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Interviews and presentations on climate/energy realism and more, with guests including Will Happer, Jerome Corsi, Marc Morano, Carl-Otto Weiss, Valentina Zharkova, Christopher Essex, Henrik Svensmark, Patrick Moore, Ross McKitrick, Willie Soon, Susan Crockford, Peter Ridd, Christopher Monckton, and Richard Lindzen.
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- Thomas Kurz: “Why Warm Climates Moderate Severe Weather” | Tom Nelson Pod #444 · 53 minTom Kurz promotes his book Why There Is No Climate Crisis, and argues media and politicians wrongly claim warming increases weather catastrophes. He attributes major climate…
- Nicole Sachs: “The cure for chronic pain” #443 · 48 minTom interviews therapist and author Nicole Sachs about recovering from severe back pain diagnosed at 19 as degenerative spondylolisthesis. After learning surgery wouldn’t…
- Ronan Connolly/Gerry Quinn: “Assessing the Safety of the Modified mRNA Vaccine” #442 · 1 h 30 minRonan Connolly and Gerry Quinn discuss their new peer-reviewed Journal of Toxicology paper assessing safety concerns around modified mRNA COVID vaccines. They criticize shifting…
- Anika Sweetland: “A Load of Bollocks?: The Trillion Dollar Climate Scare” #441 · 42 minAnika Sweetland describes becoming fearful of climate change after a school assignment, obsessively following catastrophic headlines, studying climate science, and suffering…
- James Kamis: “El Nino/La Nina system generated by geological forces” #440 · 40 minGeologist James Kamis argues El Niño and La Niña are generated by geological forces near a stationary Pacific Ring of Fire source, not primarily by trade-wind shifts. Citing…
- Dave Burton: “Lifetimes Of Atmospheric CO2 And Heat” #439 · 1 h 10 minDavid Burton argues recent warming (~1.25°C since 1870) is small and often overstated, while CO2 benefits crops and ecosystems by boosting growth and water efficiency, reducing…
- Chuck Wiese: “Contradicting Conclusions From Atmospheric Science” #438 · 1 h 19 minChuck Weiss presents his background in atmospheric science, meteorology, aviation, and inventing the Windicator, then argues Oregon universities and public schools promote a…
- Iain Davis: “The Technocratic Dark State” | Tom Nelson Pod #437 · 1 h 7 minIain Davis discusses his book The Technocratic Dark State, arguing Silicon Valley oligarchs (e.g., Thiel, Musk, Andreessen, Altman, Ellison) steer policy toward a tokenized…
- Paul Burgess: “An explanation of climate change, pure and simple” | Tom Nelson Pod #436 · 56 minPaul Burgess presents his “Oceanic Index” model of climate change, arguing oceans regulate low cloud cover that acts as Earth’s thermostat, explaining satellite-era temperatures…
- Ed Hoskins: “Weather-Dependent “Renewables” | Tom Nelson Pod #435 · 57 minEd Hoskins presents slides comparing renewables (onshore/offshore wind, solar PV, plus biomass and hydro) with gas, coal/lignite, and nuclear on productivity, EROEI, CO2 embedded…
- Randall Bock: “Non-scary viruses” | Tom Nelson Pod #434 · 1 h 8 minDr. Randall Bock, a primary-care physician and author of Overturning Zika, argues that public-health research and media often fuel panic to secure funding, citing Peter Hotez’s…
- John Costella: “ClimateGate” #433 · 1 h 13 minJohn Costella, a former physicist turned data scientist and software engineer, recounts how watching climate-skeptic films, then reading leaked “Climategate” emails in 2009…
- Stephen Andrews: “Extension to the cosmic ray hypothesis” #432 · 1 h 12 minSteve 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…
- Cohler/Soon: “ Response to Ed Berry’s recent presentation” #431 · 45 minJonathan 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…
- Eric Huxter: “Metrology vs Meteorology” #430 · 1 h 11 minEric 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…
- Ed Berry: “Nature Controls the CO2 Level” #429 · 59 minEd 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…
- Will Wilkinson on his Will Happer biography: “Standing Up for Science” #428 · 55 minWill 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…
- Jonathan Cohler: “ Fossil fuel combustion drove essentially none of the atmospheric CO2 growth” #427 · 1 h 14 minJonathan Cohler presents a newly submitted paper using mass conservation, isotopic signatures (delta 13C), and multiple datasets to apply the Keeling relation and infer a…
- James Tooley: “ You don't need government for education” #426 · 52 minJames 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…
- Tom Harris: “Pushing back against climate hysteria in Canada” #425 · 58 minTom 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…
- Dai Ato: “ Spurious Correlation Between Atmospheric CO2 Increase and Human Emissions” #424 · 40 minDai Ato presents findings from three papers arguing atmospheric CO2 rise is largely natural, claiming multivariate analyses reject human emissions as a significant predictor of…
- Ron Clutz Part 2: “Highlights from 3400 Climate Blog Posts” #423 · 1 h 19 minRon 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…
