BBC Scottish Climate Lies Scandal Gets Interesting, As They Try To Cover Them Up!
By Paul Homewood
h/t idau
A quick update about the latest lie from the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67752167
As I commented, the BBC’s report clearly claimed:
http://web.archive.org/web/20231219012205/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67752167
The lie has now morphed into:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67752167
There has been no apology for error or a correction made in the latest BBC version. They have obviously panicked and tried to hide their misinformation under the carpet. Fortunately we have Wayback to expose their shenanigans!
It also appears that the original misinformation from the researchers has quietly been deleted. Unfortunately this was never saved to Wayback, which leaves the BBC without any evidence that they were misled in the first place.
Get the popcorn out!!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Paul: Any idea why it has COP26 at the top?
Well spotted Phillip. I have already complained about the original article so I shall now follow that up. Why “COP 26”? Well probably copy and pasting from a previous template of bull shit?
This really is becoming quite evil.
It is incredible that OFCOM is always taking GB News to task, but never seems to go for the real abusers: wonder why?
Two tier justice means rules only apply to us not to libmob
#ItsOKwhenTheyDoIt
Because the BBC errs from virtue and GB News errs from evil. This how the Left think.
The Group thinkers think? When did that start?
The original Scottish Sun article on this subject was presented here
https://ustimespost.com/scotlands-climate-is-changing-at-an-alarming-rate-and-average-temperatures-are-reaching-levels-not-expected-before-2050/#google_vignette
It’s on MSN too.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/scotlands-climate-changing-faster-than-expected/ar-AA1lHlZS
The executive summary of the study is here. It contains links to three reports: Summary of climate trends, future projections and extremes in Scotland; Climate Trends and Future
Projections in Scotland; Climate Extremes in Scotland.
This gives the game away – ‘based on the high emissions scenario (RCP8.5)’. That was discredited years ago.
From the ‘Climate Trends and Future Projections’ report (85 pp):
Projected future changes
Data from the UKCP18 climate projections (12 individual model simulations) for two time periods, 2020 –2049 and 2050 – 2079, were compared with the observed 1960 – 1989 baseline to identify potential future changes. The 12 projections are based on the high emissions scenario (RCP8.5) but consist of a range of possible climate change from 1°C increase in temperature and an increase in precipitation total, to 3.7°C and a reduction in precipitation.
Indeed: anything based on RCP 8.5 should be described as for entertainment value and Hollywood disaster movie script writers only.
BBC is ratioed 60 Likes to 102 replies mocking them
2 of the 4 Quote tweets do support alarmism.
I know how to track bbc stealth edits
So I’ll have a look when I get home.
Sentiment of replies to bbc tweet
https://www.twitter.com/bravo_ashey/status/1737128887320994030
I still had the original page at the James Hutton Institute open on my tablet: unfortunately I didn’t think to archive it at Wayback. I have made some screen captures that you can easily download:
and
Cheers IDAU these days it’s difficult to cover things up
I was traveling home when you posted so missed your post
and ended up finding a cached Bing copy in the morning
Scotland’s climate is Cfb (Köppen). What do they expect it to change to?
They have no f*&^ing idea. A casual check into Scotland’s climate reveals it’s NOT changing, and there is NFW it is going to change.
“Scotland’s climate ‘changing faster than expected'” is literally stupid.
First rule of lying: Don’t lie about that which is easily checked.
“Scotland’s climate is Cfb (Köppen). What do they expect it to change to?”
Valencia (Köppen: Csa) also known as Mediterranean climate. At the current rate of unprecedented change, mid-February should see the transition completed. 🙂
You haven’t keep up with THE SCIENCE! Mind you, neither have the publicity hounds.
2004: Britain to have Siberian climate by 2020
Source: The Guardian, February 21, 2004
Between 2010 and 2020, Europe would be hardest hit by climatic change, with an average annual temperature drop of 6°F (3°C).
2004 Scottish skiing industry has no more than 20 years left.
the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Banchory, Aberdeenshire,
2007 Dr. David Viner within twenty years, the Mediterranean would become far too hot for European holiday makers, who would instead flock to Blackpool to take advantage of warmer summers in the UK
What about the two from Aberdeen who motored from the N magnetic pole to the S magnetic pole in an EV powering it by a wind turbine and solar panels. It’s out there and a good laugh.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51zd0p1j6po
Nothing is said about the support provided to Chris and Julie Ramsey by the carbon-fuel based society. Everything about this reeks of hypocrisy.
