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Ian ‘Harry’ Harris
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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. .. more

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Nicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 3d
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...

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Ian Harris, Daxton R. Stewart

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NPR @npr.org · 5d
The Washington Post embarked on severe cuts despite appeals by the newsroom to owner Jeff Bezos. The paper is to narrow its focus largely to politics and national security. n.pr/4qAlWBj
Bezos orders deep job cuts at 'Washington Post'
The Washington Post embarked on severe cuts despite appeals by the newsroom to owner Jeff Bezos. The paper is to narrow its focus largely to politics and national security.
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Ian ‘Harry’ Harris @datamunki.bsky.social · 25d
That’s one hell of an isochron! It’s usually an hour, tops.

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Ian ‘Harry’ Harris @datamunki.bsky.social · Dec 3
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...
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
www.theguardian.com

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · Dec 1
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

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Ian ‘Harry’ Harris @datamunki.bsky.social · Sep 30
Sure, this is the mean T for an ensemble of ten stations ‘near’ Norwich (where I am).

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Ian ‘Harry’ Harris @datamunki.bsky.social · Sep 30
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.

Reposted by Ian Harris, Ed Hawkins, Michael J. Allen

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Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · Sep 29
🍩 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 👇

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · Sep 20
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).

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Jul 27
Glad Tom Lehrer outlived Kissinger. May his memory be for a blessing. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97
www.nytimes.com

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · Apr 18
Full disclosure: Everything I've every posted on BlueSky has been Al-generated content

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Ian ‘Harry’ Harris @datamunki.bsky.social · Jun 19
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.

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Ian ‘Harry’ Harris @datamunki.bsky.social · Apr 29
‘This is fine.’

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Ian ‘Harry’ Harris @datamunki.bsky.social · Mar 11
Just spreading the word, here’s a growing collection of torrents of US Government websites, including NOAA and CDC: sciop.net/datasets/
Datasets - SciOp
Preserving Public Information
sciop.net

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Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine @leftistlawyer.com · Mar 3
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."

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Mar 2
This says it all.

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Ian ‘Harry’ Harris @datamunki.bsky.social · Jan 29
Rachel Reeves confirms government backing for Heathrow third runway - yep, we’re screwed whoever’s in charge.

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PClimatologia @pclimatologia.bsky.social · Jan 25
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

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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>
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Ian ‘Harry’ Harris @datamunki.bsky.social · Jan 10
Yep, interesting DM bits that then go off-piste, doesn’t go full ethereal though.

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · Jan 10
NASA’s updated global temperature spirals including 2024. Up and up and up.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · Jan 8
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

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Ian ‘Harry’ Harris @datamunki.bsky.social · Dec 26
Used as the cover of the excellent second album by The Sound, From the Lion’s Mouth.

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Ian ‘Harry’ Harris @datamunki.bsky.social · Dec 9
Is it getting more common, though? I don’t think I’ve EVER had one explode.

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Ian ‘Harry’ Harris @datamunki.bsky.social · Dec 6
Sorry for those triggered, but this is disgraceful: Rape trials collapse as victims abandon cases amid long court delays

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Ian ‘Harry’ Harris @datamunki.bsky.social · Dec 4
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?

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Ian ‘Harry’ Harris @datamunki.bsky.social · Dec 4
www.abebooks.co.uk/Atlas-London...

As you’d expect. Essentially priceless, the maps are works of art.
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...
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Ian ‘Harry’ Harris @datamunki.bsky.social · Dec 4
Tufte is a God.

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Ian ‘Harry’ Harris @datamunki.bsky.social · Dec 4
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°??”
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…
diagrammonkey.wordpress.com

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John Kenny @johnkenny.bsky.social · Nov 20
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...
Abstract of paper "A framework for classifying climate change questions used in public opinion surveys"

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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · Nov 15
Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory
A map of flight paths emanating from breeding colony of gulls, with this caption: Early on, LifeWatch noticed something odd. Most gulls were making daily trips to Mouscron, a city on the French border 65 km away. They went to investigate and found the birds bingeing on discarded snacks at the Roger & Roger potato factory.