Tom Nelson

Latest Episodes:

Harry Decker: Climate realism from a longtime Arizona resident | Tom Nelson Pod #103 May 14, 2023

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After graduating from high school, HARRY DECKER spent ten years in the U.S. Air Force working with computers in military intelligence. He has lived in ten different states and took college classes in five of them. He never completed a college degree, however, due to changing his mind about his career. He has attended various technical schools over the years to keep up with the changing industry. In civilian life, he worked as a computer operator, programmer, technical writer, and tech support specialist for various companies such as Maricopa County, St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Information Network Corporation, and Charles Schwab International. His hobby at one time was tournament chess, but he dropped that and took up creative writing and filmmaking. He had a short story published five years ago titled “A. I. Gone Amok,” a fictional tale about the dangers of artificial intelligence and that the deep state was planning on releasing a virus that would kill millions. Now retired, he writes and directs plays. And he’s working on a short film. He has also written numerous technical reports over the past three years that challenge climate alarmist claims and the green agenda.

Humans vs Antarctica: https://tomn.substack.com/p/humans-vs-antarctica

00:00 Introduction

01:05 Arizona running out of water?

05:27 Saudis growing cotton in Arizona?

06:28 History of climate in Arizona

10:47 Humans vs Antarctica

13:29 Volcanoes in Antarctica

18:05 Good uses of CO2

22:04 Making CO2

22:23 Greta

23:52 Climate religion

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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:

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

Lars Schernikau: “The Unpopular Truth..about Electricity & Future of Energy” | Tom Nelson Pod #102 May 11, 2023

Show notes

Dr. Lars Schernikau is energy economist, entrepreneur, commodity trader, and author. Educated at New York University in the US, INSEAD in France, and TU Berlin in Germany, he has worked with commodities for 2 decades in Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America. Previously, he worked for the Boston Consulting Group in the US and Germany.

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His recent book “The Unpopular Truth…about Electricity and the Future of Energy” is available at https://a.co/d/8x8WVdP

Website inc graphs http://www.unpopular-truth.com/

Slides for this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/the-unpopular-truthabout-electricity

Further content from Lars is available at

- https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lars+schernikau

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/larsschernikau/

00:00 Introduction

00:19 Presentation starts

09:02 Jevon's paradox

17:44 Germany:Highest power prices

23:28 Unrealistic assumptions

39:29 LCOE misleading

46:40 Vehement against carbon dioxide tax

51:07 Positive news

56:09 Q and A

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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:

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

Iain Davis: Sustainable Debt Slavery | Tom Nelson Pod #101 May 09, 2023

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Iain Davis is an author, blogger, researcher and short film maker. You can read more of Iain's work at his blog IainDavis.com. Iain is a former substance misuse counsellor and worked for many years in the health and social care sector. Following redundancy, Iain focused on his passion for research and journalism, obtaining a vocational (CPD) qualification as a journalist. Iain now lives and works on the south coast of England, and when he's not writing, he toils on his allotment, after someone told him it would be fun.

Iain wrote: I published my first book ‘A Dangerous Ideology’ in 2018 and my second Pseudopandemic in 2021. I also contribute to other news sites including UK Column, Unlimited Hangout and the OffGuardian and my work has been featured by the Corbett Report, James Delingpole and Whitney Webb, among others.

Slides for this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/sustainable-debt-slavery

https://www.ukcolumn.org/writer/iain-davis

https://iaindavis.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_InThisTogether

Sustainable Debt Slavery article: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/09/investigative-reports/sustainable-debt-slavery/

00:00 Introduction

01:08 Presentation starts

07:46 All based on theoretical models

10:28 Financialization of nature

14:55 Using debt to control us

15:48 Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ)

18:44 Governments are not what we think they are

25:17 Rockefellers role in creating the UN

27:17 UN "partners" creating fantastic investments for themselves

27:58 Global public-private partnerships haven't worked well

30:28 Global Public Private Partnership model

34:10 Policy propagandists

36:29 Conclusions

38:40 Q and A

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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:

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

Robert Zubrin: The Case For Nukes | Tom Nelson Pod #100 May 03, 2023

Show notes

Dr. Robert Zubrin is the founder and president of Pioneer Energy. Dr. Zubrin has a B.A. in applied mathematics from the University of Rochester, an M.S in aeronautics and astronautics and a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering, both from the University of Washington.

