Temperature Shenanigans

The fear of anthropogenic global warming has generated a great interest in temperature records such that even minute changes in the temperature records are scrutinized. This points to the central role that temperature plays in terrifying populations to accept the appalling lifestyle changes needed to achieve net zero in less than 30 years.

A number of weather stations around the world help this scare tactic by inflating temperature data.

United Kingdom

Statistical proof has shown that the UK Met Office is inflating maximum temperature readings to create net zero supporting climate alarm. Over the last 30 years, the Met Office has produced the vast majority of its data from unnaturally heat-ravaged junk sites using newly installed accurate electronic devices able to record one minute heat spikes. This could well explain the steep change in rate of temperature change and the marked increase in the step of new daily maximum records since 1990. Sites showed average short heat spikes around 1.1 C. Most occurred around daily records in junk Class 3,4, and 5 locations. These sites have intentionally recognized uncertainties or possible errors of 1, 2 and 5C respectively. ⁽¹⁾

The Lephinmore station is a shocking example of decades-long invented temperature figures at non-existent UK Met Office measuring stations. This station was situated in the upper reaches of the Firth of Clyde, and according to the ‘location-specific long-term averages’ Met Office database it can supply monthly temperature readings along with rainfall amounts back to 1960. This can be considered a modern scientific wonder given that the actual station closed five months before England won the World Cup in 1966 reports Chris Morrison. ⁽²⁾

Two years ago, 77.7% of Met Office weather stations were in classes 4 and 5 with internationally recognized uncertainties of 2C and 5C respectively. Eighteen months later classes 4 and 5 accounted for 80.6% of the total. Far from appearing to take the matter seriously, the Met Office has opened 20 new stations with an astonishing 67.7% starting life in the class 4/5 junk lane. The question is, why would any scientific organization that sets itself up as an authority on providing reliable untampered ambient air temperature statistics consider doing this. ⁽³⁾

As far as Northern Ireland is concerned, the Met Office cannot be trusted. They claimed that winter rainfall was among the wettest on record. The Met Office have only one long term meteorological site in Northern Ireland, Armagh, and there has been no upward trend in winter rainfall there since 1853. They have no actual data for any sites which support their ninth wettest since 1836 claim. ⁽⁴⁾

More on recent issues about the Met Office at the end of this article.

United States

Meteorologist Anthony Watts reports that 95 percent of the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) temperature stations are located in urban heat islands, next to exhaust fans on blistering rooftops. ⁽⁵⁾

NOAA fabricates temperature data from more than 30 percent of the 1,218 United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) reporting stations that no longer exist. They are physically gone, but still report data, like magic. ⁽⁶⁾

Like the Met Office, the US weather service NOAA was riddled with activists making net zero hay with similar dodgy temperature data. Almost instantly, that all stopped when the Trump Administration took charge. The message went out to cut all the climate alarm BS and return to the weather forecasting day job. To concentrate minds, the annual budget was slashed by 25%. Similar cuts to the Met office’s state funding could well be considered if a reform UK government came to power committed to ending what is routinely described as net stupid zero.

Netherlands

The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute has reinstated seven historical heatwaves from the pre-1950 era that had previously been ‘erased’ from official records due to statistical adjustments. This is a major victory for climate skeptics and a ‘point of principle.’ It restores several intense heatwaves (such as those in 1911, 1947, and 1948) to the official Dutch record. ⁽⁷⁾

While the ‘disappearance’ of these heatwaves was used to support claims of unprecedented modern warming, their reinstatement provides a more nuanced view of historical climate variability in the Netherlands. ⁽⁸⁾

Climate Models

The IPCC models have always run hot, predicting more surface warming than measurements are able to confirm. Rather than accept that their models are wrong, along with their underlying hypothesis regarding CO2-induced atmospheric global warming, IPCC members have struggled to find an excuse. ⁽⁹⁾

Decadal temperature trends from 39 climate models were compared to observations gathered from weather balloons, satellites, and global data re-analyses. Amazingly, all 39 climate models exhibited larger warming trends than all three classes of observational data. ⁽¹⁰⁾

Climate models range over a factor of three in climate sensitivity, a disparity that has remained for over 30 years of the climate modeling enterprise. And the main reason for that disparity is inter-model differences in the moist convective processes (clouds and water vapor) which cause positive feedbacks in the models.

Maybe if the modelers figured out why their handling of moist convection is flawed, models would then produce warming more in line with observations, and more in line with each other. ⁽¹⁰⁾

Global Temperatures

Global temperature anomalies on both land and sea are dropping like a stone. Net zero obsessed mainstream media, science and politics do not do cooling. Confirmation bias that holds humans responsible for hockey-stick style global warming with all its risible ‘settled’ notions has gravely damaged climate science. But the world is cooling rapidly and the silence from the mainstream is both laughable and disgraceful. ⁽¹¹⁾

Recent records show the plunge clearly with the difference or anomaly from 1991-2020 average falling during 2025 to end the year at just 0.3C.

Needless to say, mainstream media ignore satellite temperature data.

Scientists Dr. Roy Spencer and Professor John Christy produced results showing how the monthly temperature anomalies have fallen over the last two years.

Along the equatorial Pacific Ocean, sea surface temperatures have been falling for months.

Final Words

Data taken from rural temperature stations, ocean measurements, weather balloons, satellite measurements and temperature proxies such as tree ring, glaciers and lake sediments, show that the climate has always changed. ⁽¹²⁾

We are frequently told that modern warming is unprecedented, unmatched in rate, and outside natural variability. Yet There were eleven abrupt warming events between roughly 57,000 and 29,000 years ago. In this roughly 28,000-year window, there was 10-16C warming in 50-200 years, repeatedly, under low and relatively stable around 200 ppm atmospheric CO2 levels. ⁽¹³⁾

Abrupt climate change also occurred naturally in the past, 25 times during the last ice age. ⁽¹⁴⁾

In 2014, a tree, dated 6,000 years old was found in the Alps at an altitude of 2,060 meters. No trees of this size can grow at that altitude today because it is currently too cold, suggesting that 6,000 years ago, temperatures in the Alps were significantly warmer than now. That’s evidence that climate alarmists would prefer to censor. ⁽¹⁵⁾

Lastly, in 2018, the UK Met Office published its report forecasting several weather extremes including a suggestion that summer temperatures could be 5.1 C higher by 2070. Needless to say, the forecast captured mainstream media headlines at the time and to this day the report is a foundational source for most UK governmental and private company regulation and spending. As Chris Morrison points out, all of this is now officially junk. The Met office only ran a RCP8.5 set of assumptions through its super computer, the results of which it then proceeded to highlight.

The recent dismissal of the RCP8.5 pathway assumptions by the UN’s IPCC committee as implausible means the Met office must remove their deeply flawed work with a scientific notification that any policies arising from its discredited figures should be re-examined. ⁽¹⁶⁾ More on climate scare scenario setback affected by RCP8.5 dismissal can be found in reference. ⁽¹⁷⁾

References

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