.Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach As usual, Dr. Judith Curry’s Week In Review – Science Edition contains interesting studies. I took a look at one entitled “Cloud feedback mechanisms and…
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Feedback on Feedbacks
Guest essay by Rud Istvan In recent weeks, there have been a number of WUWT guest posts on climate sensitivity related matters. Sensitivity is determined by feedbacks to increased CO2.…
Emergent Climate Phenomena
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In a recent post, I described how the El Nino/La Nina alteration operates as a giant pump. Whenever the Pacific Ocean gets too warm across…
It's Not About Feedback
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The current climate paradigm believed by most scientists in the field can be likened to the movement of balls on a pool table. Figure 1.…
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
The Sun-Climate Effect: The Winter Gatekeeper Hypothesis (VI). Meridional transport is the main climate change driver
by Javier Vinós & Andy May “No philosopher has been able with his own strength to lift this veil stretched by nature over all the first principles of things. Men…
Some Models Are Useless
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s an old saying about models—“All models are wrong, but some models are useful.” It’s often used to justify the existence of climate models. However,…
Surface Radiation Balance
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Let me invite you to wander with me through some research I’ve been doing. I got to thinking about the surface radiation balance. The earth’s…
A Request For Peer Preview
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, for my sins I’ve been working on a paper with the hope of getting it published in a journal. Now that it’s nearly done,…
Clouds From Both Sides Now
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Clouds are said to be the largest uncertainty in climate models, and I can believe that. Their representation in the models is highly parameterized, each…
A 2021 Index to Willis’s Posts
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It’s February 3rd, 2021. I hadn’t updated my index since 2018, so I decided to do so. Not an easy task, but I beat it…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #430
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #421
he Legislature.” – Section 3, Article XII Public Utilities, California Constitution, added Nov 5, 1974
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #413
Quote of the Week: “I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that…
What’s the worst case? Climate sensitivity
Posted on April 1, 2019 by curryja | Reposted from Climate Etc. by Judith Curry Are values of equilibrium climate sensitivity > 4.5 C plausible? For background, see these previous…
CAGW: a ‘snarl’ word?
Reposted From Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. By Andy West The term ‘CAGW’ has both appropriate and inappropriate usage. Introduction Rational Wiki says: ‘“CAGW”, for “catastrophic anthropogenic global warming”, is a…
The Picasso Problem
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See update at the end.] Let me start explaining the link from Picasso to climate science by looking at what Dr. Nir Shaviv called “the…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #309
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project By Ken Haapala, President California Litigation, General: The public nuisance lawsuits by San Francisco and Oakland against…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #300
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Fears of Global Warming: Last…
A New Index to Willis’s Posts
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, my old index to my posts was out of date, and I finally got tired of not being able to find things that I’ve…
Where The Temperature Rules The Total Surface Absorption
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Reflecting upon my previous post, Where The Temperature Rules The Sun, I realized that while it was valid, it was just about temperature controlling downwelling…
A Consensus Of Convenience
We publish this here, not to confirm that it is correct, but to stimulate the debate needed to determine whether or not it is correct or if it’s simply an…
How Gaia and Coral Reefs Regulate Ocean pH
Guest essay by Jim Steele Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism Although some researchers…
Tropical Evaporative Cooling
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been looking again into the satellite rainfall measurements from the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM). I discussed my first look at this rainfall data…
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