The U.K. Met Office claims to have a continuous record of temperatures at Stornoway Airport going back to 1873. This is truly remarkable since manned powered flight was not achieved until 1903 and the actual airport was built in 1937. Yet another error in the Met Office’s temperature recording database. Yet another sign that in its mission to scare the population into accepting the looming Net Zero catastrophe, the Met Office is failing in its day job to accurately record temperatures across the U.K. Over the last year there have been revelations about data invention at 103 non-existent weather stations while almost the entire 380-strong network is heavily skewed by unnatural heat corruptions. All of this in a year when it added a politicised measure to its “Indicators of Global Warming” based on just 10 years of actual data and 10 years of computer model speculations loaded with improbable claims of future temperature rises.
Again we are obliged to the work of super sleuth Ray Sanders, who has been conducting a forensic examination of the temperature claims made by the state-funded Met Office. Of course there was no airport on the site in 1873. The coordinates provided apply to the current airport location, although there is no indication in the detailed records when these might have changed. The diligent Sanders discovered that the original site was located 4.25 kms away in the grounds of Lews Castle. Further research found that the move to the airport site occurred in 1968. “Is all of this just ineptitude on the part of the Met Office or is there some motivation behind this covert dataset bonding?” asks Sanders. “Did nobody ever stop to think about the dates when attributing 19th century readings to a site with the name ‘Airport’ attached?” he further inquired.
Sanders’s work is published on the Tallbloke blog and comments are invited. Derek T noted: “You are uncovering so much of this sort of thing that it cannot be that they are unaware of any of it. The explanation must be that they are intentionally ignoring it. Eventually they must be held to account for it.”
Derek might be in for a bit of a wait. Any mainstream discussion of the Met Office’s sloppy methods will open a Pandora’s Box and will be extremely unhelpful in promoting the political Net Zero fantasy. Populations in the U.K. and around the world are being groomed to accept that temperatures are rising at a faster rate than can be justified by the poor data presented. Recent academic work suggests urban heat corruption, which appears to be a worldwide problem affecting many state-run weather services, is adding around 30% extra warming to recent temperature measurements.
Earlier this year, the Daily Sceptic disclosed via a Freedom of Information request that almost eight out of 10 U.K. temperature measuring stations were sited in locations that had internationally-recognised ‘uncertainties’ between 2-5°C. But is a scientifically-chastened Met Office trying to make amends for all this unscientific siting at or near airports, car parks, walled gardens, main roads, solar farms and electricity sub stations? It does not appear so. This year we have also learnt that 80% of the 113 measuring stations opened in the last 30 years were deliberately or carelessly sited in World Meteorological Organisation junk Class 4 (uncertainties of 2°C) and super-junk Class 5 (uncertainties 5°C). Shockingly, the situation was just as bad over 10 years, and it beggars belief that in the last five years, eight of the 13 newly-opened stations were at junk sites. And step forward again citizen journalist Sanders who used FOI requests to discover that the Met Office was inventing temperature data from over 100 non-existent stations.
Late last year Professor Richard Betts, the Met Office’s Head of Climate Impact, published a paper that sought to sidestep the inconvenient fact that temperature trends can only be measured over a long period, and breaching the so-called Paris threshold of 1.5°C industrial-age warming would take years to confirm. Science, alas, getting in the way of politics. Betts’s solution was to provide an “instant indicator” that would point to an exact period when the 1.5°C ‘guard-rail’ had been breached. This would “provide clarity” and reduce delays in imposing further climate control measures. This magic indicator uses just 10 years of past data which are added to 10 future years of guesstimates from climate models.
A few problems would seem to present themselves. Recent global temperature datasets, including the Met Office’s HadCRUT5, have been subject to considerable retrospective warming adjustments of late, while computer models have barely an accurate temperature forecast to rub together over the past 40 years. In addition, the models will be loaded with a ‘pathway’ known as RCP4.5, which assumes a temperature rise over the next 80 years of up to 2°C. Given a rise of barely 0.2°C over the last 25 years, this looks a bit of a stretch. The indicator is now in use by the Met Office. Betts hopes that his “instantaneous indicator of current warming” will find favour with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In future years he suggests the IPCC could state: “It is very likely that the current global warming level exceeded 1.5°C in year X.”
All the while keeping a straight face, a discipline it seems is required for a great deal of the Met Office’s current output.
