SEA LEVEL SCARE DEBUNKED AGAIN

Rising sea levels is one of the biggest scare stories in the climate alarmists play book, even though it has been debunked so many times. Here it is again: 

The oceans are overflowing, give us a trillion, says UN witchdoctor Guterres « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

WORLD BANK POURS BILLIONS INTO "WAR ON AGRICULTURE"

Created to alleviate global poverty, the World Bank has decided the “manmade climate crisis” is a far greater threat to impoverished families than contaminated water, malaria, and other killer diseases, hunger, or even two billion people still burning wood and dung because they don’t have reliable, affordable electricity. It has unilaterally decreed that 45% of its funds – an extra $9 billion in FY2024 – will be shifted to helping the poor “better withstand the devastation of climate change.” Read the rest of it here: 

Who is directing the war on agriculture and nutrition? – CFACT

US CLIMATE REFERENCE NETWORK - PRISTINE DATA

Here is an interesting data set. It comes from 114 first class weather stations which are in locations that are as far as possible from any contamination from stray sources of heat, such as tarmac. concrete, buildings, traffic, aircraft, etc. What a great idea! Such a pity that our own Met Office has not tried to do the same. Surprisingly, for those who believe temperatures are rapidly increasing, the data has, so far, not shown any rising trend. As the data has only been going for 19 years, it is not long enough to show a meaningful trend, but if it continues for 30 years or more it will start to be more significant. 

Unfortunately, NOAA never reports this data in their monthly or yearly “state of the climate report.” And, mainstream media either is entirely unaware of the existence of this data set or has chosen not to report on this U.S. temperature record. 

 U.S Surface Temperature – Watts Up With That?

USA ELECTION - DEMOCRATS KEEPING QUIET ABOUT CLIMATE POLICY

Just as in the recent UK election, there as been no mention of costly climate policies in the US election by the Democrats. The difference in the USA is that the other party, the Republicans, do have a different policy and they should mention it and not fear the Green Blob. We will see in the coming weeks if Trump has the courage to speak up. 

Election Deception: Democrats won’t mention the climate, but The Greens are happy anyway « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

ATLANTIC WARMING AND COOLING, NO ONE CAN EXPLAIN WHY

For over a year, surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean hit new highs, but that trend has reversed at record speed over the past few months, and nobody knows why. NOAA data shows Atlantic sea surface temperatures have cooled at a surprising rate since May. Since June began, temperatures have been a degree or two Fahrenheit colder than normal for this time of year. That means El Niño will likely be replaced by its counterpart, La Niña. 

Scientists have no idea why the Atlantic has suddenly got colder, but they think they know that global warming made it hotter in the first place, even though there is no scientific explanation for the claim that a slightly warmer atmosphere can make any measurable difference to ocean temperatures! 

The Atlantic Is Cooling at a Mysteriously Fast Rate After Record Warmth | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

OFFSHORE FLOATING WIND THE MOST EXPENSIVE ELECTRICITY BY FAR

This new video from Paul Burgess explains in simple terms why floating offshore wind farms will produce very expensive electricity

 PB Basics 3 Offshore Floating Wind Facts Making the Pensioners Pay - YouTube

WHAT IS THE COST OF CARBON CAPTURE UTILISATION AND STORAGE?

 CCUS applications do not all have the same cost. Looking specifically at carbon capture, the cost can vary greatly by CO2 source, from a range of USD 15-25/t CO2 for industrial processes producing “pure” or highly concentrated CO2 streams (such as ethanol production or natural gas processing) to USD 40-120/t CO2 for processes with “dilute” gas streams, such as cement production and power generation. Capturing CO2 directly from the air is currently the most expensive approach.

Moving on to the cost of transport and storage, this can also vary greatly on a case-by-case basis, depending mainly on CO2 volumes, transport distances and storage conditions. In the United States, for example, the cost of onshore pipeline transport is in the range of USD 2-14/t CO2, while the cost of onshore storage shows an even wider spread. However, more than half of onshore storage capacity is estimated to be available below USD 10/t CO2. 

Is carbon capture too expensive? – Analysis - IEA

The following video looks at the problems with this as well as stating its importance, assuming that capturing and storing CO2 is necessary.

