By Paul Homewood
h/t MrGrimNasty
Last month NoTricks queried an extremely dodgy claim about a supposed record temperature in Germany last year. (See here)
Finally under pressure the German Met Office, the DWD, has relented and agreed that there are serious doubts about the siting at Lingen:
There are similarities here with compromised claims about record temperatures in the UK.
In recent times, the Met Office has been eager to declare record temperatures at Faversham in Kent. The so-called record set in 2003 stood until it was replaced last year by an equally dodgy one in Cambridge.
Senior meteorologist, the late Philip Eden, proved pretty conclusively that the 2003 record was inadmissable because of siting concerns. But that did not stop the Met Office from declaring it as an official record anyway.
The DWD have fought tooth and nail to defend their record, and have only given way now after pressure from critics.
One of the most basic rules of meteorology is that measuring long term trends needs high quality sites, unaffected by urbanisation or other non-climatic factors. In the rush to “prove” global warming. it is a lesson which many national Met Offices appear to have forgotten.
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June 10, 2020 at 04:24PM
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