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   From: dtl@invalid.net   
      
   Ed P wrote:   
   > I know you have some background in the sciences, have you ever looked at   
      
   THIS:   
      
   https://dailysceptic.org/2024/11/05/science-shock-u-k-met-office   
   is-inventing-temperature-data-from-100-non-existent-stations/   
      
   Shocking evidence has emerged that points to the U.K. Met Office   
   inventing temperature data from over 100 non-existent weather stations.   
   The explosive allegations have been made by citizen journalist Ray   
   Sanders and sent to the new Labour Science Minister Peter Kyle MP.   
   Following a number of Freedom of Information requests to the Met Office   
   and diligent field work visiting individuals stations, Sanders has   
   discovered that 103 stations out of 302 sites supplying temperature   
   averages do not exist. “How would any reasonable observer know that the   
   data was not real and simply ‘made up’ by a Government agency,” asks   
   Sanders. He calls for an “open declaration” of likely inaccuracy of   
   existing published data, “to avoid other institutions and researchers   
   using unreliable data and reaching erroneous conclusions”.   
      
   In his home county of Kent, Sanders charges that four of the eight sites   
   identified by the Met Office, namely Dungeness, Folkestone, Dover and   
   Gillingham – which all produce rolling temperature averages to the   
   second decimal place of a degree – are “fiction”. Sanders notes that   
   there has been no weather station at Dungeness since 1986. The Daily   
   Sceptic is able to confirm that none of the four stations appear in the   
   list of Met sites with a classification from the World Meteorological   
   Organisation (WMO). The Met Office directs online inquiries about Dover   
   to the ”nearest climate station” at Dover Harbour (Beach) and provides a   
   full set of rolling 30-year averages. According to Met Office   
   co-ordinates, the site is on Dover beach as the Google Earth photo below   
   shows. It seems unlikely that any scientific organisation would site a   
   temperature monitoring station that is likely to be submerged on a   
   regular basis. Who is running this station on the beach, have accurate   
   records been kept for 30 years and why is it not listed under the 380   
   sites that are given a WMO rating?   
      
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