I recently returned from a couple weeks in the UK and am happy to report that Thinking Thermally is alive and well in the place that is (among other things) the home of Sir William Herschel.

One issue for this poor old American is trying to function in a world of Celsius rather than Fahrenheit temperature [...]

Last week I talked about climate change. While we used to call this “global warming,” it is clear the changes are much more complex. Thus the changes to our global climate may be predominantly warming, but there are also places that have a net cooling and many more places where, most noticeably, there is simply [...]

Thermography is often described as both art and science. While everything we do is based on the laws of physical reality, much of our work is interpretation of how those laws apply. I would suggest a similar conundrum exists for our understanding of climate change, formerly known as “global warming.” What is happening to the [...]

Many of us find a bit of time in the summer to pick up an extra book or two to read. My wife often smiles wryly at my choices, which are not necessarily on the NYTimes Bestseller List, but rather tend toward some nonfiction piece on biology or physics.  Here are a few items I [...]