Here in California, we have one of the more deluded Governors in history, Jerry Brown. He has gotten his sobriquet “Governor Moonbeam” the old fashioned way … he earned it…
Author: Willis Eschenbach
Where, Exactly, Is The Man-made Climate Problem?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Posted without comment, except a hat tip to Dave Burton and Willie Soon … There is no statistically significant difference between the two trends. Well,…
Putting The Hype Back Into Hyperloop
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A recent article has discussed how Elon Musk’s “Boring Company” has raised $113 million dollars in startup capital. This is the company Musk formed to…
The Astounding Non-Success Of Sparky Cars
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Published without comment on our mostly coal-fired and highly subsidized electric car fleet … well, to be fair, I suppose that is a comment ……
The Road To Hell Is Paved With Solar Panels – "Solar Road" fails miserably
$4.5 million project generates just $36.86 worth of electricity so far Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Back in 2014, Anthony Watts pointed out an upcoming project called “Solar Roadways”. This was a…
Clouds Down Under
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See Update at the end] Sometimes climate research is just plain funny. I wrote before about Irish rain and investigated whether there is any effect…
Tools to Spot the Spots
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach People have asked about the tools that I use to look for any signature of sunspot-related solar variations in climate datasets. They’ve wondered whether these…
Why Ireland Is Green
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s an interesting study over at Climate of the Past entitled “A 305-year continuous monthly rainfall series for the island of Ireland (1711–2016)“ by Conor…
Congenital Innumeracy
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I came across an article that hypes a new “carbon capture” plant with the following headline: The world’s first “negative emissions” plant has begun operation—turning carbon…
How Not To Model The Historical Temperature
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Much has been made of the argument that natural forcings alone are not sufficient to explain the 20th Century temperature variations. Here’s the IPCC on…
Where The Warmth Is
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to thinking about the “hiatus” in warming in the 21st Century, and I realized that the CERES satellite dataset covers the period since…
My Email To The NAS, NAE, and NAM
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach As just reported here on WUWT, the National Academies of Science, of Engineering, and of Medicine recently stated that with Google funding, they are going…
Long Temperature Records and Sunspot Minima
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, folks were complaining that my graph of the CET compared to the centennial solar minima was just one location, England. So here are the…
The Climate Dictionary
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I see that there is some confusion over terminology in the climate field. In response, I’ve put together a list of common terms, along with…
Data in Bondage
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In a recent post here on WUWT, someone yclept “Javier” has written about the Bond Rafted Ice data. In a comment, he said: Well, that…
The Source Of The Heat
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over at Dr. Judith Curry’s always excellent blog, she has a post headlined by a question, viz: What are the main sources of heat that…
Watching Thunderstorms Chase The Hot Spots
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Once on a lovely hot August day in eastern Oregon, my gorgeous ex-fiancee and I sat entranced and watched a parade of dust devils. I’ve…
Glimpsed Through The Clouds
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See Update at the end.] [See Second Update at the end.] In a recent post, I discussed the new CERES Edition 4.0 dataset. See that post…
Ideal Gases
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over at the Notrickszone, there’s much buzz over a new paper entitled Molar Mass Version of the Ideal Gas Law Points to a Very Low…
A Hard Rain's Gonna Chill
I was re-reading an old post of mine entitled “How Thunderstorms Beat The Heat“. I say “re-reading” because I couldn’t remember writing some parts of it. Yes, it was…
You must be logged in to post a comment.