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| John Costella: “ClimateGate” #433 | 02 oct. 2026 | 01:13:56 | |
John Costella, a former physicist turned data scientist and software engineer, recounts how watching climate-skeptic films, then reading leaked “Climategate” emails in 2009, changed his trust in climate science. He edited, annotated, and published selected emails, producing a 180-page color book printed by Australia’s Lavoisier Group, arguing the core group was small, politicized, PR-driven, and statistically sloppy, with bullying (including by Michael Mann). He says inquiries cleared wrongdoing but standards were low for policies with huge economic stakes. He then warns AI is already conscious and smarter than him, replacing white-collar jobs, inflating bubbles, and likely triggering a major economic crash soon, with unclear survival strategies. 00:00 Meet John Costella 00:23 Trusting Climate Consensus 01:10 Sally Challenges Belief 03:10 Skeptic Film Turning Point 04:34 Climategate Emails Leak 05:53 Publishing The Email Archive 07:54 Talks And Printed Book 09:57 Rethinking Scientific Standards 16:02 How Long The Book Took 17:48 Climate Science Complexity 22:45 PR Spin And Zealotry 31:04 Small Core Group Problem 32:40 Proxies Data And Peer Review 36:42 Gatekeeping Climate Journals 38:27 Data and Code Transparency 39:56 Sloppy Data Provenance 41:07 Statistics and Trust Collapse 43:19 Models and Feedback Loops 46:02 PR Versus Scientific Method 49:16 Skepticism and Pandemic Parallels 52:54 Bullying and Cult Dynamics 55:23 AI Consciousness and Job Loss 01:00:21 Skynet Risks and Data Centers 01:05:17 Simulation Theory and AI Rights 01:08:39 Economic Crash Survival Talk 01:13:39 Wrapping Up and Links https://www.lavoisier.com.au/articles/greenhouse-science/climate-change/climategate-emails.pdf ClimateGate repository: https://x.com/TomANelson/status/2078198047453143181 My ClimateGate blog posts: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Stephen Andrews: “Extension to the cosmic ray hypothesis” #432 | 29 sept. 2026 | 01:12:00 | |
Steve Andrews presents an “extension to the cosmic ray hypothesis” for climate change, building on Svensmark and Shaviv’s idea that galactic cosmic rays influence low clouds and cooling, modulated by solar and Earth magnetic fields. Using UAH satellite temperature anomalies (1979–present), CERES, and Oulu neutron counts, he claims monthly warming-rate peaks occur near equinoxes, varies by region, and differs over land vs ocean. He links this to the Russell–McPherron effect: equinox magnetic alignment increases geomagnetic storms, solar-energy input heats and expands the thermosphere, shifting where cosmic-ray energy is dissipated, altering cloud height (higher clouds warming). He argues CO2-driven warming is unsupported, cites CERN CLOUD evidence for cloud nuclei, and suggests declining geomagnetic strength may matter. 00:00 Steve Returns and Topic 00:25 Feynman Quotes and Credentials 01:19 Cosmic Ray Climate Basics 04:13 Heliosphere and Magnetosphere 07:50 Evidence and Correlations 13:28 New Solar Oscillations 16:43 Why Satellite Data Matters 20:33 Monthly Warming Rate Method 22:26 Equinox Peaks in Warming 25:58 Exceptions Canada Australia 29:33 Land Minus Ocean Signal 32:05 Geomagnetic Storm Explanation 35:59 Auroras and Equinox Effect 36:20 Cloud Height Climate Lever 36:47 Thermosphere Heating Mechanism 39:20 Thermosphere Expansion Evidence 40:08 Tropics and Cosmic Ray Patterns 42:14 Climate Impact Summary 43:40 Cloud Data and Correlations 45:06 Challenges and Magnetic Field 49:48 Solar Flux and Altitude Signals 53:22 QBO Link to Solar Cycles 56:38 Satellite Cloud Height Trends 59:12 Long Records and Big Claims 01:03:43 Renewables Cost Anecdote 01:05:47 Q and A CERN and Aerosols 01:11:39 Closing Remarks Stephen Andrews Substack: https://substack.com/@stephen938 ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Cohler/Soon: “ Response to Ed Berry’s recent presentation” #431 | 25 sept. 2026 | 00:45:26 | |
Jonathan Cohler, joined by Willie Soon, says he is correcting false statements Ed Berry made about their paper “Dominance of Natural Atmospheric CO2 Dynamics,” which is under review and posted online. Cohler argues Berry wrongly claimed they ignored Berry’s work, presented an identical delta-14C “proof,” and called for a carbon-cycle model; Cohler says they cited Berry prominently and used newer radiocarbon data (Hua et al. 2022) and Koutsoyiannis 2024. They distinguish residence time (~3.8 years) from radiocarbon relaxation time (~18.4 years), claim a bridge equation links them, and assert their new work mathematically refutes Bern multi-exponential/adjustment-time models. They also discuss conflicts with the CO2 Coalition over attributing CO2 rise to humans. 00:00 Why This Rebuttal 01:23 Berry Claims Overview 03:16 New Radiocarbon Data 05:19 Lie One Citation Record 07:33 Lie Two Not Identical 10:00 Lie Three No Model Needed 12:34 Why Skip Berry 2023 13:16 Residence vs Relaxation 15:57 Bridge Equation Results 17:20 Math Theorems Against Bern 18:29 Independent Checks and Implications 21:38 Host Q and IPCC Confusion 22:49 Soon on Adjustment Time Myth 24:55 Table Consensus and Bern Failure 26:25 Bomb 14C Reality Check 27:30 Why Bomb Tests Matter 28:19 Ethics And Accusations 29:27 Data Driven Challenge 31:08 CO2 Coalition Split 33:32 Math Not Debate 36:55 Ugly Email Wars 40:01 Science Over Ego 42:52 Searchers Versus Blockers 43:22 Passing The Torch 45:08 Final Thanks And Goodbye ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Eric Huxter: “Metrology vs Meteorology” #430 | 22 sept. 2026 | 01:11:34 | |
Eric Huxter, a former geography teacher, presents research on UK Met Office maximum temperature records, arguing that the shift from liquid-in-glass thermometers to platinum resistance thermometers (1990–2017) plus station siting and ventilation issues (Aitken effect) produces transient “spikes” that inflate maxima and accelerate apparent warming. Using WeatherObs, Met Office extremes, and purchased 1‑minute Rothamsted data, he finds many maxima occur before the hourly value, with mean rise-to-peak spikes ~1.29°C and many low-probability jumps; some on-the-hour maxima don’t match hourly data. He notes records are concentrated in few stations, often airports or poorer CIMO classes, and critiques record events (Coningsby 2022, Lingwood 2025). 00:00 Meet Eric Huxter 02:13 Forecasts Versus Reality 05:55 UK Stations And Siting 08:22 CIMO Ratings And Bias 17:12 PRT Shift And Aitken Effect 22:10 Rothamsted Baseline Method 27:17 Spikes In Daily Maxima 38:00 On The Hour Mystery 39:56 Step Change Since 1990 43:13 Microclimate Case Studies 48:24 Record Events Under Scrutiny 58:42 Met Office Narrative Critique 01:06:27 Wrap Up And Where To Follow https://frayedendsblog.wordpress.com/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Ed Berry: “Nature Controls the CO2 Level” #429 | 18 sept. 2026 | 00:59:23 | |
Ed Berry presents a step-by-step, nontechnical overview of his theoretical climate physics work, arguing that “consensus” and authority claims are not science and that climate policy relies on three assumptions, focusing on A1: humans caused all the CO2 rise. He says A1 depends on a false sub-assumption that human CO2 stays longer than natural CO2, proposing a “climate equivalence principle” that identical molecules behave the same. Using IPCC carbon-cycle data and a linear systems model, he derives an atmospheric e-time of ~3.5 years and estimates human CO2 contributes only a few percent, supported by delta-14C and temperature-leading-CO2 studies. He also discusses climate lawsuits (including Held v. Montana), political influence, and criticism of DOE/CO2 Coalition positions. 00:00 Meet Ed Berry 00:53 From Clouds to Climate 01:49 Why Consensus Fails 03:11 Scientific Method Basics 05:16 Three Climate Assumptions 06:55 Debunking CO2 Lifetime Claim 08:35 Climate Equivalence Principle 09:21 IPCC Carbon Cycle Data 12:48 Flows and Human Share 14:11 Building a Carbon Model 16:26 E-Time and Linearity 19:40 Deriving Balance Levels 21:30 Finding IPCC E-Times 25:02 Human vs Natural CO2 Split 27:21 What 420 ppm Implies 27:58 Systems Model Math 29:29 Partitioning Human CO2 31:37 IPCC Cycle Contradiction 34:24 Courtney Endorsement 35:45 Delta 14C Evidence 39:33 Interpreting Bomb Curve 42:09 Temperature Leads CO2 44:21 Proofs Summary 48:29 Montana Lawsuit Setup 50:51 WEF Influence Claims 52:11 DOE Report Problem 53:19 Koonin And CO2C Critique 56:48 Group Positions Wrap 57:48 Q&A And Closing ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Will Wilkinson on his Will Happer biography: “Standing Up for Science” #428 | 11 sept. 2026 | 00:54:52 | |
Will Wilkinson discusses a biography he was hired to write about Princeton physicist William Happer, combining four chapters of life story with a climate-focused second half arguing science has been politicized. He describes Happer’s decades-long career, including inventing the sodium laser guide star for missile defense and work adapted for medical lung imaging, plus Happer’s “trust and verify” approach and skepticism of models over measurements. They cover Happer’s CO2 Coalition role, controversy at Princeton, colleagues’ contributions (e.g., Lindzen, Koonin, Ridd), and comparisons to Lysenkoism and past scientific dissent. The author stresses curiosity, civil communication, and avoiding fear-driven climate hysteria. 00:00 Meet Will Wilkinson 00:27 Writing Happer Biography 01:45 Happer Science Legacy 02:42 Climate Views Adaptation 03:29 Laser Guide Star Explained 05:12 Trust and Verify Mindset 06:04 Princeton Controversy 07:14 Famous Colleagues Stories 09:18 Childhood and Formation 10:58 Standing Up for Science 13:28 Lysenkoism and Dogma 16:38 Outsiders and Discovery 21:15 Curiosity and Measuring 23:25 CO2 Politics and Money 24:45 Book Release and Coalition 25:43 Rogan Episode and Outreach 27:07 Documentary and Prior Bio 28:33 Reluctant Scientist Profile 30:10 Working Life at Princeton 31:05 Red Team Blue Team Fallout 32:01 Middle Ground Climate Debate 34:46 Colleagues and Reef Controversy 37:29 Skepticism After COVID 41:38 Single Source of Truth Quotes 44:24 Kindness Over Division 48:41 Hope Against Climate Hysteria 50:23 Meaningful Memoirs and AI 54:04 Wrap Up and Thanks Will Wilkinson’s web site: https://www.meaningfulmemoirs.com/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Jonathan Cohler: “ Fossil fuel combustion drove essentially none of the atmospheric CO2 growth” #427 | 08 sept. 2026 | 01:14:23 | |
Jonathan Cohler presents a newly submitted paper using mass conservation, isotopic signatures (delta 13C), and multiple datasets to apply the Keeling relation and infer a consistent intercept near -13.2‰ across sites and time spans. He argues this makes fossil fuels (signature ~-28‰) at most 26% of net atmospheric CO2 change and, using preindustrial constraints, essentially ~0–1.3%, contradicting claims by IPCC, NASA, NOAA, EPA, and the CO2 Coalition. He says CO2 residence time is ~3.8 years and attributes rising CO2 to natural temperature-driven ocean/soil outgassing. He criticizes the CO2 Coalition for conflating accounting identities with causation, describes harassment, and says he resigned. 00:00 New Paper Claim 01:29 Three Inputs Setup 03:25 Isotope Signatures 101 06:05 Keeling Relation Explained 10:17 Datasets And Intercepts 13:38 Solving For Fossil Fraction 22:22 Why Fossil Dominance Fails 25:16 Rejecting The Conclusion 28:04 Carbon Cycle Turnover 31:45 What Drives CO2 Rise 33:56 Ancient CO2 And Whataboutism 36:53 CO2 Coalition Errors Teaser 37:38 Accounting vs Causation 39:23 Feynman on Conservation 40:37 What Proves Causality 41:37 Atmospheric Balance Equation 42:53 Coalition Paper Misreads 46:25 Molecules Not Labeled 48:08 Residuals Aren't Attribution 49:56 Isotopes Discriminate Sources 51:27 Airborne Fraction Fallacy 53:41 Retention and Cycle Time 56:02 Harassment and Resignation 01:03:18 CO2 Forcing and Policy Costs 01:08:51 X Feedback and Contact 01:13:38 Wrap Up and Links ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| James Tooley: “ You don't need government for education” #426 | 04 sept. 2026 | 00:51:50 | |
