From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
This article sums up just how hysterical some so-called experts have become:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66042272
Take this comment, for instance:
Many flowering plants, including orchids, wilted in the high temperatures, meaning insects like bees and butterflies that feed on nectar and pollen will have less to eat, Ali Morse from the Wildlife Trusts told BBC News.
Species with short lifespans are particularly badly affected. Many butterflies are adults for only a short time, and if they cannot access food in that period, it stunts the population.
These impacts are more surprising considering the wet and cold spring and are earlier than last year, Ms Morse added.
“Every month seems to be the hottest, the driest, the wettest, or whichever record-breaking event it is. If we have a one-off pollution event or a wildfire, then there is normally time for nature to bounce back, but now it seems to be continually pounded by extreme weather,” she added.
“Every month seems to be the hottest, the driest, the wettest, or whichever record-breaking event it is.”
Really, Ms Morse?
If you really believe that, you are living in a fantasy world! I suggest you get back in touch with reality, and check what the facts say.
First, temperatures:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-and-regional-series
There is a cluster of coldest months in the early record, and another cluster of hottest towards the end, just as you would expect in a gradually warming climate. However, there has only been one, solitary record since 2015, and that was of course last month.
And rainfall? Again, just one monthly record since 2014; that was February 2020. In total, just four records since 1997, which is about average:
In short, we have had just two monthly records for temperature and rainfall in the last eight years; that is hardly “every month”, Ms Morse!
Indeed two in eight years is pretty much what you would expect. With 48 records up for grabs over a period of 187 years for rain and 140 years for temperature, the law of averages say you will get one every three years.
Sadly this hysteria is not confined to the odd buffoon, like our Ms Morse.
After the ‘hottest’ June I’ve just had to turn the central heating back on, here in SE England and it’s going to be like this until the weekend. In July, dammit! It’s weather, not climate, stupids!
Me too. July 2nd I had to turn my furnace on during the night. I’m just north of Chicago.
Also in SE England and I have been wearing jerseys and jackets for the first time in June. So hottest June is just B*llsh1t.
Me too – it feels more like early October than July here. The ‘hottest June’ was because of exactly one day in June, not the average for the month. Once again, a fudging of the facts – an average of the entire month would likely result in a severe tumble down the record list.
Unlike 1976 when it was hot from around the 6th onwards…
I also have had in the past several hottest Junes which were hotter than the current hottest one.
I wonder when we’ll reach peak climate stupidity claims
It’s hard to believe we haven’t yet. I keep thinking this is it but it gets more and more nonsensical every year.
Hmm, this year/next year/sometime/never?
Only when there’s no more money to rinse
That will depend on peak human stupidity. It could be quiet awhile.
Every week I think it can’t get worse.
… … and then it does.
Lack of statistical reasoning is why people buy lottery tickets.
Na! I know the odds are microscopically tiny that I’ll win, but to me it is worth the $10.00 a week to have the dream of winning. In addition it does not even really cost me $10.00 a week because I often win free plays.
I will be 68 years old next month and statistically the life expectancy of a white male in the US is 73.5 years; so the dream is as much for my descendants as it is for me.
Now the question of if that dream could actually be a nightmare that does more harm than good is another question. One that I have pondered and decided that the odds are it would be good based upon my family as I know them.
I think your avg life expectancy of white males in U.S. is off by about -6yrs
Lotteries should be called “sugar-coated stupidity taxes.” “Climate” reporting is in the same category.
Indeed. Dr. Johnson in his famous dictionary defined a lottery as “a tax on fools”.
Actually, when the expected value from all prizes becomes positive, you should buy state lottos. The state provides the various prize odds for you. For Florida, the expected value sum turns positive when the grand prize rolls to over $8.5 million,in their new system. That happens surprisingly often here in Florida, several times a year and sometimes for weeks at a time. Do that consistently and you will over time make money. Back when I was in Chicago, I was over 17 years about $20k to the good, all in Illinois Lottery second and third prizes. Il had fewer numbers so higher odds.
