From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
Ray Sanders has sent me this recent photo of the Class 5 junk site at St James Park in London.
Purely by coincidence, of course, this thermometer surrounded by wind breaks and heat emitting diesel generators just happened to post the highest temperature in the country on Sunday!
This must be what the Met Office refer to as “world-leading science”!
You could not make it up, but the Met Office can!
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Problems are not restricted to the UK, but are everywhere.
Having protocols that untangle what they are doing is the issue.
For Australian data, I developed BomWatch protocols for just that purpose.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Bill Johnston
http://www.bomwatch.com.au
You just have to admire their candour:
“Innovation
We not only innovate in terms of weather forecast, but across all our science and services. “
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/who-we-are
And they most certainly do. I have witnessed lab techs busted for the heinous crime of extrapolation, using a fiddle factor etc, but they had done an analysis at least, even if the results were dubious…
“evidence has emerged that points to the U.K. Met Office inventing temperature data from over 100 non-existent weather stations. “
https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/11/12/science-shock-u-k-met-office-is-inventing-temperature-data-from-100-non-existent-stations/
But never anything like that. That takes, as we say, some brass neck (self-assured shamelessness, audacity, confidence, gall, impudence etc).
And they are all still in a job.
In other words, they applied the “Universal Engineering Fudge Factor” (UEFF) aka Finagle’s Constant(Fc)
The UK has gone mad. A pleasant if rather cool spring day is now greeted with endless over-excited health warnings. And in another part of the forest the UK Supreme Court recently issued a very narrow ruling on sex and gender.
It had nothing to do with either one in themselves. It simply found (over 88 pages!) that the terms ‘men’ and ‘women’ in the Equalities Act 2010 meant and were intended to designate biological men and women.
[What other kinds of men and women are there, asks someone from another planet….but lets continue…]
This was greeted by a group of doctors in the British Medical Association, a sort of trade union for doctors, with the claim that the ruling was “scientifically illiterate” and “biologically nonsensical”.
As you can tell from the above two line summary of the judgment, it was not, and could not have been, either, since all it did was rule on what the words in an Act of Parliament mean, it asserted no scientific propositions nor anything about biology. The Act itself may have been scientifically illiterate and biologically nonsensical for the last 25 years without anyone noticing, but the court ruling cannot have been either.
The UK has become a country where rational thought is no longer a thing on the part of the professional establishment. Whether its about gender, race, climate, energy or, increasingly, even economics.
The sex issue has revealed the insanity of the so-called progressives. Medicine once was all about ‘science’…
“Doctors condemn Supreme Court ruling on trans women as ‘scientifically illiterate’
The resident doctors’ wing of the BMA argued that a binary divide between sex and gender ‘has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender-diverse people
’https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trans-gender-supreme-court-ruling-bma-doctors-b2741304.html
“Kenwood Ladies’ Pond in Hampstead Heath has said it’s keeping its inclusive self-ID policy introduced by the City of London Corporation in 2019.
The London authority confirmed the controversial policy would “remain in effect at this time” despite the Supreme Court judgement.”
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/hampstead-ladies-pond-trans-women-enter-feminists-vow-reclaim-bathing-spot/
The EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commission) definitely has its work, enforcing the law, cut out for it:
“NHS hospitals in London REFUSING to comply with single-sex laws to stop trans people using women-only spaces”
https://www.gbnews.com/news/trans-row-london-nhs-hospitals
That’ll be the scientifically illiterate doctors.
One major benefit has been both the SFA and FA banning trans players from Women’s football. Whether that leads to both being thrown out of Fifa and Eufa might give some entertainment in the near future.
Are transmen still barred from boxing?
Depends on the organisation I think. The Olympic lot are very progressive.