James Tooley describes two decades researching “low-cost private schools” serving poor families in India, Africa, rural China, and war-torn countries, arguing parents choose them because government/public schools often abandon children. He cites widespread enrollment (e.g., majorities in parts of Lagos and Kampala), higher standardized test performance, no gender bias, affordability around 10% of family spending, and sustainability as small businesses. He now finds a similar U.S. phenomenon in hybrid/micro schools, visiting examples in Pine Ridge (Onward Learning), rural Mississippi, refugee-serving Clarkston, and rural Oregon, and surveying 5,390 parents: about 4% use low-tuition private schools. He discusses limited, careful roles for philanthropy, and worries about dependence on government ESAs. 00:00 Meet James Tooley 01:03 Hyderabad Discovery 03:25 Government School Reality 05:37 Makoko Lagos Expedition 07:49 Kibera Ghana China Proof 11:49 Beautiful Tree Thesis 13:04 War Torn Africa Schools 15:48 Five Key Features 21:06 Federations And Pushback 22:02 Low Cost Schools In America 25:53 Pine Ridge Onward Learning 29:46 Mississippi Trailer School 33:19 Refugees And Oregon Example 36:08 National Survey Findings 41:45 Philanthropy And Donations 43:26 Quality Assurance Debate 46:33 School Choice ESA Concerns 49:57 Where To Follow James 50:46 Final Reflections The Beautiful Tree: https://a.co/d/032zFHgW Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education: https://a.co/d/01VMoY3r https://uk.linkedin.com/in/james-tooley-320a8410 ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Tom Harris: “Pushing back against climate hysteria in Canada” #425 | 01 sept. 2026 | 00:58:13 | |
Tom Harris argues Canada’s claim of warming twice the global average is unreliable because northern data coverage is sparse and “homogenized” station adjustments may exaggerate trends. He questions the meaning of average temperature and says Canada’s record shows a step change around 1998, consistent with El Niño and possibly the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, not steady greenhouse-gas forcing. He cites extreme-weather records peaking in the 1930s and references Heartland’s Climate Change Reconsidered and Roger Pielke’s datasets as showing little detected change in many extremes. Harris then describes organizing local activists, using Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, rehearsing questions, and bypassing media censorship to challenge municipal climate policies. 00:00 Meet Tom Harris 00:19 Canada Warming Claims 00:41 Is Warming Bad 03:21 So Called Averages 05:13 Overlapping Ranges 08:06 Why Start 1948 11:08 Heat Records Evidence 11:54 Sparse Arctic Stations 14:39 Homogenized Adjustments 17:00 Step Change Not CO2 18:57 Hickey Speaks Out 21:59 Natural Cycles Theory 22:59 PR Versus Evidence 24:22 Extreme Weather Database 25:56 Heartland Reports 28:32 Warmer Means Milder 31:07 Pielke Teaser 31:19 Global Extremes Database 31:51 P Factor Explained 32:30 Translator Not Climatologist 33:33 Drilling Into Continents 34:48 Wildfire History Context 37:23 Heatwave Data Concerns 38:31 Local Activism Playbook 40:06 Alinsky Rules In Action 42:49 Debate Questions And Ridicule 47:16 Training Volunteers Nationwide 51:59 Beating Media Censorship 53:55 Groups Funding And Contact 56:17 Practice Sessions And Wins 57:43 Wrap Up Resources https://drtomharris.substack.com/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Dai Ato: “ Spurious Correlation Between Atmospheric CO2 Increase and Human Emissions” #424 | 28 août 2026 | 00:40:06 | |
Dai Ato presents findings from three papers arguing atmospheric CO2 rise is largely natural, claiming multivariate analyses reject human emissions as a significant predictor of annual CO2 increases while sea surface temperature (SST) is significant. He says detrended annual-change comparisons show emissions vs CO2 change has near-zero correlation, while SST retains moderate correlation, consistent with CO2 solubility in water. He also claims ice-core CO2 reconstructions are incorrect and that temperature leads specific humidity, rejecting CO2–water vapor positive feedback; absorbed shortwave and total solar irradiance correlate with SST while CO2 is negligible or negative. In Q&A, he expects the Keeling Curve to keep rising, COVID emission drops to have little effect, and rejects a stable 280 ppm preindustrial CO2. 00:00 Intro And Agenda 00:39 Three Paper Overview 04:01 CO2 Rise Not Human 07:05 Detrending Spurious Links 10:33 Water Vapor Feedback Tested 13:19 Solar And Albedo Drivers 17:12 Past Evidence SST Leads 21:50 Global Temperature Averaging 23:58 Key Takeaways And DOE 26:04 Why I Wrote These Papers 33:06 Ice Core Reconstruction Issues 34:17 Closing Thoughts And Q&A ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Ron Clutz Part 2: “Highlights from 3400 Climate Blog Posts” #423 | 25 août 2026 | 01:19:03 | |
Ron Clutz continues a three-part framework on climate change: humans cause warming, warming is dangerous, and government can stop it. He argues observed warming can be explained by post–Little Ice Age recovery plus multidecadal oscillations and solar-orbital effects, and says “alarmists” deny these. He describes a taxpayer-funded “climate scare machine” and cites a Climate Change Business Journal estimate of a $3.4T/year global climate industry. Using Joseph D’Aleo’s materials, he disputes claims about heatwaves, storms, droughts, wildfires, ice loss, ocean acidification, health, and food, then focuses on Arctic sea ice cycles and sea-level model projections versus tide gauges. He stresses climate is local (Köppen zones) and says climate policies are wasteful, ineffective, and harmful, citing project failures, costs, and energy poverty. 00:00 Framework Recap 01:07 Natural Warming Factors 03:56 Climate Scare Machine 07:59 Eleven Empty Claims 13:56 Polar Bears and Sea Ice 20:00 Sea Level Scare Tactics 28:27 Climates Are Local 35:13 Warming Impacts Summary 35:59 Can Governments Stop It 37:56 Energy Transition Reality 40:19 Why Hydrocarbons Rule 42:06 Energy Mix Big Picture 43:47 Trillions Visualized 45:22 Waste One Missing Funds 45:59 Waste Two Project Failures 48:35 Waste Three Blade Graveyards 49:13 Waste Four Operational Collapse 50:18 Hydrogen And Biofuels 51:32 Fear Sells Climate Policy 53:06 Policy Weapons And Results 55:51 Energy Poverty And Jobs 59:09 Rare Metals And Land Use 01:01:40 Better Priorities Consensus 01:02:29 Absurd Costly Pointless 01:03:59 Cartoons And Media Satire 01:09:33 Arctic Update And Data 01:13:28 Wrap Up Links And Wildfires ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Henrik Svensmark: “Cosmic Rays, aerosols, and clouds” #422 | 18 août 2026 | 01:25:41 | |
Henrik Svensmark discusses how solar activity modulates cosmic rays, which ionize the atmosphere and can help form aerosols that grow into cloud condensation nuclei, potentially altering clouds and Earth’s energy balance. He describes lab experiments showing more aerosols with increased ionization, critiques models that predicted no cloud effect, and presents observations from Forbush decreases where drops in cosmic rays are followed days later by reduced aerosols, cloud changes, and radiative-budget responses. He argues solar-cycle forcing may be ~1–1.5 W/m² and could affect CO2 sensitivity. On longer timescales, he links supernova-driven cosmic-ray variations to glaciations, ocean temperature, organic carbon burial, oxygen production, and biodiversity, while noting funding and career pressures. 00:00 Cosmic Rays and Clouds 00:42 Meet Henrik Svensmark 02:59 Solar Activity Basics 03:31 IPCC Forcing Debate 05:13 Sunspots and Cosmic Rays 07:03 Cosmic Ray Showers 08:55 Isotopes as Solar Proxies 11:48 Climate Correlations 15:17 Ocean Heat Amplification 17:55 Clouds as Amplifier 19:39 How CCN Form 22:22 Testing in Chambers 24:59 Models vs Reality 27:52 Forbush Natural Experiments 36:14 Fixing the Physics 41:17 Billion Year Timescales 42:08 Galactic Spiral Arms 44:02 Star Formation Setup 44:33 Open Clusters Explained 45:57 Mapping Nearby Clusters 46:53 Supernovas Meet Climate 48:27 Zooming Into Ice Ages 51:31 Nutrients And Carbon Isotopes 53:54 Organic Burial Correlation 55:15 Deep Time Starbursts 57:12 Oxygen And Complex Life 59:51 Dwarf Galaxies Trigger Stars 01:02:18 Fossils And Diversity Curves 01:05:13 Shelf Area Drives Richness 01:09:04 Area Normalization Test 01:11:34 Big Picture Conclusions 01:13:35 Funding And Career Risks 01:22:15 Critiques And Solar Events 01:25:16 Wrap Up And Farewell Svensmark: The Cloud Mystery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANMTPF1blpQ The Chilling Stars [2008]: https://www.amazon.com/Chilling-Stars-New-Theory-Climate/dp/1840468661 Papers: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2843-3417 ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Randall Bock: “Withdraw to Freedom: Navigating the Addiction Maze” #421 | 14 août 2026 | 01:24:10 | |
Randall Bock argues opioids have dual legal and illicit markets and that most prescribed users don’t become street addicts. He recounts refusing drug-seekers (“Dr. No”) and later using buprenorphine as a temporary bridge, advocating a 4–6 month taper to sobriety rather than lifelong “maintenance.” He claims methadone maintenance, originated at Rockefeller University and expanded nationally via Nixon-era policy and Medicaid incentives, aimed to curb New York City crime but instead seeded the first wave of the opioid crisis and spread heroin use. He challenges the “addiction as disease/insulin” analogy, cites Vietnam vet recovery and Rat Park, and promotes his book “Withdraw to Freedom.” 00:00 Opioid Desert Intro 01:06 Two Marketplaces Theory 02:01 Doctor No Stories 03:29 Suboxone And DATA 2000 04:50 Maintenance Therapy Critique 06:22 New York City Sets Stage 08:04 Bridge To Sobriety Plan 10:47 Long Boom And Opioid Spike 14:24 Classic Narcotic Control Era 17:26 Harm Reduction And Methadone 18:43 OxyContin Myth Busting 19:48 Addiction As Exposure 23:28 Rockefeller Methadone Origins 26:40 Crime Control Not Cure 28:14 Why Methadone Feels Dopey 31:59 National Spread And Incentives 36:46 Did Crime Drop Actually 38:46 Equality Of Misery 40:49 Dealers Adapt And Expand 43:03 Dopesick Narrative Setup 43:36 Methadone First Wave 45:22 Medicalization Lessons 48:15 Disease Model Tested 50:20 Replacement vs Proclivity 53:29 Russia and Hard Truths 55:38 Rat Park Recovery 01:00:14 Economy and Despair 01:03:18 Bock Taper and Five Fs 01:09:28 Board Backlash 01:11:28 Book Launch Pitch 01:13:51 Incentives and COVID Parallels 01:19:01 Mental Health Parity 01:22:43 Wrap Up and Dual Path ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Jim Lakely #420 | 11 août 2026 | 00:54:46 | |
