Tom Nelson

Thomas Nelson

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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May 28 · 35 min
Raymond Inauen: “Excellent website: The World of CO2” | Tom Nelson Pod #397
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://x.com/theworldofco2 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
May 22 · 1 hr 8 min
Bernie Lewin: “Origins of the IPCC” | Tom Nelson Pod #396
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
May 18 · 1 hr 51 min
Erich Schaffer: “Water Vapor Feedback, Part One” | Tom Nelson Pod #395
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 https://x.com/erich_schaffer https://greenhousedefect.com/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
May 14 · 1 hr 12 min
Catherine McBride: “Premeditated Industrial Destruction?” | Tom Nelson Pod #394
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://x.com/CeeMacBee 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
May 10 · 1 hr 9 min
Sonia Elijah: “3/11 Viral Takeover” | Tom Nelson Pod #393
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 https://x.com/sonia_elijah https://linktr.ee/SoniaElijah 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
May 6 · 1 hr 27 min
Thomas Kurz: “Why There Is No Climate Crisis” | Tom Nelson Pod #392
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
May 2 · 59 min
Brenda Shaffer | Tom Nelson Pod #391
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 https://x.com/ProfBShaffer ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
April 28 · 59 min
Samuel Furfari: “The Truth About the COPs” | Tom Nelson Pod #390
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 https://x.com/FurfariSamuele ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
April 24 · 47 min
Andy May: “The Sun vs CO2” | Tom Nelson Pod #389
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://x.com/Andy_May_Writer https://andymaypetrophysicist.com/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
April 20 · 49 min
Kevin Mooney: “Climate Pxrn” | Tom Nelson Pod #388
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 https://x.com/KevinMooneyDC https://kevinmooney.info/ 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
April 16 · 49 min
Vladislav Bogorov: “Glasgow City Council blowing billions on the climate scam” | Tom Nelson Pod #387
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
April 12 · 58 min
Julian Morris | Tom Nelson Pod #386
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/ https://x.com/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
April 8 · 1 hr 15 min
Demetris Koutsoyiannis: “The political origin of the climate change agenda” | Tom Nelson Pod #385
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
April 4 · 51 min
Jules de Waart: “Crisis or Hoax?: Climate Change in Science, Media, and Politics” | Tom Nelson Pod #384
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
March 31 · 44 min
Audrey Streb: “Asking the Right Questions” | Tom Nelson Pod #383
Reporter Audrey Streb discusses joining the White House press pool for The Lion, aiming to ask energy-focused questions. Drawing on her work at the Daily Caller News Foundation, she argues corporate media fuels “climate doomsday” coverage by spotlighting supportive studies and ignoring contrary ones, and she outlines tactics like calling out bad data, highlighting underplayed leads, and framing stories for readers. She cites reporting on retracted climate research, sea-level findings, China’s coal use and its comments on EPA rule rollbacks, and national-security risks from Chinese solar inverters. Her questioning of EPA Administrator Zeldin helped spur Sen. Cynthia Lummis’ bill to block foreign adversaries from commenting on U.S. rulemaking. She also mentions Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund scrutiny, climate litigation “lawfare,” and trade-offs in wind/solar. 00:00 Meet Audrey Streb 00:38 Energy Reporter Origins 01:46 Climate Myth Machine 03:56 Calling Out Bad Data 05:53 China and Energy Security 09:04 Asking the Questions 14:19 Swampy Climate Funds 15:38 Tradeoffs of Wind Solar 21:01 White House Press Pool 23:35 Allies and Conferences 24:43 Scientists and Media Attacks 27:20 Who to Read Next 29:26 New Investigations Ahead 31:33 Climate Lawfare Explained 36:15 Grid Risks from China Tech 39:01 Will the Hysteria Return 41:17 Gas Prices and Politics 43:33 Closing Thoughts and Impact https://x.com/AudreyLStreb ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
March 27 · 1 hr 4 min
Matt Ridley | Tom Nelson Pod #382
