AFTER the BBC’s ‘environment analyst’ Roger Harrabin went into hysterics about last month’s sunny weather in his piece ‘Climate change: May was sunniest calendar month on record in the UK’, it is appropriate to point out to him that last month was far from being the hottest on record in England:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/data/download.html
In fact, there have been 47 hotter Mays since 1659. The hottest was 1833, and the five hottest were all pre-1850.
We know, of course, that Harrabin has little interest in facts unless they suit his agenda. But he really should consult the data since he might learn something.
He claims that May 2020 was the sunniest on record in the UK, but sunshine records did not start until 1929. I strongly suspect those scorching Mays in the 19th century were also unusually sunny.
What about spring as a whole? Again, nowhere near a record, tied at 9th warmest with 1952. Spring was also warmer back in 1893:
The spring of 1893 was the driest on record in England. A look at the Met Office monthly weather summaries shows just how similar that spring was to this year’s, other than the fact that there was some rain towards the end of May:
https://digital.nmla.metoffice.gov.uk/SO_0ae033c1-0ae6-4bde-a493-5851547972e6/
Far from the recent weather in the UK being unprecedented and astounding, or it being a part of a pattern of increasingly extreme weather, as Harrabin’s so-called fellow scientist travelers want us to believe, the spring of 1893 shows just how little England’s climate has changed in the last 127 years.
But you won’t be told that by the BBC.
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This is so tiresome to have lunatics like Harrabin promulgating these propaganda lies every single month. I woke to hear local news readers in LA proclaiming that May was “the hottest month of May ever in history” with a blithe smile as they turned to the latest entertainment headline from Hollywood. I daresay the news from Hollywood was more important and indeed actually factual.
While we now know that the May temperatures are not nearly as astounding as purported, what is absolutely astounding is the total lack of fact checking or data review before making such announcements.
They hope most people are either to ignorant or lazy to check it out. And they are right. Even with this correction it won’t make it into ant m any major news outlets.
Like i have said before the BBC is nothing but the British version of CNN nothing but Leftists/Globalists Propaganda
May 30, 2020 Global Weirding Of 1934
May of 1934 was the hottest May in US history, and May of 1935 was the coolest. Government scientists can’t explain this, so instead they erase it.
https://youtu.be/_FA_C_J6v0M
Pepys recorded (during period of Little Ice Age patterns) blazing heat june, so hot the pebbles were too hot to walk on: it aided the Great Fire. My own mother told me often that 1934 May and June were appalling blazing heat, unbearable. Amanigly, weather changes, and computers cannot tell us why. Severe drought hit us in 1976 with baking heat.