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Willis Eschenbach Profile picture
Willis Eschenbach
@WEschenbach
Generalist. Scientific work at: https://t.co/dAIyPHmGnR Immediate block if you open the bidding by insulting me.
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May 9 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🧵@MichaelEMann is not an "awesome communicator". He's a damn coward who blocked me on X before I ever tweeted him.

And you don't even have the spine to let folks answer directly. What kind of "scientist" blocks people you disagree with?

Maybe it's because of my posts below … First, here's a post I wrote about a time when it sure looks like the good Doctor borrowed my ideas and passed them off as his own. Maybe he blocked me for exposing that bit of his chicanery.
wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/30/dr-…
Mar 7 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
🧵I write about climate science, politics, international affairs, and a host of other subjects. Links in bio.

Best thing about writing for the web?

People who can show me where I'm wrong. It saves me the endless time I'd otherwise waste following blind alleys and wrong ideas. I'm known on the web for admitting when I'm wrong. I devoted a whole post to an error I'd made, a post entitled "Wrong Again". Painful, but necessary.

And as I said, that's a good thing—it prevents me from continuing in my misunderstanding.
wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/11/wro…
Jun 10, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Oh, please, @EricHolthaus. Enough with the gaslighting. It was indeed deliberate … just not via "global warming" as you falsely claim.

The main causes of the recent rash of forest fires are 1) insane green obstruction of proper forest management practices, and 2) arson. Image Not only that, but it should have been no surprise to anyone—these simple facts have been known and predicted by professional foresters for decades. As they say, "It's not rocket surgery" …

dailysignal.com/2020/09/14/wil…
Jun 7, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Roger, in 2007, Professor Wiesław Masłowski of the Naval Post Graduate School, projected that the Arctic would be ice-free by 2013.

In an Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences article in 2012, Masłowski and three coauthors updated this figure to “2016 ±3 years.” In 2009, Dr. Peter Wadhams said we'd have an ice-free summer in 20 years, with "much of that decrease will be happening within ten years."

Here's the record of Wadhams' predicted "decrease" in Arctic summer ice since 2009 … Image
May 30, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
In the UK, the Labour Party has said it will block any further use of North Sea oil and gas. So let's run the numbers and see what difference that will make to the temperature.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/rishi-… Proven UK North Sea oil and gas reserves are about 15 billion barrels of oil equivalent.

Typical CO2 per 42-gallon barrel of oil is about 425 kg.

So that's about 6.4 billion tonnes of CO2.
energyvoice.com/oilandgas/nort…
May 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Dr. Paul, are you aware of the concept of "capacity factor"? Your graphs are of capacity, but out here in the real world, solar farms only produce 14% of their nameplate capacity. Divide all your numbers by 7 and tell us how impressive they really are. Image Next, here's the reality of solar plus wind. Yes, as you claim, it's growing fast … but two times a trivially small number is still a trivially small number. We've spent $5 TRILLION on this nonsense since 2000AD, and here's what we got. Can't even keep up with increased demand. Image
May 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Richard, you ask us to look at how spending ~$5 TRILLION on sun and wind went.

Here's how it went. It can't even keep up with increased demand. Pathetic. Image Also, you CANNOT directly compare dispatchable and non-dispatchable sources. To quote from Lazard's 2023 Levelized Cost Of Energy:
Apr 15, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Thanks, Richard. Let me start by saying that the IPCC is a governmental organization charged with finding out how much CO2 is dangerous … NOT whether it's a danger. That was assumed. Bad scientists, no cookies.

It has wandered a LONG way from science and deep into advocacy. For an example of how corrupt it has become, see the link below.
bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2008/8/11…

And as to the corruption of the scientists involved, see the link below.

wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/24/the…
Apr 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
My 2013 four-part series on the insanity of the British Columbia carbon tax. As relevant today as it was then.

w.

1/4
 British Columbia, British Utopia 2013-07-11
wattsupwiththat.com/2013/07/11/bri… 2/4
 Fuel On The Highway In British Pre-Columbia 2013-07-12
wattsupwiththat.com/2013/07/12/fue…
Apr 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I've been driving from Nashville to the Carolina coast with my Gorgeous Ex-Fiancee. We've been doing what we call "pushing the Adventure Button".

So … who is my Gorgeous Ex-Fiancee? Here you go.
rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/let… And what is the Adventure Button? It's on Google Maps. After you push "Start" on GMaps, drag up the bottom part of the screen. Select "Settings", scroll down, and select "Avoid Highways".

Then simply follow the directions … you'll see parts of the world you've never imagined.
Apr 2, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Michael Mann, who is so afraid of my analyses that he blocked me on Twitter before I ever said one word to him, is now claiming that climate models are wonderful. Riiiight … His claim is based on this article.
climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/stud…
Here's the hilarious part. The article has a graphic showing the 95% spread of the model results.

First, NASA didn't even have the balls to show the full range of models (lower left). We don't know how bad they are.
Apr 1, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Lawrence, the "health officials" did HUGE damage to people's jobs, mental health, well-being, suicide rates … & scientific studies show that their masks, lockdowns, and distancing didn't do one damn thing to slow the virus. Step away from the keyboard, go outside, wake up. Here are the real costs of the lockdowns, which caused far more (10X) years of life lost than they saved.

wattsupwiththat.com/2020/09/01/the…
Mar 31, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I hadn't fully realized until recently the fear that far too many women live with. I learned it when I've been riding my bicycle around my local town. The bike is silent, so my appearance is often a surprise … and the first reaction of many women is fear. Now, I'm not a fearsome guy. I'm 76, I weigh a buck sixty-five soaking wet, 5'9". But what I realized is the fear is not about me.

It's about men.

And it's a very realistic fear. Far too many women have been hit, beaten, or sexually attacked by men for them to assume the best.
Mar 29, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
My day with ChatGPT:

Me; Tell me a joke about the Buddha

ChatGPT: Sure, here's a Buddha joke for you:

Why did the Buddha refuse Novocain at the dentist?

Because he wanted to transcend dental medication! Me: Tell me a joke about Jesus

Here's a joke about Jesus for you:

Why was Jesus terrible at tennis?

Because every time he tried to serve, he kept saying, "Love your neighbor!"

Me: Tell me a joke about Mohammed

I'm sorry, but as an AI language model, I cannot provide …
Mar 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
We "take the ability [to predict Niños] for granted"??

We just had 3 La Niña years. How about a link to the forecast showing that?

Heck, I can't even find the Ski Canada article anywhere on the web. There's no link to it in your official bio … curious.

simondonner.com/publications/ I did, however, find this from NOAA:

"The 1997–98 El Niño event caught the scientific community by surprise. Several dynamical and statistical ENSO forecast models had success in predicting, one to three seasons in advance, unusually warm tropical Pacific SSTs for 1997. …
Mar 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Zeke, I'm sorry, but that's a load of horsefeathers. The CERES data shows that the change in downwelling solar at the surface is more than enough to explain the last two decades of warming … and before that time, we have inadequate data to rule that out as a cause. Here's the CERES data. Note that over the period, the natural forcing was more than 2.5 times the anthropogenic forcing.

So your claim that "humans are the cause of pretty much all observed warming" is falsified right off the top. Image