- Henrik Svensmark: “Cosmic Rays, aerosols, and clouds” #422 · 1 h 25 minHenrik Svensmark discusses how solar activity modulates cosmic rays, which ionize the atmosphere and can help form aerosols that grow into cloud condensation nuclei, potentially…
- Randall Bock: “Withdraw to Freedom: Navigating the Addiction Maze” #421 · 1 h 24 minRandall 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…
- Jim Lakely #420 · 55 minJim 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…
- Thomas Kurz: “Greenhouse Gases and Climate Feedbacks” | Tom Nelson Pod #419 · 1 h 2 minThomas 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…
- Ray Sanders #418 · 1 h 16 minRay 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…
- Willie Soon and Jonathan Cohler on natural atmospheric CO2 rise #417 · 1 h 21 minWillie 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…
- Steve Milloy #416 · 59 minSteve 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…
- Marc Glendening #415 · 55 minMark 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…
- Ron Clutz Part 1: “Highlights from 3400 Climate Blog Posts” #414 · 1 h 4 minRon 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…
- David Smith: “Wokicide: A Quality-Control System to Reclaim Education” #413 · 1 h 8 minDavid Smith explains his book “Wokicide,” arguing that “woke” (critical social justice theory rooted in critical theory and postmodernism) persists in universities and schools…
- Gianluca Alimonti: “Three “climate matrix” papers” #412 · 44 minGianluca Alimonti discusses three “climate matrix” papers: a 2022 review of extreme weather time series and response indicators that found no clear worsening trends (later…
- Nicola Scafetta: “The Frontier of Climate Science” | Tom Nelson Pod #411 · 1 h 27 minNicola 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…
- Anika Sweetland: “IPCC EXPOSED!!! Response to a global problem? Or formation of 1 world gov’t?” #410 · 47 minAnika Sweetland argues the IPCC was created through politics, funding, and elite influence, tracing its origins to the 1985 Villach Conference and alleging it advances…
- Liam DeBoer | Tom Nelson Pod #409 · 58 minLiam DeBoer describes his Substack blending philosophy, psychology, culture, politics, and history, and argues in “Your Ruling Class Is Not Secular” that modern materialist…
- Ken Jensen: “The Enemies of Reason” | Tom Nelson Pod #408 · 1 h 4 minKen Jensen describes his background in environmental toxicology and medical devices, then argues morality can be grounded without religion. He traces a “true, good, beautiful”…
- Hügo Krüger: “Great idea: If it’s really too hot in your house, get some AC” | Tom Nelson Pod #407 · 30 minIn 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…
- Erich Schaffer: “Water Vapor Feedback, Part Two” | Tom Nelson Pod #406 · 1 h 47 minErich Schaffer critiques the “super greenhouse effect” and argues that tropical outgoing longwave radiation stays flat mainly because tropospheric temperature is sluggish…
- Anika Sweetland Part 1: “The science lesson you never received” | Tom Nelson Pod #405 · 40 minTom 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…
- Joseph Fournier: “Solar-Driven Glacial Atmospheric Dipole” | Tom Nelson Pod #404 · 1 h 53 minJoseph Fournier discusses his Substack article proposing a “solar-driven glacial atmospheric dipole” to explain the Last Glacial Maximum contrast between ice-covered North…
- William van Wijngaarden: “Evidence doesn’t support climate hysteria” | Tom Nelson Pod #403 · 41 minWilliam 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…
- Emmet Connor: “Red Pandemic: The Global Marxist Cult” | Tom Nelson Pod #402 · 1 h 0 minIrish 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…
- Ronald Stein: “California Refinery Crisis” | Tom Nelson Pod #401 · 52 minRonald Stein discusses California’s “refinery crisis,” arguing that heavy regulation is driving remaining refineries to consider leaving, after recent closures and a reported 17%…
- John Parmentola: “How could Sea Levels Fall by 400 Feet During an Ice Age?” | Tom Nelson Pod #400 · 1 h 14 minJohn 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…
- Mel Counts: “Olympic Gold; Played With Bill Russell, Wilt, Havlicek & West” | Tom Nelson Pod #399 · 50 minMel 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…
- Marc Morano: “Great Reject: Triumphant Trump Dismantles the Climate Agenda” | Tom Nelson Pod #398 · 1 h 25 minMarc 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…
- Raymond Inauen: “Excellent website: The World of CO2” | Tom Nelson Pod #397 · 36 minRaymond 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…
- Bernie Lewin: “Origins of the IPCC” | Tom Nelson Pod #396 · 1 h 8 minTom 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…
- Erich Schaffer: “Water Vapor Feedback, Part One” | Tom Nelson Pod #395 · 1 h 51 minErich Schaffer argues climate science contains major blunders, chiefly that water vapor cools the planet and provides negative feedback. He explains the greenhouse effect as…
