Tom Nelson

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Tammy Nemeth: Demonizing hydrocarbons | Tom Nelson Pod #122 Jul 03, 2023

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Dr. Tammy Nemeth is a strategic energy and ESG analyst based in the UK. Her consulting company ESG2 Insight offers bespoke research, analysis, and insights to help organizations understand the overlapping challenges of Energy, Security, Geopolitics and Environmental, Social, Governance -- ESG2. Dr. Nemeth has a PhD in history from the University of British Columbia and was a guest lecturer on the geopolitics of energy and the environment at a private university in Germany. She has published articles and book chapters on Canadian and international energy issues and has been honoured twice by the Petroleum History Society for her research and writing. Dr. Nemeth is the author of the contextual report and its supplement, "A New Global Paradigm," for the Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns or the Allan Inquiry. Last year, Dr. Nemeth wrote the report Counting Carbon Molecules, an analysis of the International Sustainability Standards Board’s (ISSB) proposed Sustainability and Climate-Related financial disclosures. Dr. Nemeth is a frequent contributor to The Financial Post and Calgary Herald. Concerned about the lack of context in narratives surrounding climate change and the hydrocarbon industry, Dr. Nemeth began a website and podcast called "The Nemeth Report" and joins an international weekly discussion of current events on The Energy Transition Podcast. You can reach Dr. Nemeth at thenemethreport@protonmail.com or info@esg2insight.com.

https://thenemethreport.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@thenemethreport8187

00:00 Introduction

01:39 Larry Fink is out on "ESG"

03:57 Personal liability case against Shell board members

06:32 Bad-weather-preventing tyrannical accountants?

08:25 Oil reserves as a liability, because bad weather?

13:17 Mission creep?

14:44 Potato farmer example

16:58 Scopes 1, 2, and 3

19:33 Multiple counting, but it's all nonsense anyway

19:56 Destroying Western civilization

22:35 Personal carbon tracking

24:21 Oh goody: Lots more litigation

26:11 Eco dictatorship? Climate lockdowns?

27:34 Get used to blackouts?

28:32 Not just swapping one form of energy for another

31:39 Forest fires are nothing new

35:02 Canadian feds are very much into Net Zero

35:57 Telling provinces what they can use to generate electricity

36:53 Snow-covered solar panels in Canada?

39:11 Burying old wind turbines and solar panels

42:26 Coastal GasLink sabotage

45:21 Blowing pension money on "green" nonsense?

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James E. Kamis: Geological Impacts on Climate | Tom Nelson Pod #121 Jun 29, 2023

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James Edward Kamis is a retired Geologist with forty-two years of experience. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Northern Illinois University and a Master of Science degree in Geology from Idaho State University. More than forty-six years of research has convinced him that geological forces significantly influence, or in some cases, completely control climate, and climate-related events as per his Plate Climatology Theory.

June 2023 book by James E. Kamis: “Geological Impacts on Climate” https://a.co/d/2x9bJeL

Slides for this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/geological-impacts-on-climate

Kamis’ website: https://www.plateclimatology.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@plateclimatology4845

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Gordon Tomb: “Net Zero: An Existential Threat to Grid Reliability – and More” | Tom Nelson Pod #120 Jun 28, 2023

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Gordon Tomb is a Senior Advisor at the CO2 Coalition, Arlington, Virginia, whose membership of approximately 120 world-class scientists and researchers are committed to educating the public and policymakers on the benefits of carbon dioxide. He is the primary editor of the best-selling “Inconvenient Facts: The science that Al Gore doesn’t want you to know.” Gordon is also a Senior Fellow with the Commonwealth Foundation, Pennsylvania’s premier free-market think tank. He has spoken on behalf of the International Atomic Energy Agency on lessons of the Fukushima and Three Mile Island nuclear accidents and has presented testimony to legislative committees on the fallacies of carbon taxes and the ESG movement. Gordon led communications teams in the recovery from the Three Mile Island accident, the development of an electric transmission project and the reorganization of a FORTUNE 500 company. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a consultant with an international management consulting firm. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and attended Grove City College.

