From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Cunningham
It’s about time the legacy media criticised the Met Office!
Matt Ridley in the Telegraph:
I gather it’s been hot down south. My sympathies. As Londoners were sweltering, we had a chilly breeze off the North Sea in Northumberland. The UK Met Office says it is “virtually certain” that June (the hottest in England since 1884, second hottest in the UK) was made hotter by human activity.
Duh! Even if temperatures were not affected by greenhouse gases, which they are, the 34.7C (94.5F) recorded in St James’s Park on Tuesday might have something to do with that weather station being a low-reliability “class 5” site with an error rating of “up to 5C”. It’s next to a very busy tarmac path. Plus, it is in the middle of a city and therefore subject to a more general “urban heat island” effect. Research by Arup reckons London’s heat island is worth 4.5C extra warmth on average. So yes, the heat is indeed partly man-made – but not necessarily in the way the Met Office means.
Besides, it’s not exactly unusual to have hot days in summer: it reached 36.7C (98.1F) in Northamptonshire in 1911.
The Met Office exists to forecast the weather. But increasingly it seems bored by the day job so it likes to lecture us about climate change. And here it seems to have been embarrassingly duped by activists. Go on its climate pages and you find a forecast for the year 2070, that summers will be between one and six degrees warmer and “up to” 60 per cent drier, depending on the region. A lot of wriggle room in those caveats, note.
Then it admits: “We base these changes on the RCP8.5 high emissions scenario.” Aha! Unbelievably, shockingly, this national forecasting body has chosen as its base case for the future of weather a debunked, highly implausible set of assumptions about the world economy that was never intended to be used this way.
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Climatologists like many politicians need to be asked in every interview: are you corrupt, incompetent, naive or stupid?
or all of the above…
Funnily enough, ask these people a question and they will go on to answer the question they wanted to be asked. A completely different thing.
They are corrupt, most definitely incompetent and ideologically sound.
Oh come on, when would anyone admit to any of those? All members of the climate cult are fools or knaves as we say. The fools are the highly gullible useful idiots. The knaves are just plain evil.
we had a chilly breeze off the North Sea in Northumberland
This can be fixed if you are concerned about cool ocean breeze. This is something the UK government is working hard to eliminate.
If I was asked how to turn a group of North Atlantic islands into desert Islands I would recommend:
A. Chop down all the trees as well as reduce land area devoted to cropping.
B. Replace the trees with hard, dark surfaces.
C. Stop or slow moisture laden ocean air advection.
Since 2000, successive UK governments have implemented this plan. The country is covered in hard surfaces and the land and coastal waters are covered with wind energy robbers:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=17FaYeZBcIizFSJst9CMBfpzFYUGXNpMG&femb=1&ll=55.04086956686432%2C-3.7377609982422833&z=6
Orbital changes have been increasing the heating season (March 21 to June 22) solar intensity across the NH since 1700 but the changes to the UK landscape are accelerating the desertification:
Note how the downward trend in RH begins around 2000 when the the “renewables” were installed in rapidly increasing numbers.
How land RH can be higher than sea RH? Unless “relative” for temperatures right before the dawn?
The Language of alarmism isn’t exactly scientific, it’s meant to be… scary.
“[So] we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This ‘double ethical bind’ we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what is the right balance between being effective and being honest.” – Stephen Schneider
Honesty would completely blow the gaff as well we know, so we get ‘effective’ alarmist speak instead.
“Climate change can affect our climate system in lots of different ways:
Ocean acidification
https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-change/effects-of-climate-change%20
With a pH ~8.1?
“Yellow warning for heavy rain this week – Met Office
Are you sitting comfortably, children?
Because they are totally infiltrated by Environistas and their only purpose is to terrify people, not inform them about the daily weather.
“Friederike Otto, acting director of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute, and co-lead of the World Weather Attribution initiative: “This study shows again just how much of a game changer climate change is…”
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2020/prolonged-siberian-heat-almost-impossible-without-climate-change—attribution-study
She’s big with the MO
Join the Grantham Institute to explore how the climate crisis is warping and intensifying weather in the UK and around the world.
We’ll be joined by two prominent voices in the field: Dr Fredi Otto, leading climate scientist and co-lead of World Weather Attribution (WWA), and Laura Tobin, expert broadcast meteorologist, who will share stories from their careers shaped by the rise of extreme weather events.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/182922/weird-weather-1/
According to Wiki: Tobin also completed a World Meteorological Organization course on climate.
A deep throat in Imperial College informs me that Imperial has recently renamed its Human Resources department…. to “People Function”. Well, it made me laugh.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Why? Because scare sells in tabloids and advocacy movements.
Public money corrupts without oversight.
That has the ring of truth to it.
Both Labour and the Conservatives went full in on climate change and all its associated perversities. There was no organized opposition, so of course the True Believers have been acting their fantasies out.
The Met Office apparently yearns for the return of “Camelot”.
ARTHUR:
It’s true! It’s true! The crown has made it clear.
The climate must be perfect all the year.
A law was made a distant moon ago here:
July and August cannot be too hot.
And there’s a legal limit to the snow here
In Camelot.
The winter is forbidden till December
And exits March the second on the dot.
By order, summer lingers through September
In Camelot.
Camelot! Camelot!
I know it sounds a bit bizarre,
But in Camelot, Camelot
That’s how conditions are.
The rain may never fall till after sundown.
By eight, the morning fog must disappear.
In short, there’s simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
In Camelot.
Camelot! Camelot!
I know it gives a person pause,
But in Camelot, Camelot
Those are the legal laws.
The snow may never slush upon the hillside.
By nine p.m. the moonlight must appear.
In short, there’s simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
In Camelot.
Of course the Met Office has been at the heart of the climate catastrophe (ne. global warming) project from the outset 30+ years ago. The climategate emails tell it all.
Where did my comment go?
So cooler than 1884? That’s odd, isn’t it?
With the complete mess their surface sites are in, how would they really know. !
MAKE IT UP like they do with lots of their data.??
Can you say budget tactics?
Why are Met Office reports alarmist ??
Because most of their employees are incompetent brain-washed leftist non-thinking alarmists.
The Met is proving itself more and more worthless everyday. It is past time for a major shake up starting at the top. Get rid of all top managers.
Easy answer, they are part of Government, who are part of the WEF and the UN, all in it together, faking the weather.
For central England the hottest monthly mean June temperature was in 1846, at 18.2°C, June 2025 was 17.0°C.
At least six years ago I predicted a hot 2025 for the UK, my heliocentric analogue year for 2025 is 1846.
“Why is the Met Office adopting the language of climate alarmism?”
Desperation?