Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See update at the end] Since publishing my last two posts here and here on the Church and White (“C&W”) 2011 sea level dataset, some folks…
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The Climate of Gavin
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Gavin Schmidt, who I am given to understand is a good computer programmer, is one of the principals at the incongruously named website “RealClimate”. The…
Changes in the Rate of Sea Level Rise
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s been some discussion of the rate of sea level rise lately, so I thought I’d take a look at some underlying data. I…
Clouds and El Nino
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach After the turn of the century, I became interested in climate science. But unlike almost everyone else, I wasn’t surprised by how much the global…
Symmetry and Balance
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The CERES satellite dataset is a never-ending source of amazement and interest. I got to thinking about how much energy is actually stoking the immense…
Where Rivers Run North
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See updates at the end] In the continental US, most of the rivers run east, west, or south. But in the Yukon and in Alaska,…
Governor Moonbeam Loses The Plot
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…
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…
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