PDF doc for this podcast: https://tomn.substack.com/p/net-zero-an-existential-threat-to

CO2 Coalition: https://co2coalition.org/

Inconvenient Facts: https://inconvenientfacts.xyz/

Commonwealth Foundation: https://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/gwtomb

00:00 Introduction

02:14 Modern warming not unusual

03:54 Climate religion

06:59 Got 1 quadrillion dollars to waste?

08:06 Messing with the power grid to prevent bad weather?

11:14 Voters care about affordability and reliability

22:18 Discussion

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Irina Slav: Challenging the dominant narrative | Tom Nelson Pod #119 Jun 21, 2023

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Irina has written about oil, gas, and all things energy since 2016. Her main focus is the reality of energy security and the many fantastical facets of the energy transition. Her work appears on Oilprice.com and Substack at Irina Slav on energy.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/IrinaSlav1

Substack: https://irinaslav.substack.com

Irina’s Oilprice.com articles: https://oilprice.com/search/tab/articles/irina_slav

Ice throw from wind turbines: https://www.mdpi.com/2504-186X/4/1/4

00:00 Introduction

01:51 Evil subsidies

05:13 Intermittent power: Not enough or too much

08:18 China producing solar panels using cheap coal power

09:33 Many climate cultists are young people looking for meaning

12:09 China's energy mix

14:13 Don't forget the grid connections

17:25 Hacking renewable energy

19:43 Green jobs?

23:35 Dysfunctional solar panels

25:10 Fire danger

27:45 Ask questions when things don't add up

29:34 Green delusions

32:26 Children mining in Africa

33:52 Rube Goldberg power

37:00 Animal fat-powered jets?

38:48 Putting wind turbines and solar panels in landfills?

41:20 Ghost wind and solar facilities?

43:07 Current oil supply

45:52 Energy transition hype

48:36 Big oil exiting wind and solar

53:15 People ask more questions if you hit them in the wallet

54:18 Rise and Fall of ESG

55:40 Looming totalitarianism?

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https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics

About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html

Notes for climate skeptics:

ClimateGate emails:

https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Lois Perry: Fighting for energy/climate realism in the U.K. | Tom Nelson Pod #118 Jun 20, 2023

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For 18 years, Lois has been a regular commentator on BBC Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine Show. She has appeared on Channel 5 as a panelist on the Jeremy Vine Show on numerous occasions and also on the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Essex, LBC, etc.

Lois regularly provides her commentary and appears regularly on GB News and Talk Radio.

CAR26 campaigns for informed rational analysis of climate matters with an irreverent satirical spin – poking fun and calling out hypocrisy.

CAR26: https://car26.org/

https://twitter.com/CAR26_ORG

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LoisPerry26

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LoisPerry-CAR26

Here’s the mentioned clip of Boris Johnson’s dad suggesting you won’t be allowed to “go on a plane”: https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1591766939436986368

00:00 Introduction

01:10 Straight talk

01:49 Collaboration with Heartland Institute

05:32 Just Stop Oil fears Lois

06:38 Jim Dale

07:55 Viral Stanley Johnson clip

10:37 Net Zero polling poorly

12:16 Irritating drivers on purpose

12:57 80% reduction in car ownership in 15 years?

16:03 Kids are fighting back

21:31 Need more climate skeptic collaboration

24:27 15-minute cities

27:16 ULEZ

31:12 Lois Goes North

34:37 Anti-fracking nonsense

39:35 Talking directly to politicians

44:06 Removing Liz Truss

46:57 Wrap-up

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Summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries

Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123

Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/

About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html

Notes for climate skeptics:

https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics

ClimateGate emails:

Samuel Furfari: “I denounce energy insecurity” | Tom Nelson Pod #117 Jun 20, 2023

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Prof. Samuel Furfari (aka Samuele) is a chemical engineer. He graduated from the Free University of Brussels. He obtained his Ph.D. from the same university in 1982. His thesis was in the field of energy.

Between 1982 and 2018, he was a senior official at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Energy, where he devoted his entire career to the development of energy technologies and energy policy in practically all areas of energy (strategy, outlook, clean coal technologies, hydrogen, fuel cells, environment, climate change, renewable energy and energy efficiency) until his final position as Advisor to the Director-General. 

