How not to measure temperature, part 93: the hottest weather station in the UK cited by the BBC has some interesting exposure | Watts Up With That?

So to summarize the surroundings of this station:

City UHI nearby
Industrial area surrounding it
River with heated water from power plant and sewage plant dumped into it nearby
Surrounded by water on three sides
Surrounded by low albedo (high solar absorbing) mudflats nearby with low tide near time of Tmax
Sited at a radar station with waste heat exhaust clearly visible
Sited directly next to a sidewalk

No wonder it is consistently a high temperature record breaker!

Little Ice Age: The Approaching Disaster

In all likelihood, a return to a little ice age will entail cooler summers and colder winters with a growing season 1 to 2 months shorter in many places. This is something we can adapt to and is much less catastrophic than a full fledged ice age with glaciers covering large portions of the northern hemisphere. Even though we will be able to adapt, it will still cause problems with food production in a world that continues to grow at an ever increasing rate. It could still mean shortages and starvation for some around the world as the grain producing regions in the north are able to produce much less or nothing at all in some places. Even a small shift in climate still holds the potential for dire results if we do not plan for it ahead of time.

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A former Tory Minister set to provide the Government with crucial advice on climate change is at the centre of a new conflict-of-interest row after it was revealed he is chairman of a consortium bidding to build one of the world’s biggest offshore windfarms.

John Selwyn Gummer, who was Environment Secretary under John Major and Agriculture Minister in Margaret Thatcher’s Government, is the newly designated chairman of the powerful Committee on Climate Change (CCC). It was set up to provide David Cameron with independent advice on energy policy and climate change.

But a Mail on Sunday investigation has learned the former MP – who became Lord Deben in 2010 – is also chairman of Forewind, a consortium trying to build thousands of turbines in the North Sea’s Dogger Bank.