The expected value sum is almost never positive for the big US multistate lotteries like Powerball and Megamillions.
There is a far higher chance of me becoming a millionaire through Lotto, than through employment.
Especially as I am retired. 🙂
The claim of the hottest June on record in the UK is subjective to how good those thermometers are. This is a ubiquitous problem plaguing pretty much every thermometer in the world. After it’s hard to keep a long record free of artificial influence.
I would also counter by saying that Eastern Europe had a cooler than average June and they are sweeping that fact under the rug. Using my thermometer problem point from earlier, it’s likely that not only are the warmer than average figures inflated upwards but so are the cooler than average figures in Eastern Europe. Therefore, it’s likely that Eastern Europe was even cooler than what we think and Western Europe was warm but not in anyway usual. Just the same old climate fluctuations that have been going since the creation of Earth.
Probably because we put our thermometers next to airbase runways and Eastern Europe seem to have rather fewer jet aircraft just lately?
She’s been reading too much on the BBC Website, and Justin Rowlatt in particular. For them/him there is a record weather event every day.
Reality and recollections may differ
Ridicule is the only way “woke” people will think twice before blathering their nonsensical thoughts.
Agree, ridicule is their Achilles heel
Yes, they really need to see how stupid they look making CO2 out to be the Big Bad Wolf.
Happy to report that some presenters in the UK are prepared to treat the alarmist claptrap with the ridicule it deserves and expose the scam. From about 6:00 in, also at 13:40:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4LGNrn-kso
Unfortunately this aired when most people are at work but it’s a start.
It is a component of the “weather porn” strategy, along with running endless footage of bad weather and naming the weather segment in each broadcast Extreme Weather Forecast and such hyperbolic crap. Every reportable event has to be the worstest or biggestest ever in all of human existence.
“Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.”
— Peter Diamandis
Remember when weather was not climate? Now, climate is weather, completely ass backward.
Climate in Houston hasn’t changed.
I heard that Las Vegas recently set a record for the most consecutive days in which the high temperature did not exceed 100F. Seems like their normal weather moved east.
The Pacific Ocean off the coast of the SW USA is very, very cool and it is dominating our weather. SoCal was cold this past winter and has been cool (cold for us) all spring. Nevada and Arizona are having very pleasant springs. Summer has arrived so it will heat up but been overcast for months in San Diego we call it May-Gray and June-Gloom. Has a name because it recurs every so often. Even in the land of perfect weather we get screwed as well.
“Seems like their normal [hot] weather moved east.”
The heat is back in California and Arizona. A high-pressure system (center marked) is hovering over them right now and raising their temperatures back to normal for them.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/500hPa/orthographic=-103.44,40.73,264/loc=-117.562,31.245
Pennsylvania is going to shut down its largest coal fired generating station.
Pennsylvania’s largest coal plant to shut down (wvia.org)
The bill for believing the lies is coming due here in the US, just as it has been in Germany and England.
Another nitpick.
Britain, not England. England is not a sovereign country like Germany is.
Someone ought to cover their piles of coal with green tarps and identify it as high efficiency biomass.
I cover my piles with green underpants, and self identify as a dinner sore ass (;-))
“The bill for believing the lies is coming due here in the US”
Yes, the climate alarmists have now managed to put almost the entire U.S. grid under threat of blackouts because of the closing of conventional powerplants.
I would say that June was quite dry, yet sunny and cold in this part of deepest central England.
The BBC still employs idiots.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Agree, all three statements.
In other news today from another great British institution:
NatWest is allowing staff to go to work identifying as men and women on different days as part of a series of LGBT-friendly diversity measures.
The bank has offered double-sided lanyards to staff who identify as non-binary – neither male nor female.
The measure enables them to adopt “masculine and feminine” personas and means they have the option to alternate between these separate identities at different times.
