Despite cold, wet, windy, and generally highly unseasonal weather, June in Britain was still officially rated as above average in temperature!!!
This is astonishing because - as posts on this site have shown - no ones recollection of the month was as anything but a very unsummery start to summer, giving vacation minded Britons the green light to race to sunnier climes abroad for their holidays. It naturally begs the question of just how reliable average temperatures are as a guide to what is really happening in the world, and also to that much broader discussion involving Global Warming and Climate Change.
It is well known that statistical averages can be manipulated in limitless ways, and for June in Britain to be rated above average in temperature, at the very least suggests we are getting a distorted image of a month that saw some of the wettest and coldest June days on record. Of course whole discussions now rage on the way temperature records are amassed, and it would seem that if the question of Global Warming is built on similarly distorted data then its no wonder that people are coming to believe in something that just doesn’t exist.
