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January 5, 2025 at 11:00AM
57.44280 -2.38969 Met Office CIMO Assessed Class 5 Installed 1/1/1908
A reader recently asked if I was soon to run out of Class 5 sites to review. I replied that not only was I nowhere near that point, I was almost as unlikely to run out of walled garden sites to review.
I genuinely find it quite unbelievable that the Met Office accepts such sites as suitable for inclusion in the historic temperature record. Whether or not this site actually has records dating back 117 years (archives only show back to 1959) is not relevant, the site is in a deliberately engineered environment that does not reflect anywhere than inside the walls.
It is not always straightforward getting close up imagery from these sorts of sites, however, the screen can just be made out in this view of the gardens.
Centre image just above the white bench and in front of the low hedge, the white box on legs is the Stevenson Screen. An indication of how unlikely to reflect the natural environment this site is comes from Wikipedia.
“The shelter provided by enclosing walls can raise the ambient temperatures within a garden by several degrees, creating a microclimate that permits plants to be grown that would not survive in the unmodified local climate.”
I recently queried with the Met Office the accuracy of readings at the back garden Cavendish site. They not only absurdly claimed accuracy to the 5th decimal place (i.e. one hundred thousandth of a degree) but also commented I could not compare readings with nearby amateur weather stations as they may well only be “poor garden sites”. I find the hubris of the Met Office quite breathtaking, they feel it is perfectly acceptable to site their weather stations as appallingly badly as Fyvie Castle walled Kitchen garden but criticise other more likely carefully sited private ones.
Fyvie weather station is actually very typical of UK weather stations (especially Scottish sites) and simply demonstrates much Met Office data is unfit for the purpose of historic temperature recording.
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January 5, 2025 at 09:10AM
CO2 theory called into question…inconvenient truths emerge
A new study by Bierman et al titled: Plant, insect, and fungi fossils under the center of Greenland’s ice sheet are evidence of ice-free times, shows that “in the middle of Greenland, where a three-kilometer-thick ice sheet now sits, plants and insects once flourished and at CO2 levels well below today’s levels.” – Report 24
Hat-tip: Katrin Kana
Greenland was teeming with life 250,000 years ago, scientists have found. Image Nature.
Hotter with less CO2? That puts the CO2 global warming theory on its head.
14°C warmer with 35% Less CO2
The scientists have proven that central Greenland was completely ice-free in the recent geological past – around 250,000 to 1.1 million years ago – at a time when the atmospheric CO2 content was between 275 and 290 ppm, compared to 420 today.
During drilling on the GISP2 project, researchers found some surprises: remains of poppies, moss ferns, wood tissue and insect parts. That means where we have perpetual ice today, there was once abundant life and warmth not long ago. The scientists estimate a July mean temperature of between +3 and +7°C compared to the -7°C measured today.
According to Germany’s online Report24 here,
What is particularly interesting is that the CO2 concentration of this ice-free period corresponds almost exactly to the values of the “Little Ice Age” between 1700 and 1900.” […] “The study raises fundamental questions. For example: If Greenland could be ice-free at low CO2 levels, what factors really determine whether it freezes or thaws? The answer is likely to be more complex than some climate hysterics would like.”
Such warmth, at Little Ice Age CO2-levels, is a very inconvenient fact for the climate alarmists and it suggests that the climate system is indeed far more complicated than the straight line CO2-temperature claims made by the government-funded scientists and non-questioning media want us to believe.
They’ve got some explaining to do.
See full article (German) at Report 24 here.
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