consequential costs, if only in those of unemployment.
I would suppose “basic needs” to include adequate and timely medical treatments of all sorts, which isn’t happening, but I’m delighted to know that the NHS is fully staffed, which appears to run counter to the narrative of there being shortages of nursing staff and doctors.
Whether we are all clearly fed and watered is also questionable. I would agree that there aren’t large numbers of people dying on the streets through starvation, but there are many who live “on the brink”.
I’m afraid I don’t share your Panglossian view, and we must agree to differ.
I don’t agree. QE is propping the country up at the moment and this situation cannot go on forever. It will either cause rampant inflation or the international markets will loose confidence in the U.K.
To use a basic analogy, the U.K. is currently like a person who has lost their job using their credit card and overdraft to fund their lifestyle. While this situation lasts in the short term sooner or later they will hit the buffers and so will the U.K.
Try telling this drivel to families using foodbanks..
I agree, ideally they should also all be made to hand over their personal assets to the state to go towards paying for the damage they have caused but that will never happen. Part of the problem is that many government advisors and senior politicians have never done a days work in the real world and so have no idea how to run things. It should be made into law that nobody can enter government until they have achieved success in business.
ITEM: “Digital certificates for vaccinated Aussies who’ve had Covid jab ” – Australians who receive a Coronavirus vaccine will get a digital certificate to prove they’ve had the jab, according to the Daily Mail Australia“.
Well, it’s here, the vaccine passport heavy-lifter in the push for mass ‘vaccination’. Note that the federal government (a ‘Liberal'[!] Party government, take double note) is leaving it up to the six state and two territory governments to decide if, when and how it will be used to discriminate re access to venues and services. This stance displays all the moral detachment of the armaments manufacturer (‘we just make the things – it’s up to others if they use them’). The second level governments will also likely fob off their ethical responsibility by simply allowing private enterprises and public institutions to make the running on its use. Here’s betting that none will do a de Santis and ban the vax passport’s use in their state. It’s almost as if they sense there is something wrong with medical apartheid and want to keep at arms length from it whilst reaping its benefits.
All sorts of ideas are being floated for vax passport restrictions on Australians’ freedoms – to travel overseas, to cross state borders, to enforce lockdowns, withholding ‘franking credits’ (a key source of income for self-funded retirees), going to the movies, etc.
Ugly!
Phil
South Australia
Who would have thought we would get that from the fit, butch Aussies.
Until Spring? Next year?
Series of studies point towards natural coronavirus spillover event, scientists suggest
“The data that we have in our paper offers an observation that animals capable of being involved in Covid transmission were present in Wuhan up until the point of the epidemic being declared,” Dr Chris Newman, an evolutionary ecologist at Oxford University and co-author of the report, told The Telegraph. “But we don’t know if they had Covid.”
So no bats and no Covid but it all points towards natural emergence of course.
And no comments allowed – of course!
Did anyone seriously think we’d get our ‘freedom’ back on 21st June? If we want this to end WE have to do it! The government sees compliance as consent and it ain’t ever gonna stop! I’ve trying to tell people this over and over, that the unlawful Coronavirus Act is in place until AT LEAST September 2022, to give them enough time to destroy our society, our economy, our health, our minds…and bring in all sorts of new laws, diktats, and biosecurity measures to ensure we can never go back! They’re gas lighting us all the time, whilst laughing in our faces – you’ve only got to look at the marvellous jolly they had in Cornwall, keeping the plebs at arms length, or fully muzzled if they are servants, whilst they all mingled and chatted – rule free. Rules for thee but not for me!
And traveled here by aeroplane with no quarantine
Restrictions “until spring”. I would be quite happy to see restrictions placed upon Johnson, Hancock, Whitty, Vallance, Ferguson, etc., until spring. To only allow them half an hour each day out into the prison exercise yard until the spring… of 2099.
What a turn around.
Teresa May making “libertarian “ Boris look like an irresponsible fool.
Not only that but Boris Johnson has managed to be an even worse Prime Minster than Theresa May – a feat many thought unachievable.
The individual may change, but the script doesn’t.
It isn’t a difficult task – essentially just a statement of the bleedin’ obvious.
https://twitter.com/SpookdBlog/status/1403922367831678980 Have a laugh. Trump spoof.
To give her her due Theresa May is now a very good back bench MP with many sensible ideas and suggestions
Well, one or two (maybe).
Agreed. She was excellent.
She should have been shot as a traitor
Indeed.
“We are not seeking a competitive advantage”
What is the point of having a Prime Minister who thinks like that?
Now that she has received her bribe (AKA fees for a “speaking tour” of the US) for doing her utmost to stymie Brexit she can afford to be.
Her paymasters know she did her best and have released her from further obligations – for now.
Kim Jong-Johnson has never been bold and, in answer to the Daily Mail, Britain will never be free.
I should imagine there are quite a few nervous jabbed footballers around Europe today considering getting a full heart checkup ASAP.
It’s now being claimed that Eriksen had not been jabbed
In the (sort of ) words by Mandy Rice Davies “Well, they would say that, wouldn’t they? “
Isn’t it strange how a number of very senior doctors have suddenly turned into crackpot conspiracy theorists over the past 12 months or so?
Dr Peter McCullough has chaired several medical boards and is one of the most published researchers in his field of medicine. Poor bloke has completely lost it.
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/dr-peter-a-mccullough-fighting-against-this-fake-covid911-hoax_oTqJFiOPAQn5GVf.html
He’s the same doctor he always was.
Meanwhie the world around him has gone insane.
Yes I know he is.
I suspected so but irony doesn’t always comme across well on the internet.
Fair point. It’s probably the way I tell ’em.
It’s just an international p*ssing contest, financed by MMT, which this has degenerated into completely.
Boris&co now concerned that Germany’s numbers are falling whilst ours are rising again- God and the vaccines forbid!
And so on, a vicious circle we’re trapped in.
Until the money has run out.
“We all continue to pay the price of not following a policy of Focused Protection.”
The woke brigade in politics, media and medicine decided to play God instead, financed by MMT and not giving a toss about any collateral damage and victims, least of all in the 3rd world, of course.
To anyone sane, it was always clear how this would end.
“A senior minister has told the Telegraph of his fears that the planned four-week delay to the reopening will leave too short a window to open up before calls to lock down again in the autumn, with the risk that restrictions will remain in place until the Spring”
Well f. me, I never thought of that! Quelle surprise!
(And I never would have believed that the thought : “I thoroughly agree with Theresa May” would ever have crossed my brain).
“We won’t be free until Boris dares to be bold”
“Boris” is now proven beyond doubt to be a eugenicist globalist. If anyone thinks he is somehow going to save us they are exceedingly foolish.
Another useless speculative graph. Reminiscent of the 4000 a day lie.