Matt Ridley discusses an NIH invitation from Jay Bhattacharya to speak on scientific freedom and argues the COVID-19 pandemic was more likely caused by a lab leak than a natural spillover, citing Wuhan research on engineered sarbecoviruses, lack of an infected animal host, and alleged cover-ups. He says scientific institutions resisted debate, harming trust in science, and notes historical lab leaks and ongoing biosecurity and bioterrorism risks. Ridley also critiques overclaims about COVID measures and vaccines and connects pandemic-driven skepticism to climate debates. He then explains themes from his books on progress and on bird sexual selection, lekking, bowerbirds, and how female choice drives beauty, plus brief Darwin and family-history anecdotes. 00:00 NIH Invite and Lab Leak 01:08 Evidence and Coincidences 02:50 Establishment Pushback 04:49 Science Trust Fallout 07:00 History of Lab Leaks 08:34 Biosecurity and Terror Risk 10:32 Defining Gain of Function 11:57 Pandemic Cynicism and Policy 14:14 Climate Debate Parallels 18:44 Rational Optimist Progress 21:12 Neanderthals and Exchange 25:36 Gene Culture Coevolution 31:33 Bird Sex and Beauty Intro 33:56 Sexy Son Hypothesis 36:14 Sexual Selection vs Natural 37:10 Why Birds Look Beautiful 40:27 Wood Thrush Song Evolution 41:28 Bowerbirds Invent Art 43:26 Peacock Tail Debates 45:33 City Life Drives Evolution 47:47 Traffic and Telegraph Selection 51:42 Birds Are Poetry 53:18 Irish Elk Mega Antlers 56:25 Black Grouse Lek Video 58:13 Darwin Marries Cousin 01:00:45 Family Estate Through Centuries 01:03:59 Wrap Up and Invitation https://x.com/mattwridley https://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
March 22 · 1 hr 8 min
David Brett: “Ecofascism” | Tom Nelson Pod #381
David Brett, founder of The New Westminster Times, discusses a talk he gave on “eco fascism,” which he says originated with Greenpeace founders. Citing Patrick Moore’s book and his work at Green Spirit Strategies, he argues environmental activism is “90% communications,” using media “mind bombs” (dramatic imagery, celebrities, and litigation) to shape public opinion against mining, oil, forestry, and pipelines. He says Moore, a Greenpeace co-founder, has been “airbrushed” and smeared as disinformation. Brett critiques films like Anthropocene, “Sue Big Oil,” climate-emergency messaging, Greta Thunberg rallies, and NGO “youth washing,” and says activists link climate to Indigenous grievance. He urges industry to invest in human-interest counter-messaging and local civic pushback. 00:00 Meet David Brett 00:26 Eco Fascism Origins 01:08 Mining Versus Activists 01:34 Patrick Moore Influence 04:06 Greenpeace Mind Bombs 07:14 From Whales to Politics 08:31 PR War Imbalance 11:59 Smearing Patrick Moore 16:04 Anthropocene Media Tactics 21:14 Critical Minerals Pivot 25:52 Pipeline Battles Canada 30:58 Greta Rally and Sacred Water 34:31 Climate Anxiety Messaging 36:04 Why No Pushback 36:52 Greenpeace Lawsuit Setup 37:35 Sue Big Oil Campaign 39:44 Fires and Weather Hype 44:37 Youthwashing at City Hall 47:00 How to Fight Back Locally 50:30 Human Stories Media Strategy 57:40 Eco Fascism Endgame 59:38 Climate Meets Indigenous Grievance 01:04:34 Media Gatekeepers and Alternatives 01:08:24 Wrap Up and Links The Eco-Fascist War on Private Property: https://x.com/NewWestTimes/status/2012650288553906493 https://x.com/NewWestTimes https://x.com/davidhbrett YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfsOXbN6XqqdL5v3ArKt-NA/videos ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
March 18 · 1 hr 11 min
Robert Cutler: “A 3560-Year Jovian Solar and Climate Cycle” | Tom Nelson Pod #380
Robert Cutler argues that climate patterns repeat about every 3,560 years (and 7,120), based on shifting proxy reconstructions—especially high‑resolution Greenland ice cores—and confirming with correlation analysis across Greenland cores, an Antarctic core, and lake sediment records from China and Alaska. He notes phase inversions possibly tied to ~2,400‑year Bray and Bond cycles and highlights alignments among events like the Younger Dryas, the 8.2 ka and 4.7 ka events, and the Dark Ages cold period. Cutler connects 3,560 to harmonics/subharmonics of Jovian-planet conjunction timing, the Jose cycle, and other periodicities (e.g., ~1,850 and ~890 years), suggesting strong non-subtle forcing possibly involving solar activity. 00:00 Meet Robert Cutler 27:27 Correlation Confirms 3560 31:05 Predictions and Next Steps 32:33 Where 3560 Comes From 34:04 Can Planets Modulate Sun 36:40 Solar Core Resonance Idea 40:39 Harmonics in Planet Orbits 41:56 Impulsive Conjunction Forces 43:44 JPL Data and Long Cycles 47:50 Grand Alignment Phase Markers 49:57 Jose Cycle and Barycenter 53:02 Hidden 890 Year Beat 57:14 Rapid Climate Event Timing 59:55 Harmonic Subharmonic Map 01:02:18 Summary and Open Questions 01:06:30 Reproducible Code and Tools 01:08:43 Next Steps and Wrap Up https://x.com/RCutler34 A 3560-Year Jovian Solar and Climate Cycle: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27244.01925 Simple python script to download and plot climate and sunspot data with 3560- and 7120-year offsets: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/401300980_Simple_python_script_to_download_and_plot_climate_and_sunspot_data_with_3560-_and_7120-year_offsets ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
