AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

Amidst all the sensationalist headlines about record high temperatures, it is worth noting that in some parts of the world there have been record low temperatures. Funny how the main media seem to ignore these cold records. I am not saying that there has not been some slight warming of the surface of the planet in recent decades, but simply that it has been hugely exaggerated and that reporting is not in any way balanced. It is what many would call propaganda or indoctrination. We deserve better.

 Chinese Academy Of Sciences: “Antarctic Cold Spells Shattered Records” In July-August, 2023 (notrickszone.com)

THE RECENT WARMER YEARS ARE JUST "NOISE", SAYS PROFESSOR

Here is what Prof Roy Spencer, a leading scientist in charge of the satellite temperature data set at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, has to say: 

In a warming world due to increasing CO2 there will be a statistical increase in “unusually warm” years. But assuming the warming is entirely due to steadily increasing CO2 causing a slight (currently ~1%) energy imbalance in the climate system, then the warming that results is about ~0.02 deg. C per year.

Anything different from that small 0.02 deg. C per year warming is due to natural climate variability.

So, when we get a really warm year (like 2023, and probably 2024) then something other than CO2 is mostly to blame. All of the media and environmentalist hype is just noise. Really warm years will be offset by cooler years (which no one reports on because it’s not newsworthy) so that the long term temperature trends remains ~0.02 deg C per year of warming (+0.014 deg C per year in our satellite data).

 An unusually warm year or two cannot be blamed on climate change « Roy Spencer, PhD (drroyspencer.com)

CAN A GRID BASED ON RENEWABLES BE STABLE?

A stable grid is vital for business, industry and the public in their homes, so if renewables cause it to becoming inherently unstable as their contribution increases, we are heading for disaster. This looks bad for the government who want to have no fossil fuel on the grid by 2030. 

On grid stability (netzerowatch.com)

LABOUR MINISTER ADMITS THE TRUE COST OF NET ZERO

 Now we have been told by a new government minister that the actual cost of net zero will be "hundreds of billions of pounds". But he claims that the private sector will pay for it.  Listen to the admission here:

Labour's Hundreds of Billions for Net Zero Follow Up - The Magic Money Tree is back! (youtube.com)

THE HEAT PUMP CON TRICK

The public are being seduced into buying a heat pump to replace their gas boiler, but before doing so they should read the following article to see what is likely to happen in the near future as the government tries to recover the vast subsidies they are currently paying out.

 The great green bait and switch (netzerowatch.com)

UK NEW LABOUR GOVERNMENT ENERGY POLICY EXPOSED

A new video by Paul Burgess exposes the madness of the net zero policy of the new government. A policy driven by Ed Miliband.  

The Nightmare of Ed Miliband's Net Zero (youtube.com)

NEW PAPER SHOWS CENTRAL EUROPE WAS 2 TO 5 DEGREES WARMER IN THE RECENT PAST THAN THE PRESENT

Yet another study shows that our present climate is not exceptionally warm. Time to wake up and stop all the angst over a one degree increase and slow down the phase out of fossil fuels. There is no need to panic. 

New Study: Central Europe Was ‘2-5°C Warmer Than Present’ Throughout Most Of The Holocene (notrickszone.com)

SCARE TACTICS EXPOSED AS MERELY HOT AIR

Jo Nova's excellent blog is constantly reminding us of how ridiculous the dramatic headlines are which reference some new climate record. When you see what is going on with the temperature measurements from our Met Office (see previous days posts) you realise what nonsense all this talk is. Read her latest post to understand what is really happening.  

 Sunday was 0.01 degree hotter than last year, and 1 or 2 degrees cooler than what cavemen lived through. So What? « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

It is quite possible to accept that CO2 is causing some warming while still being sceptical of whether that warming is a serious threat as opposed to merely one factor among many which can lead to changes in our climate. What we need to do is recognise that many of the factors affecting the climate are beyond our control. We need to learn to adapt and mitigate the most extreme weather and stop trying to control it.