My recollection of the transition of sports over the last few decades is that those who would commonly be recognized as ‘women’ were seldom competitive in sports that gave an advantage to strength and speed. Women therefore asked for, and got, categories that excluded men so that they could be recognized as excelling when competing against other women. What I find surprising is that women aren’t more assertive in protecting what they asked for and got years ago. They risk losing ground if they don’t demand that men, and wolves in women’s clothing, be excluded from ‘women’s’ sport competitions. Those who have “skin in the game,” so to speak, should speak up loudly to protest competing against others with a hormonal advantage for years, giving them muscles anomalously strong for testosterone-deficient individuals.
There are huge amounts of money to be made by doctors operating in the “trans” area.
This stinks of massive violations of the Hippocratic oath.
There are many diagnoses and treatments that are different for XX patients and XY patients.
I would be very interested to see the records of a “transwoman” who is a “real woman” for “her” monthly menstrual cycles.
Ethics are gone. Money is God. Sad.
It’s not about the money – it’s about feeling good.
Biologically and medically, it is impossible for a man to become a woman.
A person cannot change their chromosomes from XX to XY or from XY to XX.
That means that “trans” does not actually exist..
We need to use the word “pretend”
Here is the temperature data for Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire that l record myself with a mercury filled Six’s thermometer in open shade for April.
Mean Temp for April 10.72C
Days with a max temp of 20C or more.
28th 20.2C
29th 21.9C
30th 22.8C
Max and Min for month
Max 30th 22.8C
Min 7th 2.2C
While also my research has shown that electronic thermometers housed in Stevenson screens typically overstate the maximum daily temp by between 1C to 2C during sunny calm weather, when compared with a LIG thermometer in open shade.
UK Met CET temperature for April is coincidentally 10.7degC (for 29 days of the month) See: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cet_info_mean.html That’s 2.8degC above average. Quite hot don’t you agree? I would imagine that Scunthorpe being as north as the most northern part of the CET region and closer to the North Sea that the CET value is usually higher than the average monthly temperature in Scunthorpe. So the question should most probably be – has the CET temperature been under-reported?
No l would not agree that a temp of 10.7C is ‘Quite hot’.
Due to been in the middle of a urban centre, the UHI effect has a large impact on the minimum temperatures l record. Typically l record the min temp of been between 1C to 3C warmer on clear nights, when compared to the local weather stations.
It’s this impact of the UHI effect on the minimum temps l record. Likely means that the mean average temps l record are overstated to what otherwise would be recorded.
Mercury thermometers have an in-built damping factor that smooths out the response, a low-pass filter if you will. Since the human body has a similar response, i.e. damped, the mercury thermometer is more indicative of what the human body experiences. The human body doesn’t respond to high-frequency “noise” in temperature. If climate is defined by what the human body experiences, the mercury thermometer is a better indicator of “climate” than the electronic thermometers that follow the very short-lived variations in temperature.
Yes l have to agree.
The temperature reading from my mercury thermometer ‘feels more in line with the temperature l feel’ rather then temperatures claimed by the local weather stations.
Climate is much more than temperature. Climate also involves things like humidity, pressure, wind, precipitation, geography, etc. There is a complicated functional relationship relating all these factors. Climate science ignores this and continues to foist the myth of “global climate change” on the public using not-fit-for-purpose data and metrics. The high plains of conus remains a semi-arid desert and will be so when everyone reading this is permanently horizontal.
An experiment measuring the Just Noticeable Difference of the environmental temperature indicates that it is nearly 1/2 deg C at the 50% threshold and nearly 1 deg C at the 95% threshold.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-47880-5
The UK current account deficit suggests the country is not on a track to thrive. The hole the country is disappearing into just gets deeper.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/current-account
Maybe China will fund the Met Climate Science unit.
Don’t panic. We have Rachel for Complaints in charge of the money. She’s repeatedly told us that she was educated in economics, has a degree in Economics from the London School of Economics, and worked as an economist for the Bank of England. So obviously she knows what she’s doing.
Or not.
with respect, a minor correction. You stated:
They did not say they provided world-leading science, they said that they provided “world leading climate-science.” In this I believe they are correct.
