

Tom Nelson
Thomas Nelson
Interviews and presentations on climate and energy realism, 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.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Jul 15, 2023 • 2h 4min
Nicola Scafetta: Understanding Climate Change | Tom Nelson Pod #126
Explore the fascinating connection between solar activity and climate change, as a researcher critiques mainstream climate models. Delve into the disparities of emissions between Western and Eastern nations, highlighting the impact of coal usage. Discover alternative theories that prioritize natural climatic cycles over human influence. The discussion challenges common narratives around electric vehicles and renewable energy, questioning their effectiveness in addressing climate issues.

Jul 13, 2023 • 1h 10min
Meredith Angwin: Shorting the Grid | Tom Nelson Pod #125
As a working chemist, Meredith Angwin headed projects that lowered pollution and increased reliability on the electric grid. Her work included pollution control for nitrogen oxides in gas-fired combustion turbines, and corrosion control in geothermal and nuclear systems.
She was one of the first women to be a project manager at the Electric Power Research Institute. She led projects in renewable and nuclear energy.
In the past ten years, she began to study and take part in grid oversight and governance. For four years, she served on the Coordinating Committee for the Consumer Liaison Group associated with ISO-NE, her local grid operator. She teaches courses and presents workshops on the electric grid.
Meredith's newest book release - Shorting the Grid, The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid is an exposé of the insider-ruled practices of the “deregulated” areas of the United States electric grid. Shorting the Grid shows the hidden problems caused by lack of accountability on the grid. Americans need to pay attention to how the grid is managed. Hopeful speeches will not keep the lights on. If you assume that the lights will go on when you flip a switch, you need to read this book.
Meredith has been keynote or featured speaker at several nuclear events, including keynote at the worldwide Nuclear Science Week in 2018.
She and her husband George live in Vermont. They have two children and four grandchildren who live in the New York City area.
Slides for this podcast: https://tomn.substack.com/p/shorting-the-grid
“Shorting the Grid” and “Campaigning for Clean Air” at Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Shorting-Grid-Hidden-Fragility-Electric/dp/1735358002/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
https://www.amazon.com/Campaigning-Clean-Air-Strategies-Pro-Nuclear-ebook/dp/B01MA5GU9Q?ref_=ast_author_dp
Website: https://www.meredithangwin.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MeredithAngwin
Email: meredithangwin@gmail.com
On Robert Bryce’ podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOBIwPHwg2o
With Jim Meigs: https://shows.acast.com/howdowefixit/episodes/our-electricity-grid-is-surprisingly-fragile-meredith-angwin
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About Tom Nelson:
https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89cj_OtPeenLkWMmdwcT8Dt0DGMb8RGR
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/
About Tom: https://tomn.substack.com/about

Jul 6, 2023 • 44min
Ivor Cummins: This is the battle of our lives | Tom Nelson Pod #124
Ivor Cummins BE(Chem) CEng MIEI PMP completed a Biochemical Engineering degree in 1990. He has since spent over 25 years in corporate technical leadership and management positions. His career specialty has been leading large worldwide teams in complex problem-solving activity. His uniquely powerful ability has been to rapidly resolve complex multifactorial issues, involving all branches of science and technology – there has been no field which he could not integrate into successful and rapid resolution. In 2015 he was shortlisted in the top six of around 500 applicants for Chartered Engineer status that year, and also completed a Stanford certificate in technical innovation and entrepreneurial management.
Since 2012 Ivor has been intensively researching the root causes of modern chronic disease. A particular focus has been on cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity. He shares his research insights at public speaking engagements around the world, revealing the key nutritional and lifestyle interventions which will deliver excellent health and personal productivity. He has presented on heart disease primary root causes at the British Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR) in London. He has also debated Irish Professors of Medicine on stage, at the annual conference of the Irish National Institute of Preventative Cardiology (NIPC). Over the past decade he has captivated audiences all over the world – in USA, UK, Ireland, Estonia, Israel, Switzerland etc.
Ivor’s 2018 book “Eat Rich, Live Long” (co-authored with preventative medicine expert Jeffry Gerber MD, FAAFP), details the conclusions of their shared research: https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Rich-Live-Long-Mastering/dp/1628602732/
His public lectures and interviews are available on YouTube, where he has 230,000+ subscribers and 26 million views have been recorded to date: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPn4FsiQP15nudug9FDhluA
Ivor’s most recent project has been to further democratize health and longevity information via the www.metabolicduo.com platform.
Ivor lives in Dublin, Ireland, with his wife and five children.
https://covidchroniclesmovie.com/
https://twitter.com/FatEmperor
https://thefatemperor.com/about-ivor-cummins/
www.metabolicduo.com
The mentioned CBDC cartoon: https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1676125225187000320
Jacob Nordangard’s site, and his interview with Ivor:
https://blog.jacobnordangard.se/
https://youtu.be/c5w0znxE0f0
Ivor’s interview with Mattias Desmet. https://youtu.be/dPisp_VgEO8
The mentioned “Liars Compilation” video: https://youtu.be/wL6MId9_T88
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About Tom Nelson: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89cj_OtPeenLkWMmdwcT8Dt0DGMb8RGR
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/
About Tom: https://tomn.substack.com/about

