John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 10hFluff, flimflam, faff, and forgetting forge fuzzy foreknowledge diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/10/17/f...diagrammonkey.wordpress.comFluff, faff and forgetting forge fuzzy foreknowledgePart VII of my alliterative and rambling notes on a possibly minor anomaly. For earlier parts see: Part I – A multitude of possibly unsatisfying answers Part II – A panoply of trifli… 130 3
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 16/10/2026It says you sometimes use AI to generate sounds. 000 0
Reposted by John KennedyJohn Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The most minor of minor updates to the increasingly minor accumulation. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/a...diagrammonkey.wordpress.comAn egregious encomium or execration of the evanescent, ephemeral, and effervescent made eternal and enduring through the excretions of an eejitPart 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… 081 8
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The most minor of minor updates to the increasingly minor accumulation. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/a...diagrammonkey.wordpress.comAn egregious encomium or execration of the evanescent, ephemeral, and effervescent made eternal and enduring through the excretions of an eejitPart 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… 081 8
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It really is something. I tried to find the original that it’s supposedly based on and gave in. 020 2
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026What used to be an interesting diversion has become a relentless exhausting nightmare. 1100 10
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Anyway. I don't have a very satisfying point here. In the whack-a-mole game of retracting bad papers, the number of mallets has stayed pretty much constant, but the number of moles has, for very obvious reasons, increased a thousandfold. 1142 14
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I was reminded of another paper, which could have benefited from a hefty dose of No but which was instead abetted by not just one sycophantic chatbot but four of them that give the crankery a superficial gloss. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/n...diagrammonkey.wordpress.comNot waving but drowningIt’s not often one gets a paper on uncertainty in estimates of ocean heat content written by a clarinettist whose wikipedia page has a section on their extra curricular activities that goes &… 140 4
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026For all its faults, this paper was written by a human but the age of hand-crafted nonsense is drawing to a close. The new age of computer-assisted drivel is upon us, the flow of nonsense swelling from a trickle to a flood. 162 6
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I just googled the paper and the AI summary - the very first thing that appears - doesn't mention the retraction or that the vast preponderance of science - and not just climate science - is against it. 192 9
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026So much of science is being told no - by yourself, friends, peers, random people on the street, even (and most importantly) reality itself - that when that chain of nope breaks, things like this happen and there's no good in it. 180 8
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Somewhere in the process of writing, reviewing, editing, publication and subsequent publicisation, someone could have expended a tiny amount of discretion and intervened. But they didn't. 161 6
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Elsewhere, the author has the earth rotating the wrong way, confuses ice caps with ocean currents (I think, it's hard to tell), and the citations are sometimes spectacularly approximate. I could go on. 150 5
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My blogpost could have been much longer. Every time I look at the paper, I spot another error. I opened it just now, closed my eyes, span the mouse wheel and spot checked the first fact my reopened eye lighted upon: "Water has a very high heat capacity (4.187 mJ/m³ K)" milli/mega pfft 171 7
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The article cites my blog post on the paper, which is nice. You can read the whole blog post here diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2023/08/17/y...diagrammonkey.wordpress.comYet another eminent scientistMDPI journals have become a clearing house for the kind of nonsense you can’t peddle through a reputable journal. Received on 23 June and published on the 3 August, the latest accretion of ba… 150 5
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Retraction watch watching the retraction of a paper. Though we still don't know quite how the retraction happened, that it did happen is a small win. retractionwatch.com/2026/10/02/p...retractionwatch.com‘Hot mess’ paper questioning CO2 and climate change gets retractedThe paper refers to air temperature data as “obtained by NASA from satellites” and claims the main areas of warming depicted in this figure do “not fit in with the main industrial… 33110 31
Reposted by John KennedyKris Karnauskas @oceansclimatecu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026El Niño... wait for it! With observations updated through September. Long-term observations (HadISST back to 1870, gray) Satellite record (OIv2 back to 1982, black) Dynamical model ensemble mean from the IRI plume (red). 1115 11