Meanwhile, in the real world, deceleration of the EV transition is unprecedented.
97% sure of that.
NewsSniffer picked the stealth edits
3 stages since original publication so far
https://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/2587335/diff/2/3
“some parts of Scotland” is a vague meaningless cherrpick
“some parts of StewGreen are over 12 inches long”
.. , but not necessarily the part you might have been thinking of
It’s obviously p hacked, hence some parts and February. I’d bet £1 there are parts that in some months declined in average temperature. It’s the classic sung averages fraud.
I have 2 comments stuck in moderation
The BBC Scotland article is mocked on Twitter, so it’s ratioed
Here’s the main sentiment
https://www.twitter.com/bravo_ashey/status/1737128887320994030
They came through as Stew Green 2, for some reason!!
yes I was on a new device, so wasn’t logged in as normal
Its clearly false to claim “Scotland’s climate” based on “parts of Scotland” and one month. It’s obvious that they have used “parts” and one small time period because larger areas and greater time periods don’t show it. It is then fraud.
The mistakes always seem to be in the direction of alarm, and it falls to a blogger to spot them. Good old BBC.
Keep at ’em Paul.
The BBC seem to have got the month (February) wrong anyway. The source report says:
At the national scale, in the most extreme years, March has seen the largest observed increase in Highest Temperature from 16.9°C (1960-1989) to 19.4°C (1990-2019), which is already larger than the projected changes for the period to 2050.
Note the ‘in the most extreme years’ qualification. No mention of the word ‘average’ used by the BBC.
And as ever, if your forecast is wrong, the hypothesis on which you base your forecast is wrong. I don’t win my bet that Chelsea will win 2-0 if they win 4-0. If its happening faster, the models must be wrong, not more right.
“It’s worse than we thought!”
IOW: “We were wrong.”
Instead of Wayback machine
You can find old copies of webpages by using various search engines and loading their cached version of the page
I’m busy and haven’t found an original source for “16.9C to 19.4C” yet
@JamesHuttonInst
Bio : “World-leading scientific organisation encompassing a distinctive range of integrated strengths in land, crop, water, environmental and socio-economic science.”
The BBC article was cutNpasted by @KKeaneBBC from their PR
Original article is https://www.hutton.ac.uk/news/scotland%E2%80%99s-climate-changing-faster-predicted
It references https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/2-page%20Executive%20Summary%20-%20climate%20trends-projections-extremes%20%20implications%20for%20Natural%20Capital%20and%20Policy%2012-7-23.pdf
The Evening Standard article writes the 16.9 claim in a slightly different way
Amazing how climate change picks out February!
Yes Google’s cache did catch the James Hutton Inst page saying
“In some parts of the country, temperatures in February, for example, have risen 2.5°C, from an average 16.9°C in the period 1960-1989 to 19.4°C during the three decades 1990-2019.”
screenshot : https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GByA80VXUAAKYW-?format=jpg&name=small
The complete page is in Bings cache
I saved it
and screenshot it
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GByCyR6XwAArZ59?format=jpg&name=small
The bbc is a green wasting disease an affliction on all Britons, ofcom are like the quackcine doctors worsening the pathogen.
1. Where are the BBC much trumpeted fact checkers?
2. What is the protocol regarding historical errors? There must be a public reporting process. Surely they cannot just change historical documents on the fly without either documenting or telling anyone about it.
3. Where is the worthless quango OFCOM when it is needed? Strange how “vigilant” they can be when the criminal in waiting is a none left wing propaganda outfit. It seems OFCOM is not what we think it is. So why does it exist?
The BBC is now out of control. It is clear they fear absolutely no consequence for promoting blatant lies. What is to separate them now from Pravda and RT?
They only check the facts they don’t like.
Just remember, it is the cover-up that get’s you!
Did the BBC spot this gem? In the Executive Summary of Climate Trends (etc.):
For the 2050-2079 period for July and August, the Highest Temperature is projected to increase by 3.0 to 11.8°C
An extra 11.8°C might even shock the midges.