Jim Lakely, EVP and communications director at The Heartland Institute, describes Heartland’s free-market mission and its global role “pushing back on climate alarmism,” plus his weekly Climate Realism Show. He recounts Heartland’s 16 climate conferences since 2008 (300+ speakers, videos online), efforts to invite opposing views, and claims the IPCC’s mandate is to emphasize human influence. They discuss natural forcings, scientific uncertainty, warming since the Little Ice Age, and skepticism about “global average temperature.” Lakely cites funding pressures in academia, conference disruptions by Climate Defiance, and notes Roy Spencer’s satellite data work. He recounts “Fakegate,” alleging Peter Gleick stole documents and forged a memo. They also discuss COPs, social-media throttling, and AI’s energy demands weakening climate media funding. 00:00 Meet Jim Lakely 00:32 Heartland Climate Mission 01:34 Inside Climate Conferences 04:25 Debate And The IPCC 07:06 Natural Forcings Focus 09:32 Warming And Perspective 12:23 Young Skeptics Rising 15:40 Disruptions And Threats 20:44 Will Happer Spotlight 23:25 Models Funding And Media 28:01 Journalism Background 29:13 Congress Reality Check 30:39 Oval Office With Bush 32:44 Climate Beat Back Then 35:09 Momentum After 2024 38:32 AI Needs Real Energy 40:24 Fakegate Scandal Recap 47:03 Inside UN COP Meetings 48:57 Social Media Censorship 51:38 YouTube UN Banners 53:02 Closing Thoughts Freedom See all Heartland “International Conference on Climate Change” videos here: https://climateconferences.heartland.org/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Thomas Kurz: “Greenhouse Gases and Climate Feedbacks” | Tom Nelson Pod #419 | 07 août 2026 | 01:02:04 | |
Thomas Kurz discusses chapters from his book Why There Is No Climate Crisis, citing positive reviews, then explains the greenhouse effect and argues CO2’s warming is limited and logarithmic. He claims doubling CO2 yields about 3 W/m² effective forcing, or ~0.9°C via Stefan–Boltzmann calculations, and says even burning all known fossil fuel reserves would add under ~1°C. He argues “climate crisis” claims rely on compounded positive feedbacks in IPCC models, but says observations show models overpredict warming, relative humidity aloft is declining, and a predicted tropical hotspot is missing. He attributes discrepancies to cloud/aerosol cooling, proposing an Earth “thermostat” and net slightly negative feedback. 00:00 Guest and Book Update 02:31 Greenhouse Effect Basics 04:53 CO2 Absorption and Saturation 07:38 Four Ways to Calculate Forcing 17:11 Convert Forcing to Temperature 21:19 Logarithmic Warming Limits 24:20 Fossil Fuels and Max Warming 28:13 Feedbacks Behind the Crisis 32:55 Models vs Observations 41:30 Clouds and Cooling Evidence 55:51 Earth Thermostat Conclusion 57:52 Q&A and Scientific Method 01:01:33 Wrap Up and Farewell “Why There is No Climate Crisis: The Surprising Evidence You Should Know”: https://a.co/d/05rKxsYU https://www.whynoclimatecrisis.com/ Email: info@WhyNoClimateCrisis.com ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Ray Sanders #418 | 04 août 2026 | 01:16:51 | |
Ray Sanders updates his Surface Stations project to classify all 385 UK Met Office weather stations using WMO siting classes, claiming 88% are class 3–5 and 112 meet no regulations, including many in walled or private gardens and car parks. He argues poor siting, degraded maintenance after automation, and rapid platinum resistance thermometers in Stevenson screens create spikes and non-comparable records versus older liquid-in-glass methods. He alleges rounding/conversion issues, data from non-existent “climate averages” sites, refusals under FOI, and deletion of queried webpages. He presents analyses of stable long-term records at Wye and effects from a solar farm at RAF Lyneham, and plans more reconstructions with helpers. 00:00 Project Update Intro 01:49 WMO Siting Classes Explained 03:23 Most Stations Fail Standards 05:54 Walled Gardens Hotspots 11:55 Car Parks and Heat Sources 13:58 Thermometers and Response Time 18:27 Stevenson Screen Meets PRT 20:36 Sampling Rates and Spikes 24:45 Fahrenheit to Celsius Rounding 28:00 Maintenance and Automation Decay 32:30 Phantom Stations and FOI Fight 37:59 Allies and Data Deletions 42:16 Searching for Good Stations 42:30 Best Station Locations 43:39 Wye Data Deep Dive 44:59 Anomalies And Baselines 46:36 Manual Records Reveal 1930s 50:00 Solar Farm Heat Jump 51:19 Dyce Vs Craibstone 55:06 Met Office Classification Errors 59:53 Questionable Data Practices 01:02:21 US Climate Reference Network 01:07:38 Why He Started The Crusade 01:13:53 Focus On Great Britain 01:14:51 Thanks And Wrap Up ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Willie Soon and Jonathan Cohler on natural atmospheric CO2 rise #417 | 31 juil. 2026 | 01:21:48 | |
Willie Soon and Jonathan Cohler argue the rise in atmospheric CO2 is mostly natural, challenging claims it is 100% manmade from hydrocarbon burning. They cite analyses using bomb-produced carbon-14 showing a single-exponential decay and a short CO2 atmospheric residence time (~3.8 years), contrasting with IPCC claims of thousands of years and criticizing undefined terms like “adjustment time.” They say their work falsifies the Suess effect and that delta-13C of atmospheric change stays near -13‰ from 1978–2022 and in proxies over 500 years, inconsistent with a dominant fossil-fuel signature (~-28‰). They discuss ocean/land cycling, solar/energy imbalance hypotheses, and skepticism of ice-core CO2 constancy claims. 00:00 Big CO2 Claim Questioned 01:30 Decades of Doubt 02:16 Researchers Who Challenged It 04:13 Natural Rise Hypothesis 05:14 Suess Effect Origins 07:35 Bomb Pulse Carbon-14 12:39 Short Residence Time 14:22 Word Games vs Definitions 16:44 3.8 Years Explained 21:21 Bridge Equation Breakthrough 25:34 Peer Pushback and Talks 29:43 Physical Tether Theorem 34:01 Koutsoyiannis Delta13C Test 42:46 Why Delta13C Still Drops 44:23 Lineage and Credit 45:43 Cycle Time vs IPCC 49:14 Debunking Net Sink 51:06 Biosphere Expansion Idea 51:48 Satellite Imbalance Fraud 56:17 Outgassing Explains CO2 Rise 01:01:40 Proxy Limits and Ice Cores 01:09:26 Future CO2 and Benefits 01:13:18 C14 Tracers and Dating 01:15:02 Suez Effect Model Critique 01:21:15 Wrapping Up and Links Jonathan Cohler – “The IPCC Circle of Lies: Five Papers Falsify the Entire Framework” https://x.com/cohler/status/2081407310493081791 Willie Soon – “From Demon to Dinner: The Scientific Case for CO₂ and Fossil Fuels” https://x.com/cohler/status/2081408758308077952 Slides: Jonathan Cohler: https://x.com/cohler/status/2081410426147938599 Willie Soon: https://x.com/cohler/status/2081410908392133048 CERES-Science: https://www.ceres-science.com/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Steve Milloy #416 | 28 juil. 2026 | 00:59:13 | |
Steve Milloy reviews Trump’s fossil-fuel agenda, EPA rollback of the 2009 endangerment finding, and concerns that litigation delays and Justice Department staffing could let a future Democratic administration reverse course. The speaker attacks the National Academy of Sciences as climate activists, cites a climate chapter in a judges’ science manual, notes Elena Kagan said she didn’t read it, and urges cutting NAS funding. They praise Matt Wielicki’s appointment to lead the U.S. Global Change Research Program. They argue wildfire-smoke PM2.5 health scares lacked NYC hospital spikes, criticize linear no-threshold regulation (radiation, PFAS), and discuss Yucca Mountain standards. They describe shareholder activism against corporate ESG (Netflix, Exxon), criticize carbon capture subsidies, and praise young “climate realist” advocates. 00:00 Trump EPA Rollbacks 01:37 NAS Versus Trump 04:16 Defunding NAS Push 06:30 Kagan Foreword Controversy 08:24 Climate Realist Appointment 09:43 Democrats And Green Money 11:59 Big Tech Climate Censorship 13:21 X Algorithms And Reach 16:10 Viral Tweet No Warming 18:20 Wildfire Smoke Reality Check 22:30 EPA PM2.5 Experiments 26:12 LNT Model And Hormesis 30:18 Yucca Mountain Absurdity 32:37 PFAS And Low Dose Effects 33:37 Forever Chemicals Are Inert 34:41 Dose Makes the Poison 36:34 Parts Per Trillion Panic 37:31 Why Fear Spreads 38:06 Conservative Shareholder Activism 41:07 Exxon and ESG Battles 42:23 Carbon Capture Reality Check 43:53 Subsidies and Nanny Government 45:31 Next Gen Climate Realists 47:43 Awards and Staying the Course 50:31 NASA Names and Media Retreat 56:01 Debate Challenge and Wrap Up Steve on X: https://x.com/JunkScience ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Marc Glendening #415 | 24 juil. 2026 | 00:54:45 | |
Mark Glendening argues free speech in Britain and the West is under increasing internal attack, citing “non-crime hate incidents,” broad Public Order Act powers, online and even private-message prosecutions, and proposals to criminalize non-affirmation of transgender identity under “conversion therapy” laws. He says enforcement is often aimed at the right and anti-transgender feminists, though he notes prosecutions of some left-wing Palestine Action supporters. Glendening traces today’s speech controls to cultural strategies developed after Marxism waned, highlighting Gramsci, the Frankfurt School (especially Marcuse), and French postmodernists. He urges electoral pressure campaigns, praises Elon Musk and X, and warns that debanking, digital ID, and Soros-backed regulation threaten liberties. 00:00 Meet Mark Glendening 01:07 Britain’s Free Speech Legacy 02:04 Non Crime Hate Incidents 04:23 Policing Private Speech 06:52 Who Gets Targeted 09:29 Conversion Therapy Crackdown 16:09 Why the New Left Censors 21:21 Three Intellectual Roots 28:37 The Sixties Cultural Turn 36:12 Words Liberal vs Progressive 43:31 Digital ID and Debanking 44:46 Fighting Back Politically 48:04 Elon Musk and X 50:07 US Elections and Internet Speech 52:20 Final Thoughts on Liberty https://iea.org.uk/tag/marc-glendening/ https://iea.org.uk/publications/transgender-ideology-a-new-threat-to-liberal-values/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Ron Clutz Part 1: “Highlights from 3400 Climate Blog Posts” #414 | 21 juil. 2026 | 01:04:53 | |
Ron Clutz summarizes themes from his “Science Matters” blog, framing climate change as three linked claims: humans warm the Earth, the warming is dangerous, and government can stop it. He argues climate sensitivity estimates are declining and models overpredict warming, citing comparisons of model outputs to observations, weak long-term temperature correlation with fossil fuel use, and claims that storms, wildfires, sea level rise, Arctic ice, and drought trends are not worsening as asserted. He criticizes “reductionism” to CO2 and radiative forcing, emphasizing water vapor, convection, and hydrology, plus solar/cloud and ocean-cycle influences (ENSO/PDO/AMO). He also questions adjusted temperature records and UN policy effectiveness. 00:00 Meet Ron Clutz 01:13 Climate Change Three Claims 05:18 Is Warming Dangerous 10:17 Can Government Stop It 12:23 Reductionism In Climate Science 17:32 Greenhouse Physics And Water Vapor 23:10 CO2 Sources And Temperature Lag 25:26 Complexity And Data Adjustments 33:29 Extreme Events And Attribution 35:53 Model Failures And Scenarios 42:10 Testing Greenhouse Theory 51:02 Sunshine Clouds And Solar Cycles 55:19 Oceans Drive Climate Cycles 01:02:24 Hydrology And Closing Thoughts 01:04:17 Wrap Up And Next Session ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| David Smith: “Wokicide: A Quality-Control System to Reclaim Education” #413 | 17 juil. 2026 | 01:08:42 | |
