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/
When my grandad was cremated we left the crematorium in the slow black cars. We drove slowly past the bins - for this sad day was also bin day - and thus had time to appreciate that stencilled on each one was the command “no hot ashes”.
Adria@adriaandthepriors.bsky.social · 16h agoMy ghost would laugh.
Beautiful but does anyone else see it…
Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · yesterdayA new JWST image just dropped and it is gorgeous
How do I tell my students that the graphics I make for class aren't AI and just look Like This because I have terrible taste and make bad graphics for the love of the game
1. Read paper about exciting dataset 2. Data available on zenodo 3. Download, unzip 4. Find file named “instructions for downloading data.txt” 5. Click on http (no s) link in file 6. Find that link now goes to a photo album. Nice pictures, no data. 7. Email author 8. It’s august so…
Minor update on the very long thread about weirdly or not so weirdly high global temperatures. 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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Without good cause Zen and the art of Extreme Event Attribution diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/w...
Without good cause
‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question. I have to admit I like this framing of the attribution question. It has a zen feel to it: unask the question. On the…
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This is what happens when a marine paleoecologist dabbles in cyanotype prints. I love how shells and bones look in this art form. (See alt text for science-y description) #sciart #marinelife #invertebrates
Minor update on the very long thread about weirdly or not so weirdly high global temperatures. 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
Without good cause Zen and the art of Extreme Event Attribution diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/w...
Without good cause
‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question. I have to admit I like this framing of the attribution question. It has a zen feel to it: unask the question. On the…
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OMG, skeets, take a look at this, which my kid just sent me: This is #Tasy, the new #StrayKids #Stay mascot that was launched a few weeks ago. She designed the pattern herself! (The pattern will be up on Etsy/Ravelry just as soon as I finish formatting it.)
Doctor Logic@saraluckelman.bsky.social · 3mo agoSkeets, I need your help to access the algorithm to amplify some things to networks I'm not really in. Do you: 1) like crochet, 2) like K-pop, 3) like cute things, 4) like supporting young people in projects? My kid (14.5 today) is making patterns for Enhypen mascots, and would love a boost.
Reasons to archive your data #15846: you move to a different university and can no longer access the institutional email address to which all "reasonable requests for data" are being referred.
No one is safe from being misquoted out of context.
Mark Shore@markshore.bsky.social · 3w agotangentially, there was a long period where climate scientists would painstaking craft long, intricate, carefully hedged, scientifically bulletproof sentences and paragraphs in abstracts and public reports without considering how easily their meaning would be misrepresented by climate change deniers
Si vous souhaitez en savoir plus sur la vague de chaleur de juin 2026, 60 scientifiques de l'Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace vous apportent 24 éclairages à l'angle des sciences du climat et de l'environnement, dans un dossier de 75 pages, disponible ici : www.ipsl.fr/article/ecla...
Deriving the obvious diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/07/19/d...
Deriving the obvious
It’s too hot to do anything at the moment other than lie on the sofa with a fan pointed at my face and think. What I was thinking about was crochet and amigurumi and how a simple flat spiral …
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My most recent cross stitch project finally finished! Started in March, finished in July ☀️ When doing a big project it’s always difficult to see the progress so I decided to take some photos along the way 📷🪡🧵 #crossstitch #floral #project #WIP #aida
Deriving the obvious diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/07/19/d...
Deriving the obvious
It’s too hot to do anything at the moment other than lie on the sofa with a fan pointed at my face and think. What I was thinking about was crochet and amigurumi and how a simple flat spiral …
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Do you, gentle reader, wish to laugh till it hurts? Do read this thread.
John Kennedy@micefearboggis.bsky.social · 2y agoWhen an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.
🌡️ Another heatwave is sweeping across Europe, setting new national temperature records. As extreme heat events become more frequent, intense & prolonged, WMO and its members and partners, are mobilizing with coordinated heat-health action plans. Read: https://bit.ly/3SIi8lY
It remains a classic - thankyou @micefearboggis.bsky.social for reminding us it's not actually about the rankings..
Robert Gieseke (Openclimatedata)@openclimatedata.net · 2mo agoI was feeling a little sad but then I read this from @micefearboggis.bsky.social and was much better¹ immediately. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2021/11/17/t...
🔴OUT NOW: WMO #StateOfClimate in Asia 2025 Report Dangerous heat, devastating rainfall, flooding and severe drought affected millions of people across Asia. Explore the climate indicators, extreme events, impacts and risks that defined Asia's climate in 2025 👉 http://bit.ly/SOTCAsia2025pr
The European State of the Climate report is published 🌍 A huge collaboration with ~100 scientists, 45 datasets analysed to tell the story of Europe’s climate in 2025 & how’s it’s evolving 📈 Heat, wildfires, rivers, energy, glaciers… Find out about all 21 topics: climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2025
Copernicus ECMWF@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 3mo ago📣Out now! We are pleased to release the European State of the Climate 2025 report, published jointly by #CopernicusClimate @ecmwf.int & @wmo-global.bsky.social. Explore climate conditions, key events of 2025 in Europe, long-term climate indicators, climate policy and action for biodiversity, more! ⬇️
#Netflix has now confirmed that The Whisper Man will premiere on August 28 on the streaming service. 🍿 The film is an adaptation of Alex North's New York Times best-selling novel of the same name, in which #RobertDeNiro stars as a retired former police detective. Read More: bit.ly/4dcilWk
Unpopular opinion: it’s not enough for a statement to sound like it could be true, or for a statement to try to goad people on the “right side” into doing the “right thing,” if that statement isn’t actually true
What's weirding me out is that in this graph that's circulating it look like folks somehow manage to build data centres and get them fully operational in less than a month. At zero months and before, practically nothing; at just one month, absolutely everything. Is that explained in the paper?
In 2025, the ocean gained 24 Zettajoules of heat, but what is a zettajoule? diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/28/w...
What’s a zettajoule?
The joule is the unit of energy. One zettajoule (ZJ) is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules. One times ten to the power of twenty one Joules. One followed by twenty one zeroes Joules. I will tell …
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Surface temperature *is not* air temperature. So if you’re reading about data centers making things 2˚C hotter it’s not quite what you think. science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...
Where Is the Hottest Place on Earth? - NASA Science
Satellite research shows that the world's hottest spot changes, though the conditions don't. Think dry, rocky, and dark-colored lands...and cities.
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