In addition, workers have been able to display their preferred pronouns and phonetic spellings of their names on environmentally-friendly bamboo badges.
Guidance on the “diversity, equity and inclusion [DE&I]” section of the NatWest website read: “For our colleagues, we have introduced dual-sided work passes that allow non-binary colleagues to present in masculine and feminine expression.”
Daily Telegraph.
If only they did banking as good as virtue signalling
They don’t. This is, presumably, to divert attention away from their failure to comply with money laundering regulations and the subsequent convictions, that and the earlier ‘Natwest Three’ wire fraud scandal. Not a bank I would trust.
I think its a very disturbing general social phenomenon, at least in the English speaking countries. Its widespread irrationality and unrealism on a whole range of social and policy topics, sex and gender, race, energy, climate. Even finance – consider so called Modern Monetary Theory. One crazy idea after another, all inconsistent with readily obtainable facts. And increasingly a situation in which people are being required by employers and service providers to at least pretend to believe in this nonsense or conceal their dissent.
In the present case, June was in no way remarkable, fishes and insects were not affected any more than in any other summer. And you cannot be a man one day and a woman the next. This is surely totall obvious. But it will be brave (and probably short term) NatWest employee who says so in the training meetings
We are moving towards a Chinese style social credit environment, decentralized and with corporate and civil service enforcement. The recent publicity about UK banks closing accounts because they don’t care for customer’s views are indicative.
Paypal did this (and subsequently reversed themselves) to the Free Speech Union and the Daily Sceptic. This is the logical next step after dissent has been characterized as phobia or denialism.
And if you look at recent legislation in the Republic of Ireland and in Scotland you see that very serious levels of repression of speech are also now making their way onto the statute books. To save the planet, or in the cause of diversity of course. Or to protect people from ever coming into contact with ideas they do not wish to hear.
Our technocratic overlords in the West saw the efficiency of the Chinese Social Credit system at suppressing dissent and thought, “That’s exactly what we want”.
The sole difference is that the system here is disguised with Woke platitudes about Equity and saving the Planet. At least the Chinese Communist Party makes no secret of the purpose.
I’d like “BBC Verify” to look over all this…..!
I’d prefer BBC Verify to check everything from BBC Verify but it’ll have the same effect.
Not just ‘every month’….
Headline:Climate change: World’s hottest day since records began
“”The world’s average temperature reached a new high on Monday 3 July, topping 17 degrees Celsius for the first time.
Matt McGrath BBC
I think the good Professor puts that into context extremely well, here: not so sure that his unique experiment showing that CO2 is not dangerous would go down well in some quarters among UK Wokerati:
https://watch.adh.tv/cpac-2022/season:2/videos/cpac-2022-prof-ian-plimer
And I wholeheartedly agree – AWG/CC warming has to be fought as “fire with fire” ( pun very deliberate if a tad obvious)
Yup, they’re in full on hyperdrive
“Every month seems to be the hottest, the driest, the wettest, or whichever record-breaking event it is.”
And that’s the goal. Give everybody via the MSM etc. the false impression that Mankind is somehow changing the climate so therefore Mankind needs to be controlled. (And we know just the people “qualified” to do it.)
That calls for cocaine in the Whitehouse library.
Hunter tried ‘reading’ again?
It’s called Climate Reporting DuJour.
If it’s warm, it’s warmest ever.
If it’s cold, it’s coldest ever.
If it’s raining, it’s wettest ever.
If it’s dry, it’s worst drought ever.
If it’s perfect weather, it’s dullest ever…
Dull reporting is verboten
No, no – if it’s dull today then it will be catastrophic tomorrow, or at the weekend, or maybe next week….
😂
Of course we are breaking records, because EVERYWHERE is warming twice as fast as everywhere else. And they have to keep feeding us scare stories, or their jobs would not be meaningful, and they want meaningful work.
