At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/11/shock-new-evidence-shows-unnatural-60-second-heat-spikes-drive-many-uk-met-office-temperature-records/ … Dr Eric Huxter, a retired geography teacher of 40 years, who also has a PhD in Earth Sciences, has been looking at Met Office temperature recording. Why are there so many records being set. Homing in on the temperature spikes – or the daily highs as they are sometimes called, has proved to be rewarding. These are of course used by MSM and media in general, especially the BBC. They are used in a sort of fanfare to hoodwink the general public, it would seem. The more you get to know what is happening behind the scenes the more you wonder what is the reason for it all. What is relly going on?
On May 1st, this year, the Met Office claimed a temperature station at Kew Gardens recorded a temperature record, for that day, of 29.3 degrees. This was presented by the BBC as the second highest ever – furthering the illusion of global warming. However, shortly before the record reading temperatures were 2.6 degrees lower. It plunged in a single minute. The spike was similar in some ways to a July 2022 national record from RAF Coningsby. The high temperature lasted a fraction in time, coinciding with three typlon jets landing. It subsequently fell back down again – but the fall in temperature was not used by either the Met Office or the BBC. It seems the Kew Gardens station is sited close to the tropical greenhouse – one of the largest such glass houses with heating in the world. All it would take would be a short burst of wind – taking heat from the tropical garden to the station – and bingo. Another record. It too fell very quickly – in around a single minute of time. Yet, that was not disclosed. Which means the Met Office and BBC are seriously dishonest.
We all knew that anyway – but proving that was something else. Eric Huxter has done the lifting – and well done to him. It seems quite clear the Met Office is compromised by a political or financial connection with the Net Zero people. This has been the case since it introduced sensitive thermometers to collect 60 second unnatural heat spikes. These short term spikes are occurring more often at what are known as junk temperature stations. On airfields for example, or in urban environments with temperatures higher than in the sticks. These sensitive thermomenters have been used since the late 1990s – at the very start of the global warming alarmism. The spikes are therefore an artifact of the new methodology. One that is hushed up as it was beneficial to the alarmist lobby – and the renewables industry that has been creaming UK tax payers. In other words, the Met Office and the BBC, and various others, are using flawed statistics. A purposeful agenda which makes you wonder. If the world was really warming why would they need to fake the numbers. It is fairly obvious to anyone that the current heat wave in mid June is down to activity on the Sun – and the big CME that pumped lots of excess energy into the earth system. It will disappear in a week or so as the heat is dispersed back into space.