He has 26 years industry experience, more than 200 technical and non-technical publications in various areas of astronautical, aerospace, fossil fuel, and nuclear engineering, and 14 U.S. patents. He is also a best-selling author, with eight books to his credit, including The Case for Mars; Energy Victory, which lays out a bold plan for breaking the economic stranglehold that foreign oil has on North America; and Merchants of Despair, which exposes the history of the deeply anti-human ideology that underpins today’s environmental movement.

https://twitter.com/robert_zubrin

About Zubrin: https://www.planetary.org/profiles/robert-zubrin

A Zubrin book: The Case for Nukes: How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future Paperback – April 3, 2023: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Nukes-Global-Warming-Magnificent/dp/1736386069/ref=sr_1_1

I mentioned the nuclear energy videos of David Ruzic, such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1QmB5bW_WQ

00:00 Introduction

03:26 Primary problem in the world today:Poverty

06:10 Two kinds of environmentalism

09:28 Some history of nuclear power

11:38 Oil companies funded enviros to oppose nuclear power

12:00 Why the Sierra Club went anti-nuclear

14:21 Nuclear power unchallenged in its naval application

16:24 How long to build a nuclear plant?

17:11 Insane regulatory structure

21:26 Who is blocking U.S. nuclear power?

23:54 Malthusian global warming campaign has backfired

26:04 Carbon dioxide taxes are ultra-regressive

30:35 New nukes outside of the U.S.?

35:27 Chinese to build new power plants in two years?

36:48 Big or small nuclear plants?

42:01 Regulatory burden is the main obstacle to new designs

43:41 Using nuclear power to make liquid fuels

46:34 Enormous energy in a block of granite

51:25 Points made by anti-nukes

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

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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:

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

Martin Durkin: “I’d like to see the flowering of lots of ClimateGates” | Tom Nelson Pod #99 Apr 23, 2023

Show notes

Martin Richard Durkin is an English television producer and director of the 2007 documentary film The Great Global Warming Swindle.

As of April 2023, he is making a new climate realist movie.

Please send email tips and suggestions to: climatemovieinfo@gmail.com

The Great Global Warming Swindle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY-gRFSaP7o

Durkin’s previous appearance on this channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ2UW5MAxw4

https://twitter.com/Martin_Durkin

Gleick: Not believing in climate hysteria is "increasingly criminal”: https://twitter.com/tan123/status/1649869220685987840

My tweet about the Fiji anecdote: https://twitter.com/tan123/status/1624735220632100866

00:00 Introduction

03:16 Bullying and death threats

06:04 Environmental "journalism"

08:34 Creating armies of Greta Thunbergs

11:26 Different kinds of anti-capitalism

14:47 Anti-capitalist rallies are against working people

17:11 Public sector people need and love problems

18:58 Costs of climate hysteria

20:01 The narrative behind the climate hysteria is always against individual freedom

22:12 Call for whistleblowers

25:07 This is the story of the age

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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:

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

Tom Shula: A Novel Perspective on the Greenhouse Effect | Tom Nelson Pod #98 Apr 20, 2023

Show notes

Errata: About 38:20, Shula mistakenly said "speed of light" when he meant "speed of sound".

About Tom Shula:

• Academic training in theoretical physics. Disillusioned with the

community and left with a M.S. to work in tech industry.

• Primary work in semiconductor and disk drive component and system

development and manufacturing.

• Brief diversions into other industries including steel mills, refining,

food processing, and waste treatment.

• Exposed to a broad range of fluid dynamic systems with pressures

ranging from kpsi to 10-12 Torr, and temperatures from 77K (liquid

nitrogen) to >1000C

• I have been extremely curious from an early age, and was considered

a top problem solver in my professional technical career

• I’ve been following the “climate change issue since the “global

cooling” scare of the 1970s. More intently since 2009.

Slides for this presentation, and Tom Shula’s related paper, are here: https://tomn.substack.com/p/tom-shula-a-novel-perspective-on

Related Watts Up With That post, 4/18/23: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/18/a-novel-perspective-on-the-greenhouse-effect/

00:00 Introduction

02:44 Main presentation starts

29:49 Q and A

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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:

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

David Dilley: Signals that global cooling is beginning | Tom Nelson Pod #97 Apr 19, 2023

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Professor David Dilley is a Meteorologist-Climatologist-Paleoclimatologist and a former NOAA National Weather Service Meteorologist. Professor Dilley is the founder and CEO of Global Weather Oscillations (GWO), a company heavily involved in research and development of technology for prediction of natural climate and weather cycles.

Professor Dilley has 54 years of experience ranging from the Air Force to NOAA National Weather Service and GWO. As the senior research scientist and forecaster for GWO, Mr. Dilley developed ClimatePulse Technology based on Geomagnetic Cycles of the earth-moon-and sun, and how these cycles align with historical, present day and future cycles of climate and weather.