So all the mitigation efforts have brought us to this? LOL, there comes a point where their lies argue against their other lies.
US climate data pinpoints Monday as hottest recorded day on Earth (msn.com)
You could prepare sushi on a sidewalk at those temps.
We are headed for a disaster. But it’s not man made climate change. It’s the destruction of western civilization by transitioning us from reliable fossil fuels to unreliable “ renewables “ . But even bigger than that is the transition of us from “ a nation of laws” to a nation ruled by corrupt men”. And that transition is coming to a head real quick.
And perhaps the biggest evil doers of all is the MSM across the board they are suppose to be the 4th estate our protectors of last resort shining the light on corruption … but well … sh ..t ,how depressing.
Does anyone pay attention to the Marx Stream Media now?
The Beeb just declared today the hottest day the world has ever seen.
As we know, as soon as a record is set, history is revised to make room for the next record, however they choose to define it.
An entire generation believes every word of this.
I’m not sure how to prepare. Every utility out there is run by people who have to accept this faith or lose their jobs. It’s not like we can build neighborhood nuclear reactors, and unreliables + batteries are prohibitively expensive at the size needed to rely upon. Plus you’d never get permission to install if you didn’t connect them so that the utility could take when it wanted to take.
I’m losing hope. When the grid starts failing, the media will blame everyone but themselves. And the kids will believe them.
Paul fails to mention that the UK has also broken its own annual temperature record (starts 1884) twice since 2014, that the 12 warmest annual UK temperatures have occurred since 2002 and that the five warmest years on record have occurred since 2006.
The warmest year on record in the UK is currently last year, 2022; yet not a single new record monthly temperature was set last year. Just consistently above average warmth. Ditto 2014, the previous record warmest year. Not everything is about monthly records.
Again the thermometers problem…
Assuming the ‘thermometer problem’ is consistent, how does it explain higher recent readings?
It is consistent because it’s pretty much impossible to keep a reliable record for hundreds of years. You have to own a ton of land that won’t be touched.
The faulty thermometers will bias the temperature upward. It’s not rocket science. You ever put your hand on the street in the middle of summer?
Urban warming, is consistent… Upwards. !
Yep, LOTS of urban warming in the UK data !
Not as warm as the MWP, or in fact, most of the last 10,000 years, though.
Not long since they had Ice Fairs on the Thames, y’know. !
Thank goodness it has warmed a bit since then.
Are recent UK temps (last 20 years, say) consistent with climate science projections?
I would say yes.
LOL, you do know that they “adjusted” the CET data, to show that.
Tampering With CET • Watts Up With That?
Even the airport and UHI warming wasn’t enough for them! 🙂
The very fact that they needed to “adjust” to get anywhere near their computer game fabrications, should destroy most of your gormless gullibility.
That too. I can’t fathom any kind of adjustment like that. You have to be one gullible mf to believe that is for a legitimate reason.
Right, on the one hand we’re accepting that there’s such a thing as, for example, UHI that makes temperatures in urban areas higher than in rural ones; on the other hand we’re saying that no adjustment should be made to correct for this?
“we’re saying that no adjustment should be made to correct for this?”
No MEANINGFUL adjustments can be made.. It is all guesswork.
Haven’t you even figured out that much yet?
And warming adjustments do not make any sense when “correcting” for urban warming bias.
But that’s what your fellow cultists do… all part of the charade.
That’s just nonsense. Of course you can reasonably estimate the effect of a warming or cooling bias. The details are set out in the papers that all the data sets publish to support their adjustments. The fact that no one seems to be able to contradict them in the scientific literature would indicate who the ‘cultists’ really are here.
“reasonably estimate”
So….. GUESSWORK.
Thanks for agreeing !
They basically have no idea what “adjustments” to make, except what their AGENDA tells them to.
Oh look, Nail is another fraudulent data Mannipulator. No surprise.
The amount of UHI warming varies day to day as far as this layman can tell.
