Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A couple of months ago, I came across another claim that the solar sunspot cycle affects weather down here at the earth’s surface, in particular,…
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Ungrounded Australian Fears
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In his recent post entitled Aussie Sea Level Rise Building Permit Chaos, Eric Worrall discussed how people in southern Australia are being prevented from building…
The US Blows Hot And Cold
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to thinking about the raw unadjusted temperature station data. Despite the many flaws in individual weather stations making up the US Historical Climate…
A Curious Essay
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach et al. Here’s the draft essay: Introduction Climate is a complex and dynamic system, regulated by a multitude of interrelated processes, feedback loops, and emergent…
Non-Global Warming
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Short post. Here are the satellite-determined temperature trends of the various area of the lower troposphere, the lowest layer of the atmosphere. Figure 1. Temperature…
Outsourcing Emissions
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The countries of the West are slowly destroying their manufacturing, mining, and fossil fuel producing industries by way of well-meaning but ultimately destructive “environmental” regulations.…
Sunspots In The Atmosphere
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Buoyed by the equal parts of derision and acclaim for my previous post, “CEEMD vs Joe Fourier“, I thought I’d take a look at a…
CEEMD vs Joe Fourier
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In one of my late-night somnambulistic ramblings through the climate literature, I came across a 2021 study entitled “Evidence of solar 11-year cycle from Sea…
Fun With ChatGPT
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It’s my 76th birthday today, so for fun I thought I’d test the capabilities of the latest Artificial Intelligence sensation, ChatGPT. Here’s my request: Write…
Sunshine and Temperature in Holland
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, the endless curiosity of my monkey-mind led me to some interesting datasets over at KNMI. They’re a variety of meteorological measurements made in Holland…
February Fantasy Redux
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach This is an extension of my previous post entitled “February Fantasy Versus Reality“. Please read that to get the basic ideas. To recap, a study…
February Fantasy Versus Reality
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Yesterday, Eric Worrall posted an interesting article entitled “Forbes: Global Warming is Causing Colder Februaries“. The title says it all. The Forbes article states: Thanks…
The Copper Conundrum
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s been a lot of talk lately about how the scarcity of “rare-earth” minerals like lithium and cobalt will short-circuit the “green revolution”. In that…
The “Pollock Limit”
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Christopher Monckton recently put up a fascinating post entitled “The Final Nail in The Coffin Of “Renewable” Energy”. In it, he references the work of…
Are Extremes Increasing?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach As the result of an untimely rush of blood to my head, I posted the first comment on an article at PhysOrg entitled “On this…
The Wind Power Mirage
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I came across a laudatory article about the Scottish Hywind project, entitled “The world’s first floating offshore wind farm turns 5 — here’s how it’s…
Science Catches Up With WUWT
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Those who read my work may recall my post called “Munging the Sea Level Data“. In it, I showed that the apparent acceleration in the…
The Mirage of Electric Vehicles
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach For those who think that electric vehicles make a difference … think again. The Department of Energy’s Argonne National Lab has just released a study…
How The El Nino Is Changing
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Let me start with a quick run through how mainstream climate scientists think the climate works, and then my hypothesis on how the climate works.…
A Better Way To Remove Seasonal Variations
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach For no other reason than my unquenchable curiosity, I took a look at the Rutgers snow cover data from KNMI. Here’s the full data as…
Sea Ice Mysteries
Guest Post By Willis Eschenbach I’ve never seen either the Arctic or the Antarctic ice pack. I have, however, commercially fished for roe herring in the Bering Sea, setting purse…
Equatorial Rainfall by Hour
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [UPDATE: Dr. Roy has most graciously apologized over at his blog, and he has my profound thanks. See—told you he’s a good guy.] Sadly, I’m…
Big Oil, Small Oil
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a lot of misleading information out there these days about the oil industry and the high cost of oil. So I thought I’d provide…
Scatterplot Sensitivity
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach This is the third post looking at the use of 1° latitude by 1° longitude gridcell-based scatterplots. The first post, Global Scatterplots, looked at a…