How does carbon capture and storage actually work? | ABC News (youtube.com)

All this begs the question - do we need to do this at all? The answer to that depends on whether you believe the planet is facing a looming disaster caused by CO2. If we don't ( and I believe the evidence is very doubtful) then we certainly do not have to spend billions of dollars capturing and burying it.

LEADING ATMOSPHERIC SCIENTIST, RICHARD LINDZEN, SUMMARISES THE DEBATE ON GW

Richard Lindzen is not a household name ,like David Attenborough,  but that does not mean he is not a great scientist. On the contrary, his achievements are outstanding, (see his Wikipedia entry here: Richard Lindzen - Wikipedia ) He is someone who should not be ignored, as he has spent decades studying the physics of the atmosphere. His latest speech gives a good analysis of the state of climate science at the link below:

 “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities” - Clintel

The following section provides a neat summary of where we are today:

So here we are, confronted with policies that destroy western economies, impoverish the working middle class, condemn billions of the world’s poorest to continued poverty and increased starvation, leave our children despairing over the alleged absence of a future, and will enrich the enemies of the West who are enjoying the spectacle of our suicide march, a march that the energy sector cowardly accepts, being too lazy to exert the modest effort needed to check what is being claimed.

RECEDING SWISS GLACIERS REVEAL WHAT?

I just read the following article and came across the paragraph below, in it. 

Switzerland offers prize money to get munition out of lakes - BBC News

"Even on the glaciers, now receding amid the impacts of climate change, the melting ice is revealing spent and live ammunition left over from high mountain training which took place decades ago." - Clearly those glaciers must have grown in the decades prior to the recent receding, suggesting that the climate must have cooled in the twentieth century after the munitions were left there, thus showing that the recent warming is not unprecedented, but part of a cycle of warming and cooling.

LIFESPAN OF WIND TURBINES

We are constantly being told that wind turbines produce the cheapest electricity. I have produced plenty of information to refute that in previous posts, but in the short video below by Paul Burgess he explains how quickly turbines can deteriorate and how the maintenance cost increase during the first ten years of use. Also their efficiency drops off quite rapidly.

 Paul Burgess Basics 2 The Lifespan of Wind Turbines (youtube.com)

The main reason why renewables, such as wind and solar, will not be as cheap as coal or gas is because they are intermittent sources and so they require back-up for when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing.

WHOSE EMISSIONS ARE THEY?

As the climate change blame game hots up, groups of activists are finding more and more ways of finding who to put the blame on for the ever more apocalyptic predictions of climate Armageddon. This new report places the blame squarely on the nations that sell the fossil fuel. If only they could stop it all they would achieve Nirvana. Their problem, of course, as always, is the money, and maybe the riots on the streets from all those put in dire poverty through a lack of, well everything! I'm sure that nice Mr Putin will do everything he can to save the planet!

 Carbon naughty list: Russia, Australia, USA, export more “climate damage” than any other nations « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

ONE THIRD OF UK TEENAGERS THINK CLIMATE CHANGE IS DELIBERATELY EXAGGERATED

This is a headline from January 2024, but I have only just seen it and I found it surprising, and also heartening at the same time. In some ways we should not be surprised as many teenagers are rebels and like to oppose the status quo. Climate change has become so on-message that it is now almost a state religion. 

Out in the real world, unlike in our institutions, such as government, there is actually a lot of scepticism which teenagers will pick up on. What this tells us is just how transient public support for the coming policies to decarbonise our lives really is. 

Rather like immigration, people have not really accepted the arguments (for mass immigration).They have merely tolerated it. But as soon as they have an excuse to let their true feelings be known there are a lot of people willing to do so. Read the report on this survey here:

 New deniers eh? One third of UK teenagers think climate change is deliberately exaggerated « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

UK MET OFFICE JUNK TEMPERATURE MEASURING NETWORK BECOMING MORE WIDELY KNOWN

Here's another article referring to the poor quality of the Met Office Weather stations measuring the daily maximum and minimum temperatures across the UK. This negative coverage of this institution is so damaging for its reputation and yet it seemingly does not care, as it continues to open new stations that don't make the grade and uses them to produce new high temperature records. It is time our MPs raised this issue in Parliament to shame them into improving things.

