52.74942 -3.46995 Met Office Assessed CIMO Class 5 & UNSATISFACTORY Installed 1/1/1988

I have started with the above image that does NOT show the Stevenson Screen to put the nature of this site in context of its overall surroundings. Located at 235 metres AMSL, the valley sides reach steeply up to a marked spot height of 388 metres. This type of location is highly likely to suffer from “frost hollows” unusual wind effects, heavy shading and is certainly not representative of a large area. The weather experienced at this point of its small valley will be markedly different from areas just a few tens of metres away above the valley sides. This is what the Screen location actually looks like –

Note that there is no attempt at site security/fencing. Clearly this is not quite the highly sophisticated, well equipped and maintained image that the Met Office likes to portray of their weather stations as below.

But perhaps the most bizarre aspect of Llanwddyn: Cwm Cownwy is that it lies just 924 metres away from CIMO CLASS 1 Lake Vyrnwy No 2 which is a very well equipped, well sited and properly maintained station quite rightly rated as “EXCELLENT” as in image below.

{Lake Vyrnwy No 2 location 52.75737 -3.46548}

The Met Office lists over 380 sites currently used for “climate” reporting purposes and the nation’s historic temperature record – Llanwddyn is one of them. Despite its worst possible CIMO rating and unsurprisingly being graded as Unsatisfactory by the Met Office’s own unique and rather vague rating system, they are still using its readings.

The bulk of the Met Office £300 million annual budget is tax payer funded. The £1.2 billion supercomputer is similarly funded. Sites like LLanwddym: Cwm Cownwy appear to represent spending for no justifiable end result given its readings can only ever represent a tiny and very sparsely populated area PLUS they already have an excellent site so incredibly close by.

Why the Met Office continues to run such poor sites is beyond any rational explanation I am aware of. However, I am very confident that should it record a temperature extreme or even “record” then it would almost certainly be nationally proclaimed. Quantity over quality?

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September 27, 2024 at 04:52AM

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September 27, 2024 at 04:06AM

By Paul Homewood

LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) -Britain on Thursday named Oxford University professor Rachel Kyte as its new climate envoy and announced a new investment facility, the latest steps in the new government’s efforts to bolster Britain’s role in international climate politics.

The appointment of Kyte, a climate policy professor, as the UK’s special representative for climate comes six weeks before COP29, the latest annual U.N. climate summit.

Countries from around the world will meet in Azerbaijan to try to thrash out new deals to halt rising global temperatures, mitigate the damage they have caused and raise funding for those who have been worst affected.

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So who is Rachel Kyte?

LABOUR’S appointee to a plum government job is linked with a Cayman Islands-based hedge fund which donated £4 million to the party, The National can reveal.

Rachel Kyte has been appointed to the revived UK Government climate envoy role – which when it last existed commanded a salary of at least £130,000.

She is the co-chair of the Quadrature Climate Foundation’s advisory board, which was founded by the same people behind the hedge fund Quadrature Capital.

Quadrature, which holds hundreds of millions of pounds of shares in fossil fuels, private health firms, and arms manufacturers, donated £4m to Labour ahead of the General Election, the investigative news site openDemocracy revealed earlier this month.

The site said its latest filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission from August showed it had hundreds of millions of dollars invested in oil firms including Cenovus, which earlier this year was fined for an Atlantic oil spill. 

It also held a $6m in arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin, investments in US private healthcare firms and massive asset management firms such as Blackstone and KKR.  

The donation only came to light months after the election because it had been made in a brief window where the election donation reporting rules had not come into force after Rishi Sunak announced the date of the ballot.

It is said to be the sixth-largest donation in British political history. ….

But her links with Quadrature Capital have raised questions for the Government over the firm’s financial ties to Labour.

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September 27, 2024 at 03:34AM

There don’t appear to be any real-world examples of how the current Administration’s climate and energy policies are leading to a Green nirvana anywhere in the world.

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