Look at it this way Or this way, or this way. Graphing UK temperature data a bunch of different ways and failing to decide which is best or even what best means. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/l...

It finally happened. Got asked to review my own paper.

It's been a while since I last updated my excessive notes on a minor anomaly. However, the recent spate of global temperature forecasts was a good excuse. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/a...

Our paper exploring the drivers of the November 2023 “Taylor Swift” heatwave in Rio de Janeiro is officially out in WCD! Take a read to learn more about the causes of this record-breaking heatwave and Rio’s emerging risk for extreme heat: wcd.copernicus.org/articles/6/1...

We should predict indices that are not just statistical constructs but affect people's lives. GMST doesn't affect us, regional T does. Regional T patterns differ for AGW vs El Niño. Why fuss about annual predictions for an index that conflates them? My take from 2023: metamodel.blog/posts/big-ba...

It's been a while since I last updated my excessive notes on a minor anomaly. However, the recent spate of global temperature forecasts was a good excuse. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/a...

Quelle annee Another year of blogging without any particular aim or purpose diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/q...

Ni Va ce post on the climate brink by @hausfath.bsky.social about global mean temperature predictions for the next couple of years, but what I want to know is whether anyone changed their method since the 2023 forecast bust. Did we learn from it? www.theclimatebrink.com/p/my-2026-an...

Quelle annee Another year of blogging without any particular aim or purpose diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/q...

On the internet nobody knows you’re a dog.

On the internet nobody knows you’re a dog.

Met Office 2026 global temperature forecast released today: very likely a fourth consecutive year above 1.4 C and >1.5 C possible again. Highlights the vanishingly small headroom we have to stay below 1.5 C to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Monthly climate dashboard Now with data to November for many indicators. Global mean temperature is on track for 2025 to be the second or third warmest year on record. www.jkclimate.fr/MonthlyDashb...

Pop! There’s a technique to pilling an unwilling cat, or so they tell you. If you search for videos on the subject, you will find the topic is so common, it’s practically a genre. It goes like this… diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/p...

Pop! There’s a technique to pilling an unwilling cat, or so they tell you. If you search for videos on the subject, you will find the topic is so common, it’s practically a genre. It goes like this… diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/p...

A howlingly funny Blue Sky thread condensed by a scientist who would kindly like to remind you that when you read "Some scientists think" in an article, you might want to recaliberate your expectations.

A map of maps of the effect of La Nina on precipitation through the year. Did I miss anything?

Monthly climate dashboard Now with data to November for many indicators. Global mean temperature is on track for 2025 to be the second or third warmest year on record. www.jkclimate.fr/MonthlyDashb...

The new GloSAT temperature dataset extends our observational estimates of global temperature change back to 1781 Blog: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/new-estima... Paper by Morice et al.: essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

XKCD is straying into #geodesy again. Assuming you knew the mass and dimensions of the boat, the force on the line and the water density, how accurately could you estimate g and hence planetary mass? It's absurd. But so are the GRACE satellites! Geodesists are good at absurd. xkcd.com/3179

I have no where to go The swift satellites show The clock of my whole being is slow, It is too late to start For destinations not of the heart. I must stay here with my hurt.

Heading South But not for the warmth.. Tomorrow I'm taking the first stage of the journey to Antarctica, ironically enough though, I'm heading south by first heading north, to Oslo, where the Norwegian Polar Institute have organised an almost direct flight from Oslo to Troll station with a short…

If you are trying and failing to download NASA GISTEMP from outside the US, try switching your VPN's virtual location to the USA.

made a tune

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

A message much better stated than I could say it, but which I try to give to ECRs I work with. There are seasons in research and sometimes it is harvest time, but sometimes the seeds are just sitting in the ground resting and waiting for Spring. www.joanwestenberg.com/the-harvest-...

A cow is of the bovine ilk One end is moo, the other milk.

Hey! I’m CEO of a company that has just raised $10 billion for an app that takes the hard work out of enjoying music. Did you know, some people waste hours each day listening to “tunes”. Our AI will listen to it for you and summarise it in a 15 second scream leaving you more time to add value.

Since our first A series was a success, let me present you - Harmonia: The Generative Music Assistant Harmonia will take natural language prompts, like John's AI summaries, and instantly generate high-quality, original, and royalty-free musical tracks.

Hey! I’m CEO of a company that has just raised $10 billion for an app that takes the hard work out of enjoying music. Did you know, some people waste hours each day listening to “tunes”. Our AI will listen to it for you and summarise it in a 15 second scream leaving you more time to add value.

Imagine: If we had a crystal ball that tells us what are the discoveries to be made, we wouldn't have to do science in the first place. Apparently that's some scientists' scientific ideal. Rather than doing science. So many weird ontological and epistemic assumptions to unpack.

Recently, @berkeleyearth.org expanded our temperature database by integrating the HCLIM data set. nature.com/articles/s41... The additional data rescued by HCLIM helps improve early reconstructions, but doesn't fundamentally change the large uncertainties due to sparse sampling. 1/

This is a staggering cool JWST image of one of the most terrifying star systems I have ever seen. Apep is a monster… *three* monsters, actually, and blasting out radiation and dust and junk at speeds to freeze the soul. Read all about it! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-ridiculo... 🔭 🧪

Scientists are expected to be somewhat comprehensible on #r4rtoday but financial folk like CEO of Peel Hunt come on and spout all sort of incomprehensible jargon-nonsense: "backfoot vulnerability starting to wobble", "corporate mood-show", "secondary blocks", "domestic bias" - no me neither.

AI appeals to those who think that telling other people what to do is the most important job. If flatters their sense of worth to think that they are the only thing that can’t be automated. www.businessinsider.com/executives-a...

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

What makes something data? Some thoughts on that question, and how answers to it help us understand AI hype: medium.com/@emilymenonb...

more than that, it reinforces the idea that telling people what to do is some kind of work

AI appeals to those who think that telling other people what to do is the most important job. If flatters their sense of worth to think that they are the only thing that can’t be automated. www.businessinsider.com/executives-a...

Five tin chilli It’s not chilli and it doesn’t use five tins. Blasphemous in any number of ways and moderately dangerous to prepare, is is nonetheless easy to make and oddly satisfying. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/f...

Imagine if all the hundreds of billions of dollars being pumped into AI was given instead to artists, writers, musicians. If/when the AI bubble bursts, everything will get crappier, but you give that money to artists: no bubble, just a world more humane and human in a million little ways.

Imagine if all the hundreds of billions of dollars being pumped into AI was given instead to artists, writers, musicians. If/when the AI bubble bursts, everything will get crappier, but you give that money to artists: no bubble, just a world more humane and human in a million little ways.

Five tin chilli It’s not chilli and it doesn’t use five tins. Blasphemous in any number of ways and moderately dangerous to prepare, is is nonetheless easy to make and oddly satisfying. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/f...

"Hi,John. Someone will let you in when the meeting starts".

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

With the launch of "The Genesis Mission" (and everything else) this seems appropriate again. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/06/28/w...

With the launch of "The Genesis Mission" (and everything else) this seems appropriate again. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/06/28/w...

A long day, but grabbed some painting time before the light became too poor. Oil on panel, 40 x 50cm #oilpainting #landscape #hills

Journals - all journals - exist to launder expert judgement. The more prestigious the journal, the cleaner the product.

Say hello to my little friend, Charlie Brown.