Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I take as my subject for this post a claim made over at Forbes Magazine, viz: I saw that and said “Whaaaa”? My urban legend…
Author: Willis Eschenbach
Failed Serial Doomcasting
People sometimes ask me why I don’t believe the endless climate/energy use predictions of impending doom and gloom for the year 2050 or 2100. The reason is, neither the climate…
A Decided Lack Of Equilibrium
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to thinking about the lack of progress in estimating the “equilibrium climate sensitivity”, known as ECS. The ECS measures how much the temperature…
Wet Years, Dry Years
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I keep reading all kinds of claims that the slight warming we’ve been experiencing over the last century has already led to an increase in…
Pacific Glaciers Redux
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I see that Charles the Moderator has posted up the report of the fears of the loss of the Puncak Jaya glacier here on WUWT.…
How Much Sun Could A Sunshine Shine?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It has been pointed out that while many of the global climate models (GCMs) are not all that good at forecasting future climate, they all…
Water Behaving Badly
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Those who know me are aware that I’m a tropical boy, a hopeless addict of warm blue seas and coconut-laden islands with white sand beaches.…
The Regional Climate Protection Authority
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I live in Sonoma County, one of the more “woke” counties in that “woker than you could ever hope to be” state, California. So of…
Explaining Wind Turbine Lethality
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach For reasons that will soon become evident, the comments on my previous wind turbine post reminded me of a long-ago sunset dinner with my gorgeous…
Paying Much More For Much Less
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s an interesting and authoritative new [commenters pointed out it’s from 2012, I can’t find any newer research] study on the lifespan of those ugly…
Inside The Sausage Factory
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s an old saying that “Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see either one being made” … and I fear the same is…
Visibility and Invisibility
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I thought I’d take a more detailed look at the claims of the recent paper entitled “Discrepancies in scientific authority and media visibility of climate…
A Green And Pleasant Land
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (see update at the end) In England there was a recent partial collapse of the Whaley Bridge Dam. Of course, this couldn’t have been from,…
Trouble On ‘Lonnies Mountain’
Looks like serial non-archiver Lonnie Thompson ran in to some “Climate Communication” issues of his own~ctm From the Peruvian newspaper “El Comercio” Áncash: scientists withdrawn from Mount Huascaran at the…
Greenland Endures
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Charles the Moderator has been doing a fantastic job of keeping WUWT humming along, and deserves everyone’s thanks. Today he sent me an interesting article…
The Charney Report Revisited
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [see update at the end] Over on Twitter, Michael Tobis made the claim that the 1979 Charney report entitled “Carbon Dioxide and Climate: A Scientific…
Forcing and Burning in Coal Country.
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A 2015 paper by Xiaochun Zhang and Ken Caldeira has come to my attention. Inter alia, the abstract says: For example, the global and time‐integrated…
A Second Look At Radiation Versus Temperature
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See Update at end] I kept going back and looking at the graphic from my previous post on radiation and temperature. It kept niggling at…
Radiation versus Temperature
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [SEE UPDATE AT THE END] Due to the recent posts by Lord Monkton and Nick Stokes, I’ve been thinking about the relationship between radiation and…
Curious Correlations
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Grrrrr … gotta pull this one. The effect I found was due to the interaction of the El Nino with the seasons. Once I removed…
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