James' Empty Blog

It was both immense and immensely good humoured. Got to the end of the "assembly area" at Marble Arch in London, 0.8mile away f...

Stoat has called for another Brexit comment. I actually don't have a whole lot to add to what I said last time. It is clearly a mug...

This post was prompted by a silly twitter argument, about which probably the least said the better. Someone who has set themselves up as so...

Tim Harford says that the act of making predictions makes for better people (based on this paper ). I've always enjoyed making predict...

This post is long overdue, I thought I should at least write it down before the vote on Tuesday. And now this post has been overtaken by ev...

So, prompted by Doug McNeall's tweet , I went and read that much tweeted (and praised) paper by Iyengar and Massey: " Scientific c...

And to think a few weeks ago I was thinking that not much had been happening in climate science…now here’s another interesting issue. I pre...

From Resplandy et al (conveniently already up on sci-hub): Our result — which relies on high-precision O2 measurements dating back to 1...

The CFMIP workshop provided the excuse we were looking for in order to visit Boulder again. Last year this meeting had been held in Tokyo ...

The GMD t-shirts continue to be good value. Jules and I usually try to wear ours at any scientific meetings to spread the word and it ofte...