The Met Office released another climate report yesterday, containing its latest set of projections, CP18. But the day before, an article about what the report would say was published in the Sunday Times, written by their environment editor Jonathan Leake. The Sunday Times article is quite clear and precise about what the report is going … Continue reading
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More misleading alarmism from BBC and Met Office
The BBC Radio 4 headline at 7am this morning opened with “The Met Office says Britain’s weather is becoming more extreme” Yes, this was top of the headline news. The news bulletin then started with “A new Met Office report says the UK has experienced more weather extremes over the past ten years than in … Continue reading
September 2018 – The Very First Time It Was Hotter Than This Was 1749!
Mean Central England Temperature for September 2018 turned out to to be 13.7C. This puts September 2018 in the entirely unremarkable middling territory between the coldest and hottest Septembers ever recorded, being 10.5C in 1674 and 16.8C in 2006. In point of fact, the very first time we had a warmer September (i.e. 13.8C) … Continue reading
The shape of British summers to come?
Following this summer’s long heat wave, with weeks of hot sunny weather and hardly a drop of rain, there’s been a lot of talk about whether this is the new normal, thanks to man-made climate change. Fortunately, the Guardian’s climate expert Fiona Harvey has an article that sets the record straight on this, helped by … Continue reading
Met Office Chief Scientist Predicts Wetter, Milder UK Winters
Carbon Brief recently ran an interview with the Met Office’s Chief Scientist, Prof Stephen Belcher. The interviewer brought up the subject of the Met Office’s updated UK climate projections, due to be released some time in 2018, known as UKCP18. The last projections were published in 2009 (UKCP09). CB: The Met Office will be … Continue reading
The Strange Case of the ‘Hottest Ever’ Late August Bank Holiday
Yesterday morning, in eager anticipation of perhaps breaking yet another ‘hottest ever’ record on the last really hot day of the UK summer 2017 (there haven’t been many), the Met Office tweeted the following: Standby for potentially the #hottest late August #BankHolidayMonday on record today – we've got to beat 28.3 ºC can we … Continue reading
Peter Stott being economical with the truth
Why can't Peter Stott say the truth about hurricanes? https://t.co/rAFzqJOizb — Bishop Hill (@aDissentient) August 11, 2017 Yesterday, Nigel Lawson was allowed onto the Today programme in response to an earlier interview with Al Gore promoting his new alarmist film. The audio is here, Gore at about 1:09:00, Lawson at 2:33:30. Gore had made the … Continue reading