David Smith explains his book “Wokicide,” arguing that “woke” (critical social justice theory rooted in critical theory and postmodernism) persists in universities and schools because education lacks quality control, not because of politics. He proposes applying ISO 9001 and HACCP-style quality assurance to K–12 and universities: validated curriculum specifications, independent expert panels, hazard analysis, audits (scheduled and targeted), corrective action, and continuous improvement. A central Workplace Improvement Notice (WIN) system would let staff and even parents file tracked complaints with guaranteed responses, replacing DEI/unconscious-bias training with “deprogramming” modules and prioritizing evidence and accountability. Smith says QA would stop unvalidated ideological drift and is affordable by redirecting existing DEI-related spending. 00:00 Intro and Two-Part Talk 00:58 Why Woke Persists 01:30 Education Lacks QA 02:10 Validation Over Ideology 04:53 Defining Woke Origins 06:35 From Civil Rights to Overreach 07:43 Flawed Woke Reasoning 10:02 How Woke Spreads 11:16 Equity Outcomes and Activism 13:33 Deconstruction Playbook 17:50 Woke Hall of Fame 21:39 Perfect Storm in Education 25:42 QA Solution Framework 27:41 ISO 9001 and HACCP 29:42 Authority and Adoption 30:55 Four Phases Implementation 33:35 Validation and Hazard Analysis 34:47 Audits Monitoring Corrective Action 37:09 Aggressive Feedback Loops 39:05 WIN Notice Explained 41:41 Curriculum Content Validation 43:12 Audits in K-12 Schools 44:53 K-12 QA Wrap Up 45:47 Universities as the Source 47:29 University Validation Hurdles 50:30 University Auditing Red Flags 51:58 Objections and Pushback 57:12 Failure Modes and Fixes 59:39 Cost and Staffing Reality 01:02:08 Closing Q&A and Next Steps Amazon Kindle version: Wokicide: Pest Control for Education: https://a.co/d/0d0YeApM ======== Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Gianluca Alimonti: “Three “climate matrix” papers” #412 | 14 juil. 2026 | 00:44:24 | |
Gianluca Alimonti discusses three “climate matrix” papers: a 2022 review of extreme weather time series and response indicators that found no clear worsening trends (later retracted, which he argues lacked specific scientific grounds and reflected political pressure); a 2023 analysis of EM-DAT natural-disaster records concluding the post-1970 rise is largely improved reporting, with trends stable since about 2000 and disaster deaths decreasing; and a recent framework proposing 43 IPCC-aligned impact-driver and response indicators to assess “climate crisis,” finding most show no worsening, many improve, and few worsen. He criticizes media/official claims of rapidly rising disasters and emphasizes adaptation and prevention. 00:00 Meet Gianluca Alimonti 00:02 Climate Matrix Trilogy Overview 01:31 Paper One Extreme Events 03:11 Hurricanes Rain Tornado Data 05:31 Retraction Controversy 09:50 Paper Two Disaster Claims 12:36 EM-DAT Reporting Bias 17:27 Stable Trends Since 2000 21:42 Paper Three Defining Crisis 23:12 Media Term And Search Trends 27:05 Building A Crisis Framework 28:20 Drivers Floods Cyclones Fires 31:53 Response Indicators Scorecard 35:59 Adaptation Beats Mitigation 37:49 Conclusions Media Distortion 39:38 Q&A Retraction And Outreach 41:40 Where To Find Work 44:05 Closing Thanks And Farewell Home page: https://www0.mi.infn.it/~alimonti/homepage/indexEn.htm Pielke Jr on “The Alimonti Addendum”: https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-alimonti-addendum ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Nicola Scafetta: “The Frontier of Climate Science” | Tom Nelson Pod #411 | 10 juil. 2026 | 01:27:04 | |
Nicola Scafetta discusses his book, "The Frontier of Climate Science," a review based on about 650 peer‑reviewed papers arguing that IPCC global climate models have serious limitations because they fail to capture multi‑scale natural variability (oceanic, solar, astronomical, and tidal cycles). He says model claims that nearly all warming since 1850 is anthropogenic are not experimentally validated, climate sensitivity remains highly uncertain, and many models run too hot, with possible surface-record warm bias from urban heat islands. He cites past warm periods and correlations between climate and solar/cosmic-ray proxies, proposes empirical/semi‑empirical cycle-based modeling, and concludes warming risk is moderate, SSP2 could meet Paris targets, net zero is unnecessary, and adaptation should be prioritized. 00:00 Introducing Scafetta’s New Book 06:03 Earth’s Deep-Time Climate Swings 11:06 IPCC Attribution to Humans 14:44 Why Model Proof Falls Short 17:27 Paris Targets and Net Zero Logic 24:33 Are IPCC Scenarios Realistic 29:04 Model Uncertainty and Sensitivity 34:57 Satellites vs Surface Warming 38:42 Missing Past Warm Periods 43:21 Millennial Solar Climate Cycles 46:00 Forests Beneath Glaciers 46:59 Solar Records vs Climate 49:18 TSI Reconstructions Debate 52:09 Cosmic Rays and Clouds 56:07 Empirical Models Challenge IPCC 59:18 Policy Implications and Adaptation 01:01:12 Planetary Cycles Climate Theory 01:05:37 Matching Climate Spectral Cycles 01:12:51 Future Hiatus and Sensitivity 01:19:43 Next Glaciation Long View 01:24:01 Book Wrap Up and Thanks The Frontier of Climate Science: Solar variability, natural cycles and model uncertainty: https://a.co/d/0flzOYJ3 ========= Brochure for Nicola’s “The Frontier of Climate Science” book, along with slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Anika Sweetland: “IPCC EXPOSED!!! Response to a global problem? Or formation of 1 world gov’t?” #410 | 07 juil. 2026 | 00:47:23 | |
Anika Sweetland argues the IPCC was created through politics, funding, and elite influence, tracing its origins to the 1985 Villach Conference and alleging it advances centralized global governance. She says media-driven fear shifted from 1970s “ice age” stories to 1988 “global warming,” citing sea-level warnings that did not occur. Sweetland claims climate finance and clean-energy investment incentives benefit IPCC-linked officials. She highlights Climategate emails as evidence of strategic data presentation (“hide the decline”), message management, and peer-review gatekeeping (“PAL review”), plus an alleged journal blacklist. She says her climate studies education omitted Climategate, emphasized policy “solutions,” and discouraged debate. 00:00 IPCC Exposed Intro 01:01 Ice Age Media Panic 02:06 Fear as Control Tool 03:36 Global Warming Rebrand 05:23 Sea Level Scare Claims 07:28 Villach Birth of IPCC 09:31 Global Governance Agenda 10:31 Trillions and Incentives 12:20 Climategate Data Tricks 18:57 Peer Review Gatekeeping 21:44 Blacklists and Ideology 23:31 Personal Wake Up Call 25:16 Who Controls Science 26:34 What We Can Do Next 27:23 Host Reacts and Questions 27:36 Climategate Not Taught 30:10 Policy Impacts UK Europe 33:15 Witch Hunts Parallel 37:22 Climate Degree Brainwashing 40:42 Only Graduate Story 43:15 Today’s Model Driven Teaching 45:19 Books and IPCC Origins 46:17 Closing Thanks and Wrap ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Liam DeBoer | Tom Nelson Pod #409 | 03 juil. 2026 | 00:57:59 | |
Liam DeBoer describes his Substack blending philosophy, psychology, culture, politics, and history, and argues in “Your Ruling Class Is Not Secular” that modern materialist elites still express religious impulses by mapping “soul,” apocalypse, and salvation narratives onto gender ideology, climate change, and revolutionary politics. He discusses Orwell’s 1984 as a psychological study of totalitarianism reshaping perception, and links current activism to young women, noting polling showing young women moving left and widening dating/marriage mismatches. He predicts widening Western factional conflict, references the “fourth turning,” and explains Nietzsche’s ressentiment and victimhood. He outlines “daycare governance” in a feminized institutional culture and summarizes “political ponerology” archetypes behind authoritarianism. He details Canada’s “Vancouver model” money laundering tied to triads, casinos, and politics, and discusses censorship, platform throttling, and Zuckerberg’s motives. 00:00 Meet Liam DeBoer 00:33 Ruling Class Religion 03:34 Climate as Cult 04:40 Orwell and Totalitarianism 07:53 Politics and Dating Divide 11:21 Fracture and Future Conflict 14:46 Fourth Turning Cycles 17:00 Nietzsche Ressentiment 23:32 Victimhood and Agency 26:24 South Korea 4B Fallout 28:01 Daycare Governance Model 35:06 Equality Clips Greatness 37:55 Political Ponerology Types 42:46 Canada Money Laundering 52:06 Censorship and Free Speech 55:30 Zuckerberg Rebrand 57:22 Closing and Links https://liamoutloud.substack.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@liam-out-loud ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Ken Jensen: “The Enemies of Reason” | Tom Nelson Pod #408 | 30 juin 2026 | 01:04:40 | |
Ken Jensen describes his background in environmental toxicology and medical devices, then argues morality can be grounded without religion. He traces a “true, good, beautiful” triad from Plato through Vitruvius and maps it to objective reality, reciprocity/voluntary exchange, and beauty/grace, contrasting it with a destructive “DOI” (destruction, opposition, inversion) force. He critiques management tactics like permanent crisis, “red dot” diversions, and misuse of Romans 13, citing Katrina clergy response teams. He promotes a “dartboard” model over left-right politics, says ethics and morality are inseparable (Nuremberg vs Nazi view), warns about EU-style centralization, CBDCs, and praises ridicule as a defense. He discusses sound money and presents his books The Enemies of Reason and The Memo. 00:00 Meet Ken Jensen 01:02 Morality Without God 02:23 Early Doubts and Clues 05:13 Climate Debate and First Principles 06:15 Entropy Uppers and Downers 09:02 Religion as Binding Core 10:46 Words Shape Thought 13:38 Plato Truth Good Beauty 17:47 Rome Constantine and Control 20:26 Katrina Clergy Response Teams 23:12 Triad Mapped to Trinity 29:02 Dorothy Model and Inversion 30:43 Universities and Private Property 34:57 Aesthetics vs Brutalism 35:35 Destruction Opposition Inversion 36:04 Parasitic Tactics Explained 36:59 Inverting the Trinity 37:27 Defining What We Defend 38:12 Two Books Overview 38:57 Dartboard Not Left Right 41:04 Morality vs Legal Positivism 43:13 Takeaways Recalibration 46:37 Studying Evil and Pride 49:34 Red Dot Diversions 51:17 Wizard of Oz Q and A 51:48 CBDCs and EU Centralization 56:57 Permanent Crisis and Elites 58:33 Ressentiment and Ridicule 01:01:20 Sound Money Fixes Society 01:04:17 Wrap Up and Contacts https://www.linkedin.com/in/kpjensen/ https://www.contactauthorkpj.com/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Hügo Krüger: “Great idea: If it’s really too hot in your house, get some AC” | Tom Nelson Pod #407 | 28 juin 2026 | 00:29:37 | |
