By Paul Homewood
The United Kingdom has "almost certainly" had its hottest summer on record, according to provisional statistics from the Met Office.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c1kz18d3wjro
It has become apparent for a couple of weeks now that the Met Office were determined to claim this summer as the hottest evah.
The claim is transparently absurd, as anybody who lived through the summer of 1976 will attest. Unlike the Met Office and BBC, I will wait until all the data is in to pass judgement.
But this latest edict from the Met Office just how far their UK temperature datasets have become divorced from reality. They pretend to know the average UK temperature to a few hundredths of a degree. Yet the dataset is almost entirely based on worthless junk sites, so badly sited that they might be overestimating temperatures by as much as five degrees.
No reputable scientific organisation would claim any significance from such worthless data, which in itself shows how politicised the Met Office has become.
And with perfect timing, Chris Morrison reveals the latest Met Office temperature tampering scandal:
The UK Met Office has over 100 non-existent weather stations where it estimates temperature data using information from "well-correlated neighbouring sites". However, it refuses to identify any of the sites used and bats away Freedom of Information (FOI) requests with the excuse that they are “vexatious” and not in the public interest. But today the Climate Skeptic can reveal recent work that shows how in the case of the fictitious site at Lowestoft there are no open weather stations for miles around, well-correlated or otherwise. Unless the Met Office can finally reveal its workings out, the only realistic conclusion to draw is that the data are invented. It is the ‘smoking gun’ that demands a full public explanation from the Met Office.
https://www.climateskeptic.org/p/science-shock-smoking-gun-evidence
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