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ha. I reckon we could do with more papers like that. 000 0
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It gives an idea of the magnitude but it has other connotations which one might not want to evoke 110 1
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I sometimes wonder where Kate’s mesosphere bound bicycle is right now. 120 2
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Enough energy to drive a car to… proxima centauri and back 30 times, kind of thing. 020 2
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026To be fair that’s how I try to get my head around it too. 000 0
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ok comms gurus… if we’re talking about ocean heat content and earth’s energy imbalance which units are preferable: ZJ and ZJ per year or W/m²year and W/m². Or something else. Or putting everything in terms of some energy equivalent like how much energy humans use each year. 1484 14
Reposted by John KennedyTim Osborn @timosbornclim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’ve updated the long-running (starts 1866) CRU Southern Oscillation Index (SOI). This lets us compare the currently developing El Niño with earlier events including 1877-78. 2026 has developed very quickly, similar to the 1997-98 one. Thick line is 3-month running mean, with y-axis reversed. 24723 47
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There’s often a strong “hell today for heaven tomorrow” vibe from the techbros. The problem being, of course, that it’s *always* today and they aren’t the people experiencing the hell. 130 3
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026First I heard about the retraction was someone leaving a comment on my blogpost last week… diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2023/08/17/y...diagrammonkey.wordpress.comYet another eminent scientistMDPI journals have become a clearing house for the kind of nonsense you can’t peddle through a reputable journal. Received on 23 June and published on the 3 August, the latest accretion of ba… 011 1
Reposted by John KennedyTim Osborn @timosbornclim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New version of the HadCRUT global temperature dataset released @colinmorice.bsky.social HadCRUT5.2 uses HadSST4.2 (with improved adjustments for SST biases during 1933-1961) and CRUTEM5.2 (with updates to stations in China, USA and Canada). Here is the difference from the previous version 5.1 12410 24
Reposted by John KennedyMindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Please join me in appreciating how these coffee grounds vaguely resemble a fanged cyclops demon fish, if you are so moved feel free to offer your thoughts on what this predicts for my future 4121 12
Reposted by John KennedyWorld Meteorological Organization @wmo-global.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Rivers across the globe in 2025 had one of the driest years in more than 3 decades. The WMO Global #StateOfWater Report 2025 shows a continuation of the long-term decline in Earth’s freshwater storage and in glacier retreat. 🔴 OUT NOW: bit.ly/WMOStateOfWater2025pr 02523 25
Reposted by John KennedyJohn Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This paper I blogged on yonks ago - “Comparison of Recently Proposed Causes of Climate Change” - has now been retracted. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2023/08/17/y...diagrammonkey.wordpress.comYet another eminent scientistMDPI journals have become a clearing house for the kind of nonsense you can’t peddle through a reputable journal. Received on 23 June and published on the 3 August, the latest accretion of ba… 3195 19
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This paper I blogged on yonks ago - “Comparison of Recently Proposed Causes of Climate Change” - has now been retracted. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2023/08/17/y...diagrammonkey.wordpress.comYet another eminent scientistMDPI journals have become a clearing house for the kind of nonsense you can’t peddle through a reputable journal. Received on 23 June and published on the 3 August, the latest accretion of ba… 3195 19
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Repetitive youtube ads breaking my concentration with this phrase over and over again. 000 0
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Never, and I mean never, open with never, and I mean never, open with never, and I mean never, open with never, and I mean never, open with never, and I mean never, open with never, and I mean never, open with never, and I mean never, open with never, and I mean never, open with never, and I mean ne 110 1
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I feel like the world is a better place now I know that somewhere in its vastness there is an Octopus Crew. 110 1
Reposted by John KennedyMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online. 484297697662 29.8K
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It continues to amaze me that it's possible to crochet using a single embroidery thread and a 0.5mm hook. Pattern here: microamigurumi.com/free_octopus...microamigurumi.comFree Crochet pattern «Tiny Octopus»Meet my adorable micro octopus — one of the smallest and most loved patterns in my collection! With just a few simple stitches and a little patience, you’ll have a sweet sea creature sitting in the pa... 180 8