In a Paris heatwave (33–40°C), Hügo Krüger says France suffers more indoors because only about 25% of homes have AC, unlike near-universal AC in the US/Japan. He describes ideological and regulatory resistance to AC from ecologists and left-wing politicians, despite AC being a reversible heat pump and France’s electricity being largely nuclear. Apartment rules, aesthetic objections, and energy ratings discourage installation; subsidies favor air-to-water heat pumps that can’t cool. Demand for fans and AC is surging, and politicians propose easing restrictions. He expects fewer deaths than 2003 due to heat alerts, but argues AC would reduce vulnerability. 00:00 Paris Heatwave Check In 01:00 Why France Lacks AC 01:33 Myths About Air Conditioning 03:00 Hospitals Trains And Culture 03:42 Politics And Nuclear Power Angle 07:20 Heat Deaths And Public Response 14:47 Regulations Blocking Reversible AC 16:44 How Rare Is This Heat 17:54 2003 Heatwave Lessons 20:31 Hardliners And Building Lobby 22:14 Insulation Fans And Daily Life 24:11 Bigger Pattern And Nuclear Future 29:04 Wrap Up And GoFundMe Plug “fundraiser to buy an AC for the French Heat Wave!”: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-not-melt-in-paris-2026-heatwave?lang=en_US&ts=1782483248 ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries | |||
| Erich Schaffer: “Water Vapor Feedback, Part Two” | Tom Nelson Pod #406 | 26 juin 2026 | 01:47:47 | |
Erich Schaffer critiques the “super greenhouse effect” and argues that tropical outgoing longwave radiation stays flat mainly because tropospheric temperature is sluggish relative to surface temperature, not because water vapor amplifies greenhouse trapping. He says regional and seasonal proxies for water vapor feedback are invalid (citing admissions by Ramanathan/Inamdar and Dessler et al.) and claims interannual proxy results are distorted by aspect-ratio choices and improper OLS regression, advocating TLS or rotated-benchmark methods. Reanalyzing published plots (Spencer, Lindzen-Choi, Chung, Andy May), he concludes water vapor plus lapse rate implies strong negative feedback and low ECS (~1 K). He also alleges data “fudging” and broader scientific incompetence. 00:00 Super Greenhouse Effect 02:20 OLR Calculations Explained 03:28 Troposphere Sluggishness 05:32 Ramanathan Admission 10:23 Feedback Breakdown Math 12:37 Two Proxies Debunked 14:05 Revisiting Interannual Proxy 16:02 Bad Regression Plotting 17:16 Aspect Ratio Distortion 23:45 OLS vs TLS Regression 30:53 Negative Feedback Emerges 33:22 Spencer Regression Mystery 37:45 Lindzen Choi Critique 41:03 Fixing Lindzen Plot 51:17 Recent Andy May Example 53:21 Rotate Plot Method 55:19 Benchmark Slope Trick 57:38 Questionable Outliers 01:01:26 Proxies Fall Apart 01:02:22 Lapse Rate Physics 01:05:45 Tropical Hotspot Feedback 01:11:10 AR6 Codependency Critique 01:14:24 MODTRAN Water Vapor Test 01:19:44 Emission Altitudes Explained 01:25:22 Net Feedback and ECS 01:27:17 Blunders and Sociology 01:40:54 Q&A and Takeaway 01:44:44 Bonus Coal Math Error 01:47:42 Wrap Up Erich Schaffer: “Water Vapor Feedback, Part One”: https://youtu.be/2O4mOf9gk-s ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Anika Sweetland Part 1: “The science lesson you never received” | Tom Nelson Pod #405 | 23 juin 2026 | 00:39:42 | |
Tom interviews Anika Sweetland, who argues Earth’s climate changes in predictable natural cycles and that today is relatively cool in a 65‑million‑year context. Using graphs and books by Gregory Wrightstone, she describes ice-age rhythms linked to Milankovitch cycles and 1,500‑year Dansgaard–Oeschger cycles, including the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age, and claims solar activity and cosmic rays better correlate with temperature than CO2. She says the IPCC smooths data and governments use fear for control, while net-zero policies are wasteful and geoengineering in the UK is concerning. Sweetland recounts university climate studies as CO2-focused indoctrination, discusses backlash and support online, and previews a part two on the IPCC. 00:00 Meet Anika Sweetland 04:40 Ice Ages and Long Cooling 07:18 Milankovitch Cycles Explained 09:14 Dansgaard Oeschger Cycles 11:04 Medieval Warmth and Little Ice Age 14:01 Sun Cosmic Rays and Clouds 18:21 CO2 Claims and Propaganda 21:07 Her Climate Degree Experience 23:22 Education Debate and Models 27:47 Conference Disruption and Activism 30:34 Social Media Pushback 34:54 Part Two and Wrap Up 35:22 Energy Policy and Geoengineering 39:18 Final Thanks and Goodbye The 16th International Conference on Climate Change: https://climateconference.heartland.org/ Anika on being bombarded with global warming propaganda: https://x.com/anika_climate/status/2037550091544785239 ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Joseph Fournier: “Solar-Driven Glacial Atmospheric Dipole” | Tom Nelson Pod #404 | 19 juin 2026 | 01:53:12 | |
Joseph Fournier discusses his Substack article proposing a “solar-driven glacial atmospheric dipole” to explain the Last Glacial Maximum contrast between ice-covered North Atlantic regions and ice-free Beringia. He reviews Milankovitch cycles, zonal vs meridional winds, ITCZ migration, Holocene aridity/desert formation around 4,200 years ago, and Neoglacial solar sensitivity. He focuses on how solar variability (UV, interplanetary magnetic field, energetic particle precipitation, cosmic rays) affects stratospheric polar vortices and couples to tropospheric indices (NAO, SAM), influencing clouds, sunshine, ocean circulation (AMO/AMOC), and glaciers, citing proxy reconstructions and Bond events. They also address the Atlantic “cold blob” freshwater argument and farming implications. 00:00 Beringia Glacial Mystery 02:35 Dedication and Wind Focus 06:08 Holocene ITCZ Shifts 10:21 Deserts and Neoglacial Questions 15:02 Milankovitch Limits 17:22 Zonal vs Meridional Flow 22:09 Southern Annular Mode Basics 25:12 SAM Impacts and Ocean Carbon 28:48 Cloud Belts and Brightening 34:32 SAM History and Solar Minima 38:12 Polar Vortex Coupling 40:17 Solar Magnetism Explained 45:18 GCRs and Stratosphere Temps 52:01 Sunspots vs Hurricane Power 56:01 EPP Ozone and Aurora Link 58:36 Solar System Harmonics 01:01:02 Solar Wobble Link 01:02:34 Jupiter Quakes Core 01:06:41 Zonal vs Meridional 01:11:32 NAO SPV Coupling 01:14:21 Bond Events Framework 01:17:42 Ice Rafted Debris 01:25:26 Greenland Melt Drivers 01:30:38 AMO Gulf Stream THC 01:37:10 Cosmogenic Isotope Cycles 01:42:34 Glacial Dipole Conclusion 01:45:46 Atlantic Cold Blob 01:49:13 Farming Outlook Wrap ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| William van Wijngaarden: “Evidence doesn’t support climate hysteria” | Tom Nelson Pod #403 | 16 juin 2026 | 00:41:23 | |
William Van Wijngaarden explains the greenhouse effect as higher, colder radiating layers caused by more greenhouse gases, noting roles of CO2, water vapor, ozone, methane, and N2O, and emphasizing cloud uncertainties. He cites rising CO2 (320 ppm in 1960 to ~430), N2O and methane increases, but highlights non-monotonic temperature history including a 2000–2016 “hiatus,” and claims climate models overpredict warming by about threefold. He argues data do not show worsening trends in Arctic ice (recently flat), hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, or precipitation, and glacier retreat began after the Little Ice Age. He says ocean pH would drop from 8.18 to ~7.93 with doubled CO2, corals grow fastest in warm water, eliminating cattle would cool ~0.05°C, and fertilizer cuts risk food shortages. He calls for more observations (clouds, Argo oceans) and concludes warming is modest (~1°C ±1°C) and net-zero policies lack evidence. 00:00 Meet The Guest 03:19 Key Greenhouse Gases 05:44 Temperature Record Mysteries 07:20 Models Versus Reality 08:39 Infrared Spectrum Explained 10:53 Satellites Confirm Physics 11:58 Clouds And Uncertainty 15:10 Arctic Ice Reality Check 16:28 Glaciers Wildfires Hurricanes 20:12 Natural Variability Lesson 21:52 Ocean Acidification Facts 23:52 Corals And Warm Water 24:48 Methane And Livestock Myth 27:06 Fertilizer And Food Tradeoffs 28:51 CO2 Greening Benefits 30:56 Big Picture Conclusions 33:04 New Research Water Vapor 34:04 Observations Over Modeling 36:05 Measuring Oceans And Ice 39:21 Looking Ahead Calmly 41:16 Final Thanks And Wrap William’s website: https://wvanwijngaarden.info.yorku.ca/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Emmet Connor: “Red Pandemic: The Global Marxist Cult” | Tom Nelson Pod #402 | 12 juin 2026 | 01:00:43 | |
Irish author and analyst Emmet Connor tells host Tom he has focused since 2015 on Marxism/communist indoctrination, defining it as an international revolutionary ideology aimed at destroying existing hierarchies and rebuilding a utopia. He argues “globalism” and the New World Order are communism repackaged, seen in open borders, climate policy, food controls, attacks on farming, education, and cultural issues like DEI and gender ideology, with Christians targeted. He discusses Ireland’s pro-globalist politics, COVID as totalitarian economic attack linked to the CCP, and a broader China/Russia-led push for world dominance, including Africa via Belt and Road. Connor promotes his Dallas presentation and book, and provides X/email contacts. 00:00 Introduction to Emmet Connor 00:40 Defining Marxism 02:59 Globalism and New World Order 04:16 Unwitting Marxist Promotion 05:52 Open Borders Policy 08:31 Climate Change Movement 11:44 Controlling the Food Supply 13:01 War on Farming 14:07 Ireland's Political Situation 16:02 COVID and Great Reset 19:00 Marxism as Kryptonite 19:55 Marxism's Effect on Africa 22:41 China's Influence in Africa 24:59 Global Communist Strategy 27:15 Brexit and UK Politics 28:49 Trump and Marxism 31:33 Elections and Global Impact 33:18 Second Amendment Importance 34:24 Death Toll of Marxism 36:58 Attacking the Traditional Family 38:53 Drag Queen Story Hour 40:57 COVID and Parental Awareness 42:57 Christianity Under Attack 45:12 Population Control Agenda 46:53 UN Socialist Leadership 48:11 Stakeholder Capitalism 49:08 Internationalist Groups 50:27 Attacking the US Dollar 53:17 Greta Thunberg and Climate 56:01 Reception and Outreach 58:29 Boiling It Down 59:38 Final Thoughts Red Pandemic: The Global Marxist Cult on Amazon: https://a.co/d/079j3En7 Guest spot on the Peter McCormack show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb-uJmcQXcc Emmet’s Dallas presentation on Marxism is highly recommend as an overview of the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI2cy4Dp_8M ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Ronald Stein: “California Refinery Crisis” | Tom Nelson Pod #401 | 09 juin 2026 | 00:52:08 | |
