Junk Thermometers, Junk Science: How the Met Office’s Dodgy Data Fuels the Net Zero Farce, By Richard Miller (Londonistan)
As autumn paints Britain in September 2025, the Met Office trumpeted the summer as the "hottest ever," dethroning 2018 with a mean of 16.10°C. Hosepipe bans, "nationally significant" water crises, and dire warnings followed, pinning the blame on human emissions making such summers 70 times more likely. But before you buy the climate panic, consider this: Dr. Eric Huxter, a retired Earth Sciences PhD with four decades of expertise, has exposed the Met's 387-station temperature network as a house of cards. His analysis of over half a million pristine readings from Rothamsted, a rare, untainted site in Hertfordshire farmland, reveals a network riddled with urban heat traps, tarmac runways, and faulty gadgets pumping out "heat spikes" that aren't weather, but artifacts. The result? Inflated "hottest evahs" propping up the Net Zero fantasy, scaring Britons into submission while real science languishes. This isn't data; it's propaganda. And it's time to dismantle it before it bankrupts the nation.
Huxter's investigation, laid bare in a September 2025 Daily Sceptic report, is no fringe outburst, it's rigorous meteorology meeting cold maths. With only 13.3% of the Met's stations rated Class 1 or 2 by World Meteorological Organization standards, free of urban or artificial distortions, true national averages are a mirage. So Huxter turned to Rothamsted's gold-standard setup: 525,541 sixty-second readings over a year, capturing nature's rhythm, not city noise. Minute-to-minute shifts stay within a tight -0.15°C to 0.25°C, with hourly swings peaking at -0.35°C to 0.45°C, smooth, natural patterns. Compare that to the Met's "extremes": 126 daily maximums across 45 sites, where 67% show spikes with just a one-in-six chance of occurring naturally, averaging 2.8°C hotter than Rothamsted's benchmark. These aren't climate signals; they're calibration catastrophes.
Take May 1, 2025: The Met hailed 29.3°C at Kew Gardens, London's urban oasis, as the UK's hottest May Day ever. Impressive? Hardly. That 2:59 PM "peak" surged 2.6°C from 2 PM and 0.76°C above 3 PM, a jump defying physics for ambient air. Huxter's summer sweep of 126 daily highs tells the same story: spikes averaging 0.89°C above hourly norms, nearly all from dubious Class 3-5 sites with built-in uncertainties of 1-5°C. Heathrow, a Class 3 tarmac toaster, nabbed eight May highs, jet exhaust and asphalt baking sensors like an overdone pie. Kew, bafflingly rated Class 2, screams urban bias with its erratic leaps.
What's cooking these spikes? New Platinum Resistance Thermometers (PRTs) in unaspirated Stevenson screens, high-tech gear meant for precision but starved of ventilation. In sunny, dry spells, they got just 28.3% of expected airflow, turning screens into solar ovens. Old mercury bulbs held steady; these PRTs snatch 60-second zaps from passing cars or jets, not the atmosphere. August 12's Heathrow "extreme"? Fodder for headlines, not science.
It gets uglier. A recent Freedom of Information request reveals the Met's network slid from 77.9% to 80.1% junk Class 4/5 sites in 18 months, with 11 new stations plopped straight into the scrapheap. Neatishead, a Norfolk radar base amid emitters and runways, snagged a May high, after the Met grilled the requester on their motives. This isn't oversight; it's obstinacy. While 1976's mercury-measured scorcher, now demoted to sixth, stood on solid ground, 2025's "hottest" rides warped wires. Daily averages, cherry-picked from max-min spikes, feed global datasets for that ominous 1.2°C "warming." The BBC laps it up, slapping "climate change" on every record, no questions asked.
This isn't a standalone scandal, it's the canary in the coal mine for climate catastrophism. The Met Office, a government arm overrun by green zealots, isn't measuring; it's manufacturing consent for hydrocarbon bans that'd cripple Britain's grid. Picture it: trillions sunk into windmills that fail in calms, blackouts looming, all justified by airport fry-pans. Huxter doesn't deny warming, he sees the signal through the noise, but these spikes? Pure pollution, inflating trends to prop up an unaffordable Net Zero pipe dream.
Parliament's stirring: whispers in both houses fear this junk data controversy could tarnish the Met's legitimate roles, forecasts, flood warnings. Good. Demand action: mandate Class 1 baselines, ventilate those PRTs, purge urban bias. Defund the fear factory; redirect to real resilience, dams, nuclear, gas backups. Net Zero's a fantasy fried on faulty thermometers. Huxter's half-million truths demand we cool the hysteria and heat the debate. The Met's records are junk; so's the panic they peddle. Scrap the script, face the facts:It's time for a divorce from the Left's climate dogma, building a society rooted in reason, not fear, while letting their green utopia collapse under its own contradictions. But, hopefully, not us with it.
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