Met Office Uses Junk Temperature Measurements to Fill “World Treasure” 350-Year Temperature Record
This is pretty obnoxious
In Climate: The Movie, William Happer, the former physics professor at Princeton, describes the Central England Temperature (CET) record as a “world treasure” since it provides continuous recordings from 1659 – over 350 years. It shows a rise just over 1°C from the depths of the Little Ice Age to the present day. These days, the CET is under the control of the politicised Met Office, keen to catastrophise weather and climate in the interest of promoting Net Zero.
Recent revisions have retrospectively cooled the near past and boosted readings from the last 20 years. In addition, the Daily Sceptic can reveal that two of the three measuring stations currently used to add to this scientific treasure are taken from near-junk class 4 sites that come with official ‘uncertainties’ of up to 2°C.
Class 4 site Pershore College was added in 2006 and joined Stonyhurst, also class 4. The other site Rothamsted is a pristine class 1 site and is deemed to provide an accurate reading of the surrounding air temperature away from natural and artificial heat corruptions. Classification and ‘uncertainties’ by class are set by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).
Quite why the Met Office can’t find three class 1 sites in the whole central England area is a bit of a mystery, although a clue might be provided by the recent freedom of information request the Daily Sceptic made to the organisation. We discovered that nearly eight out of 10 Met Office measuring stations across the United Kingdom were sited in near-junk class 4 and junk class 5. The latter class comes with WMO prescribed ‘uncertainties’ up to 5°C. Class 1 sites number just 24 and make up only 6.3% of the total.
At the very least, given the scientific importance of the CET, the Met Office could at least move the stations to more suitable nearby locations away from the disqualifying heat corruptions.
But if adding near-junk figures to the collection is not bad enough, the investigative science writer Paul Homewood last year discovered considerable tampering in 2022 with the recent CET record. He initially found that in version one, the summer of 1995 had been 0.1°C warmer than 2018. In version 2, the two years swapped places with 1995 cooled by 0.07°C and 2018 warmed by 0.13°C. Alerted to these changes, Homewood then analysed the full record from version 1 to 2, and the graph below shows what he found.
As can be seen, the adjustments up to 1970 are small with ups and downs offsetting each other. Homewood then found that the years from 1970 to 2003 had been cooled markedly, followed by significant rises to 2022. Homewood concludes that “unfortunately it is part of a much wider tampering with temperature globally – and the tampering is always one way, cooling the past and heating the present”. Given that we now know that the Met Office has been using class 4 statistics for two thirds of its database since 2006, the recent higher adjustments would seem to call for clarifying explanations from the state-funded Met Office.
But explanations from the Met Office are thin on the ground. It continues to promote a 60 second spike to 40.3°C at RAF Coningsby at 3.12pm on July 19 in 2022 as a U.K. temperature record, despite the known presence of three typhoon jets attempting to land around the same time. The record has become a national joke, even more so after the Daily Sceptic revealed that Coningsby is a class 3 site with an ‘uncertainty’ of 1°C. All that can be said is that at least Coningsby replaced the previous class 5 record set at Cambridge Botanic Gardens in 2019.
Last month, the Daily Sceptic analysed all the heat records declared by the Met Office since 2000 and found that all bar two should be disqualified. Many of them had been set in junk class 5 and most of the rest were in class 4. Using its highly compromised data with massive ‘uncertainties’ rife throughout the database, the Met Office publicises precision down to one hundredth of a degree, declaring, for instance, that last year was only 0.06°C cooler than the ‘record’ year of 2022. Paul Homewood suggests that if the Met Office wants to continue using 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”.
The Met Office refuses to return all calls from the Daily Sceptic. We would be more than happy to report any explanations it might have, and discuss its work, if required, in public. Alas, to date, communication has been brief and, frankly, a bit childish. Last December, we reported on a Met Office proposal to ditch a 30-year temperature trend in favour of a Net Zero-supporting merger of 10 years’ past data with 10 years’ future model predictions. Thus, it would be easier to spot when the 1.5°C threshold was crossed, it was argued.
Noting that we had taken three weeks to report the plan, Professor Richard Betts, lead author and head of climate impacts, tweeted: “I suppose our paper does use big words like ‘temperature’ so maybe they had to get a grown-up to help”.
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Why The Wind And Solar Racket Is The Green New Scam On Steroids
A strange thing happened the other day. A large-scale solar panel farm in Fort Bend County, Texas, thousands of acres right in the middle of oil country, experienced a rough hailstorms. That’s not entirely unusual for the region.
