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Author Archives: Willis Eschenbach
James Hansen’s Policies Are Shafting The Poor
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I was reading an interview with Adrian Bejan (worth taking a look at), and I got to musing about his comments regarding the relationship between energy use and per capita income. So I pulled up … Continue reading
Posted in Cap-and-trade, carbon tax, James Hansen
Tagged Adrian Bejan, damage the poor, GapMinder, James Hansen, regressive tax
128 Comments
Marcott’s proxies – 10% fail their own criteria for inclusion
Note: Steve McIntyre is also quite baffled by the Marcott et al paper, finding it currently unreproducible given the current information available. I’ve added some comments from him at the bottom of this post – Anthony Guest Post by Willis … Continue reading
Air Conditioning Nairobi, Refrigerating The Planet
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve mentioned before that a thunderstorm functions as a natural refrigeration system. I’d like to explain in a bit more detail what I mean by that. However, let me start by explaining my credentials as … Continue reading
In Which We Kidnap Reagan, And He Wins Anyway!
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach After I got out of the Army, I became involved in the anti-war movement as well as the other main causes of the time, women’s rights and racial equality. We’d go out and do street … Continue reading
Science, Surfing, Stratification, Overturning, and Timing
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Surfing When I was a kid, swimming in the ocean was a rarity. We kids spent summers with my Dad, and once, maybe twice over the summer we’d go to Stinson Beach. I loved the … Continue reading
When Alaska Was Cold
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Temperatures are generally referred to some kind of long-term, often 30-year average. This is called the “climatology”, meaning the long-term average values of various climate variables. For up-to-date analyses, the period of time is usually … Continue reading
Dr. Roy Spencer’s Sea Surface Temperatures
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over at Roy Spencer’s excellent web site, Dr. Roy has a post up showing a sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly calculated from AMSR-E, TMI, and WindSat. Here’s his post of the results: Figure 1. Global … Continue reading
Posted in Sea Surface Temperature
Tagged AMSR-E, Dr. Roy Spencer, El Niño-Southern Oscillation, Reynolds OI, Sea Surface Temperature, SST, TMI, WindSat
55 Comments
The ScAm Gets Worse—An Open Letter To Bora Zivkovic
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Dear Bora; I know, I know, like many people I didn’t think it was possible for Scientific American magazine to sink any lower. I loved Scientific American as a kid, the “Amateur Scientist” column was … Continue reading
I Have It Made In Alaska
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In the fall of 1964 I started college at the University of California at Berkeley, but I hated it. I lasted one year, and as soon as school let out in June of 1965 I … Continue reading
The Coldest Journey Gets Colder
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I was saddened to get the news that Sir Ranulf Fiennes, OBE, has gotten frostbitten. As a result, he has been forced to give up his dream of a winter crossing of Antarctica, an expedition … Continue reading
The Native Sun
After I left Clayton’s place in 1971, following my motto of “Retire Early … And Often”, I retired for a while. It was good fun, but as usual, impending hunger eventually called me out of retirement, and I went looking … Continue reading
Posted in Willis Autobiography
Tagged Albacore, albacore fishing, Pacific Ocean, Tomales Bay
47 Comments
Old Bill Rises From The Dead
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve written about a South Pacific reprobate I called “Old Bill” before in my tale called Modern Piracy. He was a con man of the highest order. As a friend remarked, most con men tell … Continue reading
Ocean Temperature And Heat Content
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Anthony has an interesting post up discussing the latest findings regarding the heat content of the upper ocean. Here’s one of the figures from that post. Figure 1. Upper ocean heat content anomaly (OHCA), 0-700 … Continue reading
Posted in Oceans, Sea Surface Temperature
Tagged ARGO, ocean heat content anomaly, peel, Sea Surface Temperature
230 Comments
Behind Bars Again
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve written about my time in the US Army, and about spending time behind bars getting out of the Army, in my story called It’s Not About Me. In that story, I discussed a bit … Continue reading
Fishing the Mighty Kenai
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach When I was 62, I had the great pleasure of working once again in Alaska. I love Alaska, I’ve starved and frozen there, worked there many times. I’ve also made good money there, and it’s … Continue reading
Harvesting Fog: The No-Regrets Option
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve written before about the “no-regrets” option when one is faced with uncertainty. It relates to one of my favorite rules of thumb. I often live my life by my “rules of thumb”, general guidelines … Continue reading
Posted in Aerosols, Curious things, fog, Weather
Tagged biomimicry, fog harvesting, no regrets option
106 Comments
Gold Fever
Guest post by Willis Eschenbach I first met my friend Mel in the Army nuthouse. I wrote about him before, and the nuthouse, in a piece called “It’s Not About Me“. I hadn’t seen him for a couple months. One … Continue reading
The Captain’s Daughter
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I come by my storytelling habits honestly, mostly I credit my grandmother for my love of a well-turned tale. I grew up way out in the woods, on a cattle ranch surrounded by forest. With … Continue reading
Blackmailing the Japanese Ambassador
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to talking and laughing with my lovely lady today about old Billy Bennett. Billy was a rascal and a rogue and an erstwhile killer of men and a gentleman, another of those odd … Continue reading
Posted in Willis Autobiography
70 Comments
Overhyped: The Human Cost of Climate Alarmism
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I do love tracing down how numbers kind of ricochet around the web. This investigation started when I ran across a book review in the South China Morning Post of a book called “Overheated: The … Continue reading
Posted in Alarmism
Tagged Global Humanitarian Foundation, Guzman, Kofi Annan, Silent Crisis
106 Comments

























