@markgrenier.bsky.social Hi Mark. I have come back to Facebook but you don’t seem to be there anymore. You don’t seem to have posted on Bluesky for the last two months either. So gimme some news if you can!

It was us.

The plan was always us.

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Climate Feedback Parameter

This relatively recent paper by Sherwood et al starts with an interesting review of forcing values and uncertainties. I thought it would be an interesting exercise to extract the climate feedback parameter from it. 1/n agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Another interesting article from The Climate Brink, on the attribution of recent warming. The graph that jumps at me ⤵️ because of the strong aerosol contribution.

www.theclimatebrink.com/p/exploring-...

When it comes to emissions scenarios, Zeke Hausfather is an optimist. But optimism is mainstream in this field. Well, "optimism," so to speak: nearly +3°C by 2100 with further increases after that is still a catastrophe. A Substack well worth following. 1/2 www.theclimatebrink.com/p/moving-awa...

Former friends on Facebook who started to follow me here can safely ignore the stream of posts before this one, as they are just repeats of recent Facebook posts of mine, to irrigate this desert of a timeline!

This issue needs some reflection indeed. www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

A list that triggered my interest. I haven't watched any of those movies but I feel like I should! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCk7...

How to nest Platonic solids while maximising symmetries? Conway's solution… www.youtube.com/shorts/EbfPP...

A useful math theorem to save your sanity when setting chairs on an uneven floor. The chair will maddeningly wobble. But start turning it by little steps: before making a quarter turn, a position where all 4 feet touch the ground will have been reached. Voilà! 1/2

What is scientific consensus? Someone comes with a new idea. Everyone else tries to demolish it. They don't manage, so they give up. That's scientific consensus. So nothing even remotely like a vote as we do in politics.

Interesting article on collective decisions in gorilla group, to decide where to move. They conclude that the big sexual dimorphism does not preclude high-rank females to influence the decision, which is therefore not just up to the dominant male. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

<geek> USB 3.1 for an external hard drive means nothing as it can be gen 1 (5 Gbit/s) or gen 2 (10 Gbit/s). That's because USB 3.0 was renamed USB 3.1 gen 1. Don't even get me started with USB 3.2, it's even crazier. Anyway, always carefully check if speed matters to what you are doing. </geek>

An interesting article explaining a recent paper about the Last Universal Common Ancestor (nicknamed LUCA), i.e. the single-cell organism from which all life on Earth descended: not just lifeforms existing today but all fossils ever found. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/4