Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach As a result of a tweet by Steve McIntyre, I was made aware of an interesting dataset. This is a look by Vinther et al. at…
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Hansen’s 1988 Predictions Redux
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over in the Tweeterverse, someone sent me the link to the revered climate scientist James Hansen’s 1988 Senate testimony and told me “Here’s what we…
Where The Texas Winds Blow
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a typically hyper, deceptive, and Pollyanna article in the Houston Chronicle with the headline “Texas has enough sun and wind to quit coal, Rice…
The Dryer Gets Wetter
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See Update At The End] I keep reading that one of the things that we are already seeing (or that is predicted) is that the…
Another Look At The Fuel Mix
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach After my previous post on the subject of the fuel mix that powers the planet, I thought I’d take another look at energy use, this…
The Limits Of Uncertainty
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In the comments to my post called “Inside the Acceleration Factory“, we were discussing how good the satellite measurements of sea surface heights might be.…
Where Did The Money Go?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Here’s what we, the US taxpayers, have spent on climate since 1993 … can anyone tell me what we bought that is worth ~ $180…
Inside The Acceleration Factory
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Nerem and Fasullo have a new paper called OBSERVATIONS OF THE RATE AND ACCELERATION OF GLOBAL MEAN SEA LEVEL CHANGE, available here. In it, we…
The Social Benefit Of Carbon
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach After my recent post on the futility of the US cutting down on CO2 emissions, I got to thinking about what is called the “social…
Going To Zero
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I keep reading about all kinds of crazy schemes to reduce US CO2 emissions. Now, I don’t think that CO2 is the secret knob that…
The Deutch Energy Tax
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [Note: Link to PDF version added at the end] At the suggestion of a commenter on my last post, I’m taking a look at a…
The Green Climate Deal
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I see that Ms. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mr. Bernie Sanders are pushing something called a “Green New Deal”, so I thought I’d take a look.…
Man, I Hate Being Wrong
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach We’ll get to what I did wrong in a moment, but first, in my last post, a number of folks questioned my calculation of the…
Cooling Down The Land
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [UPDATE] I’ve discovered an error in the calculations that invalidates most of this post, with the exception of the snow extent data. See the explanation…
The Froth of the Fourth
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I see that the Fourth US National Climate Assessment has just been published. It’s here, and it should be required reading for those masochists who…
New CERES Data
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Every fall, there’s good news in the world of satellite information, because the CERES satellite folks add one more year’s worth of data to their…
The Picasso Problem
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See update at the end.] Let me start explaining the link from Picasso to climate science by looking at what Dr. Nir Shaviv called “the…
California, Temperatures, and Acres Burned
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Inspired by the work done by Robert Rohde attempting to link May to October temperatures and rainfall to fires, I thought I’d take a look…
Forest Fires in the Golden State
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See update at end] [Note correction under Figure 1.] Our charmingly incompetent California Governor, Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown, has announced that all climate-change deniers are “definitely…
Nitrogen Dioxide Sense and Nonsense
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach According to the National Center for Biotechnology information, we have: “Nitrogen dioxide (NO2). A highly poisonous gas. Exposure produces inflammation of lungs that may only…
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