Tom Nelson

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#33 - Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore: “CO2 is entirely beneficial” Oct 21, 2022

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Dr. Patrick Moore has been a leader in the international environmental field for over 30 years. He is a founding member of Greenpeace and served for nine years as President of Greenpeace Canada and seven years as a Director of Greenpeace International. As the leader of many campaigns Dr. Moore was a driving force shaping policy and direction while Greenpeace became the world's largest environmental activist organization.

In recent years, Dr. Moore has been focused on the promotion of sustainability and consensus building among competing concerns. He was a member of British Columbia government-appointed Round Table on the Environment and Economy from 1990 - 1994. In 1990, Dr. Moore founded and chaired the BC Carbon Project, a group that worked to develop a common understanding of climate change

Dr. Moore served for four years as Vice President, Environment for Waterfurnace International, the largest manufacturer of geothermal heat pumps for residential heating and cooling with renewable earth energy.

As Chair of the Sustainable Forestry Committee of the Forest Alliance of BC, he leads the process of developing the "Principles of Sustainable Forestry" which have been adopted by a majority of the industry.

In 1991 Dr. Moore founded Greenspirit, a consultancy focusing on environmental policy and communications in natural resources, biodiversity, energy and climate change

In 2000, Dr. Moore published Green Spirit - Trees are the Answer, a photo-book that provides a new insight into how forests work and how they can play a powerful role in solving many of our current environmental problems.

Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1969-1972

Ph.D. in Ecology, Institute of Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia, 1972

Honours B.Sc. in Forest Biology, University of British Columbia

http://ecosense.me/

https://twitter.com/EcoSenseNow

Author: “Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom”

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Notes for climate skeptics:

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ClimateGate emails:

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#32 - Former British MP Lembit Opik: “The greens, not me, are the climate change deniers." Oct 19, 2022

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Lembit Opik is a former Member of Parliament in the U.K.

He has been a climate realist for many years, and is a member of a group called Transport Reality.

https://twitter.com/TransportR2022

https://twitter.com/lembitopik

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Notes for climate skeptics:

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ClimateGate emails:

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#31 - Michael Kelly: An engineer shows us what net zero would really mean Oct 18, 2022

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Michael Kelly was Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge during 2002-16 and Emeritus since 2016. His previous career in academia and industry concerned the physics of high-performance semiconductor devices and the manufacturability of nanoscale artefacts. His interest in climate science and mitigation was piqued by the UK Climate Change Act of 2008, where, as part-time Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department for Communities and Local Government for Her Majesty’s Government, he assumed a leading role in defining the need for a national retrofit programme for the UK’s building stock to help achieve a reduction in the 45% of the UK’s CO2 emissions that came from heating air and water in buildings. During 2010-2016 he led the teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate engineers with a course ‘Present and Future Energy Systems, the study of how the UK get’s its energy now and how it might in 2050. It was here that he first appreciated the scale of the retrofit programme, and in later extensions, the cost in terms of finance, materials and human resources, of achieving a Net-Zero Economy for the UK by 2050.

https://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/network/michael-kelly/

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#30 - Ross McKitrick on big problems with paleoclimate data and land temperature records Oct 17, 2022

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Ross McKitrick is a Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph where he specializes in environment, energy and climate policy. He has published widely on the economics of pollution, climate change and public policy. His book Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2010. His background in applied statistics has also led him to collaborative work across a wide range of topics in the physical sciences including paleoclimate reconstruction, malaria transmission, surface temperature measurement and climate model evaluation. Professor McKitrick has made many invited academic presentations around the world, and has testified before the US Congress and committees of the Canadian House of Commons and Senate.

https://www.rossmckitrick.com/

https://twitter.com/RossMcKitrick

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Notes for climate skeptics:

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ClimateGate emails:

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#29 - Willie Soon: “This CO2 stuff is…pure delusion. You cannot find any signature of that.” Oct 15, 2022

