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by defrost 342 days ago
Just for the chuckle value, a critical critical take:

  Willis Eschenbach

    Credentials
      California Massage Certificate, Aames School of Massage, Oakland, CA. (1974).
      B.A., Psychology, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA. (1975).

    Background
      Willis Eschenbach is a regular speaker at the Heartland Institute‘s International Conference on Climate Change, where he is described as a “carpenter and house builder” as well as an “amateur scientist.”

      Eschenbach has previously worked as a Construction Manager at Taunovo Bay Resort in Fiji, Sport Fishing guide in Alaska, and more recently as an Accounts/IT Senior Manager with South Pacific Oil.
https://www.desmog.com/willis-eschenbach/
1 comments

Yes, I know, credentialism means you must immediately ignore anything he has to say. Yet he writes papers on climate science, especially on the effects of volcanic eruptions, and he does a better job of archiving code and data (and documenting how he sources the data) than most. Maybe you should try reading what I linked.
what are you seeing in this article? to me it looks like bog standard conspiracy drivel...
The article I linked says that the _paper_ that TFA refers to[0] says nothing about a reversal of the current, only a reversal of the freshening of surface water on the polar southern ocean. Is that not indeed a correct reading of the underlying paper? That's a simple yes or no question. See for yourself[0]!

[0] https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2500440122