Greatest on low wind clear days, least on overcast/rainy and/or high wind days. Any adjustments have to reflect that. A blanket adjustment of x degrees isn’t good enough.
It’s like the BBC made a big play on the fact that June had above average sunshine and below average rainfall, well b*gg*r me that combination was a surprise.
On a hot sunny day with a bit of wind does UHI extend much further on the leeward side than on the windward?
All it takes is a parking lot or an exhaust fan or a movement of the thermometer and that station is useless.
NO! Once you have established UHI in an area there is no set formula that will ever correct for a variable, erratic temperature increase. Either move to an uncontaminated site or set up a nearby control site to provide uncontaminated data to compare. It is fraudulent to just slap on some adjustment without the slightest understanding of what you are adjusting for.
Pairwise homogenisation does exactly that.
That only works if one of the stations you are using are perfect. Otherwise you correcting bad data to just other bad data. Such stations are extremely hard to find and if you do find them, they’re likely sparsely located and far away from each other. Richard is right. No technique can correct for the thermometer issue.
…A totally stupid idea.
It’s not CET.
To the person who voted this comment down without commenting to explain why: it’s just a fact that the UK temperature data set is not the CET set. CET covers part of England; UK covers all of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
😂😂
And of course the MET is lying by ignoring data, YET AGAIN
And the bent nail falls for it.. every time
Hottest Evah June! | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)
The data the Met is using for the whole of the UK is far more tainted by urban expansion, adjustments, airport jets etc etc, than even the recently mal-adjusted CET.
I always wonder about that ‘evah’ thing. What does it mean? Does it mean ‘ever’? Is it saying ‘ever’ in a southern English accent? Don’t know. We pronounce our ‘r’s quite strongly in northern and western Britain.
And yes, where I live in the UK, June 2023 was most certainly the warmest I have ‘evah’ experienced.
That is what you have been brain-washed into thinking , anyway!
That is what you were told by your cult leaders, so that is what you “believe”.
And 10 years… not considered “climate” anyway.
Evah is Ever with attitude
There in lies a problem. June in Scotland, particularly the North West usually colder and wetter than the rest of the UK had it very warm, for them, and dry through June. Shows clearly on anomaly maps. What it doesn’t show is that mid 20s Celsius is hot in that part of the world.
Raising the lowest values has the same effect on the average as raising the highest.
No, and CET is the best the UK has.
Everything is even more tainted by urban warming, aircraft etc etc.
From Met office
“The average monthly temperature of 15.8C”
Say what ! only 15.8C !!!
That’s hardly “Warm”.. basically “tepid” at best !
And that is in the UK summer. !
I have to wonder what the heck you are getting so concerned about!
It’s like Canadians getting upset when their freezing negative temperatures, get a bit less negative, but still freezing !
No UHI effect where measurements were taken in 1884 nor for many years after that till on modern era. You need to measure countryside temperatures with the same countryside over the years to discover realilty! That is why I happily gave you a thumbs down.
Everything old is old again:
Tue 10 Jan 1871Page 4IMAGINARY CHANGES OF CLIMATE.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1298497/60952
We have to remember that the alarmists won’t hesitate to use every weather/climate anomaly to try to get their messages across. Meanwhile they’re supported by the mainstream media who are subsidized by the big environmental organizations to keep stirring the hysteria cauldron. Otherwise, people would ignore them completely rather than just most of the time as is the case now.
Our once competent, science fact based institutions, are under attack from within by the cultural Marxist long road through them
Almost every facet of what was normality, is now part of the New Left matrix, tasked with taking down western culture and capitalism, via academia and corporate hijack
Weaponisation of manipulated data is the norm, from weather, to energy related matters, to the slick net zero con – those who stand in the way are indoctrinated, or removed by ridicule, deceit or insidious force
Never in recent history, have human freedoms been so under siege in our hard fought for democracy
We thought it was really, really bad, but it’s worse. Send lots more money and we might be able to save you.
