From the Daily Skeptic
Chris Morrison
If you thought the Met Office was good at delivering waste temperature measurements and statistics, wait until you find out what the Department for Net Zero Emissions and Energy Security (DNZES) is doing. The 30-year temperature averages it compiles for its Energy Trends publication are so flawed that it might be easier and more cost-effective to just make up the numbers.
DNZES' monthly and annual data are said to provide average temperatures, “heating degree days” and deviations from long-term measurements. Only 17 Bureau of Meteorology sites were used, although curiously, 21 sets of information were produced due to double counting of sites. Eight of the sites consulted were Level 4 sites, with an internationally recognized “uncertainty” of 2°C, while four were Level 5 sites, with possible errors of up to 5°C. Not only can this data be corrupted by unnatural influences, but it can also be affected by less obvious geographical locations. No measurements were taken in Northern Ireland, most of Scotland or north-central Wales. The whole of south-east England is represented by Heathrow Airport, one of the worst places to know the temperatures around you.
Sites and signs for relevant Met Office sites are shown below.
The eight level 4 sites are Glasgow Bishopton, Bingley, Crosby, Nottingham Watnall, Coleshill, Aberporth, Hurn and Plymouth Mountbatten, while the four level 5 sites are Leuchars, Durham, St. Athan and Boscombe Down. It's unclear why four of the 17 locations were double-counted “to produce the national temperature-corrected average.” It is true that the Met Office does not have many Category 1 and 2 sites, but why these are unavailable, as opposed to those identified as hopelessly damaged, is unclear. But things got worse.
Another tribute to citizen journalist Ray Saunders, who is conducting a forensic examination of the entire Met Office temperature collection operation. Noting that DNZES statistics go back to 1980, he observed that the double-storey Rostherne did not open until 2012. , Leconfield (2002) and Webern (1991) . Only two Level 1 sites were used, neither of which existed in 1981. No better than math magic,” Sanders said. Dungeness' note referred to the recent discovery that the Met Office had been fabricating temperature averages from more than 100 weather stations, a practice it then attempted to cover up, daily skeptic Recently reported here and here .
Saunders was also critical of the Leconfield site. This is a Level 3 station with an uncertainty of 1°C, but its data are doubled from locations with “multiple issues”. Saunders believes the site should be at least a Category 4 due to the nearby roads and tarmac. Another “serious problem” is that the new solar power plant has 4,248 heating panels located only 80 meters (at the closest point) from the measuring equipment. He added: “There is a much larger problem with the way government agencies then manipulated their temperature readings, which is almost unbelievable.”
The end result of all this shenanigans is shown in the table below. The average temperature between 1991 and 2020 is said to be 10.3°C, a figure that has never been reached in any year, according to the Met Office. The highest temperature recorded in 2023 was 10.03°C.
It is increasingly clear that the Met Office’s temperature measurement operations are amateur and unfit for serious scientific purposes in support of the net zero agenda. The siting of measuring equipment appears to have received little attention, with nearly 8 of the 10 measuring stations located at level 4 and 5 dump sites, and the World Meteorological Organization considers that there is huge uncertainty. Alarmists often talk about the dangers of one-tenth of a degree Celsius of warming, but Met Office data (and that of other state-funded meteorological organizations around the world, which face similar problems) cannot provide this level of measurement accuracy.
Meanwhile, DNZES is in the hands of an extremist gang of eccentric political pundits, led by Mad Miliband. They're unlikely to lose much sleep over a few inaccurate temperature details when there's work to be done to save the planet. Dodgy temperature data, hockey sticks and purple weather maps have been causing mass climate psychosis for years – and the job is almost done. It is time for real action to be taken against the abomination of free enterprise industrial society and the common people who seem to derive unnatural enjoyment from the improved living standards it provides. Miliband's right-hand man, Chris Stark, the former chief executive of the Climate Change Commission, stepped forward. Commenting recently on the “net zero” imperative, he said: “If we fail to act, we are likely to see more draconian interventions in the future.”
Things are getting heated – these guys are ready to strike.
Chris Morrison is daily skepticenvironment editor.
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