Read Section 5.2. You will not be disappointed. I swear it. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Why is the PDO* so low lately? What's going on? * Pacific Decadal Oscillation www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...

MS Word just doing completely normal things. Both the capital Gs here are the same font, the same font weight, the same font size and the formatting in each case is supposedly identical. Nonetheless, one is considerably wider than the other. What on earth?!

It's 2026 and we can animate millions of data points in a web browser, stream HD video, and build whizzy interactive interfaces, but we still can't get text with subscripts and superscripts to render nicely.

Absolutely gorgeous essayWorth a read (via @[email protected]) by @tg that starts with why RSS clients look like email, but moves into SoMe and how we imported anxiety without cause. Via @kottke www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obli... #design #ui #rss

I always think this graph is missing the optimistic "disasters averted" line to go with the more pessimistic "missed opportunities" line. At the same time, the way climate scientists tend to frame attribution implies a certain optimism. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2023/03/23/w...

The optimist vs pessimist divide in #climate debates isn’t usually about the data. It’s about how the same graphs are read, what people emphasise, what they discount, and how they interpret pace and stakes. Here’s what I mean 🧵👇

I've seen several Big Climate Accounts™ post about how the recent winter storm was made worse by climate change. It's a convenient narrative. s But what is "worse"? Colder temperatures? More snow? More freezing rain? Is there any primary literature supporting the idea of worse snowstorms? 1/

We need more whimsical science

If you claim your fancy ML/AI forecasting system for ENSO can predict ENSO 3 years ahead then you have to include a prediction for the next 3 years in your paper. I don’t make the rules.

Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data. visualisingclimate.org #VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis

I keep saying it’s time we go back to Web 1.0. Everybody do their own website and link rings to other actual humans who know things.

New discussion paper just dropped that’s taken shall we say a little work to get this far … essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... please be kind. Not on an at all sensitive topic in the slightest.

I can still make it. Just let me snooze it for 5 minutes though.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 2680: Don’t be afraid of failure. Failure means you tried something. No one ever succeeds without trying and failing - often, many times.

For those having difficulty distinguishing Iceland from Greenland, remember: Iceland is greener and Greenland is icier.

For those having difficulty distinguishing Iceland from Greenland, remember: Iceland is greener and Greenland is icier.

Wednesday #morningread

I keep seeing this and it seems backwards. We're building faster and faster locomotives in the hope that some day one of them will be able to canter over a muddy field to nibble sugar lumps from the palm of your hand.

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

There was a record increase in CO2 in the atmosphere in 2024, though the size of the increase depends on the dataset. All datasets will give a similar cumulative increase over time, as end of year affects cancel. academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-... 1/

I keep seeing this and it seems backwards. We're building faster and faster locomotives in the hope that some day one of them will be able to canter over a muddy field to nibble sugar lumps from the palm of your hand.

Animation showing the uncertainty in annual temperature anomalies for 2025 (actually the half range of the eight datasets that follow) and eight maps showing the temperature anomalies from eight different datasets. THREAD 1/n youtu.be/GKZCr4eboGg

In Word if you want to use a snippet of text multiple times in a document, you can write it once then highlight it and hit Alt+F3. Then you can insert it wherever you want using the Insert tab. Go to "Quick Parts" - "Auto Text" - and select your snippet.

Animation showing the uncertainty in annual temperature anomalies for 2025 (actually the half range of the eight datasets that follow) and eight maps showing the temperature anomalies from eight different datasets. THREAD 1/n youtu.be/GKZCr4eboGg

Me: Hey brain, where did we put that thing? Brain: A safe place. Me: Yes, that's good, but which safe place? Brain: A safe, safe place, safe from snoopers, safe from you Me: What?! Brain: Shhh. Back to sleep now.

Was 2025 the warmest year on record? diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/w...

Was 2025 the warmest year on record? diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/w...

Is there a more useless brain function than the one that tells you with absolute certainty that you put the thing you are looking for somewhere safe without also telling you where that safe place is?

Global mean temperature 2025: 1.44 ± 0.13 °C above the 1850-1900 average, based on a synthesis of eight international datasets. 2025 was the second or third warmest year on record. 2024 remains the warmest. That makes the past 3 years are the 3 warmest years on record. wmo.int/news/media-c...

Greenland thoughts from Antarctica.. Greenland is all over the press at the moment for all the wrong reasons. But Greenland is also on my mind, not just because of geopolitics, but also because the Copernicus Climate service has just put out their annual global climate highlights for 2025 with…

Is there a more useless brain function than the one that tells you with absolute certainty that you put the thing you are looking for somewhere safe without also telling you where that safe place is?

NASA have a press release... www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Most 2025 global temperatures are now out (degrees C above 1850-1900 baseline) 1.41 HadCRUT5 1.44 Berkeley 1.46 JRA-3Q 1.47 Copernicus 1.53 DCENT-I NOAA and NASA GISS values will be public at 2pm UK time and but based on already public Jan-Nov data they will likely be between 1.3 and 1.4 degC.

2025 has been confirmed as the third warmest year on record, following 2024 and 2023, in a series stretching back to 1850. Data from the Met Office, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and @ncas-uk.bsky.social shows 2025 was 1.41 °C above the average for 1850-1900. Read more 👉 bit.ly/3NkfQH9

The global warming trend continued in 2025. Each of the past 11 years (2015–2025) has been among the 11 warmest on record. Explore more data from #CopernicusClimate in the Global Climate Highlights 2025. #GCH2025 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima... @ecmwf.int

🌍 Berkeley Earth’s 2025 Global Temperature Report is out. 2025 was the 3rd warmest year on record. Annual global temperature reached 1.44 ± 0.09°C above the pre-industrial baseline; 770 million people experienced locally record-warm annual conditions. Full report: berkeleyearth.org/global-tempe...

Global mean temperature 2025: 1.44 ± 0.13 °C above the 1850-1900 average, based on a synthesis of eight international datasets. 2025 was the second or third warmest year on record. 2024 remains the warmest. That makes the past 3 years are the 3 warmest years on record. wmo.int/news/media-c...

another one of my "photos of nothing." nobody else likes them! that's fine, i LOVE them.

There is a live stream of the NASEM workshop on AI for weather and climate starting shortly (9am PST). vimeo.com/event/5576943

Ironically, perhaps, this image is not colour blind safe.

How's this for a devastating academic diss, circa 1887?

Anatomy of a Nature AI article diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/04/07/a...

Every week, Nature publishes yet another breathless puff piece about some AI startup, based only unpublished claims from the company and interviewing only those who work there. How can the leading scientific journal publish piece after piece that would make Kevin Roose blush? I think it's that...

Professorship at the end of the world

Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.

This is interesting -- and has parallels in physics and climate science w.r.t. the balance between science for understanding and skillful prediction. Comments @alisabokulich.bsky.social?

In December 2025, Arctic sea-ice extent reached a record low - a substantial decline from the previous record low in 2024.

Why are some things - feet, horses - inherently harder to draw than other things?