March 14 · 1 hr
Randall Bock: “Autism Dissent” | Tom Nelson Pod #379
Randall Bock, a primary care physician and writer, discusses science as both knowledge and method, warning that post-COVID dissent can harden into new dogma. He argues the autism “epidemic” is confounded by shifting definitions, DSM changes, diagnostic substitution (notably from intellectual disability), incentives, and social context, making single-cause claims unreliable. Bock describes internal conflict with Brownstone and criticizes Toby Rogers’ vaccine-centered, revolutionary framing, including calls for massive reparations and abolishing vaccines, as unscientific moral certainty. He supports case-by-case risk–benefit thinking on vaccines and urges precise classification and evidence-led inquiry, comparing autism debates to oversimplified climate debates. 00:00 What Science Really Is 03:30 From Dissent To Dogma 05:48 Blind Men And Autism 09:04 Defining Autism First 10:49 Why Autism Looks Bigger 15:50 Genes Epigenetics And Timing 18:36 Twin Studies And Disputes 21:32 Diagnostic Drift And Labels 26:24 Mental Health Incentives 29:47 More Analogies Chrysalis 30:11 Butterfly Spectrum Metaphor 31:12 Gala Night Confrontation 35:01 Amateur Versus Expert 37:06 Autism Tsunami Claims 39:32 Marxist Vaccine Narrative 41:45 Denialism and Data 43:49 Monocausal Vaccine Thesis 45:59 Anger and Overcorrection 48:08 Amish and Diagnosis Context 51:44 Climate Analogy and Precision 55:48 RFK Memory and Institutions 57:25 Case by Case Conclusion https://x.com/@DrRandallBock Autism, Vaccines, and the Diagnostic Empire: https://randoctor.substack.com/p/autism-vaccines-and-the-diagnostic The Truth About Autism and Vaccines Doesn’t Suit Either Side: https://dailysceptic.org/2026/02/14/the-truth-about-autism-and-vaccines-doesnt-suit-either-side/ The Hidden Cost of Mental Health Parity”: https://brownstone.org/articles/the-hidden-cost-of-mental-health-parity/ Unraveling Autism’s Surge: Genetics, Environment, and the Expanding Diagnostic Net https://randoctor.substack.com/p/unraveling-autisms-surge ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
March 10 · 52 min
Peter Bailey: “The Epic of You” | Tom Nelson Pod #378
Author Peter Bailey, president of the Prouty Project in Minneapolis, discusses formative travel and life experiences that shaped his leadership work and book, "The Epic of You." He recounts teenage journeys to India and a six-month overland trip across Africa featuring malaria, scarce roads in the Sahara, forged passports, wildlife in Tanzania and Kenya, and a flash flood. He describes early struggles with low self-esteem, addiction and sobriety at 22, risky subway riding, and later adventures like a Wyoming rodeo fall and learning polo at 55. Bailey explains using Joseph Campbell’s heroic journey to reframe adversity, details his 13-minute TEDx talk including his wife’s cancer “power and purpose” mindset, shares practices on names, mindfulness, and resting, and emphasizes community and discernment amid AI. 00:00 Meet Peter Bailey 00:33 Early Travel Roots 02:04 Six Months Across Africa 03:21 Hard Lessons and Journals 05:09 Crossing the Sahara 08:03 Safari Parks and Floods 10:10 Iran Riots at Sixteen 13:14 Book Origins and Identity 15:25 Subway Demons and Risk 16:07 Rodeo Wipeout Story 19:34 Learning Polo Later 22:01 Outward Bound and Dogsleds 24:10 Staying Warm and Prepared 25:02 Lonesome Dove Quotes 26:32 Prairie Stories and Brotherhood 28:02 From Hardship to Heroic Journey 28:46 Mapping the Heroic Journey 30:45 Leadership Work and Gifts 31:11 Crafting the TEDx Talk 32:08 Power and Purpose in Cancer 33:29 Owning Your Epic Life 34:44 Learning from Adversity and Nature 36:48 Remembering Names with Intention 40:38 Mindfulness over Multitasking 42:37 Rest All the Time 45:29 Anchoring Mindset in Sports 46:55 Everyday Epicness and Service 49:26 Next Chapter Aging and AI 52:11 Closing Thanks and Farewell https://www.peter-bailey.com/ “The Epic of You” on Amazon: https://a.co/d/00P4YyVK ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1