Junk Temperature Measuring Network Means the Met Office Cannot Prove There’s Been a “Dramatic Increase” in Temperature | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

FALSE CLIMATE INFORMATION FROM THE BBC

Most people now believe that the climate coverage from the BBC has become a litany of one-sided propaganda. This can now be verified by the following report: 

Tall Climate Tales from the BBC, 2023 (squarespace.com)

How sad that our state broadcaster, once renowned for its impartiality, should now be ridiculed for its attempt to brainwash its viewers and listeners. Not only sad, but also completely wrong, as on such an important issue costing us all so much, we desperately need a good source of balanced, reliable information. By going down this route they will lose the trust of all but the most naive of their audience.

CARBON CAPTURE UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT

 Below is a link to a new video from Paul Burgess which highlights the fallacy at the heart of carbon capture and storage which is the massive cost of it in terms of the amount of CO2 which it could remove. It will drive up the cost of energy and practically everything that we make or consume. Those nations which do not go down this route will have a much lower cost of living. Here is the link:

Exposing Green Energy Propaganda Cut 2 (youtube.com)

ENERGY PERFORMANCE CERTIFICATES ARE "USELESS", SAYS SUSTAINABLE BUILDING CHIEF

 The property industry seems to uniformly despise the EPC system, which gives homes a score from A to G. That shouldn’t matter except that the Government has just put this deeply-flawed metric at the heart of its net zero drive.

The Conservatives have already been through this charade. Originally, landlords were required to make sure their properties met at least an EPC “C” rating by April 2025 for new leases and April 2027 for existing leases. This was later scrapped. Now Labour's Ed Miliband wants to re-introduce the deadline at 2030. This gives landlords a little more time to get out of this over-regulated business.

Ed Miliband must ditch his ludicrous EPC targets – for everyone’s sake | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

THE DANGER OF CO2 PIPELINE LEAK

The incident I referred to in my piece yesterday about CO2 pipelines has been the subject of a number of articles and videos which can easily be found by a quick search of the internet. Below is a link to one of them:  

The Gassing of Satartia—CO2 pipeline causes mass poisoning in Mississippi (youtube.com)

What many people may not realise is the very high pressure that exists within the pipeline. It is this which gives rise to the risk, along with the massive quantity that can escape in the event of any rupture of the pipe. Without oxygen we are rendered unconscious within minutes and our petrol and diesel cars stop working, so there is literally no escape.

CO2 PIPELINE SAFETY FEARS LEAD TO LEGAL BATTLES IN THE USA

Carbon dioxide in pipelines is a liquid under high pressure. If it leaks, it turns to gas as it rushes out. Since it is heavier than air, it stays close to the ground and can cover wide areas. Carbon dioxide is harmless in small quantities, but in large amounts, it is an asphyxiate, can force oxygen out of people’s lungs, and can cause headaches, dizziness, serious injuries, and death.

On February 22, 2020, a carbon dioxide pipeline ruptured in Satartia, Mississippi. The rupture occurred on a Saturday and spewed CO2 for about four hours. An invisible cloud of CO2 moved through the rural community forcing more than 200 people to evacuate and at least 45 to be hospitalized. Victims were unable to breathe and suffered unconsciousness and fits of shaking. No one died during the incident, but some victims continue to suffer ongoing physical problems. 

Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Battle—Seize Land for Green Energy – Watts Up With That?

MORE DETAILS AND VIDEO LINK TOMORROW

GREENLAND ICE MELTED AWAY IN THE LAST MILLION YEARS

Scientists have discovered plant and insect remains under a two-mile-deep (three km) ice core extracted from the centre of Greenland, providing the clearest proof yet that nearly all of this vast territory was green within the past million years, when atmospheric CO2 levels were much lower than today. 

The important message here is that natural climate change has caused huge changes and so it could do so again. The vast cost of trying to achieve net zero is likely to be futile. Instead we should adapt to the climate as it evolves.

