The Met Office, remember, is using this data to drive the climate-change agenda, to effectively degrade, if not destroy, our modern, technological lifestyle.

Now, the Daily Sceptic's Environment Editor, Chris Morrison, brings us the latest in this tale of dishonesty. It seems the Met Office is claiming data from "well-correlated neighbouring stations" but can't identify them or say exactly where they are.

Last year the UK Met Office was shown to be inventing long-term temperature data at 103 non-existent weather stations. It was claimed in a later risible ‘fact check’ that the data were estimated from nearby well-correlated neighbouring stations. Citizen super sleuth Ray Sanders issued a number of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to learn the identity of these correlating sites but has been told that the information is not held by the Met Office. So the invented figures for the non-existent sites are supposedly provided by stations that the Met Office claims it cannot identify and are presumably not recorded in its copious computer storage and archive.

Mr Sanders is understandably unimpressed with the explanation that this vital identifying information is not retained, writing: “Is the general public just supposed to ‘believe’ the Met Office without any workings out evident. To me, and every single scientist who has ever lived, it is imperative to show the data used – ANYTHING LESS IS NOT VALID. No Verifiable Data Source = No Credibility = no better than Fiction.”

This is a basic tenet of science: Your work must always be accompanied by the full disclosure of your raw data and the sources for that data, so that your work and its conclusions may be independently verified. The Met Office is not doing this and, indeed, appears unable to do this; therefore, they are not doing science, therefore they should not be driving policy decisions, in the realm of climate, energy, or anything else.

Not science. Not valid. Not a good use of the British taxpayer's money. But the Met Office is still shouting about the need to curb our lifestyles in the name of climate change.

As the Daily Sceptic has noted in the past, the Met Office has only itself to blame for the often trenchant criticism it receives on social media about its temperature collecting operations. It does a fine job of forecasting weather, but activist elements in its operation have weaponised inaccurate temperature recordings to promote the politicised Net Zero fantasy.

Recently, the chief scientist at the Met Office, Professor Stephen Belcher, called for Net Zero “to stabilise the climate” claiming he saw “more extreme weather” in the Met’s observations. In the UK, he suggested that between 2014-2023 the number of days recording 28C had doubled, while those over 30C had tripled compared to 1961-1990. A more extreme weather trend is not something that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has seen, while observations about more recent hot days might ring truer if they were not based on the increasingly urban heat-ravaged Met Office databases.

And Ray Sander’s take? “We are regularly told in the mainstream media, particularly the BBC, that we are entering an existential ‘climate emergency’, so how is it nobody wants to discuss the obviously fictional data that is being manipulated to support this ‘argument’?”

They don't want to discuss it because it's fictional. 

What's really amazing about this is the utter shamelessness of it all. It's as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote of the Soviet Union: 

We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.

The lie has become the pillar industry of the left, in Europe and here in the United States. That's why we must watch them; that's why we must demand sources, demand the raw data, demand that they defend their lies. This is not, after all, the Soviet Union. 

At least, not yet.

President Reagan once said of the left that they “…know so many things that just aren’t so”, and climate change is one of those. Sure, climates do change, and have, constantly, throughout the Earth’s history.  In fact, over the great majority of that long, long history, the planet was a lot warmer than it is now. As recently as 15 million years ago, in the Sangamonian Interglacial, North America was a warmer place, and probably a pretty pleasant one. If you had a time machine and were looking for a place in the past to settle, the Sangamonian would be a good one, weather-wise, with some mastodon hunting thrown in.

But the left, in the UK and here in the States, is committed to making climate change the wheel we must all be broken on, and nothing illustrates that more clearly than the Met Office's lying about their data sources in service to the climate-panic agenda.

See the previous two installments in the Met Office saga:

See Also: BUSTED: UK Meteorology Office Invents Imaginary Temperature Stations to Claim Climate Change

Global Warming or Global Incompetence? Study on Locations of Temp-Monitoring Stations Is Revealing.

What the Met Office is doing is unforgivable. They are funded by the British taxpayers, and they are lying to those taxpayers in pursuit of an agenda that will have a negative effect on the standard of living of those taxpayers. And why should this concern us? Because there are plenty of climate scolds right here, in these United States, who are favoring that same agenda, and who would shamelessly lie to us to achieve it.

As I've been saying for some time, on the climate issue: watch Europe, because they will try it here next.