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Look at it this way
I saw an interesting discussion about this graph from the BBC on bluesky. I don’t like the graph for a few reasons. The first is that it uses two different elements to show the same thing: the bar height and the colour of the bar both indicate the temperature. The variation in colour doesn’t add Continue reading
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Quelle annee
Another year of blogging without any particular aim or purpose, amounting to 72 posts that amassed 20,000 views from over 10,000 visitors… and 147 likes. How many of those views were people and how many were from indifferent token counting machines, I will never know. Once again, the traffic was attracted primarily by a few Continue reading
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Pop!
There’s a technique to pilling an unwilling cat, or so they tell you. If you search for videos on the subject, you will find the topic is so common, it’s practically a genre. It goes like this… Continue reading
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Five tin veggie chilli
It’s not chilli and it doesn’t (usually) use five tins. Depending what you put in it, it’s not always vegetarian either, but that’s on you. Blasphemous in any number of ways and moderately dangerous to prepare, is is nonetheless easy to make and oddly satisfying. Serves two people like me but it depends what else Continue reading
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Taking the Monte Carlo out of Monte Carlo
A typical undergraduate laboratory experiment will have you measure a few quantities, calculate some combination of these and then estimate uncertainty in the calculated value. Usually, the examples are pretty simple and can be handled with a simple bit of algebra and the application of the propagation of uncertainties formula. If the calculation becomes more Continue reading
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Memo? No, you mo.
I find the wording of the Paris Agreement rather hard to keep in my head, but I do remember the bit about “in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty” and “in a manner that does not threaten food production” and, well, there’s something about climate too. In the large and varied Continue reading
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A tower of babble
Ahead of COP – the annual UNFCCC climate conference rather than any of the other COPs – multiple reports vie for our attention. I’ve lost count, but in the past few days I’ve seen: There are others no doubt that I have missed or forgotten and there will be more. One can’t move this time Continue reading
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D and A and I and H
Detection and attribution is back in the news for all the wrong reasons. Pielke Junior is once again pushing the line that anyone wanting to say anything about extreme weather has to prove all over again that climate change is happening. There are tedious arguments about emergence and detection and attribution and what exactly they Continue reading
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Open Ocean #11
Playing whack-amole with some interesting artefacts in the data and interpolation. Continue reading
Diagram Monkey 
