Posted on 10/11/2025 2:12:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It is becoming harder to get away with lying in the age of independent media. Progressives in particular are struggling to safeguard the sacred belief that the planet is on the verge of melting because naughty plebeians keep driving SUVs and using air conditioning.
Climate change devotees are willing to lie to defend this article of faith. Ray Sanders, an engineer by trade, realized this as he double-checked the calculations of the Met Office, the U.K. government agency responsible for guessing whether it will rain in Blighty tomorrow.
The Met is also known for making bold prognostications about the conditions expected half-a-century from now. “Heatwaves, like that of summer 2018, are now 30 times more likely to happen due to climate change,” it asserts.
Mr. Sanders investigated each location the Met relied upon to gather temperature readings in making its assertion. He found a bit of mischief that would skew readings, such as thermometers placed in the middle of a parking lot or surrounded by a heat-generating solar panel farm.
That’s nothing compared to his conclusion that a third of the 302 stations used to compute the country’s average temperature didn’t exist. The Met’s public website included 103 climate stations as the basis for the nationwide average, even though these had closed years or decades ago.
To make up for the shortfall, the Met says it created “comparable data” from up to six nearby sites that were “well correlated” to the original spot. Mr. Sanders took a seaside town called Lowestoft to question the validity of this method. The only viable “comparable” regions would be located more than 25 miles distant—far from the ocean breeze.
Rather than admit error, the Met stealthily removed the “Lowestoft” readings recorded after the building’s 2010 closure. It has done likewise with closed stations in Paisley and Nairn.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Da Erf is NOT going to die.
CO2 is Life in action.
Global Warming is the biggest fraud in histoir.
“Science” has a long and wild history of frauds.
Piltdown Man is one of my favorites.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man
Another one not (yet) officially exposed is the phony baloney dark matter and dark energy that allegedly is 95% of the universe.
That is going to be the butt of jokes a century from now.
Years ago, so did the University of East Anglia, to hide was was inconvenient.
But trillions of taxpayer dollars and thousands of power-grabbing laws didn’t hinge on whether Piltdown Man was true or false. But such monies and powers do hinge on public acceptance of the Global Warming narrative.
Interesting point.
Big science is a big business—in a wide range of domains.
Big Pharma is a huge business.
The military industrial complex sector is huge.
Then we have universities all over the world depending on government research grants in all sorts of science.
It has become the newest religion—and takes a big skim from everybody.
Nice!
Since the idea of climate change/global warming serves leftism lies are a built in feature.
Never give up the con.
When is “Syph” Borenstein’s article on this? 😉😂😂
The UN makes it up all the time
Dark Energy and Matter sounds racis’.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
You just can't accept that black people built the universe, can you!
This isn't repeated enough. I can't believe the Climate Change industry thinks one link in the vital "circle of life" can be reduced without causing death on Earth. So I have to believe their cause is nefarious.
don’t forget the bogus theory that an invisible, undetectable substance named “Ether” [sort of like “dark matter”] had to exist throughout the universe so that light waves had a physical medium in which to propagate ...
Reducing co2 means reducing gasses plants require to flourish and grow.
Liberal progressives are doing this everywhere around the world. Placing thermometers on hot asphalt pavement, black tar roofs, and near exterior AC units whereas in the past they were placed in open grassy fields. According to Al Gore, most coastal cities should be under water since 2005. But not happening, even now.
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