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…
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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in to some “Climate Communication” issues of his own~ctm From the Peruvian newspaper “El Comercio” Áncash: scientists withdrawn from Mount Huascaran at the…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…
The Cooling Rains
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I took another ramble through the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) satellite-measured rainfall data. Figure 1 shows a Pacific-centered and an Atlantic-centered view of the…
Planet-Sized Experiments – we’ve already done the 2°C test
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach People often say that we’re heading into the unknown with regards to CO2 and the planet. They say we can’t know, for example, what a…
Sunspots: Labitzke Meets Bonferroni
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In a previous thread here on WUWT, a commenter said that the sunspot-related variations in solar output were shown by Labitzke et al. to affect…
Sea Level and Effective N
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over in the Tweeterverse, I said I wasn’t a denier, and I challenged folks to point out what they think I deny. Brandon R. Gates…
President Jefferson Meets Mount Tambora
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In the comments of my last post entitled “Spot The Volcano, 1815 Edition” someone mentioned that Thomas Jefferson had commented on what is often called…
Spot The Volcano, 1815 Edition
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It’s been a while since I played “Spot The Volcano”. The premise of the game is that the decrease in temperatures from volcanic eruptions is…
Global Energy Balances … Except When It Doesn’t
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach. I came across an interesting 2014 paper called “The energy balance over land and oceans: an assessment based on direct observations and CMIP5 climate models“. In…
A Small Margin Of Error
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I see that Zeke Hausfather and others are claiming that 2018 is the warmest year on record for the ocean down to a depth of…
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