I grew up in Texas, and it was always astonishing to have life going on as normal only to have golf ball-sized ice cubes rain down from the heavens seemingly out of nowhere, doing enormous damage to cars and homes.
Well, in this case, the storm utterly destroyed the entire solar panel farm of thousands of acres.
“They look like somebody took a shotgun and blasted it into the air and let the pellets fall down and shatter holes all in them,” a resident told the local news.
So much for the great innovation. So much for cheap energy from the sun. So much for the wonderful technological revolution. It is a pile of worthless glass and steel now.
The most immediate concern is not just the enormous loss of energy. It is the cadmium telluride inside the panels that could leak into the ground and water supply, potentially poisoning the entire community.
Now, you might ask yourself: why didn’t the builders and owners of this boondoggle think about this possibility? The answer is always the same: federal subsidies. They have encouraged the conversion of hundreds of miles of ranch, farm, and drilling land in Texas to become solar farms.
None of this would even exist without this artificial prodding from our central planners.
They are all at risk for the same destruction. In fact, the same thing happened in West Texas a few years ago. It’s a guarantee that in the life of these huge farms, some storm will come along every few years and likely wreck everything. By now we should know that.
It’s not only that: there is a danger that comes with sandstorms too. Years ago I was flying into Las Vegas and flew over one of these large fields with solar panels that were entirely covered in sand.
The sun could not get anywhere near the panels. My first thought: someone was going to need a very large broom.
But it’s not only huge blowers and suckers that are necessary. Cleaning them requires vast water usage, water not used for farms, lawns, showers, and other purposes that serve mankind.
Texas must also deal with the preposterous miles of wind turbines throughout the state that utterly wreck the landscape. You can hardly see the gorgeous mountains and rock formations in portions of Southwest Texas due to these bird-killing monstrosities.
You drive by miles and miles of these ghastly things while your car is literally riding right above oceans of oil that are sitting there waiting to be drilled and put to human use.
What the heck is going on? There is one answer: federal restrictions on drilling and refining plus federal subsidies for breezes and sunbeams.
It all stems from some weird ideology that says that drilling oil and gas is somehow dirty and unsustainable whereas sticking up fancy windmills and sucking down sunrays is sustainable.
They call oil and gas “fossil fuels” though that is heavily in dispute. Oil might be just as renewable as the sun or wind. We don’t even know how much there is, only that there is more than enough to power the whole of human activity on the planet as far as we can see into the future. Maybe it never runs out.
Governments of the world have somehow decided that one form of energy is bad and the other form is good, even though once you balance out all the costs of the two, it is not even clear that oil and gas are less to be desired by the standards of resource use. They might be more desirable.
We know precisely how to dig up and refine oil and deploy it for human use. We’ve known for centuries and it was this discovery that enabled the building of the modern world.
Then in the 21st century, a bunch of crazed government bureaucrats, scientists on the dole, and politicians allowed a fantasy to seize their brains only to force other solutions on us.
The propaganda against oil and gas is so overwhelming—kind of like COVID fear—that it is hard for an entire generation to think outside the box and ask the fundamental question about whether this is really a good idea after all.
We are finding out from bitter experience that the utopian dream bumps into hard reality and then shatters to bits. All the while, we are experiencing ever more energy uncertainty.
Particularly in Texas; a few years ago, the wind turbines froze and millions found themselves without heat in the dead of winter.
This one is personal to me: my mother in central Texas nearly froze to death. I spent two full days on the phone with her making sure she was okay. She found enough blankets and got by but I will forever blame the Green New Deal for nearly killing her.
This whole craze for renewables over fossil fuels, both misnamed, is out of hand and threatens to wreck civilization as we know it. Consumers all over the world are right now rejecting electric vehicles as anything other than vanity purchases for urban consumers in warm climates.
But the Biden administration is forcing manufacturers to make even more of them anyway even though the consumer marketplace for them is rapidly drying up.
The grid cannot handle much more in the way of plugged-in cars, and the highways cannot withstand the weight. The heck of it is that most electricity in this country is right now provided not by sunbeams and breezes but rather by coal, which also qualifies as a “fossil fuel.”
Just you wait: once we are all in EVs, the government will announce more restrictions on coal too.
Then comes the rationing. You can only drive two days per week and only so far. This will be enforceable by forcing the software managers to shut down your car. You will no longer [be free] to drive where you want much less go on a spontaneous road trip.
The very definition of the postwar good life will end, thanks entirely to the weird reality that a generation of bureaucrats got consumed by a freaky ideology.
Of course, much of this fanaticism traces to the frenzy about “climate change.” Some lunatic teenager lectured the world’s elites about this and they believed her.
