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Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, since I was on a roll with my last post Rainergy, I thought I'd look further at the Copernicus global rainfall dataset. I started by looking at the change in global rainfall over time. Figure 1. Global monthly rainfall, 1979 - 2022. Well, that's interesting. Overall, despite endless hype…
The atmosphere is less a heat engine than a collection of many self-running refrigerators/dehumidifiers operating in different ways to carry heat largely from surface to tropopause locally and the balance from equator to poles. An important, but perhaps underappreciated, effect of dehumidification is to make the atmosphere broadly more amenable to cooling by LWIR.
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach If aliens in spaceships saw our world, they wouldn't name it "Earth". They'd name it "Water" because that's what makes up more than 70% of the surface. And it's also what controls the climate. A couple days ago I stumbled across something I'd been trying to find for a while,…
Mathematics is the Language of Science
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, I see that the climate hypemeisters are at it again. Here's Google News on the subject. Figure 1. The usual, from the usual suspects. So I thought I'd take a look at some of the claims. To start with, here's an overview of the sea level rise around the…