I covered Roger Pielke’s new report on weather attribution, but Chris Morrison does a much better job in his own inimitable style!!
Last June, the state-reliant BBC reported that human-caused climate change had made U.S. and Mexico heatwaves “35 times more likely”. Nothing out of the ordinary here in mainstream media with everyone from climate comedy turn ‘Jim’ Dale to UN chief Antonio ‘Boiling’ Guterres making these types of bizarre attributions. But for those who closely follow climate science and the assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), “such headlines can be difficult to make sense of”, observes the distinguished science writer Roger Pielke. In a hard-hitting attack on the pseudo-scientific industry of weather attribution, he states: “neither the IPCC nor the underlying scientific literature comes anywhere close to making such strong and certain claims of attribution
Just what we need – a renewable lobbyist taking over at the Committee on Climate Change:
An energy boss who has backed the need for more electricity pylons is to become the chief executive of the Government’s net zero watchdog.
Emma Pinchbeck, of the trade body Energy UK, will take over as chief executive of the climate change committee (CCC) next month.
The energy chief has argued that massive amounts of new infrastructure will be needed to transport renewable power across the country to meet the Government’s net zero targets.
She has also described the return of onshore wind as “delightful” after Ed Miliband ended the de facto ban in his first days as Energy Secretary.
Emma Pinchbeck is best known as Deputy Chief Executive at Renewable UK, the lobby group for renewables. Prior to joining RenewableUK, she was head of the Climate Change team at environmental watchdog WWF-UK.
Not much hope of any objective thinking from our Emma then!
51.20185 -1.80587 Met Office assessed CIMO Class 4 Installed 1/1/1920
Larkhill is a World Meteorological Organisation reporting site hence its demarcation above. It was established in 1920 since when archived records are held though exactly where its original location actually was is difficult to ascertain. Tim Channon reviewed the site in 2012 concluding it was Class 5…..it has significantly worsened since his report and yet, quite amazingly, the Met Office maintains it is still Class 4.
What has changed since Tim’s rather damning report?
This site is at the Royal Artillery Saddle Club and the 40 metre by 60 metre rectangle now alongside the weather station is their sand school. Not only is this 2,400 square metre area of artificially well drained sand completely unnatural, it also acts as a huge heat sink rapidly heating up and distorting the adjacent readings.
Do meteorologists not recognise this effect of sand on temperature readings? Well……
“according to Gareth Harvey from the BBC Weather Centre……Sand is a natural insulator and so the heating effect of sunshine is stored in the top layer only, which gets very hot and then warms the air.”
Clearly they know the sand school will be a problem plus they are also aware of significant “Astroturf” around the screen. From their archived notes
“DCNN ID 5863: EXPOSURE OF GRASS MIN THERMOMETER ON ARTIFICIAL TURF CORRECTED TO ACCEPTED STANDARD”
Astonishingly the Met Office sees fit to have adopted a standard for “Grass” temperature reading to allow for “artificial turf”. It seems Tim Channon’s views on “improper ground cover” have become irrelevant to the Met Office since. What next – Adjustments for black tarmac runways?
As for the rest of the surrounding area, it is all unnatural with buildings, roadways and car parks in close proximity – in no way does this regularly changing artificial landscape represent the natural environment. How bad are all those Class 5 stations if this is only Class 4?
485 million years of temperature, Hurricane Helene, European floods, Diarrhea, Gulf Stream ice age, tropical storms, mass extinction, hottest summers, glaciers and more…