Ronald Stein discusses California’s “refinery crisis,” arguing that heavy regulation is driving remaining refineries to consider leaving, after recent closures and a reported 17% decline from peak refining. He says California is an “energy island” with no pipelines over the Sierra Nevada, so most fuel must be made in-state; otherwise it would come from foreign refineries, potentially in Asia, raising costs, emissions, and national security concerns for military and international airports, ports, and trucking. Stein contends wind and solar only generate electricity and cannot replace refined-oil products used for transportation fuels and countless derivatives. He criticizes politicians and the press for not addressing practical replacement plans and advocates “energy literacy.” 00:00 Refinery Crisis Begins 00:42 California Energy Island 01:22 Fuel Demand Reality Check 02:03 Refineries Leaving Warning 02:58 Climate Policy Pushback 04:12 Voters Politicians Press 05:04 Wind Solar Limits 06:00 No Backup Plan 06:14 Regulators And Newsom 08:49 Oil Derivatives Explained 09:47 Crude Types And Fracking 11:46 How Regulations Drive Out 13:15 Outsourcing Emissions Abroad 14:39 Import Dependence Grows 16:29 Shipping And Port Bottlenecks 18:34 Clean Air But High Demand 20:20 National Security Takeover Talk 22:37 Campaign Silence And Media 23:29 Planes Need Real Power 24:51 Battery Plane Reality Check 25:36 Electricity Imports Warning 25:56 Importing Power and Fuel 26:17 AI Power Crunch 29:08 Refinery Rules and Costs 30:54 Foreign Dependence Risks 32:25 Scaling Alternatives 34:35 Energy Literacy and Policy 36:25 Nuclear Future 39:26 Wind Reality Check 41:32 California Oil Underfoot 44:33 Oil Seeps and Tar Pits 46:36 Zero Emissions Reality 49:45 Global Poverty and Demand 50:45 Where to Follow Ronald ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| John Parmentola: “How could Sea Levels Fall by 400 Feet During an Ice Age?” | Tom Nelson Pod #400 | 05 juin 2026 | 01:14:07 | |
John Parmentola discusses a puzzle of how sea levels fell ~400 feet during ice ages and argues global annual solar input is nearly constant, implying compensating regional heating when the Arctic cools. Using Antarctic ice-core temperature proxies and orbital mechanics, he introduces a new “countervailing obliquity precession effect” (COPE): a biannual insolation asymmetry that increases tropical-zone energy deposition while Arctic summer insolation and melt potential decline, affecting the hydrological cycle, moisture transport, albedo, and glacial descent. He estimates the evaporation energy need (~10^26 J) and says COPE energy over millennia exceeds this. He cites satellite/top-of-atmosphere energy-balance analysis (~1 W/m² net gain) and notes tests: second-half-year precipitation bias, possible Arctic moisture-transport bias, and CO2 outgassing seasonality. Links to his preprint and related work are mentioned. 00:00 Sea Level Ice Age Mystery 09:33 Warming Before Glaciation 12:01 Evaporation Energy Math 13:28 Solar Input Basics 17:10 Why Insolation Stays Constant 20:54 Milankovitch Parameters Explained 26:45 Obliquity Heat Redistribution 29:08 Seasonal Zone Matrix 33:33 Arctic Insolation Then vs Now 40:05 Milankovitch Hypothesis Summary 40:56 Snow Ice Evidence 42:15 Orbit Month Swap 43:54 Hidden Insolation Split 46:12 Seasonal Energy Gap 48:48 Tropical Energy Build 50:15 COPE Defined 53:01 Satellite Signal Test 56:24 Past Interglacial Match 59:22 Summary And Wrap 01:01:08 Q And A Tests 01:05:51 Website And Preprint 01:06:30 Economic Growth Detour 01:11:21 Final Links Farewell 2019: The Great Mystery of Economic Growth”: https://youtu.be/sx-55BhuFks John Parmentola: Estimating the Holocene Warm Period Termination | Tom Nelson Pod #96: https://youtu.be/6c3yW6s0shQ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Mel Counts: “Olympic Gold; Played With Bill Russell, Wilt, Havlicek & West” | Tom Nelson Pod #399 | 03 juin 2026 | 00:50:11 | |
Mel Counts recounts growing up in a small Oregon town, being mentored by an early coach, his rapid growth to 6'11", and recruitment to Oregon State, where he made a Final Four and later realized he could turn pro. He describes making the 1964 U.S. Olympic team under Hank Iba and winning gold over the Russians, his most cherished team honor. Drafted by the Boston Celtics, he won two championships and shares stories about Red Auerbach, Bill Russell, travel and pay in the era, and later stops including the Bullets, Lakers, and Suns, facing legends like Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West, Kareem, and Walton. He discusses pensions, family, faith, giving back, and staying active at 84. 00:00 Meet Mel Counts 00:21 Small Town Beginnings 01:29 Oregon State Breakthrough 01:51 Slats Gill Lessons 03:12 Final Four Teammates 04:01 Olympic Tryouts Camp 04:40 Tokyo Gold Medal 06:45 Celtics Rookie Life 08:21 Traded To Bullets 09:25 Scary Team Flight 11:21 NBA Travel Pay Then 14:53 Red Auerbach Stories 16:35 Wilt Chamberlain Era 17:42 Rings Watches Stages 18:32 Physical Game Changes 19:24 Wilt Strength Tales 21:24 Guarding Legends Film 22:26 Lakers Suns Wilt Sweat 23:41 Wilt Helped My Role 24:46 Practice With Russell 25:39 Road Trip Win Streak 26:23 Playing With Jerry West 27:30 Game 7 Balloons Drama 29:27 Bill Russell The Ultimate Winner 30:36 Boston Life Lessons 33:02 Hall Of Famers Era 33:57 Pete Maravich Memories 34:46 Three Point Revolution 37:21 Durability And Old School Training 39:53 Nutrition And Wilt Hot Dogs 41:46 Pensions And Player Benefits 43:40 Money Mistakes Then And Now 45:17 Rings Faith And Family 45:57 Giving Back And Life Advice 48:51 Staying Active And Final Wrap Basketball Reference: https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/countme01.html Mel Counts highlights: https://youtu.be/7XcO7xAc_r4 Mel Counts NBA2K: https://youtu.be/JllZNFwnn9A Mel Counts replaces Wilt Chamberlain late in 1969’s NBA championship game seven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnu5vMfPtbw&t=8256s ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Marc Morano: “Great Reject: Triumphant Trump Dismantles the Climate Agenda” | Tom Nelson Pod #398 | 31 mai 2026 | 01:25:49 | |
Marc Morano talks about his decades covering climate politics and his view that the climate movement is in rapid collapse due to overreach, public skepticism, and post-COVID distrust of “appeal to authority.” Morano contrasts Trump 1.0’s limited actions with Trump 2.0’s aggressive agenda: hundreds of pro-energy moves, exits from numerous UN bodies, a push to end the EPA CO2 endangerment finding, and a consensus-busting climate report later vacated over procedural issues. He says Democrats, media, Wall Street, and major figures like Bezos and Gates have gone quiet or shifted, while UN COP summits have become smaller and scandal-prone. He warns climate controls may reappear via public-health framing and future administrations. 00:00 Marc Morano Returns 00:36 Climate Movement Hits Low 02:31 Trump 1.0 vs 2.0 Setup 04:02 UN Climate Origins and Data Wars 07:14 GOP Nominees and Climate Drift 09:23 Trump 1.0 Wins and Limits 11:27 Biden Reversal and Green Mandates 14:57 Trump 2.0 Energy Blitz 15:19 Consensus Report Court Setback 16:58 Zeldin Targets Endangerment Finding 18:55 Iran War and Energy Shock Risk 20:00 Media Silence and Narrative Flip 21:59 Great Reset and WEF Agenda 27:22 Elites Pivot From Climate to AI 28:13 COVID Blowback Fuels Skepticism 33:42 Mainstream Admits Net Zero Failure 40:25 UN Summits Implode at COP30 44:28 Amazon Highway Coverup 45:39 Burgers Not Bugs 46:57 Toilet Paper Contraband 49:06 Summit Results Reality Check 51:40 Billionaires Media Flip 56:11 Energy Boom Coal Security 57:56 Climate Agenda Collapse 01:00:19 Narrative Culture War 01:02:46 Rio Treaty Withdrawal 01:05:20 Endangerment Finding Repeal 01:08:27 Climate Meets Public Health 01:11:31 Next Scares New Summits 01:18:43 COP Future And Coalition 01:25:40 Closing Thanks And Wrap Climate ranked #35 of 39 American voter issues: https://x.com/davidshor/status/2033906948525928569 ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Raymond Inauen: “Excellent website: The World of CO2” | Tom Nelson Pod #397 | 28 mai 2026 | 00:35:30 | |
Raymond Inauen, a graphic artist with 35 years’ experience, presents a free website of downloadable charts (PDF/PNG/ZIP) meant to teach CO2, climate, and energy basics or serve as a single reference. Charts cover CO2’s molecule, atmospheric composition (about 420 ppm), natural vs anthropogenic emissions (4.9% manmade), ocean/land fluxes, plant physiology (stomata), C3/C4/CAM plants, photosynthesis, and a logarithmic CO2–temperature relationship. He also includes long-term temperature/CO2 history, Holocene and recent warming, sea-level rise since the last ice age, and glacier/tree-line evidence from the Alps. Energy charts break down global fuel use and electricity sources. He adds references, a CO2 mascot “Conrad,” discusses reduced social-media reach, and shares a visual condensing atmospheric CO2 into a 16×16 km cube. 00:00 Meet Raymond Inauen 00:32 CO2 Molecule Basics 01:09 Atmosphere Composition Explained 02:17 Natural vs Human CO2 Sources 04:18 CO2 Cycle In and Out 05:21 Plants and CO2 Benefits 06:35 C3 C4 Plants and Greening 08:36 Plant Respiration Day Night 09:10 Logarithmic Warming Idea 10:16 Design Sources and Trace Gas 12:11 Exhaled CO2 Context 13:01 Deep Time CO2 and Temps 14:41 Human Body Carbon Link 15:11 Climate History Overview 16:13 Ice Ages and Holocene Temps 17:45 Modern Warming and Sea Levels 19:23 Glaciers Tree Lines Debate 23:02 Global Energy Charts Tour 28:19 Need a Scientist Narrator 30:07 Downloads and Conrad Mascot 31:49 Social Media and CO2 Cube 34:30 Wrap Up and Website Updates https://www.the-world-of-co2.com/co2 ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Bernie Lewin: “Origins of the IPCC” | Tom Nelson Pod #396 | 22 mai 2026 | 01:08:28 | |
Tom interviews Bernie Lewin about his 2017 book Searching for the Catastrophe Signal and his path from local environmentalism to blogging and writing for the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Lewin argues postwar “big science,” shifting religion’s role in policy, and media narratives helped drive recurring environmental scares: DDT, ozone depletion tied to supersonic transport and CFCs, then 1970s global cooling amid energy crises. He claims funding incentives encouraged extreme atmospheric claims, and that policy often diverged from scientific uncertainty. The discussion covers the 1988 Hansen hearing as orchestrated, Thatcher and Bush support for expanded climate science, and IPCC early processes, focusing on the 1995 Second Assessment controversy where summaries and underlying text were allegedly altered around detection and “fingerprint” evidence. 00:00 Meet Bernie Lewin 00:28 From Environmentalism to Skepticism 02:25 Science Replaces Religion 04:30 Big Science After WWII 06:05 Silent Spring and DDT Panic 08:46 Supersonic Jets and Ozone Fears 12:29 CFCs and the Ozone Hole 18:29 Feedbacks and Funding Incentives 21:33 Global Cooling Takes Off 22:40 Energy Crisis and Climate Instability 28:36 Coal vs Nuclear and CO2 Program 36:12 Cooling to Warming Flip 39:53 Hansen 1988 Hearing Moment 41:32 Thatcher Bush and Politics Searching for the Catastrophe Signal: The Origins of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: https://a.co/d/0bmYZdUX https://enthusiasmscepticismscience.wordpress.com/about/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Erich Schaffer: “Water Vapor Feedback, Part One” | Tom Nelson Pod #395 | 18 mai 2026 | 01:51:18 | |
