John Kennedy
@micefearboggis.bsky.social
Occasional climate scientist, diagram monkey, probabilistic historian, science anti-communicator. All views and opinions are my own. This is not, sadly, a promise of novelty: it’s a disclaimer. He/him. https://www.jkclimate.fr/
Here it is, my first ever Op-Ed, everyone! I talk about why I think NSF's new Office of Metascience is a bad idea. Enjoy!
Holding Science to a Gold Standard Will Hold It Back | The Scientist
A metascientist pushes back against the unified and idealized vision of science embodied in NSF’s new Office of Metascience.
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I feel like this kind of answers itself.
Dr Stylite@columnist.bsky.social · 4d agoThings to stockpile for an emergency? Wrong answers only
Total Recall - the book of the film of the book Terribly entertaining diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2023/10/25/t...
Total Recall – the book of the film of the book
Total Recall is the book of the film (the first one, not the second one) of the short story by Philip K. Dick1. It’s bad in the same way that the film is bad; its badness is a virtue. If it w…
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why isn’t sixty degrees always the same temperature
I feel like this kind of answers itself.
Dr Stylite@columnist.bsky.social · 4d agoThings to stockpile for an emergency? Wrong answers only
Total Recall - the book of the film of the book Terribly entertaining diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2023/10/25/t...
Total Recall – the book of the film of the book
Total Recall is the book of the film (the first one, not the second one) of the short story by Philip K. Dick1. It’s bad in the same way that the film is bad; its badness is a virtue. If it w…
diagrammonkey.wordpress.com
The full programme for Visualising Climate 2026 is now live! See 👉 visualisingclimate.com/programme/ 3 days · 3 keynotes · 34 talks · 9 paper presentations · 6 workshops · 1 round table · 2 visits to ECMWF · 1 conference dinner in a memorable Bologna venue · 75+ speakers visualisingclimate.com
Further fluff gathers diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/10/17/f...
Fluff, flimflam, faff, and forgetting forge fuzzy foreknowledge
Part VII of my alliterative and rambling notes on a possibly minor anomaly. For earlier parts see: Part I – A multitude of possibly unsatisfying answers Part II – A panoply of trifli…
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Further fluff gathers diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/10/17/f...
Fluff, flimflam, faff, and forgetting forge fuzzy foreknowledge
Part VII of my alliterative and rambling notes on a possibly minor anomaly. For earlier parts see: Part I – A multitude of possibly unsatisfying answers Part II – A panoply of trifli…
diagrammonkey.wordpress.com
Fluff, flimflam, faff, and forgetting forge fuzzy foreknowledge diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/10/17/f...
Fluff, faff and forgetting forge fuzzy foreknowledge
Part VII of my alliterative and rambling notes on a possibly minor anomaly. For earlier parts see: Part I – A multitude of possibly unsatisfying answers Part II – A panoply of trifli…
diagrammonkey.wordpress.com
The most minor of minor updates to the increasingly minor accumulation. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/a...
An egregious encomium or execration of the evanescent, ephemeral, and effervescent made eternal and enduring through the excretions of an eejit
Part VI of my alliterative and rambling notes on a minor anomaly. Part I – A multitude of possibly unsatisfying answers Part II – A panoply of trifling dissatisfactions Part III –&nb…
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The most minor of minor updates to the increasingly minor accumulation. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/a...
An egregious encomium or execration of the evanescent, ephemeral, and effervescent made eternal and enduring through the excretions of an eejit
Part VI of my alliterative and rambling notes on a minor anomaly. Part I – A multitude of possibly unsatisfying answers Part II – A panoply of trifling dissatisfactions Part III –&nb…
diagrammonkey.wordpress.com
Retraction watch watching the retraction of a paper. Though we still don't know quite how the retraction happened, that it did happen is a small win. retractionwatch.com/2026/10/02/p...
‘Hot mess’ paper questioning CO2 and climate change gets retracted
The paper refers to air temperature data as “obtained by NASA from satellites” and claims the main areas of warming depicted in this figure do “not fit in with the main industrial…
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El Niño... wait for it! With observations updated through September. Long-term observations (HadISST back to 1870, gray) Satellite record (OIv2 back to 1982, black) Dynamical model ensemble mean from the IRI plume (red).
Ok comms gurus… if we’re talking about ocean heat content and earth’s energy imbalance which units are preferable: ZJ and ZJ per year or W/m²year and W/m². Or something else. Or putting everything in terms of some energy equivalent like how much energy humans use each year.
I’ve updated the long-running (starts 1866) CRU Southern Oscillation Index (SOI). This lets us compare the currently developing El Niño with earlier events including 1877-78. 2026 has developed very quickly, similar to the 1997-98 one. Thick line is 3-month running mean, with y-axis reversed.
New version of the HadCRUT global temperature dataset released @colinmorice.bsky.social HadCRUT5.2 uses HadSST4.2 (with improved adjustments for SST biases during 1933-1961) and CRUTEM5.2 (with updates to stations in China, USA and Canada). Here is the difference from the previous version 5.1
Please join me in appreciating how these coffee grounds vaguely resemble a fanged cyclops demon fish, if you are so moved feel free to offer your thoughts on what this predicts for my future
Rivers across the globe in 2025 had one of the driest years in more than 3 decades. The WMO Global #StateOfWater Report 2025 shows a continuation of the long-term decline in Earth’s freshwater storage and in glacier retreat. 🔴 OUT NOW: https://bit.ly/WMOStateOfWater2025pr
This paper I blogged on yonks ago - “Comparison of Recently Proposed Causes of Climate Change” - has now been retracted. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2023/08/17/y...
Yet another eminent scientist
MDPI journals have become a clearing house for the kind of nonsense you can’t peddle through a reputable journal. Received on 23 June and published on the 3 August, the latest accretion of ba…
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This paper I blogged on yonks ago - “Comparison of Recently Proposed Causes of Climate Change” - has now been retracted. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2023/08/17/y...
Yet another eminent scientist
MDPI journals have become a clearing house for the kind of nonsense you can’t peddle through a reputable journal. Received on 23 June and published on the 3 August, the latest accretion of ba…
diagrammonkey.wordpress.com
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It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
8 years ago, I tweeted side-by-side maps from NASA GISS showing global temperatures in 1976 and 2018 – both hot summers in the UK. It subsequently went viral and was printed in the Daily Mail! The 2026 version is stark. Two locally extreme summers separated by 50 years of global climate change.
Brilliant blog post from @ruthmottram.eurosky.social. It's got science galore in all its wonderful messy surprising glory. Also it's one of the few posts you will read that will give you your recommended daily allowance of the word mélange. sternaparadisaea.net/2026/09/09/a...
A jumble of broken ice, and what it means for Greenland’s calving glaciers.
Ice mélange — sometimes known as sikussaq in Greenlandic — is that chaotic jumble of icebergs, bergy bits and sea water that sits in front of marine-terminating glaciers. It’s been described …
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