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Question Suspect and Faulty Temperature Data

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Jack Dini ——Bio and Archives--September 18, 2025

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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.

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........

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