I didn’t say it was the wettest February yet

JAMES Grimbleby (Newbury Weekly News, March 21) has, unfortunately, confused what he thinks I wrote and what I wrote.

Referring to my letter of March 14, titled ‘Not true that this was the wettest February’, and to correct his misapprehension, nowhere in it do I claim the BBC or Met Office said this year’s February was the wettest.

That claim was made by the letters page contributor of March 7, who was, bizarrely, attempting to associate lack of road maintenance to climate change.

Such carelessness in interpretation is not uncommon among those who have been duped by the ideology that anthropogenic CO2 is the reason climate changes.

As to Mr Grimbleby’s (and the BBC’s) claim that February 2024 was the warmest on record, this only holds true if we ignore those parts of the historical record in which Februarys were warmer.

As per the Met Office’s own CET record, England had a warmer February in 1779.

However, this fact does not align with the proscribed narrative, so is omitted by the ideologically captured, presumably to shore up the increasingly wobbly wheels of the climate crisis bandwagon.

Imagine ‘Warmest February in 245 years’.

Yes, it doesn’t really cut it as a global warming headline when you’ve a ‘crisis’ to maintain (oops, I forget, old global warming needed to be retermed climate change, such that any ‘useful’ period of hot, cold, dry, wet, calm or windy weather can be cited as ‘evidence’).

Such manipulating of data, to make it fit the desired narrative, is not uncommon.

Within the IPCC’s modelling capacity, changing the data to ensure it gives the desired outcome is termed ‘homogenising’, an entirely appropriate description, thinking within the IPCC and the supposedly unbiased BBC having been homogenised to ‘nothing except the proscribed narrative’ quite some time ago.

Misrepresentation is also very common.

Just look at the claim that floating offshore wind will ‘make people’s bills cheaper’ and ‘improve energy security’.

One of the more worrying things here is that our politicians assume the electorate either too enraptured by the ideology or too stupid to see through such utter rubbish. HAMISH McCRACKEN

Adeys Close

Newbury