There's money to be made!-----The climate scaremongers: Junk sites behind the Met Office’s so-called heat records

LAST week was even hotter than the summer of 1976, or at least that is what the Met Office keeps telling us. Is that really the case, though? - Paul Homewood

We were inundated with daily claims of temperature records being broken, forecasts that temperatures could get close to 40C or 104F (they did not) and the obligatory red heat warnings informing us we might die if we step outside our front doors.

• But where is the evidence that this heatwave was even more extreme than in 1976? 

Most people who remember the 1970s would probably say the Met Office is gaslighting us.

• In 1976, temperatures hit 35.9C (96.6F) in Cheltenham on July 3. 

The Met Office reckons that this temperature was exceeded last week.

• Top of the list are Lingwood and Santon Downham, both in Norfolk, which they say recorded 37.7C (99.8F) and 37.3C (99.1F) on Friday, a record for June. Santon Downham in Norfolk is, however, one of the most poorly sited weather stations in the country, even by the Met Office’s abysmal standards. It is a Class 5 site, the worst category, which the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says can add up to 5C of artificial warming. In other words, the temperature at Santon Downham might have been as low as 32.3C (90F) if it had been properly sited.
• Lingwood, another Class 5, is even worse. It is just a few yards from a thick bank of trees and surrounded on the other three sides by tall hedges. It is a perfect sun-trap as there is no air circulation...