Author: Willis Eschenbach

Guest post by Willis Eschenbach A few days ago, Steve Goddard put up a post called “Does PIOMAS Verify?” In it, he compared the PIOMAS computer model estimate of the…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Yesterday, I discussed the Shepherd et al. paper, “Recent loss of floating ice and the consequent sea level contribution” (which I will call S2010). I…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I don’t know what to make of this one. I was wandering the web when I came across a Reuters article about a scientific study…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my usual peripatetic wandering around the web, I came across an interesting paper called “Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach This topic is a particular peeve of mine, so I hope I will be forgiven if I wax wroth. There is a most marvelous piece…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I just got my printed copy of the May 7th issue of Science Magazine, and I read their Editorial. This is the issue that contained…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The new Nature Magazine article on Lake Tanganyika, “Late-twentieth-century warming in Lake Tanganyika unprecedented since AD 500”, discussed a couple days ago by Anthony Watts here,…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Fewer cartoons today, I presented my paper (which was well received) and there were fewer sessions. The Conference is over now, it was very successful.…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, I’m at the International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago, where I’m one of the speakers. Since I’m a cartoonist, rather than liveblogging the…

Anthony has suggested that I post a paper of mine that was written in 2006 about unusual temperatures in Svalbard. It was published as a peer-reviewed submission in Energy and Environment, the…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I noted on the news that there is a new plan afoot to cool down the planet. This one supposedly has been given big money…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Last month (April 2010), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) put out a study called “Climate Change Indicators in the United States” (13 Mb PDF).…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach “I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw” William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii Following…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [Updated, see end of article] One of the claimed dangers of a few degrees warming of the Earth is increasing drought. Drought is a very…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A while back in the US there was an ad for a hamburger chain. It featured an old lady who bought a competitor’s hamburger with…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to thinking about how the information about temperatures is presented. Usually, we are shown a graph something like Fig. 1, which shows the…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Dr. Ravetz, welcome back to the fray with your new post.  My congratulations on your courage and willingness to go “once more unto the breach,…

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach First, I would like to thank Dr. Meier of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) for answering the questions I had posed (and…