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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 21/09/2026

Yes, my OISST analysis agrees with this. Alternatively, the ERA5 SST temp for the same region just broke its all-time record, 29.68° on Sept 15 (they're a bit delayed). Here we go. globe-viz.oberbrunner.com?tab=trends&s...

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 15/09/2026

And how about the giant heat blob in the northern Pacific?? >6.5°C ΔT in places. globe-viz.oberbrunner.com?tab=globe&sr...

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 12/09/2026

Look at this enormous >5.5°C anomaly all along the equatorial Pacific. That is a _lot_ of energy. globe-viz.oberbrunner.com?tab=globe&sr...

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 25/08/2026

The North Atlantic is heating up very rapidly in the last few days. globe-viz.oberbrunner.com?tab=globe&sr... Here's an animation of the last month, through Aug 23. If it continues, it'll give a lot of energy to hurricanes.

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 25/08/2026

Wow, as of today every major ocean region except the poles is in new daily-record territory. globe-viz.oberbrunner.com?tab=trends&s...

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 20/08/2026

Here's an animation of the current temp buildup, OISST anomaly since June 1. Notable: >6.0°C anomalies off Peru in the last few days.

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 07/08/2026

Yesterday was the all time preliminary global sea surface temp record per OISST. I expect it to be revised downward in the coming days, but even if it is, it won't be long before we break the previous record.

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 19/03/2026

Mine shows SST just *barely* below record high for this date: github.com/garyo/sea-su... but surely it won't be long before it exceeds the 2024 record (which of course was *way* above any prior year).

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 29/11/2025

Great visualization of 15-minute cities via isochrone heat map: availability of services within a short walk from any location. Boston is near the top of American cities. Check it out at www.cityaccessmap.com

cityaccessmap.com map of Boston with a heat map of travel time to various services within a short walk, showing many neighborhoods that work as 15-minute cities.

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 18/11/2025

Now we see how much of the web depends on Cloudflare. Services we count on for work, life, and safety.

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 18/10/2025

Great #NoKings rally on Boston Common right now! It's huge, the weather is gorgeous,and the energy is fantastic. This IS what democracy looks like!

Thousands of protesters on Boston Common

Thousands more protesters on Boston Common, with signs

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 02/04/2025

Early Spring Sunset, Boston & Cambridge

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 09/01/2025

Sunrise in Curaçao, with a surprise.

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 08/12/2024

This Brancusi, Bird in Flight, gets me every time I see it. At MoMA.

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 06/12/2024

#Harvard has an amazing #Scientific instrument collection. These sextants, astrolabes, transits and compasses are particularly gorgeous. I wish we could make modern instruments with the same care and attention to design! #art #history #science #natural-philosophy #astronomy

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 03/12/2024

I love the Gardner museum. It transports me to a different space and time. #art #photography #gardnermuseum

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 01/12/2024

Another gorgeous sunset over the Charles.

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 30/11/2024

#jazzsky Yoko Miwa trio at the Mad Monkfish, cooking jazz!

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 29/11/2024

Waiting for some Sibelius and Grieg. Happy! #classical #music #bso

Boston Symphony Hall long shot, with players and audience entering.

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 29/11/2024

The Blue Paradox, part of an excellent exhibit on plastic ocean pollution at the Chicago Museum of Science, 2023. Beautiful, immersive, and ultimately depressing to think about what we're doing to our beautiful world.

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 29/11/2024

View from a Boston Harbor sail, Sept 2023.

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 25/11/2024

Is there any place on earth more majestic than the Grand Canyon? #nature #photography

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 24/11/2024

This mechanical tide calculator at the British Natural History Museum is essentially a #Fourier series calculator; you can set the amplitude, frequency and phase of up to 10 harmonic components, and they're summed & recorded onto graph paper at the bottom. #ingenuity #history #antique #mechanism

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 24/11/2024

I'm confused. Charctic shows today as third-lowest (behind 2020 & 2016). What am I missing? nsidc.org/sea-ice-toda...

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 24/11/2024

The Royal Library of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain. The ceiling depicts the seven liberal arts: grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, music, arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy. To me, it's a reminder that truth, discovery and knowledge are worth celebrating. #photography #architecture #science #history

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 23/11/2024

Little Island, #NYC -- newly created land! Walkable, social green space on the West Side. #climateresilience #photography #landscape

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 23/11/2024

Sailing on Boston Harbor, late September.

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 22/11/2024

710 Ashbury, home of the #GratefulDead. From our summer trip to SF.

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 21/11/2024

Peaceful tramp through the woods. We all need some quiet time to reflect sometimes.

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 21/11/2024

Slightly higher res image of the figure, for the lazy 😉:

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 21/11/2024

We don’t need to replace all of the energy inputs into the energy system as long as we can deliver the same services more efficiently. For instance, a huge amount of energy is lost transporting oil & gas.

US energy consumption Sankey flowchart, 2023

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 20/11/2024

My crazy #longnow #archaeology idea: it'd be amazing if just as a Roman orator was reaching the apex of his speech, a trickle of water ran down a dusty wall nearby, the speech vibrations nudged the drop as it fell, and the dust, lying undisturbed, hardened, preserving the waveform for all time.

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 18/11/2024

I recently gave a talk at #LongNowBoston on how the scientific method is basically evolution in other clothes. Both rely on variation & selection; in science, variation comes from new ideas and human creativity, selection comes down to experiment: testability & refutation. buff.ly/3O938Ii

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 17/11/2024

Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona -- eye-popping #architecture everywhere in that city. #travel #photography

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Gary Oberbrunner @gary.oberbrunner.com · 16/11/2024

Jellyfish, from the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Not only are the creatures amazing and otherworldly, the display and lighting create an incredibly gorgeous experience. Bluesky doesn't seem to support HDR images yet; too bad. You'll have to settle for these in standard dynamic range for now.

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