Jul 4, 2023 • 1h 9min
Ralph Schoellhammer: Popular Uprising Against the Elites | Tom Nelson Pod #123
Assistant professor of International Relations at Webster Vienna Private University.
My main field of research is political theory and international relations, with a particular emphasis on how culture, values, and ideologies influence state behaviour. I have written and published about the interplay of culture and identity and how it affects social capital formation and social cohesion.
Besides my academic work I am always happy and honored to provide my expertise on contemporary US politics and world affairs for national and international broadcasters, including Sky News Australia and The Hill TV.
https://www.ralphschoellhammer.net/
Podcast, etc: https://linktr.ee/The1020
https://twitter.com/Raphfel
“Climate Activism—Not Climate Change—Is the Real Racist Force. Africans Deserve Electricity”: https://www.newsweek.com/climate-activismnot-climate-change-real-racist-force-africans-deserve-electricity-opinion-1806115
"Climate Activism Isn't About the Planet. It's About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie" https://www.newsweek.com/climate-activism-isnt-about-planet-its-about-boredom-bourgeoisie-opinion-1773846
“A Popular Uprising Against the Elites Has Gone Global” https://www.newsweek.com/popular-uprising-against-elites-has-gone-global-opinion-1722653
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About Tom Nelson: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89cj_OtPeenLkWMmdwcT8Dt0DGMb8RGR
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/
About Tom: https://tomn.substack.com/about

Jul 3, 2023 • 54min
Tammy Nemeth: Demonizing hydrocarbons | Tom Nelson Pod #122
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://twitter.com/thenemethreport
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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About Tom Nelson:
https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89cj_OtPeenLkWMmdwcT8Dt0DGMb8RGR
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/
About Tom: https://tomn.substack.com/about

Jun 29, 2023 • 1h 8min
James E. Kamis: Geological Impacts on Climate | Tom Nelson Pod #121
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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About Tom Nelson:
https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89cj_OtPeenLkWMmdwcT8Dt0DGMb8RGR
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/
About Tom: https://tomn.substack.com/about

Jun 28, 2023 • 30min
Gordon Tomb: “Net Zero: An Existential Threat to Grid Reliability – and More” | Tom Nelson Pod #120
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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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89cj_OtPeenLkWMmdwcT8Dt0DGMb8RGR
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
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About Tom: https://tomn.substack.com/about

Jun 21, 2023 • 58min
Irina Slav: Challenging the dominant narrative | Tom Nelson Pod #119
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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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

Jun 20, 2023 • 48min
Lois Perry: Fighting for energy/climate realism in the U.K. | Tom Nelson Pod #118
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:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Jun 20, 2023 • 1h 8min
Samuel Furfari: “I denounce energy insecurity” | Tom Nelson Pod #117
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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Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
Summarize.tech summaries of all of Tom Nelson podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries
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