UK MET OFFICE - THE FACTS ABOUT THEIR NEW WEATHER STATIONS

 Whilst it may be understandable that the Met Office has some legacy old sites in locations which have become compromised over time, it cannot be acceptable for new stations to be poorly located from the outset.

Analysis of stations opened in the 21st century indicates a worsening of the situation with over 87% of new stations falling into Classes 3 to 5.  Worse still, of the 13 sites opened in the last 5 years, 8 fail  to make Classes 1 or 2. Thus the  proportion of "Junk" sites is actually increasing.

In 2022 the Neatishead Class 4 site was opened in the shadow of a large Radar 'Dome. In 2023 the new Arthog site  was equally opened as a Class 4 inaccurate unit. 

This practise of opening new inadequately accurate reporting  sites must be stopped immediately or alternatively do not use their data for any form of climate reporting purposes. 

One instance of particular concern is the Hull, East Park station installed in 2011. It is a Class 5 site in a very poor position in the "Animal Education Centre". It sits hard alongside what is now an overgrown hedge where  tour bus vehicles park. It regularly records the regional daily high temperature on the Met Office Daily listings as well as the National highest temperature on 2 occasions so far this year. An example of this listing can be viewed here.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/observations/weather-extremes

As well as two reputable Private Weather Sites in Hull in close proximity to the official Met Office site there is also  the Hull University Research Centre's very well sited, equipped and maintained weather station.

https://www.hull.ac.uk/research/institutes/eei/sudslab-uk

Both the Private Weather Sites and the very high quality University site record significantly lower temperatures than the official site. In contrast to the unhelpful and evasive responses typical of my inquiries to the Met Office, the University were exceptionally helpful and even gave me direct personal access to their live online data. Closer inspection revealed the official Met Office site to be regularly recording up to 3 degrees celcius higher.  Despite raising this issue with the Met Office they declined to answer my queries.  When asked to supply their recent data from the site, I was referred to an archive site that operates 18 months in arrears to view it, presumably some time in the distant future. 

It is not an unreasonable inference, therefore, that the Met Office are deliberately seeking to inflate the climate temperature record by installing new sites likely to record artificially raised temperatures. 

If the public new of this, I think it is reasonable to assume that they would be horrified to hear of such a poor effort by an organisation that they would instinctively trust

UK MET OFFICE UNDER SCRUTINY - PART 3

 Let's take a look at exactly how the Met Office observes and collects its raw data.

Weather Station siting.

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) is part of the United Nations Organistaion (UN), to which almost all national meteorological agencies report their data for climate reporting purposes.

The WMO recently standardised the weather station location requirements for Climate data recording purposes.

The UK Met Office was a significant partner to the formulation of this standard which was ultimately codified by the International Standards Organisation as ISO/WMO standard 19289:2014(E) as detailed below.

https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/courses/atsc303/Instruments/wmo_guides/CIMO_Guide_2014-Met_Site_Classification.pdf

WMO rules indicate that only sites meeting  CIMO Classes 1 or 2 should be used for Climate Reporting purposes. Class 3  sites have  known errors caused by siting of 1°C,  Class 4 sites  error margins of 2°C and Class 5 sites have known error margins up to 5° C.

Consequently, Classes 3 to 5 stations should NOT be used for climate reporting purposes. Classes 4 and 5 are generally considered to have no better than "Junk" status in climate reporting terms though quite possibly  acceptable for their original installed purposes such as immediate aviation advice, local agriculture, local transport etc.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-synoptic-and-climate-stations

It required a Freedom of Information request to obtain from the Met Office the list of their Climate and Synoptic reporting weather stations by CIMO Class.

Amazingly this list indicates that of 384 climate reporting stations just 52 (13.7%) fall into Classes 1 & 2.  