Slides for this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/david-dilley-climate-presentation

https://www.globalweathercycles.com/

http://www.globalweatheroscillations.com/

https://twitter.com/WeatherCycles

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

David’s previous appearance on my podcast #64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNSPiMmuIvI

00:00 Introduction

23:15 Q and A

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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:

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

John Parmentola: Estimating the Holocene Warm Period Termination | Tom Nelson Pod #96 Apr 17, 2023

Show notes

John Parmentola, Ph.D. in Physics, M.I.T. 1977, has built a highly distinguished career over four decades as an entrepreneur, inventor, innovator, a pioneer in the founding of new fields of research, and leader of complex research and development organizations with broad experience in the private sector, academia and high-level positions within the federal government and defense community.

Slides for this podcast: https://tomn.substack.com/p/estimating-the-holocene-warm-period

See this recent paper: https://scienceofclimatechange.org/wp-content/uploads/Parmentola-2023-Celestial-Mechanics-Holocene-Termination.pdf

https://johnparmentola.com/about-john-parmentola/my-personal-story/

https://johnparmentola.com/about-john-parmentola/biography/

Parmentola wrote: All computations utilize a tool created by J. Laskar et al.,

http://vo.imcce.fr/insola/earth/online/earth/online/index.php

Spurious Correlations: https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

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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:

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

Neil Winton: Former Reuters journalist; current climate realist | Tom Nelson Pod #95 Apr 13, 2023

Show notes

Neil Winton worked as a journalist at Reuters for 32 years, including as global Science and Technology Correspondent.

https://twitter.com/neilwinton1

https://www.wintonsworld.com/

Wintonsworld Electric Car Test Range Data https://www.wintonsworld.com/electric-car-test-range-data/

When I Covered Climate Change for Reuters I Thought CO2 Was Certainly to Blame for Rising Temperatures. I Was Wrong https://dailysceptic.org/2023/02/23/when-i-covered-climate-change-for-reuters-i-thought-co2-was-to-blame-for-rising-temperatures-i-was-wrong/?highlight=neil%20winton

00:00 Introduction

00:42 Writing about global warming at Reuters in the 1990s

01:54 More laziness than conspiracy

02:32 Covering Climate Now propaganda

03:43 Banned on LinkedIn for climate realism

04:53 Reporting both sides for Reuters in the 1990s

06:36 Mismatch between hype and reality on EVs

07:24 Driving more than 20 EVs; getting press car for a week

08:05 Less range than advertised

12:09 Trying to make EVS as good in every way as ICE cars?

13:06 Hard to make money on small EVs

14:06 Battery replacement half the cost of a new car?

14:52 Small, affordable EVS could make sense in town

15:30 EV fire danger?

17:21 Warm periods in the past

18:56 Industry in Europe has "just gone along with" climate hysteria

20:11 97% of scientists allegedly agree, so shut up

22:12 Attenborough propaganda

26:16 CBDCs

28:55 His blog

30:44 Musk Tesla range figures based on only 55 mph?

32:02 Battery swapping

34:23 Small, cheap Chinese EVs

35:23 Boris Johnson virtue-signalling

38:28 For EVs, the whole long distance scenario is a nightmare

40:15 Coal-powered German EVs

41:10 EVs are not zero-emission cars

42:07 Tires on heavier EVs wear out faster

42:51 How to pay for roads?

45:33 Forcing people out of their cars

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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:

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

Clive Best: Long term future of humanity | Tom Nelson Pod #94 Apr 12, 2023

Show notes

I have a Bsc in Physics and a PhD in High Energy Physics and have worked as a research fellow at CERN for 3 years, Rutherford Lab for 2 years and the JET Nuclear Fusion experiment for 5 years. Thereafter I worked at the Joint Research Centre in Italy until April 2008 working on Nuclear safety. Remote Sensing, and web technologies. I led the team developing media monitoring software for the EU which summarised daily reports.

This then led on to a health threat monitoring system tracking Avian Flu. We developed this further to monitor any unusual health scare in multiple languages including Chinese. It was then a successful commercial spin off until 2010 and would surely have detected Covid early in 2019. I was seconded to the African Union in Addis Ababa from Nov 2007 until March 2008. I originally started this blog to record my experiences in Ethiopia. It started out as a travel blog, but has now morphed mainly into a science blog on climate. All results, views, opinions and errors are entirely my own fault and in no way reflect any stance of any previous employer.

I became interested in understanding the physics behind climate change after getting fed up with being told that the debate is over. Science is never a closed book and has a habit of turning round and biting those who think so. This explains why the blog now focuses on climate science.

I am basically a scientific sceptic but with a deep interest in other opinions and cultures.

00:00 Introduction

02:01 Nuclear fusion

04:33 Calculating Earth's temperature

04:58 Moon affects the climate?

06:55 Main presentation starts

07:09 Politicized science

07:59 Earth's atmosphere is unique because of life

09:10 Greenhouse effect is very complicated

12:51 Temperature dependence on CO2

14:00 Clouds as negative feedback

14:20 Measuring Earth's temperature