El Niño and La Niña events act together as a chaotic, naturally occurring, sunlight-fueled, recharge-discharge oscillator, with El Niño events acting as the discharge phase and La Niña events acting…
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Thunderstorm World: A Model to Explore Ideas from Willis Eschenbach
I’ve been thinking about some ideas that WUWT contributor Willis Eschenbach (WE) has proposed. In particular, WE has suggested that tropical cumulus clouds and thunderstorms provide a “thermostatic mechanism” that…
Podcast: The Calamity of Models (Guest: Willis Eschenbach)
Both climate and coronavirus models continue to fail. Why do we still look at them for deciding public policy? Our resident polymath Willis Eschenbach joins Anthony Watts to discuss the…
The Calamity of Models – Podcast with Willis Eschenbach
Computer models are sometimes useful, and often wrong. In the case of climate and Coronavirus predictions, “wrong” doesn’t even begin to describe it.
Giving Credit to Willis Eschenbach for setting the Nikolov-Zeller silliness straight
Note: I normally don’t publish anything related to the ideas of Nikolov and Zeller, for three reasons: 1) It’s just wrong, 2) It invariably descends into a shouting match. 3)…
A factual comment on Willlis Eschenbach’s and Christopher Monckton’s most recent posts, concerning clouds and ECS, respectively.
Guest opinion by Rud Istvan I have but little scientifically to contribute, since they have been mostly factually correct. But here I provide a little more scientific evidence, visual observational…
Almost belated birthday wishes to Willis Eschenbach
So much has been going on this week, and today especially, that I almost forgot that Willis Eschenbach has a very special birthday today. Since Willis contributes a great deal…
New paper from Loehle & Eschenbach shows extinction data has been wrongly blamed on climate change due to island species sensitivity
Guest post by Dr. Craig Loehle Last year, Willis Eschenbach had a WUWT post about extinction rates being exaggerated in the literature. I offered to help him get this published,…
Evaluating The Model Projections
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (Image above shows the Cray Ecoplex NOAA GAEA supercomputer, which can generate improbable future climate scenarios far faster than we simple humans …) Someone on…
Now You Sea Ice, Now You Don’t
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to thinking about sea ice and the climate models. Here’s what we know about polar sea ice extent, showing data that starts with…
Cloudy With A Chance Of Stability
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to thinking about the clouds again. They’re easily the least understood part of the climate. So let me start with what we do…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #593
“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star.…
Living Outside The Niche
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I stumbled across a paper called “Future of the human climate niche“, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The abstract says…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591
“The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge…
Arctic Sea Icecapades
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I see that the usual gloomy hype about arctic sea ice continues unabated. This has been going on for a while. Here’s the dean of…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #590
If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.”
Another Canary? Not.
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my meand’ring peregrinations of the multiverse, I came across the following about a bay up near the northernwest corner of California. Lost Coast Outpost…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #589
The Week That Was: 2024-02-24 (February 24, 2024)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The care of human life and happiness, and…
A Curious Paleo Puzzle
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I was wandering through the fabled land of X yesterday and came across the following post: Figure 1. Post on X showing a shortened version…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #588
There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science [pseudoscience]…It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind…
Tipping Is Optional
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I was greeted this morning by a CNN headline saying “Critical Atlantic Ocean current system is showing early signs of collapse, prompting warning from scientists“.…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #586
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” – Archimedes
Urban Heat Island Studies – Do Pristine Weather Stations Even Exist?
Australia’s low population density plus its many weather stations allow many “pristine” station candidates to be examined for studies of Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects.