Question Suspect and Faulty Temperature Data

The fear of anthropogenic global warming has generated a great interest in temperature records such that even minute changes in the temperature records are scrutinized. This points to the central role that temperatures play in terrifying populations to accept the appalling lifestyle changes needed to achieve net zero in less than 30 years.

Meteorologist Anthony Watts reports that 96 percent of the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) temperature stations are located in urban heat islands, next to exhaust fans and on blistering rooftops. ⁽¹⁾ 

More on urban heat islands later.

United Kingdom

The Met Office’s 380 UK station network is unfit for the purpose of providing an accurate air temperature average. This is because many of the stations are so poorly sited that they attract uncertainties set by the World Meteorological Organization of between 2-5C. Nearly one-third of the stations are rated class 5, a junk rating where compromising structures could add an uncertainty of 5C.

Every day the Met Office in the UK posts a daily high temperature for 16 locations around the UK. In nine consecutive days, Chris Morrison found that 83.8% of the highs were recorded in Class 4 and 5 sites rated by the world Meteorological Organization to have large uncertainties up to 5 C. No less than 36.6% of records came from Class 5 sites that had no qualifying criteria for accuracy and can be located anywhere. Quite how and Class 4 and 5 sites can be used to calculate national let alone a global temperature has long been a mystery, and their central use to promote the net zero fantasy is a scientific and political scandal. As Morrison looked further into the claimed records, he found the overall picture was even worse than it first appeared.  ⁽²⁾

Certain locations crop up constantly in the records. In nine days, the Scottish sites at Aboyne and Tyndrum recorded highs eight and seven times respectively. In England, Coton-in-the-Elms recorded seven daily highs while Kielder Castle posted six. It just meant that the sites were poorly located next to unnatural heat sources and were producing a false natural air record, recently re-badged as a so-called extreme high. Until the Met Office sorts out its largely junk-class 380-plus weather station network, these records and recordings are largely meaningless.

A station located at Kirkwall was listed as a Class 2 site. It is located at Kirkwall airport, barely 50 meters from what appears to be the aircraft park. Nearby buildings, car parks and roads provide ample opportunities for heat corruptions. Yet six times in nine days Kirkwall was said to hold the temperature record for Orkney and Shetland. Removing the supposedly ‘non-junk’ Kirkwall from the overall calculation led to no less than 87.4% of daily highs in the junk class. ⁽²⁾

This is one example of many. This super-heated data is fed into the mainstream to promote the political needs of net zero.

Here’s another example: The UK Met Office claims to have a continuous record of temperature at Stornoway Airport going back to 1873. This is truly remarkable since manned powered flight was not achieved until 1903 and the actual airport was built in 1937. ⁽³⁾

Over the last year there have been revelations about data invention at 103 non-existent weather stations while almost the entire 380 strong network is heavily skewed by unnatural heat corruptions. ⁽⁴⁾

India

The mainstream media quickly jumped on claims that Delhi, India experienced a record setting temperature in June of 52.9C, citing human caused climate change as the cause. CNN, ABS, Reuters and CNBC were among the major media outlets that hyped what turned out to be a false report on the weather. The ‘record high’ temperature reading was due to a sensor error, but the media didn’t bother to confirm the facts before promoting the climate scare story. Only a few of the media outlets printed real retractions or edited their stories later to show the truth, long after the original alarmist reports were posted. The Indian government admitted the reading was too high by 3C. ⁽⁵⁾

Low Temperatures Ignored

Despite claims of unprecedented heat in 2024, the on-going winter of 2023-24 was seeing temperatures plummet globally. In December, sub-zero temperatures broke 70 year old cold weather records in Beijing. ⁽⁶⁾

In February 2024, the United States, Canada, and parts of Europe were in the midst of an Arctic freeze.

What was surprising is that the extreme cold weather events were not exclusive to temperate regions that regularly have such chills.

Even tropical countries like India had days of extreme cold that broke 80 year old records.

What’s interesting is that the mainstream media remained notoriously silent about the implications of the cold weather for people’s well-being and why the confused messaging about a warming world does not help the situation. ⁽⁶⁾

Urban Heat Islands

Media reports are laced with unsubstantiated claims that man is overheating his planet. Every time climate change is mentioned in a story, even features in a newspaper’s food or fashion pages, it is understood that humans are turning earth into a muggy greenhouse by burning fossil fuels.

No evidence is provided to corroborate the claim. Man-made global warming just is, and skeptics are deplorable.

But the facts tell a different story. Roy Spencer, a University of Alabama-Huntsville climate scientist, has determined that: “65% of the US linear warming trend between 1895 and 2023 was due to increasing population density at the suburban and urban stations; 8% of the warming was due to urbanization at rural stations. Most of that (urban heat island) effect warming occurred before 1970.” ⁽⁷⁾

In other words, man has built heart sinks, which skew the temperature data upward.

Spencer and co-authors explain that “global warming trends calculated for land areas have been spuriously inflated because most surface air temperature measurements are made in or near human settlements, and most of those settlements have grown over time.” ⁽⁸⁾

An analysis of 10 cities from across the globe revealed airport and industry centers are, on average, 2.5C to 2.8C warmer than neighboring green spaces. ⁽⁹⁾

Mexico’s green spaces are up to 12.1C cooler than its urban core. ⁽¹⁰⁾

Time-matched photos and flight logs show how Tampa’s much hyped 100F record was a five-minute artifact of a Delta jet idling beside the sensor. A similar happening occurred in Phoenix when Sky Harbor trotted out an ‘August record’ built on back-to-back departure plumes. ⁽¹¹⁾

References

1. Anthony Watts, “New surface station report- it’s worse than we thought,” wattsupwiththat.com, July 27, 2022
2. Chris Morrison, “Almost all extreme UK temperature highs recorded at junk sites with massive possible errors,” zerohedge.com, May 22, 2025
3. Chris Morrison, “Met Office caught faking airport temp data 30 years before its existence,” principia-scientific.com, January 5, 2025
4. Chris Morrison, “Science shock: UK Met Office is inventing temperature data from 100 non-existent stations,” dailysceptic.org, November 5, 2024
5. Lennea Lueken, “Some in mainstream media partially correct false claims about record Delhi heat,” climaterealism.com, June 6, 2024
6. Vijay Jayaraj, “Record low temps around the world go unreported,” principia-scientific.com, February 26, 2024
7. “Study shows urban heat skewed US warming data for over a century,” climatechangedispatch.com, May 20, 2025
8. Roy W. Spencer et al., “Urban heat island effects in the US summer surface temperature data, 1895-2023,” journals.ametsoc.org, April 29, 2025
9. Y. Kara and V. Yavuz, “Urban microclimates in a warming world: land surface temperature trends across ten major cities on seven continents”, Urban Sci., 2025 9(4), 115
10. Kenneth Richard, “Urban heat island effect always ignored by temperature-obsessed,” principia-scientific.com, August 15, 2025
11. Matthew Wielicki, “How NASA’s ‘hottest evah’ temperatures are arrived at”, principia-scientific.com, August 15, 2025

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