From Phil B via email.
Shocking evidence has emerged that points to the U.K. Met Office inventing temperature data from over 100 non-existent weather stations. The explosive allegations have been made by citizen journalist Ray Sanders and sent to the new Labour Science Minister Peter Kyle MP. Following a number of Freedom of Information requests to the Met Office and diligent field work visiting individuals stations, Sanders has discovered that 103 stations out of 302 sites supplying temperature averages do not exist. “How would any reasonable observer know that the data was not real and simply ‘made up’ by a Government agency,” asks Sanders. He calls for an “open declaration” of likely inaccuracy of existing published data, “to avoid other institutions and researchers using unreliable data and reaching erroneous conclusions”.
I suppose the only shock here is that anyone is shocked. I was aware that they use weather stations in urban areas where the heat will inevitably be higher than rural ones, resulting in misleading higher levels than they should. I’d like to say that I am surprised by this revelation, but it is all too depressingly predictable.
To me the real scandal is that nothing will be done. No one will be sacked or even disciplined in any way at all. The Mainstream Media won’t be making any of this stuff public or holding anyone to account for malfeasance in public office. It’s just some random guy off the Internet, nothing to see here. I always knew that temperature recordings were spurious due to poor siting of the weather stations. New records are always set near aircon units, the arse end of a jet airliner or, in one case cited, next to an electricity sub station. This though is an entirely new level of dishonesty and incompetence, why bother with weather stations at all if you can just make stuff up instead?
Hardly surprising that the last two record temperatures for England have been reported at Heathrow. An airport is a major heat island, air conditioning pumping out heat, surrounded by motorways, so many contributions to heat. It used to be that weather stations were placed in both urban and rural environments. Anomalous readings, high or low were put to one side and a local average was arrived at. Proper science relies on accurate data, crap in – crap out.
The real question is how much more is fabrication by the state and their minions, not just our state which has become a worldwide laughing/pitying stock but the wannabe world dominators.