Story tip or off topic you decide
The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear an Evan Davis podcast about heat pumps?
Last week, the BBC, already the UK’s most prolific censor…
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/01/consistently-appeasing-platforming-right-bbc-undermines-own-survival
George Monbiot.
You have to laugh.
George Moonbat? Is he still a thing?
He thinks so.
An amusing piece by a rudderless ever lonelier voice in the desert.
Since 1850, April 2025 daily average solar EMR at 60N was up by 6W/m^2 from the lowest April of the period in 1912.
If UK was not hotter this year in April you would have to wonder why. On the other hand. history shows 1912 in the UK was a miserable wet a cloudy spring.
In 2038, April will be 7W/m^2 higher at 60N compared with 1912.
It is always good to pick the starting point that best demonstrates your conclusions.
The 1850-1880 period was the coldest in the 19th century. So pick that.
No no no. You have to leave the sun out of this!
/sarc
I was impressed by the BBC weather presenter this morning. She said we expect the record for May 1st to be broken today. Then she added ‘is this significant?’ “No it’s not”, she replied, answering her own question.
Blimey, she’ll be taken off air if she’s not careful.
There are those trying to use “climate science” to try to
leadrule the world.In many US states, it is the handy crutch on which to successfully raise taxes. See HI and WA for starters.
For Bueller, read Banton:
Since you ask so nicely (though I came to post this anyway).
“A new record was set for the hottest start to any May on record on Thursday, with temperatures reaching 29.3C (84.7F) in London.
That high, which was recorded at Kew Gardens, beat the previous record of 27.4C (81.3F), which was set in Lossiemouth, Scotland, in 1990, the Met Office said.”
Now, what is wrong with Kew Gardens?
Surely you can find something?
Not enough grass perhaps?
To many squirrels, farting into the Stevenson screen?
London, of course, has no urban warming at all. 😉
Hmmmm… let’s see if we can identify any urban heat sources in the area..
Must admit that I am totally stunned that a place in the middle of London would get to a higher temperature than somewhere in Scotland 35 years ago.. 😉
Golly, 24.5C. That is sooo hot.
You are correct.
It is.
For the UK.
In April.
You mean its WEATHER. !!
Did I say otherwise?
With it been May 1st l have been able to compare the leafing of the local Beech trees with that of a Beech tree in Norwich between the years 1925 to 1942.
Thanks to the very warm finish to April the leafing of the Beech trees is well advanced this year. With it been ahead of all the years between 1925 to 1942 apart from 1926. When the leafing of the Beech tree was about the same as this year.
None of the computational nodes in any climate model is at the location of a weather station, as far as I can determine. So all of the “anomalies” from base year temperatures the models predict are differences from made-up temperatures. A few commenters will insist that the interpolation schemes used to assign initial temperature conditions to nodes which may not be within hundreds of kilometers of a weather station are very accurate. From my own experience, none of four weather stations in a one mile radius of my location at the exact same time agreed, with the total range of disagreement being 12 degrees F. It has also been noted by Judith Curry that a change in initial temperature conditions of a trillionth of a degree between two runs of the same climate model will change the outcome dramatically. In short, it pretty much doesn’t matter about the quality of temperature data, since none of it is actually used in climate models whose predictions are used to determine the fate of civilization – and it wouldn’t matter if real data were used, since we can’t measure temperature to better than a trillionth of a degree.
If MET officials were held personally responsible we wouldn’t be putting up with this crap. They are liars and cheats.
The propagandists at the UK Met Office are claiming a new May record at yet another junk site which is Kew Gardens in the western suburbs of London that is home the the Royal Horticultural Society. I doubt it is one of the few WMO Class 1 or 2 sites the Met Office have and as such makes a mockery of quoting the fake record to a tenth of a degree.
They have back tracked over using St James Park at the moment so found another site in Surrey for the global warming hype at Wisley. This also happens to be an RHS site that sits next to the very busy A3 and near to the incredibly busy M25.