OldBrew “increase by 3.0 to 11.8°C” doesn’t mean a “An extra 11.8°C”
It means from 8,8C to 11.8C
Not that I believe their numbers, it’s all storytellingland , not real world.
I doubt if even Ben Nevis doesn’t get warmer than that in August,
https://www.holiday-weather.com/ben_nevis/averages/august/
Where we at ?
#1 So as Oldbrew found there In the Institute’s Executive Summary 39 page doc
There is a wild cherrypick about *Highest temperature’s, IN MARCH and no mention of 2.5C
▪ “At the national scale, in *the most extreme years*, March has seen the largest observed increase in
Highest Temperature from 16.9°C (1960-1989) to 19.4°C (1990-2019).. “
That’s a vague definition. I looks like data-torturing to get a big narrative
#2 2-page Executive Summary doesn’t mention March or 2.5
but says this
“February observed temperatures have already increased to be at the lower end of the 12 climate projections (high emissions scenario) used in this study for the 2020-2049 period.”
#3 The news story on the Insitutes website
Originally said
“In some parts of the country, temperatures in February, for example, have risen 2.5°C, from an average 16.9°C in the period 1960-1989 to 19.4°C during the three decades 1990-2019. ”
Google cache link (That’s the correct one, when I gave it earlier, I gave the wrong Google link but correct screenshot)
#4 The BBC story originally said
“In some parts of Scotland, temperatures in February rose from a high of 16.9C to 19.4C.”
So the BBC/media got the big error by copying the Institute’s news story.
Screenshot of the 3 main BBC stealh edit stages over 7 hours
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GBzIMtoXoAA-hE0?format=jpg&name=small
The Biased Brainwashing Cult, have discovered that the maximum of random data keeps rising. And likewise, if you cherry picked a low … they could equally lie about global cooling.
Hi have you seen the @Scot_Scientist account on Twitter spreading alarmist BS
Ambush naming I expect
The good old 61-90 cherry pick:
At 09:22 05/01/2005, Parker, David (Met Office) wrote:
“There is a preference in the atmospheric observations chapter of IPCC AR4 to stay with the 1961-1990 normals. This is partly because a change of normals confuses users, e.g. anomalies will seem less positive than before if we change to newer normals, so the impression of global warming will be muted.”
1931-60 CET was warmer at 9.6C than 61-90 at 9.47C.
https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/wcd/2012/11/28/fifty-years-ago-the-winter-of-1962-1963-in-reading/
“The winter of 1962/63 was one of the coldest on the UK instrumental record, with the mean January temperature ranking fifth coldest (out of 354 months) and the mean February temperature ranking the seventh coldest, according to the Central England Temperature record. Across the country as a whole gas and electricity supplies failed frequently, there were some noteworthy snowfalls and freezing rain (a relatively rare event in the UK) occurred on occasions – notably across southern England on 3 January.”
Thank goodness the temperature has risen since then.
I see the James Hutton Institute have finally done another stealth edit to revise their “since 2060” error to 1960. I get the feeling that they and the BBC have been pointed to these pages.
I can’t wait for the BBC to blame the error on JHI, at which stage I will show them the current version!
BBC Scotland replied to me yesterday at 7.15 p.m. as follows.
Dear Mr Sanders
Thanks for contacting us regarding the following BBC News article:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67752167 – Scotland’s climate ‘changing faster than expected’
We’re sorry for any confusion caused by the error you cite in the original article. As you may since have noted, the paragraph in question was amended and now reads as follows:
“In some parts of Scotland, the average monthly maximum temperatures in February rose 2.5 degrees, while the highest maximum temperatures have risen from 12.6C to 13.4C.”
COP26 was one of a number of tags which were applied to the article, but unlike the others it was highlighted on the page because it also has a separate index (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cgdwpywgeegt). We believe it was inappropriate appropriate to link this article to COP26, given that the conference took place in Scotland.
Thanks again for taking the time to get in touch. Complaints are shared with news teams and senior management every morning via our overnight reports.
Kind regards,
BBC Scotland Complaints Team”
Just got to love the line
” We believe it was inappropriate appropriate to link this article to COP26″
Talk about tickbox, they obviously forgot to strike out the “inappropriate/appropriate” as “appropriately as they were supposed to”!