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Ian ‘Harry’ Harris

@datamunki.bsky.social

Climate Data Scientist, though general idiocy and insensitivity - when identified - is just me and not my erstwhile employer. He/him or they/them. Homophobes, transphobes, racists, and people who still claim Corbyn is antisemitic should avoid me.

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Considering the challenge in suggesting we eat more plants, proposing insect products seems ridiculous.

But it's received $1B to try to scale & now ~80B insects are farmed.

It can actually emit as much as some beef & has major risks.

My first in the Drawdown Explorer:
drawdown.org/explorer/dep...

06.02.2026 22:10 — 👍 52    🔁 25    💬 5    📌 6

Democracy dies in broad daylight under billionaire ownership

04.02.2026 14:38 — 👍 1270    🔁 338    💬 6    📌 6

That’s one hell of an isochron! It’s usually an hour, tops.

15.01.2026 19:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Crazy hot nights and December Hot nights records allover North Africa with Minimums up to 27C.
Records fell in Algeria,Niger,Chad,Nigeria,Burkina,Ivory Coast,Ghana,Togo,Benin etc

In particular,Burkina Faso and Algeria (min 21.8 Anesbaraka) had their 2nd Dec. hottest night ever

01.12.2025 12:45 — 👍 27    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 2
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Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman

The UK is fast becoming unsafe for trans folks, and nobody in government seems to gaf as ling as it’s not (directly) their fault.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

03.12.2025 16:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sure, this is the mean T for an ensemble of ten stations ‘near’ Norwich (where I am).

30.09.2025 18:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🍩 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 👇

29.09.2025 23:28 — 👍 103    🔁 26    💬 13    📌 12

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.

30.09.2025 09:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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).

20.09.2025 18:21 — 👍 86    🔁 72    💬 1    📌 25
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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...

27.07.2025 17:48 — 👍 167    🔁 35    💬 4    📌 5

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.

19.06.2025 16:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

‘This is fine.’

29.04.2025 15:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Datasets - SciOp Preserving Public Information

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

11.03.2025 09:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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."

03.03.2025 14:04 — 👍 2517    🔁 1006    💬 19    📌 11
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This says it all.

02.03.2025 00:05 — 👍 44423    🔁 8334    💬 735    📌 279
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a man is asking what 's the purpose of his visit ALT: a man is asking what 's the purpose of his visit
23.02.2025 11:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

29.01.2025 12:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

25.01.2025 16:00 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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

10.01.2025 22:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NASA’s updated global temperature spirals including 2024. Up and up and up.

10.01.2025 21:34 — 👍 265    🔁 138    💬 8    📌 13

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

08.01.2025 15:31 — 👍 14669    🔁 1433    💬 340    📌 104

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

26.12.2024 23:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

09.12.2024 10:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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

06.12.2024 19:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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?

04.12.2024 12:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Atlas of London and the London Region [ Complete Copy with 70 Maps ] by Jones Emrys & Sinclair D. J.: Very Good Hardcover (1968) | George Jeffery Books Hardcover - Pergamon Press Limited, Oxford - 1968 - Condition: Very Good - Box measures 60x48.cm. Complete copy with 70 large folding loose maps as issued. House in original publishers illustrated box...

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

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

04.12.2024 12:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tufte is a God.

04.12.2024 12:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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°??”

04.12.2024 11:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Abstract of paper "A framework for classifying climate change questions used in public opinion surveys"

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...

20.11.2024 12:49 — 👍 48    🔁 21    💬 5    📌 1

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