Booker Looks At That “Hottest Winter Day”

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

Booker on those “hottest winter day” claims:

Inevitably last Monday and Tuesday, the Met Office and the BBC rushed to publicise temperatures of over 70F (20C) as the highest ever recorded in any British winter, with the BBC quoting green zealots claiming that this was proof of global warming.

Tom Burke, a former director of Friends of the Earth but now described as running an “independent climate change think tank”, pointed out that this was twice the normal temperature for this time of year, asking us to imagine what it will be like when summer temperatures similarly reach twice their normal level. But equally inevitably this prompted Paul Homewood, on his Notalotofpeopleknowthat blog, to examine the Met Office’s own records to put these February temperatures into historical perspective.

For a start he found that, if this year set a daily record for February, caused by a high…

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