A further 30 (7.8% of total) sites are Class 3

187 sites (48.7% of total ) are Class 4

112 sites (29.2% of total) are Class 5

 

Almost 85% of all Met Office sites are NOT deemed acceptable for climate data reporting purposes by the  World Meteorological Organisation and International Standards Organisation stated requirements.  

It is worth noting that the Met Office claims to use its own separate  station monitoring standards but does not give plausible reasons why these should override WMO standards. They do not demonstrate any greater level of suitability for climate reporting than the CIMO standards.

The government are spending billions of pounds to tackle a "climate crisis", and yet their on organisation is unable, or unwilling to make their own weather stations first class! It is a scandal which, so far has gone unreported, save for this small blog. 

MET OFFICE UNDER SCRUTINY - PART 2

Following on from yesterday's post here is a second misrepresentation of "data" by the UK Met Office. 

 Long term "Historic Data"

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/historic-station-data

The above indicates 37 long term sites quoting monthly  "Data".  Note that 3 sites on the map are coloured blue with the key, indicating these stations have closed. The remainder are coloured orange indicating "open" stations.

 Any reasonable person would therefore assume the orange marked sites were "open" stations as stated.

However, for example, go to Lowestoft and "view data".  Whilst figures run from 1914, all figures from 2010 are marked with an asterisk indicating they are "Estimated" - the station closed in 2010 -  i.e.14 years ago.

What scientific organisation would continue to  "estimate"  figures for over 14 years and counting? What possible scientific purpose could such "estimation" serve?

The Met Office has again declined to advise me either how these estimates are arrived at or why they do so.

The stations at  Nairn Druim, Paisley and Newton Rigg are similarly closed but still reporting "estimated" monthly data. It should also be noted that even those stations marked as closed continued to report  "Estimated" numbers beyond their closure date.

Why would any scientific organisation feel the need to publish what can only genuinely be described as fiction? No scientific purpose can possibly be served by fabrication.

UK MET OFFICE UNDER SCRUTINY

The public and our government place much reliance on the government funded UK Meteorological Office. Most people would expect their data to be the "gold standard" with every care taken to ensure no errors were presented. In fact a comprehensive investigation has revealed this is simply not true. Read on for the details:  

1. How "Climate Averages" data was presented by the Met Office. 

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-climate-averages

This details 302 sites. As an example, either click on the map or type in "Dungeness".  You will be directed to a "nearest site" called "Dungeness" giving accurate map co-ordinates, elevation and a description as "Observing Site" 

Any reasonable person viewing this (a student for example) would assume there is a site there and the 30 year rolling averages from 1960 to 2020 were both "observed" and "data" - notably quoted to the second decimal place of a degree. 

However, there is NO weather station at Dungeness - it closed in 1986 - i.e. 38 years ago. 

For these  last 38 years there have been no observations, thus no data recorded at Dungeness.  All the figures are fabricated in scientific terms. 

Through Freedom of Information request (FOI)  I obtained the details of which stations actually still exist as attached excel spread sheet. 

Of the 302 sites quoted, over one third (103) do NOT exist. The Met Office declined to advise me  exactly how or from where the alleged "data" was derived for these 102 non-existent sites.

In my home county of  Kent, 4 of the 8 sites shown are fiction (Dungeness, Folkestone, Dover, Gillingham) and all produce different "averages". Referring back to Dungeness, the nearest open Met Office Weather Station sites are over 25 miles away.   

There is no plausible  scientific purpose in the invention of numbers for non-existent sites which are falsely posing as authentic locations.

How would any reasonable observer (i.e. the example student) know that the data was not real and simply "made up" by a government agency?

Part 2 will reveal further shocking shortcomings tomorrow.

PAUL BURGESS GIVES THE CLIMATE FACTS

In his latest video, Paul looks at his recent appearance on GB News where he debates the UK energy situation and how safe it is under the new Labour government. He manages to list a good number of reasons for doubt which his opponent, Jim Dale is unwilling, or unable to refute. Instead he resorts to bluster and claims that the argument over renewables has been won as a result of the election. As Paul says near the end the fact is that it is simply not possible to completely do away with fossil fuels without having major power outages. Something Jim and our political leaders seem to have over-looked.

