When Results Go Bad …

Guest post by Willis Eschenbach One of the claims in this hacked CRU email saga goes something like “Well, the scientists acted like jerks, but that doesn’t affect the results,…

The people -vs- the CRU: Freedom of information, my okole…

Foreword: Willis asked me to carry this post here. What follows is a long and detailed series of email exchanges that outline the difficult task of getting data so that…

The Steel Greenhouse

Guest post by Willis Eschenbach There is a lot of misinformation floating around the web about how the greenhouse effect works. It is variously described as a “blanket” that keeps…

Why Copenhagen Will Achieve Nothing

Guest post by Willis Eschenbach The upcoming Copenhagen climate summit, officially and ponderously named “COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009”, is aimed at reducing the emissions of the…

Tropical Tropospheric Amplification – an invitation to review this new paper

 Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone from space A while ago I started studying the question of the amplification of the tropical tropospheric temperature with respect to…

The Thermostat Hypothesis

Guest Essay by Willis Eschenbach Abstract The Thermostat Hypothesis is that tropical clouds and thunderstorms, along with other emergent phenomena like dust devils, tornadoes, and the El Nino/La Nina alteration,…