James' Empty Blog

Windows done, James is making the most of the luxury scaffolding to practice his lime mortar pointing skills. Last week was too cold, then...

In its own way, Yorkshire culture is as crazy as Japanese culture. Today's cultural exercise was doing an impossible 3 dimensional puzz...

Spent the week in the cat room. It has been quite exciting, especially on Tuesday afternoon, when, through the miracle of Skype, we were tr...

The long-awaited prequel to " Can the Last Glacial Maximum constrain climate sensitivity? " is now up on CPD and open for com...

Another day, another bit of clickbait climate sceptic trash in the Times. Hidden behind a paywall, which saves you from having to read it,...

In January there was one day of blue skies and sunshine when it did not rain, so on that day we cycled to Kirkby Lonsdale for breakfast (Ki...

Spotted by chance, and the article is mostly irrelevant but I did like the refreshingly honest quote from a fund manager who has woefully ...

When stocking a pond, it is usual to consider inches of fish . The inches can be in many little tiddlers or a smaller number of bigger fish...

Should probably be blogging about our little paper in review at Climate of the Past . But bugger that:  new catz have arrived! Archie an...

De mortuis nihil nisi bonum and all that, but appropos of this post , which generated lots of hot air, would any Bob Carter fans like to sa...