Reposted from Not A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
The Met Office have this ridiculous article on their website today, called “Increasing climate challenge to Wimbledon Championships”:
It makes the usual claims of how global warming will impact sports like tennis:
Professor Stephen Belcher, the Met Office’s chief scientist, commented: “All the available evidence points towards the fact that our climate is changing: we have already seen aspects such as extreme heat, and the worse is yet to come.
“The UK has not recorded temperatures of more than 38.7 °C. However, our climate projections show temperatures of 40.0 °C or more are possible at Wimbledon even during future tournaments, posing considerable challenges for the health of players and spectators. Climate change will affect every facet of our lives, including the sports we love to watch. Wimbledon Environment Day is a reminder that society has very little time left to keep the temperature of our atmosphere within sustainable limits.”
A rather fatuous statement, given that tennis is already played in much hotter conditions than Wimbledon around the world, without health problems. Indeed most players I suspect would rather be somewhere else on a cold, damp day on Court 14!
But as the Met Office’s own data shows, UK summers are not actually getting hotter:
Occasionally weather conditions bring hot summers, as in 1976 and 2018, but the former still remains the hottest. In other years, we may see cold, wet summers.
But there is a reason why no summer since has topped 1976, the sun.
It is the sun that regulates temperatures in summer, not CO2. For instance, summers are hotter in Paris than London, because the sun is higher in the sky. A long, dry summer, dominated by high pressure, will always bring hot weather.
Occasionally the jet stream will also pull up very hot air from the Sahara, as in 2019, but this a short term meteorological occurrence, typically for a day or two, not evidence of climate change.
Unless the Earth shifts on its orbit, UK summers will be unlikely to top 1976 temperatures in our lifetimes.
It is shameful that the Met Office should give its name to this pernicious, politically motivated propaganda
The last three mornings ( July 6th,7th and 8th) My central heating has switched on automatically at the command of the thermostat ( set at 18 degrees C). I’m guessing that low temperatures in July are another sign of global warming?
This past winter, the usual suspects were assuring us that record cold was a sure sign of global warming.
No that’s weather.
Come back in 30 years and tell us if it’s still happening eh ?
Please stop calling it global warming, otherwise they will have to falsify data to show constant warming without variation, probably using puter moduls!!! You must refer to it as “Climate Change”, a heads I win tails you lose scenario is always more appropriate in any “debate”!!! Sarc off!
In my part of the world, about 30 miles from Wimbledon, we have had unusually cool, wet conditions (for the time of year) for about 5 days now. And the “Increasing climate challenge to Wimbledon championship” meme appeared on the Met Office website about a week ago. Looks to me as if someone saw a forecast for lots of rain, and decided to try to make use of it for scare purposes.
Nevertheless, they are getting through the championship. In 1982, they had to postpone the men’s final by a day!
The horror!!
“But there is a reason why no summer since has topped 1976, the sun.”
That’s right, without which it would not have occurred, nor would have 2003, or 2006, or 2018.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/major-heat-cold-waves-driven-key-heliocentric-alignments-ulric-lyons/
What officialdom neglects to tell fans is that the immediate ambient conditions impact balls which creates challenges for those playing with them. This has been well known since before either tennis or Wimbledon games started by men from around the world.
I played in a tennis tournament in Idaho one summer and it was hotter than 40C.
Anyway, it is possible to play tennis indoors or in a covered stadium.
Come on down to the Australian Open in Melbourne in January when temperatures can be above 40C, and an extreme heat policy can result in games being suspended. But with Covid-19 it is still unclear whether players will be alllowed to enter Australia without quarantining for 2 weeks.
Paul Homewood:
“Occasionally the jet stream will also pull up very hot air from the Sahara, as in 2019, but this a short term meteorological occurrence, typically for a day or two, not evidence of climate change.
Unless the Earth shifts on its orbit, UK summers will be unlikely to top 1976 temperatures in our lifetimes.
Yes it is “short-term” and it is “weather” BUT it takes place with the current atmospheric energy available driving it.
Our hottest days always come from air advected over the shortest sea-track – the channel.
The air that sits over the SE of England come time of maximum insolation on our hottest days has been imported from France, and indeed in extreme heatwaves from air that originated over the Sahara.
It is by no means unusual.
It’s happened as, like, *forever*.
To say that it is not evidence of climate change is staggering.
In the past those extreme Saharan air-masses still got to us on occasion.
The air arriving from the Sahara via France will have had many days of lesser night-time minima, which do not become invisible because of daytime heating. It is still energy that doesn’t have to be supplied by that days sunshine.
Also non-condensing GHGs act throughout the 24 hours in attenuating LWIR escaping to space.
This is the same get-out as saying that the Lytton B.C record high was just the result of a freak Foehn event.
Yes, it’s weather but the weather is a variability in the energy available in the atmosphere – and both the US/Canadian and any extreme heatwave in the SE of England are in by no means “freak”. These events have happened before (as in the meteorological setup) but they have not resulted in such high maxes.
That is the Rockies have been there a long while and SE’ly Foehn winds are not new. It’s happen many times before.
Belcher is not much chop as the Met Office’s chief scientist, nor as a ‘scientist’ in the general sense, if he does not understand that climates change all of the time. Even for his small part of the World, the Little Ice Age should be known to him.
It is a professor who said it, so it must be believed. I predict that in the future professors will be viewed with the same amusement as people today view the shamans and voodoo men. And they will have only themselves to blame for it.
“Belcher” is an appropriate name!! This meteorological moron doesn’t even know that when the roof is closed – they turn on the aircon to keep the temp comfortable for players! But like his hysterical colleague Viner who predicted 17 years ago that “children soon will not know what snow is” Belcher’s predictions can safely be consigned to the dustbin. Game.set and match.
“society has very little time left to keep the temperature of our atmosphere within sustainable limits.”
Care to put a figure on that ‘little time left’?
I think Griff gets more exposure than anyone.
I’m convinced he likes making contentious comments in order to feed his ego.
The clue is in the learned gentlman’s name. To belch = noisily expel stomach gasses.
Funny, I thought it meant to emit water vapor backlit to appear black and call it carbon. As in a picture of a cooling tower used to illustrate a power plant “belching” carbon emissions. There’s another definition apparently?