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John Kennedy
@micefearboggis.bsky.social
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Occasional climate scientist, diagram monkey, probabilistic historian, science anti-communicator. All views and opinions are my own. This is not, sadly, a promise of novelty: it’s a disclaimer. He/him. https://www.jkclimate.fr/ .. more

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 3d
This is why I was wondering.

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 3d
I don't know.

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 3d
A symphony even

Reposted by Peter Thorne

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 3d
Read Section 5.2.

You will not be disappointed.

I swear it.

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Critical insights into eutectic molten hydroxide electrolysis for sustainable green hydrogen production
In addressing global energy demands, the focus on hydrogen gas production from renewable sources intensifies. This research review investigates hydrogen production via steam splitting using eutectic m...
pubs.rsc.org

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 3d
And with a soupcon of smoothing the unusualness really pops.
Graph showing a smoothed line that represents the Pacifc Decadal Oscillations from 1854 to 2025. The recent data points are the lowest in the whole record. Data are from NOAA CPC.

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 3d
NASA's version of the PDO also way low
Graph of the pacific decadal oscillation index. A black line shows the index and the area between the curve and xaxis is coloured red for positive values and blue for negative values. It has been negative lately. Graph runs from the early 1990s to nowish.

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 3d
Why is the PDO* so low lately? What's going on?

* Pacific Decadal Oscillation
www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...
Graph from NOAA showing the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) as red bars where the index is positive and blue bars where it's negative. It shows monthly values from 1854 to January 2026. It's very negative in the recent past.

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 4d
The problems aren’t over yet. It’s still speaking in tongues. Hard to tell right now if it’s a proper haunting or just regular demonic possession.
Screen cap of MS Word. The word “from” is underlined in red indicating a spelling mistake and three words (we must presume they are correctly spelled) are offered to replace it. They are: Yasuri, Yaqui and Yasuni.

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 4d
Yes. Very likely.

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 4d
The solution is just to change the font to anything that isn't aptos. So, my problem is solved and my document looks prettier.

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 4d
This happened before. It's caused by problems with the aptos font because *of course* there are problems with the default font in Word.

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 4d
laugh-snort

then

weeping

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 4d
MS Word has officially lost the plot... Ten minutes ago, this was normal text.
A screencap of some text that starts off normal and then turns into solid unicode gibberish.

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 4d
I thought I was losing it, but some bits of the text are just bigger than other bits. I can temporarily force them to be the same by selecting everything and giving it a consistent "style", but changing the style of the selected text also changes the style of unselected parts of the text.

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 4d
MS Word just doing completely normal things. Both the capital Gs here are the same font, the same font weight, the same font size and the formatting in each case is supposedly identical. Nonetheless, one is considerably wider than the other.

What on earth?!
Screen cap showing the left hand side of some left-justified text. There is a captial G at the top of the screen and a capital G at the bottom, indicated by crudely drawn green arrows. The upper capital G is clearly narrower than the other capital G.

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 6d
Excellent. Thanks! I was wondering if there was a way to do it in CSS.

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 6d
I can see why you misunderstood. Sorry. The fact that it is something that can be done neatly (e.g. in Latex as you point out) is what makes it so annoying.

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 6d
I'm talking about regular text in a web browser and its inability to handle the correct rendering of CO<sub>2</sub> without messing up the line spacing. One can get around it (CO₂) by using weird unicode characters but it's a bodge.

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 6d
It's 2026 and we can animate millions of data points in a web browser, stream HD video, and build whizzy interactive interfaces, but we still can't get text with subscripts and superscripts to render nicely.

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 6d
Bah. A person who hasn't seen Moana doesn't know what kind of person they really are.

Reposted by John Kennedy

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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.bsky.social · 7d
Absolutely gorgeous essayWorth a read (via @drnoble@mastodon.scot) by @tg that starts with why RSS clients look like email, but moves into SoMe and how we imported anxiety without cause.
Via @kottke

www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obli...

#design #ui #rss
Phantom Obligation | Terry Godier
Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that's doing to us.
www.terrygodier.com

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 7d
I always think this graph is missing the optimistic "disasters averted" line to go with the more pessimistic "missed opportunities" line. At the same time, the way climate scientists tend to frame attribution implies a certain optimism.

diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2023/03/23/w...
Graph from the IPCC showing future as a branching path. Some of the branches are red - they're the bad ones - and some are blue - the good ones. In addition, a path we missed sometime ago, labelled "opportunities missed", which is so blue it's green. I have added another line, labelled "disasters averted" which plunges off the red end of the graph. We also missed this path. Another inexpertly drawn line is "it was all a bad dream" which path we left before the industrial revolution.

Reposted by John Kennedy, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Peter Jacobs

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Cristi Proistosescu @cristiproist.bsky.social · 9d
I've seen several Big Climate Accounts™ post about how the recent winter storm was made worse by climate change. It's a convenient narrative.

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But what is "worse"? Colder temperatures? More snow? More freezing rain? Is there any primary literature supporting the idea of worse snowstorms?

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Reposted by John Kennedy

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 9d
We need more whimsical science

Reposted by Peter Thorne

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 10d
If you claim your fancy ML/AI forecasting system for ENSO can predict ENSO 3 years ahead then you have to include a prediction for the next 3 years in your paper.

I don’t make the rules.

Reposted by Simon L. Lewis, John Kennedy, James M. Bullock , and 1 more

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 10d
The optimist vs pessimist divide in #climate debates isn’t usually about the data.

It’s about how the same graphs are read, what people emphasise, what they discount, and how they interpret pace and stakes.

Here’s what I mean 🧵👇

Reposted by John Kennedy

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pretty bug @inyourculture.bsky.social · 12d
i think instead of looking for a tiktok replacement we should all start blogs

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Katharine Hayhoe, Valerie M. Delmotte , and 5 more

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Visualising Climate @visualisingclimate.com · 12d
Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data.
visualisingclimate.org
#VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis

Reposted by Valerie M. Delmotte, Sonia I. Seneviratne, John Kennedy , and 8 more

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 12d
New discussion paper just dropped that’s taken shall we say a little work to get this far … essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... please be kind. Not on an at all sensitive topic in the slightest.
How well can we quantify when 1.5 °C of global warming has been exceeded?
Abstract. Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement agreed to limit the long-term increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to keep temperatures below 1.5 °C relative to p...
essd.copernicus.org

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 14d
Microsoft products just covering themselves in glory today.
A screenshot of Microsoft Word online telling me that "word for the web saves as you go" but also asking "Leave site?" while warning me that "Changes you made may not be saved"