A British government agency has been caught fabricating meteorological data from more than one hundred non-existent weather stations to promote the climate change narrative and Net Zero agenda being promoted by globalist interests.
Alarmingly, this fabricated data has found its way into climate models used by leading institutions worldwide, influencing the United Nations and other global organizations in shaping climate policies and driving alarmist narratives.
Following a number of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to the Met Office and diligent field work visiting individual stations, investigator Ray 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 the fraudulent nature of existing published climate data, “to avoid other institutions and researchers using unreliable data and reaching erroneous conclusions”.
In his home county of Kent, Sanders found 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”.
Daily Sceptic reports: Sanders notes that there has been no weather station at Dungeness since 1986. 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 organization 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?
Of the 302 sites quoted, Sanders notes that the Met Office “declined to advise me” exactly how or where the alleged ‘data’ were derived for these 103 non-existent sites.
The practice of ‘inventing’ temperature data from non-existent stations is a controversial issue in the United States where the local weather service NOAA has been charged with fabricating data for
more than 30% of its reporting sites.
Data are retrieved from surrounding stations and the resulting averages are given an ‘E’ for estimate.
“The addition of the ghost station data means NOAA’s monthly and yearly reports are not representative of reality,” says meteorologist Anthony Watts. “If this kind of process were used in a court of law, then the evidence would be thrown out as being polluted,” he added.
In his open letter to Peter Kyle MP, Sanders states that he has demonstrated with hard evidence that the Met Office is “clearly fabricating” data. In addition, it is failing to meet high standards of scientific integrity and is not producing reliable or accurate data for climate reporting purposes from a network of poorly sited and inadequately maintained locations.
Peter Kyle is the Minister responsible for the Met Office and has yet to respond to Sanders’s allegations. While the silence in Government, Parliament and the Met Office, aided by a total lack of interest in the mainstream media, is maintained, it can only be assumed that the interests of the Net Zero promotion override any concerns about the underlying scientific data.