Author: Willis Eschenbach

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Dear Dr. Suresh: My sincere and heartfelt congratulations on your being appointed Director of the US National Science Foundation (NSF). It is indeed an honor…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There is an interesting new study by Lauer et al. entitled “The Impact of Global Warming on Marine Boundary Layer Clouds over the Eastern Pacific—A…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over at Judith Curry’s excellent blog she has a post on how to test the climate models. In response I wrote a bit about some…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Today I thought I’d discuss my research into what is put forward as one of the key pieces of evidence that GCMs (global climate models)…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve spent the last week in the Solomon Islands, which is northeast of Australia. It’s a wonderful place for me to come back to, even…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Encouraged by the response to my post on Adrian Bejan and the Constructal Law, which achieved what might be termed unprecedented levels of tepidity, I…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach One of the most fundamental and far-reaching discoveries in modern thermodynamics is the Constructal Law (see the wiki entry as well). It was first formulated…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Yeah, I know Nature doesn’t have human emotions, give me a break. I’m aware it is unscientific and dare I call it atavistic and perhaps…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A number of people have said Hey, in your previous post, the missing forcing is going into the ocean, so it’s still “in the pipeline”.…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach ABSTRACT The IPCC says that the expected change in temperature arising from a change in forcing is equal to the change in forcing times the…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach James Hansen and others say that we owe it to our Grandchildren to get this climate question right. Hansen says “Grandchildren” with a capital G…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In response to my recent post about whether we could feed more people if everyone were vegetarians (I say no), a poster named Marissa wrote a…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The official report of the Pennsylvania State University Inquiry Committee into the actions of Dr. Michael Mann is available here. It is the Report of the…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I grew up on a remote cattle ranch in the middle of miles of forest in the northern Sierra Nevada mountains of California. We had…