Ian ‘Harry’ Harris

Sure, this is the mean T for an ensemble of ten stations ‘near’ Norwich (where I am).

🍩 What if climate looked like a donut? 🌍
Here’s a bunch of cities turned into a sweet dataviz experiment.

🟡 → comfy zone
🔴 → hot
🔵 → cold

Why a donut? Let me explain 👇

While it’s very pretty, and you can extract quite a lot of meaning from it, you can solve the continuity problem without 3D modelling. You just do what KNMI’s Climate Explorer does, and either extend to show another half-year, or have a second plot running July to June.

Over on the Other Place I would occasionally put this thread together, most recently during lockdown, four years ago in fact, and I realised I'd not done it here. So, bear with, and feel free to mute as this is an epic (genuinely, I’m not sure we won’t reach hitherto non-invoked thread limits tbh).

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

Glad Tom Lehrer outlived Kissinger. May his memory be for a blessing. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

Bots? They used to have <10 followers so were easy to spot - then a few months ago they all started having a lot of followers. Pretty sure if you scripted it you could show they’re all following each other.

‘This is fine.’

Just spreading the word, here’s a growing collection of torrents of US Government websites, including NOAA and CDC: sciop.net/datasets/

Dear Media:

Halting all aid to Gaza is not "pressuring Hamas." Collective punishment is a war crime. Starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime. Withholding medical care is a war crime. None of this is remotely controversial actually. Israel is doing war crimes, not "pressuring Hamas."

This says it all.

Rachel Reeves confirms government backing for Heathrow third runway - yep, we’re screwed whoever’s in charge.

Do solar panels work in cold or cloudy climates? <p>Solar panels generate energy even in cloudy or cold conditions, with cold temperatures actually increasing solar panel efficiency by increasing voltage.</p>

Do solar panels work in cold or cloudy climates?

Solar panels generate energy even in cloudy or cold conditions, with cold temperatures actually increasing solar panel efficiency by increasing voltage

@skepticalscience.bsky.social

skepticalscience.com/do-solar-pan...

Yep, interesting DM bits that then go off-piste, doesn’t go full ethereal though.

NASA’s updated global temperature spirals including 2024. Up and up and up.

at the end of a 14hr flight into LAX, the pilot told us not to be alarmed if we smelled smoke, the plane wasn’t on fire, just the city

Used as the cover of the excellent second album by The Sound, From the Lion’s Mouth.

Is it getting more common, though? I don’t think I’ve EVER had one explode.

Sorry for those triggered, but this is disgraceful: Rape trials collapse as victims abandon cases amid long court delays

There’s also the issue - covered by several of his blog posts - of how you arrive at a global mean temperature: which land series and which sea surface (or near-surface, which is quite different) temperature series?

www.abebooks.co.uk/Atlas-London...

As you’d expect. Essentially priceless, the maps are works of art.

Tufte is a God.

Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love 1.5°C A new paper – Estimated human-induced warming from a linear temperature and atmospheric CO2 relationship – has dropped at NatureorScience SomethingorOther. You can tell its COP bec…

May I recommend John Kennedy’s blog? diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2024/11/14/o...
One recurring area for him is “How do you define +1.5°??”

Abstract of paper "A framework for classifying climate change questions used in public opinion surveys"

New in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! Reviewing over 300 surveys, we provide a guide on navigating the many concepts measured in climate change public opinion research over 4 decades. It includes the resource of an over 200 page fully-searchable appendix with all questions!!
doi.org/10.1080/0964...

A map of flight paths emanating from breeding colony of gulls, with this caption: Early on, LifeWatch noticed something odd. Most gulls were making daily trips to Mouscron, a city on the French border 65 km away. They went to investigate and found the birds bingeing on discarded snacks at the Roger & Roger potato factory.

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

Governments Must Tackle Climate Disinformation, Experts Urge Governments around the world must take “immediate and decisive action” to tackle climate disinformation, scientists and campaign groups have urged as talks at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbai...

How many of Bluesky's 15 million users you reckon would be inclined to sign on to the call for governments to address Big Tech's unwillingness to protect users from Big Oil's climate disinformation?

Gotta be a pretty sizable percentage....

www.desmog.com/2024/11/14/g...

There is room for a little colour key at the bottom? Near the normalisation period note?

Also on the new register of MPs' interests: Nigel Farage was paid £40,000 for speaking at a conference in Kuala Lumpur described as "a premier event for global citizens to explore second citizenship, offshore tax strategies, and international investing".

Eleanor Rigby
Peeling bananas with feet as she swings through the trees
Like chimpanzees
Left her enclosure
Where they were breeding their half human hybrids with apes
They've all escaped