Story tip.
The New Zealand government is going full ahead on student indoctrination into the warmunist agenda. This in one of the rags this morning “The so-called “fast draft” said science would be taught through four contexts – the Earth system, biodiversity, food, energy and water, and infectious diseases.” No physics, chemistry or astronomy. They are playing the long game. Totally disgusting.
I trust everyone dressed appropriately for 17.01C instead of 16.92C on July 3 this year-
World registers hottest day ever recorded on July 3 (msn.com)
High time only the UNIPCC issues the daily global temperature forecast so folks don’t get caught out inappropriately attired and doomed. This scattergun approach must stop with global experts and settled science.
They expect us to believe that they collected all the Weather station data from all over the world and calculated the temperature the next day.
Where was all the Quality checks carried out by each Met office?
How did they get the data from 3rd world countries.
This is obviously a scam.
LOL, despite all the hype and rabid exaggeration of temperatures..
June UAH is a MASSIVE 0.01ºC warmer than May was.
From the article: “Many flowering plants, including orchids, wilted in the high temperatures, meaning insects like bees and butterflies that feed on nectar and pollen will have less to eat, Ali Morse from the Wildlife Trusts told BBC News.
Species with short lifespans are particularly badly affected. Many butterflies are adults for only a short time, and if they cannot access food in that period, it stunts the population.”
This heat wave only lasted one day, didn’t it? What was the “record” high temperature, 82 F?
I’m having a hard time taking this seriously.
Some butterflies don’t even have mouth parts or digestive systems so they don’t eat at all ever. This could also stunt the population if they don’t breed in that time. Which of course is what they are supposed to do. Is that temperature dependent?
Record temperatures are no more than slightly interesting trivia.
The recorded incidence may have only been for a few seconds, a few minutes or a few hours which would make it insignificant.
A recorded maximum or minimum is only valid if the exact same measuring method is used for the entire relative period. This means there are no temperature records valid for periods of significant length. A record for the year, decade, or century has little meaning other than something slightly unusual may have happened.
The use of record readings or even, daily maximum or minimums, is to me the most ridiculous way to describe climate. They impart no logical or useful data. There are no consistent means of measurement or consistent environmental locations for measuring. There is no logical means of comparison to past conditions or any basis for prediction. The available data is less valuable than anecdotal musings by seniors recollections..
Pure specious sophistry using made up alarmist claims.
Plants produce nectar so long as they have the nutrients, water and sunlight. A little wilting neither prevents nectar production nor impedes insect access or utilization.
Orchids, especially the UK’s native terrestrial orchids often use trickery to force visiting bees to carry pollen to other orchids. A day’s temperatures do not affect either orchids or insect pollinators.
So this morning on Bloomberg, they started hyping this article. I watch it for the charts and news items with no sound. They had an expert CEO on to substantiate their report. It went terribly wrong. Their premise for the article was that climate change was going to cause agriculture problems. Unfortunately, they had not told him that. His first truth telling was that this was weather, not climate. He also made the point that weather is local and much of agriculture will be helped with El Nino. They kept trying to bring him to heel but each time he would revert to the effects of weather and El Nino being good for ag. I almost turned on the volume but continued with the CC.
Being able to report a new extreme event every single week is expected even if there is zero long term variability.
There are about 7,900 million people on the planet. If weather extremes were evenly distributed, that’s 79 once-in-century hottest months that affect a million people each year. Add in coldest, driest,, wettest, and windiest and you’ve got a new different once in a century event every single day of the year. Go by individual months (hottest June, July etc), and that goes up by a factor of 12. Alarmists will say ‘The UK has a lot more than a million people”, when you run the math it still comes out to 70 once-per-century events each year affecting a population the size of the UK.
Joe Bastardi illustrated it perfectly in his Saturday summary,
Says that the first week of July equaled the record for the lowest tropical storm activity at zero!