🇬🇧 UK MET OFFICE CAUGHT USING TEMPERATURE DATA FROM STATIONS THAT DON'T EXIST TO SUPPORT CLIMATE POLICIES
Britain's Met Office is facing awkward questions after an investigator discovered over 80% of its temperature monitoring sites are classified as "junk" with measurement uncertainties of 2°C to 5°C.
That's not a typo – 5 degrees Celsius of potential error.
Only 19 pristine Class 1 sites remain capable of measuring actual ambient air temperature accurately.
The rest? Located on airport runways, walled gardens, next to main roads, and inside solar farms.
Places where concrete, engines, and infrastructure create artificial heat islands that have nothing to do with atmospheric temperature changes.
The Met Office database also contains data from over 100 stations that don't exist.
They're using "estimated" temperatures from unidentified neighboring stations and presenting it as real data.
When journalist Ray Sanders started asking questions through Freedom of Information requests, the Met Office dismissed them as "vexatious" and "not in the public interest."
After media inquiries, the Met Office quietly removed estimated data from 3 non-existent stations.
Of 17 new sites opened since April 2024, nearly 65% were immediately placed in the worst quality categories.
UK Science Minister Lord Patrick Vallance is calling scrutiny of this mess "misinformation" that weakens trust in science.
Perhaps what actually weakens trust in science is using temperature readings from imaginary thermometers next to jet engines to justify trillion-pound Net Zero policies that reshape the entire economy.
The data might be fine for tomorrow's weather forecast.
Using it to revolutionize Britain's energy infrastructure? That requires stations that actually exist.
Source: ZeroHedge