Erich Schaffer argues climate science contains major blunders, chiefly that water vapor cools the planet and provides negative feedback. He explains the greenhouse effect as determined by emission altitude and the adiabatic lapse rate, criticizing older “back radiation” explanations. He claims climate budgets and attribution studies overstate surface emission by assuming Earth’s surface is a blackbody, ignoring water’s non-Lambertian behavior and ~0.91 hemispheric emissivity, which he says inflates the greenhouse effect and misattributes missing radiation to water vapor. He highlights latent heat cooling and contends empirical “proxy” methods used to infer strong positive water-vapor feedback are invalid due to lapse-rate behavior. He concludes climate sensitivity would drop to ~1 K or less. 00:00 Meet Erich Schaffer 01:06 Why Climate Basics Matter 04:52 Greenhouse Effect Explained 07:30 Lapse Rate Physics 10:52 IPCC Definition Shift 12:38 Debunking Back Radiation 16:04 Cloud Window Mistake 19:25 Latent Heat Cooling 20:40 Who Causes Warming 31:04 Reading the Spectrum 33:46 What CO2 Forcing Means 37:03 Deriving 3.7 Wm2 41:41 Water Vapor Feedback Setup 45:35 Models vs Observations 46:57 Empirical Feedback Proxies 51:10 Calculating Feedback From Slopes 54:16 Super Greenhouse Tropics Claim 56:52 Lapse Rate Versus Water Vapor 58:45 Moist Adiabats And Latent Cooling 01:00:58 Clouds Versus Water Vapor Paradox 01:05:21 Water Reflectivity And Polar Amplification 01:09:55 Infrared Emissivity Of Water 01:15:01 Surface Emissions Overstated 01:21:16 Reattributing The Greenhouse Effect 01:28:30 Thought Experiments Removing Water Vapor 01:34:26 Why Regional Proxy Fails 01:40:24 Seasonal Proxy Broken By Inversions 01:44:37 Sluggish Troposphere Explains Slopes 01:49:33 Wrap Up And Next Parts ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Catherine McBride: “Premeditated Industrial Destruction?” | Tom Nelson Pod #394 | 14 mai 2026 | 01:12:14 | |
Catherine McBride talks about her paper “Premeditated Industrial Destruction,” arguing UK net-zero policies have driven deindustrialization without lowering global emissions by shifting production and emissions to countries like China. They discuss UK energy reliance on fossil fuels (about 75–80%), gas backup for wind, bans and legal obstacles to new North Sea and shale projects while importing gas, and high industrial electricity costs from wind-related grid and balancing costs plus multiple carbon taxes. McBride criticizes EV mandates and fines, insufficient charging and grid capacity, and policies pushing carmakers and firms like BP away. She says EU net-zero rules hurt farming and industry, notes coal’s role and storage advantages, questions activist funding (including alleged Russian support), and contrasts Norway’s hydro and state oil strategy with UK decisions. 00:00 Meet Catherine McBride 00:11 How Net Zero Killed Industry 02:37 Fossil Fuels Reality Check 04:19 Importing Gas While Banning Drilling 07:05 Norway Hydro And LNG 09:33 Hybrids Versus Pure EVs 11:54 EV Mandates And Car Industry Exit 15:38 China EVs And Charging Limits 19:05 Grid Can’t Handle Electrification 35:33 BP Profits Politics And US Option 37:37 Free Speech Shift And Chris Wright Wish 38:54 UK Cabinet Energy Illiteracy 41:29 Coal Mines Versus Activists 43:44 Europe’s Coal Reality Check 47:50 Batteries and Load Shedding 51:45 Why Solar Fails in Britain 53:48 Subsidies Warp Farming 57:16 Tariffs and Media Blind Spots 01:03:29 NGO Funding and Anti-Fracking 01:06:29 Russia Gas Markets and Nord Stream 01:08:52 Norway’s Oil Wealth Playbook 01:10:27 UK Bets on Carbon Capture 01:11:37 Trees Beat Tech Wrap-Up https://catherinemcbride.substack.com/ Premeditated Industrial Destruction?: https://gbbc.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Premeditated-Industrial-Destruction-Final-6th-April-2026-with-added-security-issue-v2.pdf ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Sonia Elijah: “3/11 Viral Takeover” | Tom Nelson Pod #393 | 10 mai 2026 | 01:09:02 | |
Tom interviews investigative journalist Sonia Elijah about her book 3/11 Viral Takeover, a five-year, evidence-based chronicle of the COVID era with 941 citations drawn from FOIA releases, emails, and leaked documents. Elijah argues COVID policy reflected a coordinated, censorship-driven response, tracing a timeline of pre-2020 pandemic exercises, media/government coordination, and conflicts of interest. She discusses the WHO’s March 11, 2020 pandemic declaration, alleged suppression of lab-origin discussion, flawed modeling used to justify lockdowns, and problems with PCR testing. The conversation covers propaganda and censorship networks (including the Trusted News Initiative), suppression of early treatments, harms from ventilators and drugs, and allegations of misclassified vaccine trial and safety data, including pregnancy and myocarditis concerns, urging accountability and preparedness against repetition. 00:00 Meet Sonia Elijah 00:18 Book Thesis and Censorship 01:17 Research Depth and Purpose 02:49 Will It Happen Again 04:40 Why 3 11 Matters 06:01 Pandemic Drills and mRNA Push 10:53 Bat Database Goes Dark 12:18 FOIA Emails and Lab Leak 15:04 Cracks and Conflicts 18:10 Lockdowns Driven by Models 19:19 PCR Testing Anomalies 25:31 Harms and Care Homes 26:37 Testing Kit Profiteering 29:40 Fear Messaging and Propaganda 32:10 Dancing Nurses and Empty Wards 33:39 Trusted News Initiative 37:17 Natural Immunity Censored 38:17 Lancet Study Fallout 40:13 Ivermectin Smear Campaign 41:57 Silencing Doctors Online 43:30 Hospital Protocol Controversies 45:09 Redefining Vaccinated Data 46:38 Retracted Myocarditis Research 48:46 Missing Safety Reports 53:31 Pfizer Papers Deep Dive 58:13 Vaccine Injured Silenced 59:52 Pregnancy Harms Revealed 01:04:40 Justice and Accountability 01:07:32 Closing Thoughts on the Book Book Review by Robert Malone— 3/11: Viral Takeover: https://www.malone.news/p/book-review-311-viral-takeover Order it at Amazon here: https://www.malone.news/p/book-review-311-viral-takeover ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Thomas Kurz: “Why There Is No Climate Crisis” | Tom Nelson Pod #392 | 06 mai 2026 | 01:27:25 | |
Thomas Kurz discusses his upcoming book, Why There Is No Climate Crisis (Kindle in May, print in June), and argues modest warming is largely natural, claiming the IPCC obscures evidence of past climate variability. He explains paleoclimate proxies (oxygen isotopes, carbon-14, beryllium-10) and links climate shifts to Milankovitch cycles, solar cycles, galactic cosmic rays influencing clouds, and ocean oscillations (AMO/PDO). Using temperature reconstructions, glacier, treeline, sea-level, historical freeze, agriculture, insect, and civilization records, he says warm periods brought prosperity while cold periods drove drought, famine, disease, and upheaval. He concludes about half of post-1850 warming is natural, warming is generally beneficial, and future cooling is likely. 00:00 Guest And Book Intro 00:24 Why He Dug In 01:46 Focus On Climate Cycles 03:44 Paleoclimate Proxies 04:57 Isotopes And Temperature 06:48 Cosmic Rays And Solar 07:56 Milky Way Climate Cycle 12:17 Milankovitch Ice Ages 14:28 CO2 Follows Temperature 17:10 Holocene Cooling Trend 19:29 Schwabe Solar Cycles 21:42 Millennial Solar Cycles 23:14 Temperature Reconstructions 25:04 Glaciers Treelines Seas 28:44 Historical Freeze Evidence 32:27 Farming And Wildlife Clues 37:06 Warm Vs Cold Impacts 41:28 Storm Evidence In Proxies 44:44 Civilizations And Climate 45:48 Holocene Optimum Prosperity 47:42 2200 BC Collapse Event 48:18 Minoan Warm Period Boom 50:47 Greek Dark Ages Breakdown 52:53 Roman Warm Period Growth 54:23 Late Antique Cooling Plagues 56:50 Medieval Warm Period Golden Age 59:11 Little Ice Age Hardship 01:06:46 Witch Hunts Climate Blame 01:09:16 Modern Warming Attribution Debate 01:12:17 Ocean Oscillations AMO PDO 01:15:44 No Climate Crisis Wrap Up ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Brenda Shaffer | Tom Nelson Pod #391 | 02 mai 2026 | 00:59:43 | |
Brenda Shaffer discusses her Wall Street Journal piece arguing that current renewable-driven policies undermine energy security by making Western systems less reliable, more expensive, and dependent on concentrated supply chains, often tied to China. She says maritime security failures (Red Sea, Russia-Ukraine, Strait disruptions) show poor preparation, and argues fossil fuels still dominate the global energy mix (87%) despite decades of subsidies, while wind/solar remain limited and require backup baseload. She criticizes restricting fossil-fuel finance, especially in Africa, for worsening energy access and development. Shaffer claims UN climate institutions are political, seek taxation power withouBt representation, and that climate movements often oppose both fossil fuels and nuclear. She highlights Germany’s costly energy transition, emphasizes operational energy in warfare, and calls to restore energy security as national security and enable open debate. 00:00 Renewables and Crisis 00:57 Energy Security Failures 03:04 Emperor New Clothes 05:36 China and Methane Politics 10:32 Climate Narratives vs Reality 12:33 Myths of Transition 16:26 Cutting Supply Hurts Poor 19:50 Africa Needs Real Power 26:36 Germany Energiewende Fallout 29:21 Climate Activism and Anti West 30:33 Hydrocarbon Roadmap Skepticism 31:19 UN Climate Taxes and Power Grabs 33:18 Transparency and Budget Secrecy 34:39 Trump Era Workarounds and Lawfare 38:08 Gatekeepers and Speaking Freely 39:13 Languages and Middle East Shifts 44:07 Operational Energy in Warfare 47:53 Military Electrification Limits 51:52 IPCC Politics and Carbon Markets 55:27 Extreme Weather Narratives 58:01 Energy Realism Closing Message ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Samuel Furfari: “The Truth About the COPs” | Tom Nelson Pod #390 | 28 avr. 2026 | 00:59:00 | |
Former European Commission energy official Samuel Furfari recounts COPs from the 1992 UN climate convention through recent meetings, arguing the process became propaganda-heavy, expensive, and ineffective as global CO2 emissions rose 66% since 1992. He cites Glasgow as a turning point when China and India blocked anti-coal language, and notes recent COPs hosted by fossil-fuel producers and growing pushback from Africa and others seeking development. He criticizes “technology transfer,” NGO influence (especially in the EU), and anti-nuclear sentiment, discusses synthetic fuels as too costly until oil/gas decline, and describes shifts at the IEA and oil firms like BP back toward oil and gas. 00:00 Meet Samuel Furfari 01:02 COP Zero Origins 02:38 Berlin COP and Merkel 04:14 Glasgow Turning Point 06:11 Fossil Fuel Host COPs 09:39 Brazil COP Contradictions 10:46 Money and Degrowth Agenda 12:49 Nuclear and Synthetic Fuels 15:03 Cuckoo Takes the Nest 17:19 COP Spectacle and Emissions 20:07 Africa and Tech Transfer 22:44 Papua New Guinea Shifts 24:09 Polar Bear Messaging Fades 25:40 IEA From Oil to Renewables 29:03 US Pressures IEA 30:05 Oil Chokepoints Reality 31:08 Inside IEA Ideology 32:00 BP Retreats to Oil 35:21 Subsidy Driven Renewables 35:57 NGOs Power Shift 38:04 UN Leadership After Guterres 40:32 Africa Needs Electrification 43:06 Leaders Doubt Climate Agenda 46:57 China Emissions Outsourcing 49:31 COP Hosting Politics 53:39 COP15 Failure and Wrap The Truth About the COPs: 30 years of illusions: https://a.co/d/05AuqsJE ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Andy May: “The Sun vs CO2” | Tom Nelson Pod #389 | 24 avr. 2026 | 00:47:22 | |
