Willis Eschenbach

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For those who do not know him, Willis Eschenbach is a polymath, autodidact, savant, adventurer and raconteur of the first order.

(Warning) Some may know him as a vocal (and effective) critic of the current climate orthodoxy. He is in the process of writing an autobiography. Various episodes are appearing in serial (and random) fashion on the well-known skeptical climate blog "Watts Up With That." The episodes are completely unrelated to climate and do not touch on that subject. I find they are an absolute delight to read. Thus far, they have been on subjects as diverse as the Burning Man Festival, riding the rails as a hobo, a trans-Pacific voyage aboard a sailboat, a South Pacific crime, and living on a South Pacific atoll. http://wattsupwiththat.com/category/willis-autobiography/

The stories are immensely entertaining.

Fishing the Mighty Kenai
by Willis Eschenbach

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/02/22/fishing-the-mighty-kenai-2/

When I was 62, I had the great pleasure of working once again in Alaska. I love Alaska, I’ve starved and frozen there, worked there many times. I’ve also made good money there, and it’s always been piles of fun.

I was finishing up as the Construction Manager of about a seven million dollar construction project in Fiji...

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Burning Man​

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/09/09/the-playa-willis-excellent-adventure/

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For those who do not know him, Willis Eschenbach is a polymath, autodidact, savant, adventurer and raconteur of the first order.

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He is also an utter windbag of the first order without any scientific method, or even the most basic arithmetic, let alone mathematical ability.

His commentary on the Darwin statistics for example have been completely discredited and he is unpublished (and unpublishable) in any peer reviewed journal.

He is certainly entertaining - an entertaining clown!

 

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It's not a bad opening line:



One charmed afternoon, as the result of a series of misunderstandings and coincidences, I found myself on a small sailboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a thousand miles and more from any land...

-Willis Eschenbach​

The rest of the story, "Here There Be Dragons": http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/02/04/here-there-be-dragons/

 

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Air Conditioning Nairobi, Refrigerating The Planet

When I was 37, a good friend of mine and I had taken the job of installing a blast freezer system in a 60′ (18m) steel sailboat in Fiji called the Askoy. I was sure we could do it … despite the fact that at that point in my life, neither of us had ever taken apart a refrigerator, or could even explain how a refrigerator worked...


http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/11/air-conditioning-nairobi-refrigerating-the-planet/#more-81876