May I wish all my readers a Happy New Year. I love you all dearly and am encouraged by the support, insights and wisdom you give me in this publication and in wider social media. As can be seen, there are massed forces at work promoting the idea of a climate crisis and the need for a political Net Zero solution. Attentive readers might have gathered that I regard Net Zero as a looming catastrophe for humanity but I am encouraged that much more attention is being paid to what is little more than a luxury middle-class belief. If you are a student of history, you will know that these puritanical groupthink cults pop up at regular intervals. I am also encouraged by the growing interest in the underlying science and the scandalous way the scientific process has been traduced in recent years. We fight and debunk this nonsense with facts. Next year is likely to see reality make substantial gains and it should be fun.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Thank you for all you’ve done in 2024 Chris. And a Happy and Productive 2025.
Happy New Year Mr Morrison.
You deserve a Gong for speaking the truth …. but gongs are only ever given to those who don’t deserve them so you’ll just have to enjoy the Honour of being truthful and right.
Although I would agree with you in general. I think this needs a caveat.
Toby Young was awarded a peerage by the Leader of the Opposition. The FSU’s Chairman, Prof Nigel Biggar CBE, has also been made a peer by her.
Best wishes Chris, keep up the good fight, I think the tide is starting to turn, thanks to you and Ben Pile and the other doughty fighters for truth across the independent media.
The most powerful man in the world, and the smartest man in the world are both on our side from Jan 20th – that has to count for something.
Happy New Year Mr Morrison!! Thank you for the great work you do helping the spread the truth about this non existent crisis. Good to read your optimism about the future.
Excellent piece sir
A very happy, peaceful and prosperous new year to you and yours
The truth will prevale..eventually!
Another outstanding article from the author.
Many congratulations and a big thank you for all the good work.
Derek T’s comment on Tallbloke’s blog is correct.
The blatantly guilty must be held to account.
But when?
By whom?
A few sarcastic comments by old codgers like me, won’t bring this tsunami of malicious nonsense to an end.
In a more sensible era, we would have seen heads of the most eggregious perpetrators on pikestaffs, years ago.
Today we just get some lady who posts a comment that someone thinks is “hurty”, banged up for a couple of years and labelled a “far-right thug”.Our Beloved Leaders even ensure that her mugshot is published to facilitate further punishment by incarcerated terrorists who control most prisons.
Lots of luck for 2025.
You’ll need it.
Great work Chris. Keep it up. Common sense will prevail
No matter the very serious cheating, from the Met to justify Nut Zero, next year will see President Trump dump all Nut Zero legislation in the US…then we have India, China and the US, producing as much Co2 as they like…meanwhile we , tks to Mad Ed, continue to commit economic suicide, in order to stop producing 0.04 % of the Globes Co2 …which is literally a drop in the ocean, even in these non maths times…….all based off junk science.
The UK share of global CO2 emissions is 0.77% not 0.04%: https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/report_2024?vis=co2tot#emissions_table. You are of course right re our committing economic suicide.
Chris you’ve been a warrior in uncovering the nonsense and lies. It was great to hear you on Talk Radio recently, it gave us hope that there are finally cracks starting to appear and that more channels might follow – at least the ones that aren’t Gates funded.
The good thing is that the DS is ever growing in popularity and the media and politicians are soon going to find it hard to ignore the groundswell of anger when people realise just how much they’ve been bullshitted. We just have to hope this happens soon while we still have some sort of salvageable national grid.
Have a great new year and a well earned rest.
‘The data don’t matter. We’re not basing our recommendations [for reductions in carbon dioxide emissions] upon the data. We’re basing them upon the climate models.’
Chris Folland UK Meteorological Office
‘Rather than seeing models as describing literal truth, we ought to see them as convenient fictions which try to provide something useful.’
David Frame Climate modeler, Oxford University:
‘It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true’
Paul Watson Greenpeace Founder
‘We routinely wrote scare stories…Our press reports were more or less true…We were out to whip the public into a frenzy about the environment’
Jim Sibbison Environmental journalist, former public relations official for the Environmental Protection Agency
‘The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe’
Daniel Botkin emeritus professor
‘I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis’
Al Gore Former U.S. vice president
‘That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have’
Stephen Schneider Stanford Univ., environmentalist
‘It is no secret that a lot of climate-change research is subject to opinion, that climate models sometimes disagree even on the signs of the future changes (e.g. drier vs. wetter future climate). The problem is, only sensational exaggeration makes the kind of story that will get politicians’ — and readers’ — attention. So, yes, climate scientists might exaggerate, but in today’s world, this is the only way to assure any political action and thus more federal financing to reduce the scientific uncertainty’
Monika Kopacz Atmospheric scientist
‘No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits…. climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.’
