HOTTEST JULY DAY EVER IN BRITAIN. MEH.

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James Delingpole shows that the BBC have no compunction to downright lie when they think it serves their agenda.

HOTTEST JULY DAY EVER IN BRITAIN. MEH.

by JAMES DELINGPOLE

Yesterday’s record-breaking heatwave in Southern England was a certain sign of End Times – as the BBC acknowledged on Newsnight by wheeling on a climate scientist to explain how totally doomed we all are thanks to our selfishness, greed and refusal to amend our lifestyles.

But before you all go and top yourselves, Paul Homewood has some cheering news. In the context of the temperatures Britain experienced in the much more widespread heatwave of August 1990, yesterday’s “hottest July day ever” – based on the 36.7 C recording from just one spot: Heathrow airport – was really nothing special.

This Met Office hourly data chart, showing the maximum temperatures recorded in the two respective years, tells you all you need to know.

MAX TEMP C	1990	2015
Cheltenham	37.1	32.1
Cambridge	36.5	30.3
South Farnborough	36.2	32.1
Hawarden	35.2	27.2
Newport	34.8	28.7
Sutton Bonnington	34.8	33.2
Cardiff	33.1	23.2
Bidston	31.4	27.0
Sheffield	34.3	33.2
Prestatyn	32.4	26.4
Eastbourne	32.6	31.5
Tynemouth	31.9	27.6
Skegness	32.4	26.9
Leuchars	30.8	17.5

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Christopher Booker also writes about the claim by the Met Office and picked up by the BBC without any eyebrows raised.

Mystery grows over Met Office’s 'hottest day’
It was odd to base a claimed record of 36.7C (98F) on a single reading at Heathrow airport

By Christopher Booker

No sooner had the BBC and all the usual suspects rushed to trumpet that last Wednesday was the hottest July day in the history of the world than more thoughtful observers, such as that diligent blogger Paul Homewood (on Notalotofpeopleknowthat), began raising their eyebrows.
For a start, it was odd for the Met Office to base its claimed record of 36.7C (98F) on a single reading at Heathrow airport, when it is well-known that thermometers surrounded by a vast area of tarmac can exaggerate heat by as much as 2 degrees. Even the Met Office’s own hourly record only showed its highest Heathrow reading on Wednesday as 35.9C, while four other sites nearby showed the day’s hottest recording at just 35C.

Even if 36.7C was genuinely the hottest July reading since records were kept, this would still have been way short of the 38.5C recorded at Faversham on August 16 2003; or that famous day, August 3 1990, when Cheltenham registered 37.1C and local records were broken all over the country, which still stand. I recall that afternoon showing my young sons the thermometer in our shaded West Country courtyard reading 98F, before taking it out into the sun to see it shooting off the top at 130F.

But nothing last week better conveyed the desperation of the warmists to convince us that the world is hotter than ever than a remarkable item on Tuesday’s Today programme, when Lord Deben (aka John Gummer), bursting with self‑righteousness, broke the record for the largest number of absurd claims ever squeezed into a single three-minute interview: such as telling us that Bangladesh will soon be so intolerably hot that we shall see “170 million displaced people wandering the world, looking for somewhere to live”.

So insistent was the noble lord that everything he was saying was “absolutely true” that John Humphrys eventually suggested that some people might think his wild assertions sounded “more like a religion than a science”. Gumboot hilariously replied that people had better believe him – because “even the Pope” was now agreeing with him.