This is a very short post to prove the above point. There are principles in science that have to be adhered to. Simply saying “we are important so you must believe us” is not science it is an Appeal to Authority and a logical fallacy. The quotes below are all from a newly produced Met Office webpage – their words not mine. {note my bolds below}.
“Despite online speculation, much of which demonstrates a clear misunderstanding or misrepresentation of the facts, Met Office weather stations are subject to stringent national and international guidelines.“
“We’re a world-leading organisation when it comes to observing our weather and the UK’s changing climate. The Met Office team carries out hundreds of site inspections every year, ensuring adherence to the highest standards, both nationally and internationally.”
“The efforts of a small number of people to undermine the integrity of Met Office observations by obscuring or misrepresenting the facts is an attempt to undermine decades of robust science around the world’s changing climate.“
“For absolute clarity, the proximity and scale of any artificial heat sources, areas of water and reflective surfaces is carefully considered by our team of experts and is included in Met Office classifications of sites. The integrity of data collected is of paramount importance to the Met Office, as well as the dedicated experts who inspect and maintain our weather station network.“
“”We understand that the data from thousands of independent global weather stations (over the last seven decades) which show a warming trend may be an uncomfortable reality for some. What’s important is that numerous datasets from around the world consistently show that our climate is warming and over 90% of scientists agree that it is human activity that is driving this change.”
All comments from the Met Office – https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/learn-about/how-forecasts-are-made/observations/in-depth-classifying-land-based-observations
This all begs the question “Why are the Met Office afraid of Ray Sanders?
N.B. Normal service will now resume with more detailed scientific research into Met Office weather station quality and data integrity, principally using Met Office supplied sources but defined by the Met Office (solely) as “Disinformation”. The next review will be of a resurrected CLASS 5 site manual site, with an atrocious observations record, in the shade, by a road, alongside seawater cooling water pipelines situated in the centre of a “wholly natural” environment containing 4 nuclear reactors – welcome to the height of Met Office Mendacity – Hunterston 3
via Tallbloke’s Talkshop
August 3, 2025 at 05:08AM
Iowa Climate Science Education 
Karl Popper (1902-1994) formalized the commonsense principle that our ideas need to be tested but for several decades in the academic literature and university courses he has been mentioned, if at all, as a transitional figure between the old Logical Positivists and the new age of Kuhn and deconstructionists. In fact he anticipated the modern social studies of science by pointing out the critical importance of the institutions of science, especially free speech.
As for the integrity of the meteorologists, they did not issue wind drought warnings that could have averted the disastrous attempt to transition to wind and solar power. Trillions of dollars have been spent around the world rolling out wind and solar infrastructure and in return we have more expensive and less reliable power with catastrophic environmental impacts.
The elephant in the net zero room is the wind droughts or dunkelflautes that Australian investigators documented over a decade ago.
When the voters find out about the wind drought problem, that is, when journalists and commentators tell them, the push for net zero will collapse like a punctured balloon.
Wind droughts render the wind and solar power system unfit purpose in a modern industrial civilization. where electricity is the lifeblood and it has to be affordable and reliable. Have a look at Germany and Britain.
Heroic efforts and buckets of money are being applied to prop up the grids that are contaminated by intermittent energy but it will not work, any more than making steam engines more efficient will enable them to drive a rocket to the moon.
The two major threats to the power supply are windless nights (Texas Feb 2021) and grids with no inertia that collapse during the day due to fluctuations in the solar and wind input (Spain.) The solution in each case is to stop the subsidies and mandates for solar and wind, and get them off the grid.
Sources, starting with the failure of the meteorologists to issue wind drought warnings. [They were foundation members of the alarmists’ club in the UN.]
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/the-late-discovery-of-wind-droughts
Dirt farmers are alert to the threat of rain droughts, but the wind farmers never checked the reliability of the wind supply to become aware of wind droughts, wind lulls, known as Dunkelflautes in Europe.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/we-have-to-talk-about-wind-droughts
Wind droughts become an existential threat to thousands or tens of thousands of people when the wind drought trap closes on a windless night during extreme weather conditions coinciding with outages of conventional power.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/defusing-the-wind-drought-trap
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