Hot Air & Large Lies To Go: What HadCET Tells Us
The daily data are in for June and July and Schrödinger’s cat is both in and out of the bag
By way of introduction readers might like to squint back at my articles entitled: Hottest June kills UK fish and threatens insects, June 1976 vs. June 2023, and my five part series entitled: Hot, Hotter, Hottest. The crew at the Hadley Centre have promptly released the data for July for the Central England Temperature Record (HadCET) – which you may download for your goodselves here – and so it remains for me to get the coffee on the stove and some toast under the grill. Strangely enough, our toast pops out of a toaster but there’s something romantic about the mention of grills. Even more bizarre is that we’ve been saying “put some toast under the grill” for decades even though it is sliced bread that drops into an electric toaster!
Toasting toast is going to render a slice of carbon, and this is most appropriate imagery for this afternoon’s article, for the powers that be are attempting to convince the public that they were toasted in June, and boiled in July. I’m banking on global sa…