 Paul Burgess V Jim Dale The Dastardy Duo (youtube.com)

NATIONAL GRID WAKE UP TO REALITY

While our political leaders continue to make impossible promises to decarbonise our electricity production, the people who are tasked with delivering them are at last speaking out. 

National Grid: Britain will remain dependent on gas for years | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

CO2 AND A MILD WARMING ARE NOT PROBLEMS - SAYS NEW PAPER

The paper concludes:

The infrastructure to replace fossil fuels does not exist and likely cannot be built in a short time. Current realistic estimates of future energy use suggest that fossil fuels will still supply half our energy in 2050 and beyond. Yet, no credible evidence exists that this is a problem or will become a problem. Recent research into climate change has suggested that nature plays some role, and certainly greenhouse gas emissions may play some role as well. What we do not know is how much of climate change is human-caused and how much is natural. No drastic changes to our economy are justified until we can figure this out.

Read the paper here:

  Carbon dioxide and a warming climate are not problems - Clintel

NEW UK LABOUR GOVERNMENT OVER-RULE PLANNING INSPECTOR ON SOLAR FARMS

We are seeing that Ed Miliband (Labour Energy Minister) is determined to push his beloved solar and wind farms through the planning system against the wishes of local people and to the detriment of our food security.

 Fears for food security as Miliband pushes through Britain’s biggest solar farm | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE

While I am sure this is technically possible, the questions are: what will it cost? How will those costs be allocated? And, will this actually make any difference to the world's temperature or weather, given that it can only be used to remove a tiny percentage of the world's total emissions. Is it not, in fact simply a token gesture or virtue signalling.  

 Worlds largest vacuum to suck carbon out of the sky (and money out of wallets) « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

WHERE WILL THE MONEY COME FROM TO UPGRADE THE GRID?

That is the essential question that must be answered by the government before embarking on policies to get rid of all fossil fueled electricity generation by 2030. It looks like they are heading for failure.

 Money no object for Net Zero fantasists (netzerowatch.com)

A JUDGE AND JURY GET TOUGH WITH JUST STOP OIL PROTESTORS

At last! 

All defendants have been found guilty by unanimous verdicts in the trial of five

@JustStop_Oil

protesters at Southwark Crown Court this morning. They were accused of conspiring to cause public nuisance through their protest actions on the M25 in November 2022. In remarks at the end of the trial, Judge Christopher Hehir made his personal views very clear, congratulating the jury, and describing climate concern as "single issue fanaticism". Earlier in the trial he had ordered the arrest of

@DefendOurJuries

supporters who sat quietly outside the court with banners proclaiming "Jurors deserve to hear the whole truth". Today he backed down and dropped that charge. Sentencing for the five will take place next Thursday 18th, and the judge has indicated he will be delivering 'very long' prison sentences. The trial was observed last week by Michel Forst, a UN Special Rapporteur deeply concerned over the persecution of climate protesters. The judge ruled out ANY defence in the trial, and repeatedly arrested defendants within the court for attempting to speak to the jury about the overwhelming evidence that humanity is facing an extreme existential crisis, and that civil disobedience is essential to achieve the changes required to mitigate. Roger Hallam, Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, Cressida Gethin are remanded in custody. Watch out for Real Media's full report and film coming soon.

WIND FARMS - THE PIT FALLS

In his latest video Paul Burgess looks at the actual data from wind farms to challenge the figures that are given for their output and hence the actual cost of the electricity. You will not be surprised that he concludes that they have been vastly optimistic with the output and massively underestimated the real price of the electricity. 

Ed Milliband, Calderdale Wind Farm and Financial Disaster (youtube.com)

LONDON TO BE AS HOT AS SOUTH OF FRANCE IN 60 YEARS?