Christine Stewart Former Canadian Environment Minister
‘We’ve got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.’ Timoth Wirth U.S./UN functionary, former elected Democrat Senator
‘A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect.’
Richard Benedik Former U.S./UN bureaucrat
‘In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill….All these dangers are caused by human intervention….and thus the ‘real enemy, then, is humanity itself….believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is ‘a real one or….one invented for the purpose.‘
Club of Rome
‘Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?’
Maurice Strong
Many useful idiots will be all in with the above assertions and wishes, perhaps because they will associate all this with being a ‘good person’, and therefore virtuous. I’m certain that Al Gore thinks he is virtuous.
“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience”
Adam Smith
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1860687747733749890
NPR’s CEO Katherine Maher: “Truth is a distraction from getting things done”
Long in the planning. At least they were honest.
This article is pants, all they have done is merge data from 2 nearby sites and given it the name of the current site. It would not be pants if it could be established that the early site was cooler than the current one.
Sceptics need to be sceptical about everything.
You’re missing the point. Moving weather stations into airports ensures that their temperature measurements are always skewed towards the upside, because of all the hard surfaces acting as storage heaters and the transient heat effects of aircraft movements.
If you wanted to site a weather station free from localised heat pollution, an airport is the last place you’d put it.
This practice is so widespread that alarm bells should be ringing for even the most hardened of sceptics.
Agreed. But we, as sceptics, should make this point, rather than trying to have fun with “…Before Aeroplanes Were Invented”. Yes, it IS fun, but easily rebutted. Don’t give them an inch…
What two sites near Stornoway are there? Oh only Iceland and London! London is hot and getting hotter, but we no exactly why, it is the UHI effect! Iceland is much the same as normal except for a volcano. Goodness me it is man made climate change! /sarc
Working in our favour is the fact that no prediction from the Warmists has ever come true after all these decades and people are starting to tire of all the bullshit. Additionally, the costs of the stupid Net Zero are coming ever closer to people’s pockets which is focussing them on the failed predictions such as how many times should the Arctic have been ice free by now? Why are there still polar bears?
As an aside, in commenting on the New Year Honours list, the Mail adds that some of the business awards include ‘services to Net Zero’ as part of the reason for their award.
It would be interesting to know who keeps tabs on Polar Bear populations and can they be trusted. I understand that they stopped the hunting of them in the 70s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m89RfnOTves
Tony Heller – asking AI about Global Warming and CO2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGgsAJKN_io
Tony Heller again
President Trump “decisively defeat the climate hysteria hoax.”
UK Met Office like the BBC lives at the public expense and needs to be privatised.
Just caught the Knowing me Knowing Yule Alan Partridge episode, 1996 I think. In one scene he mentions God as a gas, then says carbon dioxide, oh no that is evil LOL!
How far the cult has come. Happy New Year Chris.
Thank you Chris and Happy New Year to you too.
I sincerely hope you are right and the tide is turning, but the level of propaganda is huge.
Interesting to note that Gell-Mann amnesia is in full force. People coming to the realisation they were lied to about Covid, but again happy to believe the next thing.
I went to a local cinema yesterday and there was a longish film in the advertisement section about how global warming will raise temperatures 1.5°C by 2030, about which everyone needs to do something, “including you”!
The day before my mail server had reported that huge waves caused by global warming had wreaked havoc on Peru’s coast. This was after YouTube had showed videos of yachts in California being bounced up and down by large waves, and the Japanese NHK had reported a recent fault shift had raised some location in Japan by 5m! Anybody heard of tsunamis?
These people have money and are putting out this propaganda day and night. It is disgraceful.
Well done as usual Mr Morrison
Met office is just like all the other departments paid for by us the taxpayer full of lies and deceit.
Thanks for this and all your other articles too Chris. Yours is one of the few voices of sanity on the subject. Would be great to see the DT pick up some of your pieces. The cat needs letting out of the MSM’s bag.