Andy May discusses how Earth’s energy imbalance and ocean heat content relate to solar radiation versus greenhouse-gas downwelling IR. He argues IR photons are lower energy and absorbed in the ocean’s top micrometers–millimeter (thermal/electromagnetic skin), so it cannot directly heat the mixed layer; instead it may reduce upward heat loss by altering the skin-layer temperature gradient, while sunlight penetrates meters to greater than 100 m and warms the bulk ocean. He critiques NASA-style energy-flow diagrams for confusing one-way radiative fluxes (e.g., 340 W/m²) with net heat (e.g., 58 W/m²). He highlights large uncertainties in EEI and OHC due to sparse, inconsistent datasets, cool-skin effects, short Argo-era records, and oscillations like AMO/ENSO, making partitioning of causes uncertain. 00:00 Sun vs CO2 Setup 00:35 Why IR Differs 02:52 Ocean Skin Layers 05:48 Photon Energy Debate 07:55 Cool Skin Impacts 10:01 Energy Diagram Myths 13:33 EEI and OHC Limits 18:17 Ocean Data Disagreements 23:55 Surface EEI Variability 26:38 IR Cannot Heat Deep 29:51 Bottom Line Uncertainty 31:18 Q&A and Critiques 34:52 Modeling and Coverage 36:41 Regional Trend Map 41:21 Closing Takeaways https://andymaypetrophysicist.com/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Kevin Mooney: “Climate Pxrn” | Tom Nelson Pod #388 | 20 avr. 2026 | 00:49:31 | |
Kevin Mooney discusses his book “Climate Pxrn,” inspired by climate propaganda in classrooms and a push to restore the scientific method. He critiques polar-bear and other climate messaging, argues funding and politics suppress skeptics, and describes threats to prosecute dissent via RICO-style lawfare. He highlights Trump-era moves such as leaving the Paris Agreement and efforts to reverse the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding on CO2, calling it a major deregulatory change. Mooney cites Canada’s carbon tax costs and bureaucracy as warnings, alleges Russian and Chinese money influences anti-fracking activism, and raises national-security concerns about China-linked energy supply chains and offshore wind. He also criticizes EV lithium-battery fire risks, climate activism in healthcare, carbon-tracking credit cards, and argues AI power demand is undermining wind/solar claims. 00:00 Meet Kevin Mooney 01:13 Acorn to Green Groups 01:54 Polar Bear Myth 03:27 NASA vs Climate Models 06:57 Solar System Climate Clues 07:50 Silencing Skeptics 09:39 Criminalizing Dissent 11:36 Paris Deal and Lawfare 12:24 EPA Endangerment Fight 15:00 Canada Carbon Tax Reality 17:53 Foreign Money and Fracking 21:14 China Grid Security Risks 22:17 Offshore Wind and Security 24:29 Wind Groups vs Locals 24:54 EV Battery Fire Risks 26:21 Climate Policies in Healthcare 28:36 Carbon Tracking Credit Cards 29:56 Second Amendment Backstop 31:08 ESG Retreat and BlackRock 32:37 COVID and Classroom Climate Push 34:23 Young Men Shift and Faith 35:23 Climate Agenda and Marxism 36:41 Herding Rural America to Cities 38:16 Union of Concerned Scientists 39:46 Government Science Funding Distortion 40:46 AI Power Demand and RGGI 43:28 Greenwashing and Energy Reality 44:28 Offshore Wind and Whale Deaths 45:58 Heartland Conference Takeaways 48:36 Closing Thoughts and Book Plug Climate Pxrn: How and Why Anti-Population Zealots Fabricate Science, while Targeting American Capitalism, Freedom, and Independence: https://a.co/d/05Cd61cX ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Vladislav Bogorov: “Glasgow City Council blowing billions on the climate scam” | Tom Nelson Pod #387 | 16 avr. 2026 | 00:49:53 | |
Vlad Bogorov talks about Glasgow City Council’s plans to spend tens of billions to pursue net zero and Bogorov’s three YouTube videos from public meetings where officials gave vague, cliché answers, asked for written questions, and objected to being filmed. Bogorov argues such environmentalism is “low resolution thinking,” primarily about power and public money, and claims renewables and policies like EVs can increase CO2 when accounting for grid losses, mining, and transmission. He cites Germany closing nuclear and burning more coal, contends nuclear is safest and necessary for net zero, and urges critics to focus on whether environmentalism raises or lowers CO2 rather than debating global warming itself. 00:00 Glasgow Net Zero Meetings 01:07 YouTube Complaint Fallout 02:00 Vague Answers No Details 03:54 Renewables And Public Trough 04:35 Low Resolution Thinking 05:02 History Slavery Nuclear Examples 09:36 Sahara Solar Fantasy 11:53 Environmentalism Blocks Nuclear 14:24 Wrong Conversation On Costs 16:31 Electric Vehicles Emit More 20:06 Germany Coal After Nuclear 24:34 Politics Is About Power 27:31 Debating CO2 And Focus 28:45 Environmentalism Backfires 30:11 EV Batteries and Tradeoffs 31:15 Glasgow Council Push 32:28 Power Without Accountability 34:29 Why Facts Dont Persuade 39:23 Placards and Public Reactions 41:15 Change the Battlefield 42:04 Anti Nuclear Contradiction 46:46 Winning and the Real Cost 47:48 Social Movements End Hard 49:45 Closing Thanks His YouTube channel, “Buchanan Street is my pub.”: https://www.youtube.com/@Buchanan1111 When History Had Other Plans, 2025: https://a.co/d/4ykoJrJ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Julian Morris | Tom Nelson Pod #386 | 12 avr. 2026 | 00:58:14 | |
Julian Morris presents slides on climate change: global temperatures have risen since 1850 and human greenhouse gas emissions plausibly contribute via radiative forcing, but he argues harms are not worsening. Using the EM-DAT disaster database, he notes reported extreme-weather disasters rose while geophysical disasters rose similarly, suggesting reporting and population effects; meanwhile climate-disaster mortality has fallen over 90% since the 1920s due to adaptation, technology, trade, infrastructure, warnings, and better buildings. He highlights long-term declines in energy and CO2 per GDP and potential decoupling, attributing progress to innovation and institutions like free markets and property rights. He critiques democratically unaccountable NGO–foundation–intergovernmental coalitions, discusses perverse incentives in conservation (rhino horn trade bans), ethanol mandates, and possible blockchain tracking for wildlife products. 00:00 Meet Julian Morris 01:02 Is the World Warming 01:33 Are Humans Causing It 02:24 Disaster Counts Rising 04:51 Why Disasters Get Counted 06:21 Deaths From Disasters Fall 07:46 How Humans Adapt 11:03 Should We Worry Next 11:34 Efficiency Cuts Emissions 13:57 Energy Decouples From CO2 16:20 Fuel Shifts Over Time 21:13 Tech Efficiency Breakthroughs 23:18 Projecting To Net Zero 24:37 Environmental Kuznets Curve 27:24 Institutions Drive Decoupling 29:48 Policy Takeaways And Tradeoffs 31:54 Global Carbon Intensity Trends 32:22 Hurricanes And Alarmism 32:47 Lighting Progress Metrics 33:44 Segmented Sleep Debate 35:07 Democratic Deficit Ecosystem 37:32 Climate Coalition Incentives 39:39 Declining Climate Credibility 42:13 Availability Cascades Explained 43:35 Perverse NGO Incentives 46:10 Rhino Horn Trade Ban Fallout 50:42 Saving Species With Trade 51:59 Ethanol Baptist Bootleggers 54:54 Blockchain For Provenance 57:26 Wrap Up And Resources https://reason.org/author/julian-morris/ Defending Democracy from the DoDOs: How Power Escapes Democratic Control: https://laweconcenter.org/resources/defending-democracy-from-the-dodos-part-i-how-power-escapes-democratic-control/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Demetris Koutsoyiannis: “The political origin of the climate change agenda” | Tom Nelson Pod #385 | 08 avr. 2026 | 01:15:54 | |
Professor Demetris Koutsoyiannis presents a 2020 talk arguing the “climate change agenda” is political, tracing it to Henry Kissinger’s 1974 UN speech and subsequent WMO, CIA, U.S. agency actions, leading to the CO2 program, world climate conferences, and the IPCC’s 1988 creation. He reviews Time magazine’s shifting narratives from global cooling to warming and CO2, then describes elite networks and philanthropy—especially Rockefeller-linked funding—aimed at moving climate from science to policy, promoting carbon pricing, and expanding global governance. He draws a historical analogy to Rockefeller-supported eugenics and warns of emergency politics limiting rights. In discussion, he contrasts Greek and U.S. belief levels and says COVID fears waned in Greece while climate remains influential. 00:00 Intro and Talk Setup 01:43 Roadmap and Sources 03:15 1973-74 Power Players 05:45 Kissinger Career Background 06:44 Five Labors Overview 10:16 Climate Alert at UN 12:38 Cooling Scare and Agencies 14:38 CO2 Program to IPCC Birth 16:42 Climategate and IPCC Politics 19:00 Time Magazine Narrative Shift 19:30 From Ice Age to CO2 Villain 22:57 Rio to Kyoto Green Industry 24:47 Panic Marketing and Activism 26:38 Greta and Climate Migration 28:15 COVID vs Climate Messaging 31:09 Part Three World Saviors 31:30 Rockefeller Web of Influence 33:34 Money Geography and Oil Roots 35:32 Big Oil Meets Big Green 37:11 Grantmaking and Consensus 37:56 Rockefeller Climate Strategy 39:29 Divestment and Multi Agenda Grants 41:14 Foundation Funding Machine 42:53 Podesta Emails Elite Coordination 44:26 Big Green Mega Projects 45:27 Climate Emergency State 48:35 Climate as Global Governance Vehicle 51:58 Supranational Solutions Go Mainstream 55:12 Paris COP Influence Network 56:53 Eugenics Historical Parallel 59:25 From Consensus to State Policy 01:02:31 Epilogue Doom Predictions 01:04:09 COVID Pivot and World Order 01:08:56 Closing Truth and Freedom 01:11:22 Q and A Wrap Up Home page: https://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/dk/ Substack: https://climath.substack.com/ The political origin of the climate change agenda: https://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/docinfo/2035/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||
| Jules de Waart: “Crisis or Hoax?: Climate Change in Science, Media, and Politics” | Tom Nelson Pod #384 | 04 avr. 2026 | 00:51:36 | |
Jules de Waart, an 84-year-old former geologist, Dutch parliamentarian, civil servant, and physical geographer, discusses returning to climate topics after retirement and writing his skeptical book, "Crisis or Hoax," after an article was refused. He describes translating it to English using translation software and later joining the CO2 Coalition. Using geological and satellite-temperature slides, he argues Earth’s climate has long cycled through icehouse/greenhouse periods, the Holocene had earlier warm periods, and recent temperature spikes align with natural factors rather than CO2. He disputes claims of a strong scientific consensus, cites studies showing few papers explicitly quantify IPCC dominance, critiques alarmist messaging, and urges defending the scientific method and caution on geoengineering. 00:00 Meet Jules de Waart 02:49 Why He Wrote The Book 03:08 Research And Translation Process 06:13 Two Big Climate Questions 10:26 Deep Time Climate History 14:32 Holocene Warm Periods 18:25 IPCC 1990 And Hockey Stick 21:02 Satellites Spikes And Natural Drivers 25:43 Debunking The 97 Percent Consensus 30:59 Scary Messaging And White Lies 34:19 Is The Narrative Cracking 42:49 Power Politics And Global Reset Claims 49:00 Closing Advice And Scientific Method Amazon link for “Crisis or Hoax?: Climate change in science, media and politics”: https://a.co/d/0hF1Dizd Tilak Doshi: “This Book by a Dissenting Climate Scientist is the Perfect Red Pill for the Curious”: https://tilakdoshi.substack.com/p/this-book-by-a-dissenting-climate?publication_id=2241724 ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 | |||