Those responsible for promoting the "climate change emergency" meme must believe that the public as a whole is insufficiently frightened, to put out this piece of propaganda: 

London To Relocate To South of France! | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

As the article above shows, the real data does not support any of this. But the mainstream media still feature these type of articles prominently. If you read the comments under the article though, you can see that many readers regard it as ridiculous.

CHINA'S COAL CONSUMPTION PUTS EVEN INDIA IN THE SHADE

 Everyone knows this is true, but it is hardly ever mentioned in the mainstream media. This is obviously because it completely undermines the efforts of us in the West to reduce our CO2 emissions. It is actually the key point against our policy. Not only are we undergoing serious costs and restrictions, with much more to come, but there is actually no benefit to be gained. 

China is the coal furnace of the world, and everyone is fine with that « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

NIGEL FARAGE SPEAKS OUT AGAINST NET ZERO

 Now that Nigel Farage is in parliament will he be able to highlight the huge problems with the net zero policy? He appears to be making a good start.

(20) Rob Boyd, Esq on X: "Farage forensically takes apart the arguments for Net Zero. No mainstream politician has this man's mental acuity.. https://t.co/TfxQTN6wOI" / X (twitter.com) 

NIGEL FARAGE SPEAKS OUT AGAINST CLIMATE POLICY

A very interesting discussion between Nigel Farage, Leader of Reform and Jordan Peterson is well worth listening to. If you want to pick out the part where they discuss climate policy then go to about 17 minutes in. I think Farage has got it right and I hope that the remains of the Conservative Party is able to come to an accommodation with him before the next election. Until we do there is no chance of the centre right coming back to government here in the UK. 

I expect the contradictions within the current climate policy here to come to a head within the next few years as energy prices go on increasing to the point where there is a real crisis and the government is forced to reset, if not abandon its targets. 

Conservative Failings and the Reform UK Party | Nigel Farage (youtube.com)

COAL REIGNS SUPREME IN INDIA

India now consumes more coal than Europe and North America combined, making Australia and the UK, and everyone except China, just so irrelevant. When President Modi wants electrical generation fast, he doesn't say “quick, build 50,000 wind mills, with batteries, gas plants, high voltage lines and pumped hydro. He wants affordable, reliable energy

 Not-Transitioning: India burns more coal than the US and Europe combined and just ordered $33b in “new coal plants” « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

WIND FARM PROJECT FIGURES FOUND TO BE A FANTASY

Paul Burgess has been examining the figures which lie behind a wind farm project being proposed for the Isle of Man. This is the result of his investigation:

 Isle of Man Population is being Deceived Part 2 The Delusion (youtube.com)

FARAGE BURSTS THE GREEN BUBBLE

The following is a really good look at the way the true cost of renewable energy is being hidden by a plethora of subsidies cleverly disguised in a variety of ways. Well worth reading.

 Farage bursts the green bubble | James Compton | The Critic Magazine

HYDROGEN AS A FORM OF RENEWABLE ENERGY

Is hydrogen a viable form of renewable energy to get us to net zero? Read the answer here: 

Vast salt caverns to store hydrogen under former Royal Navy base | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

FRENCH VOTERS SEEM TO BE REJECTING NET ZERO

Marine Le Pen, the former presidential candidate, railed against “Brussels,” which “forces you, almost overnight, to change your boiler for €15,000,” against the “authoritarian reductions to agricultural land” and against the “heartless European Commission.”

“Don’t they have as their objective the reduction of human activity as a whole?” she asked, before connecting the issue to her obsession with French people’s daily lives, a strategy that has brought the RN to the threshold of coming to power. “It’s always the same logic of degrowth, which leads them to ban the sale of internal combustion engines in 2035, and thus deliberately program the sacking of our automotive industry and dependence on China,” she continued.

 The Rejection of Environmentalism is a driving force behind the surging “Far Right” vote « JoNova (joannenova.com.au

After this there has to be a back track on the ruinous net zero policies that Western governments have been following or else there will be riots on the streets.