Corruption at the Source
In an article entitled “Whether or not Weather”, I wrote how “an astounding 96% of surface weather stations in the United Sates continued to be found substandard.” This was after a notice to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 15 years ago. As the director of the 2007 and 2022 studies, Anthony Watts stated, “With a 96 percent warm-bias in U.S. temperature measurements, it is impossible to use any statistical methods to derive an accurate climate trend for the U.S.”
The NOAA has not stated that they have corrected the situation, so we must assume the weather stations remain substandard. The vast majority of the devices are in close proximity to Urban Heat Islands (UHI) making them read hot.
Across the big pond things in this department are not much better.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has stated that nearly eight out of 10 stations in the United Kingdom contain uncertainties. The potential errors would produce erroneous results from 2°C to 5°C (3.6°F to 9°F). The Meteorological Office, abbreviated as the Met Office, the United Kingdom's national weather and climate service, has, in the majority, weather stations that are in the Class 4 and 5 category and these are the devices most prone to corruption.
Further, the WMO advises that Class 5 weather stations should not be used to provide any accuracy of temperatures, yet, nearly a third of all weather stations operated by the MET Office fall under this classification. The best devices are class 1 and 2, of which the MET Office has only a paltry number, with no plans for replacing the inferior devices with better, more accurate models.
Like the situation with the American NOAA weather stations, the British models have substantial problems with “human-caused and urban heat encroachment”. The linked article states, “Worse, 81% of stations started in the last 10 years are junk, as are eight of the 13 new sites in the last five years”.
Like the USA’s NOAA, the MET office proclaims the catastrophic potential of anthropogenic climate change and aligns its political biases with liberals, progressives, and their parties. Naturally, the British mainstream media is an ally of the MET, as are their counterpart news outlets in the United States.
On another note, the MET office released a statement citing that rainfall has increased since the 1960s, but when an environmental blogger viewed farther back this is the result:
About the MET Office Chris Morrison, Environment Editor at the Daily Skeptic wrote, “But the state body funded by over £100 million a year is clearly riddled with green activists who, on the evidence that a number of skeptical journalists have presented, are using unreliable figures, carefully-curated statistics and inaccurate measurements to promote their own attachment to the insanity of hydrocarbon elimination.”
So, when you hear or read the “hottest day, month, year or decade EVER”, you can acknowledge and judge the source and know why these claims are deceptively heralded as such.
