If you arrived here by chance, you deserve a word or two of explanations. This is the blog of a real-world person. Like all real world people I am sometimes Serious and sometimes Not so serious, and sometimes too I just let my mind wander and speculate on various subjects.
Latest posts
Migrants (1/3/2026) Posted in: Vaguely philosophical I wish I could understand what drives our western rulers. There is no perspective, no empathy, no future. Just Business as Usual... with a lot of emphasis on migrants who come to eat our food and to steal our jobs. My view is that migrants are no threat. They are people who want to work, because they do want a future for their families!
2025 Popillia japonica outbreak in Camagna Monferrato, Piedmont, NW Italy (12/24/2025) Posted in: Bonina, Serious Popillia japonica, a polyphagous beetle is now well established in NW Italy. This post pays attention to the relations between environmental conditions and the development of larvae, as well as the active flight period. All available evidence points at a huge potential for additional and long-term damage of the insect in Europe. 
What is “abnormal” weather? (12/18/2025) Posted in: Serious In a period where climate is undergoing rapid and sustained changes, it is rather meaningless to use 30-year means to decide on the normality of weather. The weather of 30 years ago is irrelevant for current climate. This post makes the case for a much shorter reference period, e.g. 10 or 15 years. 10 years is also much closer to much of human weather based planning, in particular in farming.
Farwest à Bollywood (12/8/2025) Posted in: Not so serious Un bandit indien et sa famille de politiciennes
Trends in climatological time series (11/28/2025) Posted in: Serious Recent winter temperature variability, including trends and autocorrelation, is examined for Uccle, Belgium. 
Les murs de la Nouvelle-Angleterre (11/15/2025) Posted in: Not so serious Quand on regarde de près les murs de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, on se rend compte qu'ils ne sont pas beaucoup plus innocents que d'autres murs! 
Ammonal, anomal, anormal, immoral (11/14/2025) Posted in: Not so serious Ammonal, un explosif courant à base de TNT et de nitrate d´alumine, noircit l'urine. On aura tout vu!
The statistical distribution of some climate variables (11/8/2025) Posted in: Serious The statistical distribution of climate variables plays an essential part in climate description, the description of climate change and climatic risk assessments.
Crevettes au césium 137 (Cs-137) (11/5/2025) Posted in: Not so serious L'Indonésie paie cher le privilège d'exporter des crevettes aux USA. Et voilà que ces crevettes sont contaminées au césium-137 radioactif! 
Respirer dans l’oeil du cyclone (10/30/2025) Posted in: Not so serious La pression atmosphérique tombe brusquement pour ceux qui sont sur le trajet de l'oeil d'un cyclone... mais pas au point d'empecher de respirer...