John Dee's Climate Normal

The analytical journal of an applied statistician and former G7 UK government scientist

Since my retirement as a PSO/G7 UK government scientist heading a statistical modelling section I have spent my time analysing climate data instead of pruning roses. Topics have included Arctic sea ice, wildfires, carbon emissions, El Niño, urban heat islands, Alpine snowfall, Greenland’s ice sheet, Atlantic multidecadal oscillation, flooding, drought, hurricanes, solar irradiance, Antarctic ice shelf, CONUS cooling, sea level rise, European rainfall, and sea surface temperature - to name but a few of the many subjects covered.

In addition I have been studying exotic topics such as Earth’s magnetic field, solar activity, geomagnetism and cosmic ray flux. Together these projects represent a collective investment of +15,000 hours of analytical work that is being updated and published exclusively on Substack. Articles are published as free-to-view but are archived behind a paywall after 7 days.

Folk ask me how I can be an expert in all these areas and the short answer is that I’m not. I’m an applied statistician who has been trained to analyse any data, anytime, anywhere for anybody. My goal is to expose the many biases and climate untruths being foisted on the public by those with vested interests; a gamekeeper turned poacher as it were!