Green Blob-funded Climate Central is celebrating a significant fearmongering coup having persuaded the BBC’s lead weather presenter Simon King to sub and publish its press release claiming that since 1970 the average UK spring temperature has increased by 1.8°C. It is said to be the fastest warming season in all the UK’s four nations. Alas, it is almost a shame to spoil such a good story by noting an obvious cherry-pick missed by King and the fact that the warming according to the Met Office was only 1.3°C. As the graph below shows, 1970 was a low point in the UK temperature record at a time when global cooling was all the rage. The rise from 1945 is just 0.8°C, a figure that happens to approximate with a 1°C rise in global temperature over the last century.
Needless to say, the longer term trend is not such a good yarn and not one likely to appeal to Climate Central, a green billionaire-backed activist operation that produces custom-made climate catastrophe agitprop specially curated for unquestioning activists working in mainstream media. For Simon King, the ‘boiling’ spring story is another BBC classic, following hard on the heels of his suggestion that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) “appears to be getting weaker”. This story was timed just days after an important paper in Nature inconveniently stated that the AMOC current that includes the Gulf Stream had shown no decline in strength since the 1960s.
Spot the difference
The average spring temperature for the UK has increased 1.8°C since 1970, making spring the fastest warming season for the UK as a whole.
Climate Central Press Release
The average spring temperature has increased by 1.8°C since 1970, making it the fastest warming season for all four nations of the UK.
Simon King, Lead Weather Presenter, BBC
Regurgitating pre-prepared, cherry-picked material does of course serve a useful purpose since the regular ‘Spring has Sprung Early’ story can be given its annual outing. King notes that data given to BBC Weather by Nature’s Calendar – a “citizen science” project by the Woodland Trust – are said to demonstrate how climate change is triggering natural events. Both bluebells and frogspawn are appearing earlier in March and April respectively, it is reported. Inevitably the disinformation Net Zero lecture follows: “And climate change is leading to more extreme weather which is also causing confusion among some species.”
On balance, a slightly warmer climate with longer growing seasons is almost certainly good for nature. But, as ever in the UK, the climate picture is mixed. March is the start of Spring but April is when it starts to really build. As the graph below shows, the average April temperature in the UK has actually fallen over the last 20 years.
Of course caution is required in taking Met Office temperature figures at their face value following recent revelations, covered extensively in the Daily Sceptic, about massive unnatural heat corruptions around measuring sites and the invention of figures at no less than 103 non-existent locations. Nearly 80% of Met Office weather stations across the UK are rated in junk classes 4 and 5 with internationally-recognised ‘uncertainties’ of 2°C and 5°C respectively. The Met Office has failed to preserve the integrity of its network, with sites commonly next to busy roads and car parks, airport runways, solar farms and electricity substations. The recent growth of urbanisation and the massive heat it generates across many Met Office sites has corrupted the data. Thus, it might be considered scientifically reasonable to knock off some warming when comparing recent temperatures to possibly more accurate measurements 80 years ago. Using current recordings, it can be observed that spring is on average 0.8°C warmer than around 1945, but the true figure could be closer to around 0.5°C, or even lower.
Climate Central has impressive form in spinning climate catastrophe tales to gullible boobies. It had great success with the Mirror in November 2022, which ran a load of hooey claiming that much of London would be under water within 80 years. Climate Central provides a flood predictor tool that activists can use to claim inundation in a location of their own choosing. Local landmarks well above sea level can be shown to be disappearing beneath the waves since the tool uses sea level increases over 30 times faster than current rises. Reporter Sam Elliott-Gibbs noted the existence of “terrifying new maps” of the UK that predict towns and cities “will be vanishing into the sea”.
Climate Central is a well-funded green propaganda operation based in Princeton, New Jersey. The group says it works with news outlets “to produce compelling and scientifically accurate stories”. No fewer than 33 foundations and “leadership donors” are listed with heavy backing thought to have been provided by Eric Schmidt, the former Chairman and CEO of Google. Among the activist academics involved is Michael Oppenheimer, Professor of Geoscience and International Affairs at nearby Princeton University. This chap is noted for once remarking: “We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialisation we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.” Perhaps he had Europe in mind as well, particularly the UK where the state-dependent broadcaster pumps out climate catastrophe copy that is used to provide cover for Net Zero-obsessed governing elites set on de-industrialisation, destroying food security and reducing living standards.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Keep teaching, anonymous. The “education system” is not for you.
Have you read “Deschooling Society”, by Ivan Illich?
What does school really teach children?