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Dr. Willie Soon, an astrophysicist and geoscientist, is a leading authority on the relationship between solar phenomena and global climate. In this 32+ years of singular pursuit, he seeks to understand the Sun-Earth relations in terms of not only meteorology and climate, but also in terms of orbital dynamics of Sun-Earth-other planets interactions, magmatic (volcanoes) and tectonic (earthquakes) activities. His discoveries challenge computer modelers and advocates who consistently underestimate solar influences on cloud formation, ocean currents, and wind that cause climate to change. He has faced and risen above unethical and often libelous attacks on his research and his character, becoming one of the world's most respected and influential voices for climate realism. In 2018, he founded the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (CERES-science.com) in order to tackle a wider range of issues and topics without fears nor prejudices.

Dr. Soon was an astrophysicist at the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, from 1991-2022. He served as receiving editor for New Astronomy from 2002-2016, astronomer at the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1992-2009. He is also on the editorial board of Geoscience, an MDPI publication since 2020 as well as serving as Review Editor of Frontiers in Earth Science starting 2022. Dr. Soon has also held the role of visiting professors at various institutions including University of Putra, Malaysia, Institute of Earth Environment of Xian, China and State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science at Xiamen University. Since September 2021, Dr. Soon is also affiliated with Hungary’s Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science.

Dr. Soon earned bachelor's and master's degrees in science and a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California.

"The whole point of science is to question accepted dogmas. For that reason, I respect Willie Soon as a good scientist and a courageous citizen.’’ — Freeman Dyson in the Boston Globe, November 5, 2013

About Willie Soon: https://www.ceres-science.com/willie-soon

103 of his peer-reviewed papers: https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~wsoon/

“How much has the Sun influenced Northern Hemisphere temperature trends? An ongoing debate”: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/21/6/131

CERES news: https://www.ceres-science.com/news

Please help support independent science by donating to CERES-science.com:

https://www.ceres-science.com/support-us

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Notes for climate skeptics:

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ClimateGate emails:

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#28 - Gregory Wrightstone: Celebrate the BENEFITS of modest warming & increased CO2! Oct 14, 2022

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Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist (BS and MS in Geology), bestselling author (Inconvenient Facts), and an Expert Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR6).

His science and fact-based approach exposes many of the alarmist myths concerning our changing climate. Gregory is a strong proponent of the scientific process and believes that policy decisions should be driven by science, facts and data, not a political agenda. In addition, he believes that we should use all of the Earth's resources for the betterment of mankind and do it as good stewards.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheCO2Coalition/

Author of Inconvenient Facts: https://inconvenientfacts.xyz/

Twitter: @Gwrightstone

CO2 Coalition on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CO2Coalition/videos

For kids: CO2 Learning Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAcEPUZ8MR4

Get the “Inconvenient App” from Google Play or the Apple App Store.

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Notes for climate skeptics:

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ClimateGate emails:

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#27 - Vijay Jayaraj on evil insanity of blocking fossil energy for people living in energy poverty Oct 12, 2022

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Vijay Jayaraj is a Research Associate at CO2Coalition, a Virginia based non-profit that informs the public about the benefits of CO2 and the truth about climate change. He is also a contributor for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. Vijay holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences from University of East Anglia, UK which is the home of Climatic Research Unit. He also has an undergraduate degree in Engineering from India where he resides now. Vijay worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of British Columbia in Canada, studying the impact of climate change on global marine life. His Op-Eds can be read at Daily Caller, American Thinker, Townhall, Patriot Post, WattsUpWithThat, Real Clear Energy, and other places. Vijay advocates for the energy rights of developing countries where millions are in danger of losing access to reliable energy resources due to the global politics on climate change.