 Lost for 30 years in a freezer: The whole of Greenland melted away when CO2 was perfect — consensus broken « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE

A lot of small scale experimental projects are being tested, as can be seen in the lengthy report, linked below, which was written in 2019, so more work will have been done since. The one thing that is not mentioned is the cost of this and how much it will increase the cost of electricity and other manufacturing processes, and that is a crucial question. Not to mention who is going to pay for it, as the answer is obviously us.

A scheme is being proposed here in the Solent by Exxon. This can be seen here: Solent CO2 Pipeline Project  There is currently a consultation out for public comment, focusing on the route of the pipeline, but some people may want to ask questions about safety, particularly as there is at least some similarity between injecting gas into rock under high pressure and the process of fracking.

 A review of CO2 storage in geological formations emphasizing modeling, monitoring and capacity estimation approaches | Petroleum Science (springer.com)

LONDON AND SOUTH EAST ENGLAND UNDER THREAT OF BLACKOUTS

National Grid executives have warned of blackouts before the end of the decade unless the South East pays more for power than other regions.

In private conversations with the energy industry, executives from the Grid’s Electricity System Operator (ESO) claimed the network was becoming so congested that “there will be blackouts in the South East by 2028”, one industry source claimed. 

The issue has prompted the Government to weigh major changes to the electricity market, potentially by splitting it into regional zones that would each have their own electricity price.

Power Chiefs Fear Blackouts In London | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

EUROPEAN EV MARKET SLUMP

Governments are not good at dictating the market. That has been shown time and time again. The more they interfere the worse things become. Read it all at this link:

 German EV sales down 37% “The market has lost all momentum” « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

SEND IN THE CLOWNS

Don't bother - they're here!

 Just Stop Oil claims climate change will lead to Southport-style riots | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

These people are so brain-washed that they cannot conceive how foolish they look to the rest of the public. The other day they were trying to stop folk getting to their plane and the people simply stepped round them and ignored them completely. How irrelevant must they have felt! 

It is high electricity prices and power cuts that will get people rioting on the streets, not a bit of extreme weather.

WHY HAVE UK ELECTRICITY PRICES RISEN?

The answer is clearly explained in the following article:

 https://www.netzerowatch.com/all-news/why-have-electricity-prices-risen

THE TRUTH ABOUT RENEWABLES - THEY ARE MORE EXPENSIVE!

The reason is obvious. They need back up for when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing, but those pushing the agenda don't want to talk about it.

A little bit of good sense on the TV from Paul Burgess:

 Arrogance & Ignorance on Nana Akua Show 27th July 2024 (youtube.com)

AUSSIES RULE OUT CLIMATE TARGETS

 It appears that Aussie businessmen have discovered that climate targets are not compatible with making money!

Almost 30pc of Aussie companies have ‘no intention’ of meeting climate targets, new study reveals

By Jared Lynch, The Australian Business Review

Now, a survey of more than 500 companies from Schneider Electric — the biggest adviser of Australian commercial power users — says 28 per cent have no intention of meeting their Paris Agreement commitments. A further 42 per cent say they have not begun decarbonising their operations.

The worst performers in meeting climate goals were smaller companies, healthcare, construction and professional services, with the Schneider survey revealing 18 per cent did not know where to start, while almost a quarter did not consider it a priority.

Ponder just how devastating this is. 42% of Australian companies have not even begun, and another 28% have no intention of  finishing.

That’s a 70% failure rate.

This was from: Net Zero targets “Unachievable” says Air New Zealand and nearly 70% of Australian companies “not even trying” « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

"HOTTEST DAY" CLAIM DEBUNKED HERE

 We are constantly being told by those pushing the climate change doom propaganda that the world is heating up rapidly. In this video we can see how the historical evidence shows this to be not credible. 

Real Climate Science | "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman 

UK CLIMATE - THE FACTS

 UK climate is said to be "getting more extreme" according to the Met Office. This paper gives the facts which say it is not. 

State-of-the-Climate-Report-2023.pdf (thegwpf.org)

HOUSING - YET ANOTHER REASON WHY NET ZERO IS UNACHIEVABLE

There are many reasons why the UK (or any other developed country) will not be able to dispense with the use of fossil fuels, but dealing with housing emissions is a big one. The following brief report gives the details:

 Buildings – The Achilles Heel of Net Zero (netzerowatch.com)

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.