The Met Office’s claim that we have just had one of the wettest winters on record is rapidly losing all credibility.
It own data confirm that it was not the wettest February in Worcestershire, something which it still claims. And data from its only long running meteorological station in Northern Ireland, Armagh Observatory, make a nonsense of its claim that the country had its ninth wettest winter, or anything close to it.
In England, the Met Office claims it was the eighth wettest, with record rainfall in Leicestershire and the West Midlands. But its only official site in Leicestershire is Market Bosworth, which only has data since 2002, while in the West Midlands it has two – Coventry and Winterbourne, opened in 1998 and 2011 respectively.
They have no actual station data to back up their “record rainfall” claim, which originates solely from computer models – what they grandly call the HadUK-Grid dataset. Where there is no data, they simply invent it. And then they compare the results with other “estimated data” from earlier years.
The Met Office tries to present this as “scientific”. It talks of “regression and interpolation”, fancy names for estimating and fabrication.
Sutton Bonington, which sits right on the Nottinghamshire side of the border with Leicestershire, has a slightly longer data record, dating back to 1959. It lies just 15 miles away from Market Bosworth. There, the winter just gone was not as wet as 1989-90.
All that the Met Office can definitively say is that
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In all issues that are politicised that claim to “follow the science”, you have “science”and “official science”—–One is the genuine search for truth no matter where it leads, and the other is the search for anything that could justify Public Policy. ——–The issue of climate is very highly politicised and so what we get is mostly “official science”.
And ‘official science’ seems very closely related to ‘bullshit’.
From what I see, a major factor that drives their science is a desire for grant money for more research…
Defund the met office, it’s not fit for purpose.
Got to keep the great climate hypnosis going.
We are changing the climate… we are changing the climate… don’t look away, keep focused on me…. we are changing the climate…. we are changing the climate.
Another great expose, when I tell people that Met office data is just made up, they cannot accept it as the “Institution” is just naturally infallible.