Met Office Must Account for the ‘Junk’ Temperature Data Propping up Net Zero Insanity
BY CHRIS MORRISON 4 MARCH 2024 7:00 AM
Pressure is likely to grow in the coming days for the U.K. Met Office to make a full public statement about the state of its nationwide temperature measuring stations. This follows sensational revelations in last Friday’s Daily Sceptic that nearly eight out of ten sites had huge scientifically-designated ‘uncertainties’ that essentially disqualified them from providing the accurate data required to promote the collectivist Net Zero agenda. Our report went viral on social media with over 1,300 retweets on X, and it was reposted on a number of sites. The investigative journalist Paul Homewood has covered the Met Office’s temperature claims for many years, and in the light of the new disclosures he noted that if it wanted to continue to use its existing station measurements, it should show a warning that the margin of error is so great “that they have no statistical significance at all”.
Specifically, nearly one in three (29.2%) Met Office sites are rated by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) as CIMO Class 5, and this comes with a warning of “estimated uncertainties added by siting of 5°C”. Class 5 can be termed a ‘junk’ rating since the WMO gives no guidance on where it can be located. The next to junk Class 4 comes with uncertainties of 2°C, while Class 3 has a 1°C warning. From information disclosed under a Freedom of Information request, the Daily Sceptic compiled the graph below that shows Class 4 accounted for 48.7% of the Met Office’s 380 recording stations. Only 13.7%, or 52 stations are free of ‘uncertainties’ warnings.
Net Zero promotion requires reasonably precise measurements of both local and global temperatures and these are simply not available. In the run-up to last year’s COP28 meeting, the BBC ran an explanatory article on the significance of the 1.5°C threshold, a rise of the Earth’s temperature based on the ending of the Little Ice Age. “Every tenth of a degree of warming matters, but as you get warmer each increment matters more”, said Myles Allen, Professor of Geosystem Science at the University of Oxford, and a co-ordinating author of the IPCC’s special report on 1.5°C in 2018. It is difficult to see how precision down to 0.1°C can be achieved by consulting current Met Office data, let alone the ability to claim to two decimal points, as the Met Office did, that last year in the U.K. was only 0.06°C cooler than the all-time annual record.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/03/04/met-office-must-account-for-the-junk-temperature-data-propping-up-net-zero-insanity/