1. Truth comes from authority.
2. Intelligence is the ability to remember and repeat.
3. Accurate memory and repetition are rewarded.
4. Non-compliance is punished.
5. Conform – intellectually and socially.
Your story resonates with much of my own experience as a university lecturer. Of course, almost all of our teaching moved to zoom but I made a point of telling my students that in my view they weren’t receiving a fully developed education as a result. When we were permitted to return to in person teaching, I too wore an exemption lanyard and refused to enforce mask wearing in class. I too left our union, the UCU, for the same reasons you left yours – the perverse, ever escalating obstacles to us going back to in person teaching including the risible demand that we be issued with personal CO2 monitors, be given the right to cancel lectures at the moment they gave a reading over a certain level, to enforce the personal sanitisation of desks by students and the rest of the nonsense. All of this went beyond the legitimate purpose of a trade union and veered into an assault on our professional and ethical responsibilities to our students. I spoke up to colleagues in online forums but, with a couple of exceptions, like you was met by silence. It struck me that many of them were not simply happy to stay at home but that compliance was their creepy, overriding goal. What our political, public health and education classes did to the population is unforgivable but that so many were complicit in their own oppression is chilling.
Thank you for your post.
Best wishes.
Possibly the most chilling comment I heard from a colleague was during a zoom staff meeting in the early stages of the first mask mandate. This person proclaimed to us proudly in terms that made clear he was signalling perceived virtue, that he, a 30 something bloke built like a rugby forward, had ‘challenged’ (bullied) an elderly, maskless woman in his local supermarket. Again, only I spoke up, saying, quite mildly, ‘come on. Don’t be that guy. That’s not you’. Thing is, maybe I was wrong. It was likely him – lockdown brought out the inner fascist bully in far too many of us.
Dear Anonymous
You sound to me like an educator; someone who wants to develop and bring out the best possible results in your students. It is encouraging that the “teaching profession” still retains some people like you within its ranks.
However, you really do have no future in the State Indoctrination System and I believe you have made the right decision in leaving it.
I hope you find your rightful place as an educator in a facility that appreciates your abilities and values.
Good luck.
Seconded.
I wish I had a helpful response.
Hopefully things will improve for you.
All the best.
Whoever the lame arse doing the downticking is I believe you need some help because you are seriously not well. Have a go at me personally by all means but criticising all the other uptickers, which you are doing indirectly by downticking me and RTSC, and others, shows you lack intelligence as well as guts.
You are a coward and cowards do not belong on this site.
Furthermore, a teacher makes a post from the heart, somebody who is having their life destroyed by the madness enveloping us and you cannot lend at least the tiniest bit of support by way of a few kind words. You are as rotten and evil as our oppressors. What warped logic keeps you on this site?
A miserable example of humanity you must be.
Hear hear! It’s clearly someone with a warped mind and they are obviously in dire need of help.
Thank you Epi.
We need to fight this corrupt evil with every tool we have. Maks wearing is so inhuman and unnatural. That is why the globalist like it. You still see people wearing maske the their haunted faces.
They never seems ask themselves “how come all these people aren’t dropping dead when they are not wearing masks?” or “how come this flimsy mask protect me from the deadliest disease in history?”
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Best wishes
I work in a school and empathise I have been asked to stay silent by the head “rists slapped” as I said babies did not need assigning in a lesson! about my concerns over this gender ideology.
I am staying for now to try and push back but it is as you say tiring.
During the latest news that there is an increase in cases our Head, emailed revised guidelines saying people can wear masks again if they like. And then it has started again, the compliant walking around in front of students with masks.
Ubelievable and unforgivable .
Sorry to be a pernickety but isn’t ‘wrists’ spelled with a ‘w’? Would have thought being in education …..
Just saying
Yes sorry rushing
I popped an s in by accident 
Friendly banter
Glad you spelt persnickety and not me
You are a Person of Principle. Well done for your bravery in leaving.I hope you find another school to teach in that you like. Avoid FE as it is as bad, if not worse, than the state education system as the Unions are in charge and as such the situation in staff rooms can be toxic if you are not a disciple.
Best wishes and good luck for the future.
Thank you, Anonymous, for sharing this with us. How hideous it has all been for us all (those of us who have seen events for what they really are), but to be asked to delete emails about a child’s change of gender so that the parents wouldn’t see them is so appalling that I am dumbstruck! It is evil beyond measure. If only parents talked more to their children, took meals with them, stopped them having so much screen time, etc etc. Imagine not realising that your precious child is going through such a life-changing event without even realising – and the school to be aiding and abetting is beyond evil. You will be an enormous loss to that school (for those few students who you might have been able to help or encourage, eg the one who smiled at you – you probably were a great encouragement to her too), but I understand how you cannot agree to such betrayals of parents’ trust any more. I pray that you find a fulfilling job for the future.
I am so sorry for what you have experienced. For people who actually think the last two years have indeed been utterly exhausting. I wish you all the best for the future.