Every month seems to be the hottest, the driest, the wettest, or whichever record-breaking event it is.
By Paul Homewood
This article sums up just how hysterical some so-called experts have become:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66042272
Take this comment, for instance:
Many flowering plants, including orchids, wilted in the high temperatures, meaning insects like bees and butterflies that feed on nectar and pollen will have less to eat, Ali Morse from the Wildlife Trusts told BBC News.
Species with short lifespans are particularly badly affected. Many butterflies are adults for only a short time, and if they cannot access food in that period, it stunts the population.
These impacts are more surprising considering the wet and cold spring and are earlier than last year, Ms Morse added.
"Every month seems to be the hottest, the driest, the wettest, or whichever record-breaking event it is. If we have a one-off pollution event or a wildfire, then there is normally time for nature to bounce back, but now it seems to be continually pounded by extreme weather," she added.
“Every month seems to be the hottest, the driest, the wettest, or whichever record-breaking event it is.”
Really, Ms Morse?
If you really believe that, you are living in a fantasy world! I suggest you get back in touch with reality, and check what the facts say.
First, temperatures:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-and-regional-series
There is a cluster of coldest months in the early record, and another cluster of hottest towards the end, just as you would expect in a gradually warming climate. However, there has only been one, solitary record since 2015, and that was of course last month.
And rainfall? Again, just one monthly record since 2014; that was February 2020. In total, just four records since 1997, which is about average:
In short, we have had just two monthly records for temperature and rainfall in the last eight years; that is hardly “every month”, Ms Morse!
Indeed two in eight years is pretty much what you would expect. With 48 records up for grabs over a period of 187 years for rain and 140 years for temperature, the law of averages say you will get one every three years.
Sadly this hysteria is not confined to the odd buffoon, like our Ms Morse.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Everyone I talk to, even if they are environmrnt minded is fed up with the constant blatant lies and propaganda flooding the news, no pun intended
Sorry about this being off topic , but just read that the “Emissions Trading Scheme ” is bringing in changes from next year .
So probably more increases in the cost of everything like the last one in 2021.
Ithttps://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism
The ongoing scheme to destroy Western economies .
C’mon, it’s all part of the case for existing /more funding arrangements and easy copy for newspaper editors. Who would suggest that the Met Office is not a compelling source for this info? Must be due for a new maxi computer at the Met.. Perhaps AI would do better.
BBC Claim:
“Many flowering plants, including orchids, wilted in the high temperatures
Rainforest Alliance science:
“Orchids are extremely adaptable, and grow in almost all climates except for frigid and arid extremes. Orchid groups are both pantropical, able to grow in different tropical countries, and endemic, only found in specific countries or habitats. Most orchid species grow in tropical forests, but others can be found in semi-desert regions, near the seashore and in the tundra.” (my emphasis)
Usual BBC lies and/or sheer ignorance.
I screwed up my tags…….
“Every month seems to be the hottest, the driest, the wettest, or whichever record-breaking event it is.”
What he should have noted was this “Every month, we are told, seems to be the hottest, the driest, the wettest, or whichever record-breaking event it is.”
Surely even this guy can smell a rat.
Nature ‘pounded’, insects ‘disturbed’.
I’d like to see the pounding and disturbance index studies. Ah, but these are not really quantifiable claims, just more baseless climate alarmist rhetoric.
Gamecock has some yard work to do this afternoon. He’s going to threaten some insects while out there.
What does the CET say?
Look back at recent threads, repeatedly posted.
For a BBC article, I’m pleasantly surprised at the amount of push back in the comments section.
When is this rot going to end
As far as ‘hottest June’ is concerned, just look at the UK sunshine hours anomaly for the month.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-actual-and-anomaly-maps
Parameters: Climate variable = Sunshine, Year = 2023, Period = June, Map type = Actual
‘The Met Office added June 2023 was also the sunniest since 1957’
https://news.sky.com/story/hottest-june-ever-in-uk-met-office-says-but-announcement-invokes-something-sinister-12913954
CO2 doesn’t increase sunshine 🙄
Met Office inevitably pins it on climate change.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weather-and-climate/2023/fingerprints-of-climate-change-on-june-temperature-records
What is interesting/unusual is that the largest anomalies were on the west of the UK, Wales and Scotland, the warmth was very persistent throughout the month, and very even over the whole UK – hence the exceptional statistical outcome without any actual extreme heat.
Lies, damned lies and statistics.
At that’s the key point. It wasn’t “really hot” we just had a lot of warm days. The unusual thing was the number of warm days, not how hot any given day was. So we had a higher average, nothing more. The claim insects and plants can’t cope with higher averages is just bizarre – they don’t need a few cooler days here and there! It’s utter bollocks.
Steven E. Koonin (2021, p. 178):
I get the distinct sense that the science is unsettled enough that any unusual weather can be “attributed” to human influences.
In 1871 a reader of the Brisbane courier already noticed this. You can find the text of his observation somewhere on my web page https://www.milieuzaken.org/klimaatalarmisme.php
In the US, June was almost 1 deg F colder than June 1988
https://junkscience.com/2023/06/wrong-again-james-hansens-1988-senate-testimony-edition/#more-108548
Best spring weather I can remember here in southeast.
The explanation for Ms Morse’ quandary is that climate science is mysticism. She seeks rationalism.
But they were saying at the start of the month that it was going to be the hottest June on record. I saw an article today that said we now know the EXACT date of the next 40 deg day. It COULD be 13th July. So that’s a definite maybe then.
Met Office and BBC scaremongering about June temperatures imminent!!!
Interesting to note that June has the second highest mean temperature for that month since I started recording in 1964, it was over half a degree below 1976 It did so without reaching 30 degrees. (Met office climate station DCNN 4542)
Yes, the average was high, but it wasn’t “warm”. 20 days when increased 25 degrees instead of a typical 15 days when it did so isn’t going to harm any life-form
Of course we are getting weather extremes. Today must have been the windiest July day in Hertfordshire for years!
I recently contacted my local Wildlife Trust (Kent) for advice regarding a real threat of needless damage to a wildlife area full of protected reptiles (slow worms and lizards) as well as bats.
A very lengthy response from the “Planning and Policy” told me there was nothing they could really do for me. So what exactly do these people do apart from talk total rubbish about things they have no idea about and take their pay?
I then got an email from them asking for a donation – I declined.
Actually do something? Don’t be silly. They’ve set targets, published doom-laden claims, produced PowerPoint presentations. That’s how you save the world.
My older brother contacted the US EPA a few years ago over a factory near his house belching noxious smoke at night.
EPA actually responded. Twice, they sent agents out to observe. Both times, they reported to my brother that they hadn’t seen anything.
“How could you not ?!?! It’s there every night!”
“Oh. We were looking during the day.”
“You’ve got to go at night!”
“We don’t work at night. We can only go during the day.”
My brother surmised the factory owner knew that. So EPA rules only apply from 8 AM to 5 PM.
There are thousands of records for the climate fact-twisters to cherry-pick. Perhaps a statistician can elaborate on or refute this, but my intuition tells me that for the foreseeable future there will always be “low hanging fruit”: days with records that are nowhere near what the climate in a particular location is capable of. I’m able to look up the National Weather Service daily temperature records for the cities around me here in the USA Midwest. For the closest one, the record high for July 14 is 115F (1954). But for July 13 it is only 106 (1966). So since we know that highs of 115 are possible here in mid-July (I believe the all-time record high for the state is 118, set in the early 20th Century), it’s just a matter of time before the 106 record is broken. Could be next week, although the weather-guessers are not predicting it.