Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach. TL;DR: Ramanathan proposed that the “greenhouse effect” could be measured as surface upwelling longwave minus top-of-atmosphere (TOA) upwelling longwave. However, this ignores the contributions to…
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DLR Curiosities
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach. [See Update at end] The CERES dataset continues to yield new insights. My joy is to graph different relationships and then see what I can…
Dr. Jim Advises Panic
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I see that my favorite serially failed climate doomcaster, Dr. James Hansen, is at it again. Accompanied by his usual Greek chorus of co-sycophants, he’s…
Light Shaking Water
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See update at end] From the Ministry of Settled Climate Science, I came across a most fascinating press report entitled Surprise Discovery Reveals a Whole…
As Above, So Below
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I have the world’s best science gig. I can research whatever I want, whenever I want, for as long as I want, and I don’t…
Testing A Constructal Climate Model
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach ABSTRACT A simple constructal model of the operation of the climate system was created by Dr. Adrian Bejan and several others. It posits that the…
Expensive Cheap Energy
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, our beloved US Gummint, in the form of the Energy Information Administration, just released the latest data on the horrendously large taxpayer subsidies for…
An Unsettling Insight
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to thinking about the classical way to measure the very poorly-named “greenhouse effect”, which has nothing to do with greenhouses. To my knowledge,…
Extremely Common Rarities
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach. With all the recent interest in rare or extreme weather events, I got to wondering … what makes a weather event rare or extreme? With…
Observational and theoretical evidence that cloud feedback decreases global warming
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, I decided to take a shot at publishing my views on the cloud feedback response to increases in surface warming. I wrote it up…
Hunga-Tonga Mysteries
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Yesterday, Anthony Watts posted a most interesting discussion of the Hunga-Tonga volcano, entitled “Record Global Temperatures Driven by Hunga-Tonga Volcanic Water Vapor – Visualized“. I…
Salty News From An Old Salt
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (In sailors’ parlance, an “old salt” is some fool like myself who has spent a good chunk of their life at sea …) It seems…
The IPCC Says No Climate Crisis
Guest Post By Willis Eschenbach OK, quick question: What do these weather phenomena have in common? Give up? So would I. What these phenomena have in common is that the…
Is The Dry Getting Drier?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach So I was wandering through the marvelous KNMI website, and I came across data for the Palmer Self-Correcting Drought Severity Index. This is an index…
Fossil and Non-Fossil Fuels
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my previous post, The Myth Of Replacing Fossil Fuels, I looked at the new BP global use of fossil and non-fossil fuels. In this…
The Myth Of Replacing Fossil Fuels
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (see update below) A hat tip to the commenter on one of my posts who was kind enough to give me a heads-up as follows:…
The Sea Level Hype Continues
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach So I’m reading the news, and I find the following: YIKES! Now, I’m pretty conversant with the sea-level data, and that made no sense. I…
A Narrow View Of Rainfall
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach So I came across a news article with the headline: Philly will have more heat waves, and the Delaware projected to rise more than a…
Paving the Road to Net-Zero
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My wonderful friend Willie Soon sent me this photo. Curious about the backstory, I used Google Images to identify the location and found an article…
Uncertain Uncertainties
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, I’ve been thinking for a while about how to explain what I think is wrong with how climate trend uncertainties are often calculated. Let…
Do Cosmic Rays Precede Earthquakes?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I came across an article with a provocative headline, “Scientists Link Cosmic Radiation to Earthquakes for the First Time“. So I went to look at…
Swiss Lemmings
Guest Post By Willis Eschenbach Turns out that lemmings have nothing on humans when it comes to following the next guy over the cliff. When I was a kid and…
Sun, Temperatures, and Models
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach PART THE FIRST – REAL WORLD Well, my monkey mind started thinking about the relationship between how much sunshine is absorbed at the surface and…
Graphic Lying
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach An online friend of mine alerted me to a curious change in the Greenland Ice Sheet. From the Danish Polar Portal, here are two of…
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