Reuters inaccurate fact check
By Paul Homewood
London, 27 July – The Global Warming Policy Foundation has called on Reuters to withdraw or correct a misleading fact check, which they published on July 14th, called "Met Office says UK temperature data shows increase in last two decades".
The fact check concerns a report in the Daily Sceptic, claiming that average U.K. temperatures had not increased over the last two decades. This was based on a chart from our recent publication, The UK’s Weather in 2022, shown below:
As the Daily Sceptic correctly noted, the 10-year average has barely changed since 2007.
The Met Office claim that their “preferred smoothing pattern” clearly shows warming over the last two decades. However the use of 10-year averages is common in these sort of studies, and the Met Office themselves often use decadal averages.
Reuters also justify their fact check by reference to the Met Office’s claim that the ten warmest years in the UK since 1884 have been in the last two decades. This, however, is a red herring – it does not mean that temperatures have carried on increasing.
We call on Reuters to correct their fact check to reflect the fact that decadal temperatures have flatlined in the last two decades, as the observational data clearly reveals.
Paul Homewood, author of The UK’s Weather in 2022 comments:
“If UK temperatures in the last 20 years were increasing as rapidly as the Met Office suggest, it should be obvious from their own data. Yet according to the Met Office’s State of UK Climate 2022 report, published today, UK temperature between 1998 and 2007 averaged 9.35°C, compared to 9.44°C between 2013 and 2022, a statistically insignificant change.”
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
The graph clearly shows a general rising of the temperature since about the mid-1980’s. Is this what is being referred to by the climate alarmists?
The surface temperatures didn’t meaningfully increase (over the general warming since the “Little Ice Age”) until ~1998 when there was a SUPER-El Nino. Since 1998, the warming has, essentially, stopped increasing.
So,
1) no, it is not — they are, rather, making the false assertion that it has been warming dangerously over the past 2 decades.
However,
2) perhaps, yes, it is — they are known to intentionally mischaracterize the surface temperature data and its trends.
What happened to the warm period in the 1930s? Everywhere else in the Northern Hemisphere had very hot weather, similarly around 1911. More adjusted data”?
What is missing from the discussion of temperatures; aka weather, is the Earth has been in a cyclic, repeated, warming period since the end of The Little Ice Age in the early 1800’s. When you start to ‘measure’ temperatures during a regularly recurring cycle of periodic warming–you get warming. This has happened before, will happen again, and no one gives any credit or blame to that big, yellow, star in the sky which undergoes its own perturbations. Perhaps, Climate Change Policy, like Monetary Policy, is far too unpredictable and terrible to be practiced by mere mortals.
If anyone has the slightest doubt, we are now in the era of “Global Boiling”!!!!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-66323843
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We are heading for the Hottest July ever recorded according to the BBC. Is this the record base that dates only from 1979 which caused all the fuss with the ‘hottest days’ ever recorded a week or two ago?