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Author Archives: Willis Eschenbach
An Open Letter to Dr. Linda Gundersen
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Dear Dr. Gundersen; I see that due to the highly theatrical auto-defenestration of your predecessor, Dr. Peter Gleick, you are now the Chair of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Task Force on Scientific Integrity. I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Alarmism
Tagged AGU, American Geophysical Union, Gundersen, Heartland Institute, integrity, Peter Gleick, Scientific method, Task Force
191 Comments
Argo and the Ocean Temperature Maximum
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It has been known for some time that the “Pacific Warm Pool”, the area just northeast of Australia, has a maximum temperature. It never gets much warmer than around 30 – 31°C. This has been … Continue reading
Argo Notes Part 2
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Following on my previous post, “Jason and the Argo Notes”, just a couple of graphs in passing: Figure 1. Argo surface temperatures, northern hemisphere. Colors show the latitude of the floats, from red at the … Continue reading
Posted in ARGO data, Sea Surface Temperature
Tagged Argo (oceanography), climate, Jason, temperature
44 Comments
Jason and the Argo Notes
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Like Jason, I proceed into the unknown with my look at the Argo data, and will post random notes as I voyage. Come, my friends, ‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push … Continue reading
Extremely Black Carbon
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Of late there has been a lot written about the effect of “black carbon”, a.k.a. “soot”, and also “brown carbon”, a.k.a. wood and dung smoke, on the climate. Me, I think it’s worthwhile controlling black … Continue reading
Posted in carbon soot
Tagged Arctic, Atmosphere, Atmospheric Sciences, Black carbon, climate change, earth, global warming, Mark Jacobson, Richard Kerr
134 Comments
Triangular Fuzzy Numbers and the IPCC
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to thinking about “triangular fuzzy numbers” regarding the IPCC and their claims about how the climate system works. The IPCC, along with the climate establishment in general, make what to me is a … Continue reading
Posted in IPCC
Tagged climate, Climate sensitivity, earth, Hansen, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, IUCN Red List, Triangular number
106 Comments
Where in the World is Argo?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The Argo floats are technical marvels. They float around below the surface of the ocean, about a kilometre down, for nine days. On the tenth day, they rise slowly to the surface, sampling the pressure, … Continue reading
Posted in ARGO data
104 Comments
The Gore Effect kicks in, plus ça change …
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach … plus ça same old stuff. Thank goodness somethings never change. For example, the “Gore Effect”, which says that wherever His Nobelity Albert Gore III might hold a Climastravaganza to remind the world of the … Continue reading
Posted in Alarmism, Al Gore
Tagged Al Gore, temperature, antarctica, James Hansen, Antarctic Peninsula, Gore Effect, Richard Branson, Weddell Sea, Leopard seal
104 Comments
Cites and Signs of the times
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been involved in climate science for a while now, this is not my first rodeo. And I’ve read so many pseudo-scientific studies that I’m starting to develop a list of signs that indicate when … Continue reading
A Japanese Puzzle
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A reader who posts under the name “tokyoboy” sent a link to a very interesting sea level record from the Japanese Meteorological Agency. It covers the period 1906–2010, and when I first saw it I … Continue reading
Posted in sea level, Uncategorized
Tagged Current sea level rise, Japan, Yasunari Kawabata
136 Comments
Hansen’s Sea Shell Game
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s an old con game that has been played on the suckers for hundreds and hundreds of years. It is done in various forms, with various objects, under various names—three card monty, the shell game, … Continue reading
Alaska On The Rocks
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach From the “weather is not climate” department, the sea ice is in early and thick in Alaska. It makes me shiver just to look at the picture. They had to use an icebreaker to get … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, sea ice, snow
Tagged Alaska, Arctic, Bering Sea, Bristol Bay, Deadliest Catch, Dutch Harbor, Fishing, Ice age, sea ice, Unalaska Alaska
172 Comments
Decimals of Precision – Trenberth’s missing heat
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over at Judith Curry’s excellent blog there’s a discussion of Trenberth’s missing heat. A new paper about oceanic temperatures says the heat’s not really missing, we just don’t have accurate enough information to tell where … Continue reading
Posted in Trenberth's missing heats
Tagged Blackjack, Card counting, Card game, Casino, Gambling, Games, Judith Curry, Poker dealer
180 Comments
The Mystery of Equation 8
I’ve been looking at the Nikolov and Zeller paper again. Among other things, they claim to be able to calculate the surface temperature Ts of eight different planets and moons from knowing nothing more than the solar irradiation So and the … Continue reading
Posted in Gravity
Tagged Emissivity, Insolation, Planet, Sunlight, Surface pressure, temperature, Zeller
518 Comments
The Birth of CGR Science
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I was reading a study published in November 2011 in Science mag, paywalled of course. It’s called “The Pace of Shifting Climate in Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems”, by Burrows et al. (abstract here, hereinafter B2011). … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, modeling
Tagged Biodiversity, climate change, environment, global warming, Siberia, temperature, Terrestrial ecosystem
156 Comments
Perpetuum Mobile
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Since at least the days of Da Vinci, people have been fascinated by perpetual motion machines. One such “perpetuum mobile” designed around the time of the civil war is shown below. It wasn’t until the … Continue reading
Posted in energy, Gravity
Tagged Energy, Kinetic energy, Perpetual motion, Potential energy, temperature
911 Comments
Thanks and Apologies
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I have no use for people who censor and ban those who don’t agree with their scientific ideas. I’ve had my simple, on-topic, scientific comments censored over at RealClimate. And I’m banned at Tamino’s ”Closed Mind” blog … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
483 Comments
A Matter of Some Gravity
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A couple of apparently related theories have been making the rounds lately. One is by Nikolov and Zeller (N&Z), expounded here and replied to here on WUWT. The other is by Hans Jelbring, discussed at … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged earth, Emissivity, Greenhouse effect, Infrared, Stefan-Boltzmann, Stefan–Boltzmann law, temperature, Watts Up With That?
1,196 Comments
The USGS Investigates Elk
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Elk are one of the largest of the “Cervidae”, the deer family, and are one of North America’s largest mammals. Cows weight about 225 kg. (500 pounds) while bulls weigh about 320 kg (700 pounds). … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
126 Comments
The Moon is a Cold Mistress
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been considering the effect that temperature swings have on the average temperature of a planet. It comes up regarding the question of why the moon is so much colder than you’d expect. The albedo … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
453 Comments
Defund the IPCC Now
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, I woke up to some bad news this morning. It turns out that the GAO, the US General Accounting Office, says US has been secretly hiding their funding of the IPCC for the last … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
152 Comments
Krige the Argo Probe Data, Mr. Spock!
A few weeks ago I wrote a piece highlighting a comment made in the Hansen et al. paper, “Earth’s Energy Imbalance and Implications“, by James Hansen et al. (hereinafter H2011). Some folks said I should take a real look at … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
167 Comments
Losing Your Imbalance
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach People have upbraided me for not doing an in-depth analysis of the paper “Earth’s Energy Imbalance and Implications“, by James Hansen et al. (hereinafter H2011). In that paper they claim that the earth has a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
210 Comments
The Ocean Is Not Getting Acidified
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s an interesting study out on the natural pH changes in the ocean. I discussed some of these pH changes a year ago in my post “The Electric Oceanic Acid Test“. Before getting to the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
168 Comments
Nothing is Sustainable
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach People have this idea that sailing is cheap, because of the low fuel costs. But blue-water sailors have a saying that goes like this: The wind is free … but everything else costs money. Reading … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
440 Comments