He is Professor of Geopolitics and Energy Policy at the ESCP (London campus). He was Professor of Geopolitics of Energy and Energy Policy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles for 18 years.  He gives seminars at other universities and lectures extensively in various settings. He is the author of numerous articles and 18 books on energy and sustainable development. 

https://twitter.com/FurfariSamuele

Furfari’s April 2023 book, “Energy insecurity: The organised destruction of the EU’s competitiveness”: https://a.co/d/gKcfbqt

Furfari’s Oct 2020 book “The hydrogen illusion” https://a.co/d/ef4eIrD

00:00 Introduction

01:44 Author of 18 books

02:33 Working with European Commission

09:22 Poland

10:43 Germany

15:53 When will the EU return to energy sanity?

19:33 Green peak: Peak climate hysteria?

20:57 Exxon throws in the towel on algae biofuel

24:36 Next book: Energy security

26:05 Israel is a gas producer

26:55 Qatar is investing in Texas to produce more gas.

27:31 Energy in 2050?

29:45 Urgency to electrify Africa

32:52 Future of COP junkets?

34:33 Richer people are more resilient

37:21 If you control carbon, you control life

38:42 Only four flights per lifetime?

39:23 What % of voters want their flights to be limited?

43:32 Kill cows to save the planet?

44:14 Seizing farms?

45:28 Are Europeans buying the climate scam?

47:39 Invited by monks to talk about energy realism

49:44 Keep learning

50:28 Speak up

52:28 Many of today's climate realists were once believers

54:57 It's not really about climate

59:58 Hydrogen

01:04:28 Making liquid fuels?

01:06:47 Greens don't like nuclear energy because it works too well

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Summarize.tech summaries of all of Tom Nelson podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries

https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics

About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html

Notes for climate skeptics:

ClimateGate emails:

https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Simon Elmer: The Politics of Environmental Fundamentalism | Tom Nelson Pod #116 Jun 14, 2023

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Simon Elmer was born and lives in London. In 2002, he received his PhD in the History and Theory of Art from University College London, and he has taught at the universities of London, Manchester, Reading and Michigan. In 2015 he co-founded Architects for Social Housing, for which he is Head of Research. His books include The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State (2022); Virtue and Terror: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 1 (2023); The New Normal: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 2 (2023); and, with Geraldine Dening, The Truth about Grenfell Tower (2017); Central Hill: A Case Study in Estate Regeneration (2018); For a Socialist Architecture: Under Capitalism (2021); and Saving St. Raphael’s Estate: The Alternative to Demolition (2022).

Simon’s “The Politics of Environmental Fundamentalism” article: https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/the-politics-of-environmental-fundamentalism

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SimonElmer2022

Website: https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/

Books:

The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State

https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2022/09/28/the-road-to-fascism-for-a-critique-of-the-global-biosecurity-state/

Virtue and Terror: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 1

https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2023/02/09/virtue-and-terror-selected-articles-on-the-uk-biosecurity-state-volume-1/

The New Normal: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 2

https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2023/02/09/the-new-normal-selected-articles-on-the-uk-biosecurity-state-volume-2/

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Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123

https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics

About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html

Notes for climate skeptics:

ClimateGate emails:

https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

David Blackmon: Energy Absurdities | Tom Nelson Pod #115 Jun 13, 2023

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40 year veteran of the oil and gas industry. Long-time writer on energy issues. Widely recognized subject matter expert on energy. Contributor at Forbes.com, The Daily Caller, World Oil Magazine and The Petroleum Economist.

Substack: https://blackmon.substack.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EnergyAbsurdity

David helps to co-host The Energy Transition Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7B3Y2G8bsc&list=PLRnT6ZzvUgcAVuMCZaRTsb7Yaeuc37Ttx

The Energy Question With David Blackmon: https://www.youtube.com/@davidblackmon6807

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Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123

https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics

About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html

Notes for climate skeptics:

ClimateGate emails:

https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Roger Pielke Jr.: Honest brokering is a group effort | Tom Nelson Pod #114 Jun 12, 2023

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Roger Pielke Jr. is a professor at the University of Colorado, as well as a writer on Substack where he focuses on climate policy, sports governance, and the messy “place where science and politics collide.”

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https://twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/

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