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Friday, 19 December 2025

Tedious Temperature Twaddle



Average global temperature to hit 1.4°C above preindustrial levels in 2026, warns UK’s Met Office

Scientists predict that 2026 will be one of the hottest years since 1850, as heat-trapping emissions continue to boil the planet.

Earlier this month, data from Copernicus warned that 2025 is currently tied with 2023 as the second-warmest year on record, with the global average temperature from January to November 2025 hitting 1.48°C above preindustrial levels.

2024 remains the hottest year since records began, and the first to exceed 1.5°C over the 1850-1900 baseline.



An hour ago, about 4pm, we came back from a long lunch with relatives, lit the wood-burner and by 5pm the room temperature was already 2°C higher than when we arrived. Yet somehow we don't feel doomed even though the temperature is still climbing.

Two conclusion are possible. Either we are immune to such a scorching rise in temperature or we are immune to Met Office twaddle.

As an aside, I wonder how many Met Office folk are bored with this tedious twaddle? Will some of them finally admit it during the latter stages of the Christmas party?

3 comments:

dearieme said...

Mr Homewood's blog frequently explains how the Met Office fakes its temperature "data".

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com

Peter MacFarlane said...

Whether they fake it or not, I refuse to believe that 1.4C above the temperature at the end of the little ice age constitutes an emergency.

It’s just boring; we’re all done with it, they might as well just shut up.

A K Haart said...

dearieme - the tallbloke blog is also doing some fine work on Met Office weather stations and its frequent inability to comply with WMO standards, or even its own standards.
https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/

Peter - I agree, it's beneficial, something to be thankful for, not an emergency.