Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The BBC, that bastion of slanted reportage on all things green, has an article about a new solar power plant entitled “The Colossal African Solar…
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The DOE vs. Ugly Reality
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over at the Washington Post, Chris Mooney and the usual suspects are seriously alarmed by a memo sent out by the Transition Team at the…
Unscientific Americans
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Our betters at the so-called “Scientific” American magazine have decided to lecture us unscientific Americans on what is real science. The occasion was a retweet…
The Ninth First Climate Refugees
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [see update] Well, the claims of the “first climate refugees” are coming up again. I think we’re up to the ninth first climate refugees, it’s…
The UN Poll Redux
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A while back I discussed the UN Global Poll regarding what people around the world think is important to them. At that point there were…
What's That Musky Smell?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, the man who has made billions with a “b” by sponging off of your taxpayer dollars, the man you can always find face-down at the…
Gore Offers To Work With Trump On Climate
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Man, there is just no end to Gore’s hubris. From his website, which I’ll pass on linking to for obvious reasons … Last night President-elect Trump…
An election analysis you won't see in the MSM
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach. [See Update at end] First, I heard three of the best, most moving, heartfelt, and real speeches of the election yesterday and today, from Trump,…
Sharpening a Cyclical Shovel
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There are a number of lovely folks in this world who know how to use a shovel, but who have never sharpened a shovel. I’m…
The Cosmic Problem With Rays
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Normal carbon has six neutrons and six protons, for an atomic weight of twelve. However, there is a slightly different form of carbon which has…
Chinese Sunspots
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See also the new Update at the end of the post.] I see that there is a new paper from China causing a great disturbance…
Effective Radiation Level (ERL) Temperature
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Lord Monckton has initiated an interesting discussion of the effective radiation level. Such discussions are of value to me because they strike off ideas of…
Cloud Feedback
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In the comments to Christopher Monckton’s latest post, Nick Stokes drew attention to Soden and Held’s analysis of feedback in the climate models. I reproduce their Table…
Urbane Legends
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach So we were sitting around the fire at the fish camp on the Colombia a few days ago, and a man said “Did you hear…
Pushing the Adventure Button
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My good fortune this week was to drive with my gorgeous ex-fiancee up to go fishing on the Columbia River. My mad friend John Whitlatch and…
Putting It On The Line
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Thanks to an alert commenter, half of my last post was shown to be in error. Like most folks, I really, really hate to be…
Pre- and Post-Feedback Sensitivity
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [UPDATE TWO: Rather than trying to cooper up the errors, I have simply removed the incorrect sections and left the calculation of the Planck feedback intact. I…
Precipitable Water Redux
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my last post I investigated the mathematical relationship between the amount of total precipitable water vapor (TPW) in the atmosphere, and the clear-sky greenhouse…
Precipitable Water
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach One of my great pleasures is to come across a new dataset. Turn me loose on new observations of this magical world, and there’s no…
The Unsinkable "Sinking Atolls" Meme
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve written before about the study of Arthur Webb and Paul Kench regarding the fact that coral atolls are not being swallowed by rising seas. Their…
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