Guess what? The climate is changing. It has never not changed. It changes whether we drive or not or what we drive. It changed before the Industrial Revolution and it will change after.
It also turns out that discovering whether the temperature is changing depends entirely on what you measure and how long you measure it.
Yep, you know this game. It’s called lying with statistics at taxpayer expense. If you don’t believe the claims, you are called very nasty names.
https://principia-scientific.com/why-the-wind-and-solar-racket-is-the-green-new-scam-on-steroids/
**********************************************Sydney's One Central Park 'green' skyscraper pulled up over defects which could risk 'death or serious injury' to pedestrians
Sydney's One Central Park building, which is adorned by vertical gardens, has 'serious defects' that pose a 'risk of death or serious injury' to pedestrians because its external planter boxes fail to meet building standards, NSW Fair Trading said.
The building in the inner Sydney suburb of Chippendale is owned by Frasers Property, which was served with a building rectification order by Building Commission NSW director Matt Press on January 16.
This followed an emergency order issued on December 11 after the property was inspected on December 6.
A temporary rope support system has been put in to support the planter boxes.
Frasers Property must submit a structural engineering report and rectify the defects by March 2026.
An inspection found that the T-Bolts securing the planter boxes were randomly distributed, with some fracturing and failing.
The inspector also said the planter boxes failed to drain storm water sufficiently and would fill and overflow.
'This dramatically increases the weight of the planter boxes and the treated planter box water consequently damages glass windows and awnings,' Fair Trading stated, according to the Daily Telegraph.
It also posed the risk an overloaded planter box could fall on pedestrians below with potentially serious consequences.
Construction of the building finished in 2013.
The building also houses Central Park Mall as well as featuring the world's highest floating garden.
The landmark was given a a five-star green rating, which made it the largest multi-residential building at the time to receive the top mark for being environmentally friendly.
Under the modification order the developer has been directed to erect either hoarding or a temporary structure on the north-east and west of the building while work is being done.
The planter boxes must be redesigned by a 'registered structural and hydraulic engineer'.
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Amusing: Single picture of queuing Teslas perfectly illustrates the problem Australia will face ditching petrol cars
At least 10 electric vehicles were seen lined up in the rural town of Keith, in South Australia, with drivers waiting to use public charging stations.
One TikTok user shared a video which showed the cars lined up with the caption: 'Buy a Tesla they said.'
Bernhard Conoplia, head of public charging at charging company Evie, told Yahoo News the charging stations would have been up to four time as busy over the long weekend versus a normal weekend.
She said that simple steps, such as leaving home with a full battery, would go a long way, but it seems these Tesla owners may have learned the hard way.
For a Tesla Model 3 sedan it takes at least 20 minutes to fully charge at a Supercharger station, meaning some owners could have potentially waited hours before they were able to hit the road again.
There are around 198,000 electric vehicles driving on Australian roads, but currently only 3,000 public charging stations nationwide.
The government claims it is working quickly to increase the availability of fast chargers, with the number of sites forecast to double this year.
A report by consulting firm Next System also found that even though Tesla dominated electric vehicle sales it was Chargefox that provided the greatest share of charging sites.
The findings came after record sales of electric vehicles, and despite concerns from some potential buyers that Australia's charging network was not large enough to support the technology.
The Public Fast Charger Network Report found Australia had seen another 397 car-charging sites and 755 new charging points built during 2023, but predicted that number would rise significantly higher in 2024.
Next System founder Daniel Bleakley said the analysis showed charging stations were already planned for another 470 locations throughout Australia and a total of 900 new charging sites could be expected during the year.
'After a slow start, growth in Australia's public EV fast charger network is clearly accelerating,' Mr Bleakley said.
'Lack of public fast-charging infrastructure is often quoted to be a major barrier to electric vehicle uptake in Australia, however our report shows the EV-charging network is actually now growing faster than the Australian EV fleet.'
The report found local firm Chargefox had installed the greatest number of electric chargers in Australia, operating more than one in three charging sites, followed by Evie Networks with 23 per cent of the market, and Tesla with 10 per cent.
Jolt and NRMA followed in fourth and fifth spot, while electric car charging stations from traditional petrol retailers BP and Ampol claimed sixth and seventh positions as their national rollout ramped up.
US automaker Tesla offered the greatest power through its electric chargers, however, with its Supercharger network representing almost half of Australia's charging network's capacity, according to the report.
The findings come after Australians purchased more than 87,000 electric cars in 2023, according to the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries, representing more than seven per cent of all new vehicles and more than double the number sold in 2022.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13262449/Tesla-charging-que-Australia.html
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