About CO2 Coalition: https://co2coalition.org/about/

CO2 Coalition Climate Facts: https://co2coalition.org/facts/

https://twitter.com/VijayJayaraj_CC

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Notes for climate skeptics:

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ClimateGate emails:

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#26 - Joe Bastardi: Expecting perfect weather is crazy; it’s cooling over the tropics; temperature's a very poor metric for climate Oct 12, 2022

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https://twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi

https://www.weatherbell.com/

Joe’s 2020 book: The Weaponization of Weather in the Phony Climate War https://www.amazon.com/Weaponization-Weather-Phony-Climate-War/dp/1662903650/

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Notes for climate skeptics:

https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/useful-notes-for-climate-skeptics.html

ClimateGate emails:

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

#25 - Michelle Stirling on going viral pushing back against fake science and fake consensus Oct 11, 2022

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Michelle Stirling is the Communications Manager for Friends of Science Society. She has worked in marketing communications, advertising and film/video production most of her career. In 2005, she worked for a time at Alberta Environment as an Information Coordinator, the year that the Sierra Club gave Alberta an "F"...and Ontario a "B+". That jump-started her interested in climate change policies. Michelle was an op-ed writer for the Red Deer Advocate for several years, and has contributed articles to the Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Troy Media and Medium. Several of her papers on 'consensus' thinking posted on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) are in the top 10% of downloads. She is a member of the Canadian Association of Journalists and AAAS.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/stirlingmg https://twitter.com/FriendsOScience

Friends of Science: https://friendsofscience.org/

30-second Friends of Science intro video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8kNBc14qXs

74-sec video: Climate Diversity is Our Strength - You have a right to dissent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e47dpiu2EVs

97% consensus study: https://friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/97_Consensus_Myth.pdf

Consensus Cake - Science is Not A Democracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOQ7_IH2438

Here's a short video on the Doran and Zimmerman study: https://youtu.be/zgXWN05P_Zo

Here's the "Infiltration" paper Michelle wrote, which includes the many comments of the Zimmerman Masters Thesis by those who emailed her: https://friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/Infiltration2015.pdf

Here's the Prof. Vahrenholt book Michelle mentioned: https://www.amazon.ca/Neglected-Sun-Precludes-Climate-Catastrophe/dp/1934791547

Climate Intelligence (CLINTEL): https://clintel.org/

No climate emergency: Michelle reads the CLINTEL declaration (over 700k views): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpVBH-HY5Ow

A letter to Greta Thunberg (600k views): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ZbSaL7JP0

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Notes for climate skeptics:

https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/useful-notes-for-climate-skeptics.html

ClimateGate emails:

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

#24 - IPCC expert reviewer Kenneth P. Green on the IPCC and the climate "socialist amoeba" Oct 08, 2022

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Kenneth P. Green is a Fraser Institute senior fellow and author of over 800 essays and articles on public policy, published by think tanks, major newspapers, and technical and trade journals in North America. Mr. Green holds a doctoral degree in environmental science and engineering from UCLA, a master’s degree in molecular genetics from San Diego State University, and a bachelors degree in general biology from UCLA.

Mr. Green’s policy analysis has centered on evaluating the pros and cons of government management of environmental, health, and safety risk. More often than not, his research has shown that governments are poor managers of risk, promulgating policies that often do more harm than good both socially and individually, are wasteful of limited regulatory resources, often benefit special interests (in government and industry) at the expense of the general public, and are almost universally violative of individual rights and personal autonomy. Mr. Green has also focused on government’s misuse of probabilistic risk models in the defining and regulating of EHS risks, ranging from air pollution to chemical exposure, to climate change, and most recently, to biological threats such as COVID-19.

Mr. Green's longer publications include two supplementary text books on environmental science issues, numerous studies of environment, health, and safety policies and regulations across North America, as well as a broad range of derivative articles and opinion columns. Mr. Green has appeared frequently in major media and has testified before legislative bodies in both the United States and Canada.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EnvirodocKG

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Notes for climate skeptics:

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ClimateGate emails:

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