

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.
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Apr 19, 2023 • 44min
David Dilley: Signals that global cooling is beginning | Tom Nelson Pod #97
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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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

Apr 17, 2023 • 1h 23min
John Parmentola: Estimating the Holocene Warm Period Termination | Tom Nelson Pod #96
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

Apr 13, 2023 • 50min
Neil Winton: Former Reuters journalist; current climate realist | Tom Nelson Pod #95
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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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

Apr 12, 2023 • 39min
Clive Best: Long term future of humanity | Tom Nelson Pod #94
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
15:40 Getting rid of the hiatus
17:03 Homogenization
18:39 Best's own global temperatute "anomalies"
20:33 "Incredible" disagreement about Earth's temperature
23:09 IPCC scaremongering
25:19 Another ice age would be devastating
30:04 Britain's climate change act
31:49 The future must be nuclear
33:36 Conclusion
36:10 Little Ice Age:A sort of failed glaciation?
https://twitter.com/clivehbest
https://clivebest.com/blog/
Slides for this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/long-term-future-of-humanity
David MacKay - final interview and tribute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCyidsxIDtQ
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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

Apr 11, 2023 • 1h 29min
Yong Zhong: Basic Issues in the IPCC CO2 Narrative | Tom Nelson Pod #93
About Yong Zhong:
1) Originally trained as a physics teacher.
2) Taught thermodynamics for undergraduates at age of 21.
3) Got in 1991 from Monash University.
4) Made several original contributions to electron and nuclear spin resonance spectroscopy*.
5) Invited to write a chapter in a handbook for researchers in the field.
6) Irritated by the ABC’s interviews on climate change.
7) Started presenting talks on climate physics on Yong Tuition at Youtube in 2019.
*Resonant absorption and emission of microwave by electron and nuclear spins in the presence of magnetic field.
Slides for this podcast: https://tomn.substack.com/p/basic-issues-in-the-ipcc-co2-narrative
Yong Zhong’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@yongtuition
Y.C. Zhong A quantitative description of atmospheric absorption and radiation at equilibrium surface temperature,
Progress in Physics, 2021, Vol 17, Issue 2 (October), 151-157. https://www.ptep-online.com/complete/PiP-2021-02.pdf
00:00 Introduction
00:49 Irritation at Cox/Roberts "debate"
03:23 Presentation starts
07:15 Truly empirical formulas
14:09 Whole story about the sensitivity is just a joke
18:50 Calculating moon temperature?
21:17 Spectroscopy
26:49 Calculated noise
33:31 CO2 is missing
39:53 Proportion of CO2 absorption
46:15 Measured CO2 emission
57:17 The "calculation" of forcing
01:14:49 Key point of his research
01:25:39 Concluding remarks
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Notes for climate skeptics:
https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Apr 6, 2023 • 39min
Richard Welch: The ESG Racket | Tom Nelson Pod #92
I am a US Army veteran and a 21 year O&G professional.
I have worked Up, Mid and Downstream in the industry. I have worked for Fortune 500 companies such as Covestro, TotalEnergies and Energy Transfer. I have also worked for smaller startups.
I am currently writing legislation to help the O&G industry by exposing ESG in banking discrimination.
https://twitter.com/RichardWelchTX
https://richardwelchforcongress.com/
Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero https://www.gfanzero.com/
Richard wrote Texas House Bill 3661: https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB3661/id/2729247
Jason Spiess, ESG University https://esguniversity.substack.com/
Spiess’ The Crude Life channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCrudeLifeContentNetwork/about
Musk: “ESG is a scam. It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors.” https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526958110023245829
Warren Buffett: We'll Never Waste Time And Money On ESG Reporting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx6ePidFBZo
00:00 Introduction
01:42 Texas House Bill 3661
02:15 Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero
04:05 Bank trouble
04:38 On his ESG-tracking bill 3661 in Texas
05:58 ESG making things difficult for companies
07:22 Flood of #ClimateScam money
08:09 ESG is a bullying tactic
10:11 Musk not an ESG fan
11:05 Who voted for ESG?
12:49 Bigger banks all-in on ESG
13:48 It's a racket
15:36 Intertwining boards
17:23 ESG University
19:56 Killing oil and gas by shutting down financing
20:42 Berkshire Hathaway and ESG
21:56 More wind, higher electricity prices in Texas
22:39 Buffett wind power admission
24:01 Chinese communists favoring U.S. gas stove ban?
25:28 Pushing the UN global agenda, not what's best for us
26:49 "Nobody knows about Glasgow yet"
29:17 National political pushback?
30:21 Banning internal combustion engines?
31:24 How can we fight back?
34:57 Run for Congress
35:40 2021 blackout
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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

Apr 6, 2023 • 45min
Ross Clark on bad energy decisions | Tom Nelson Pod #90
Writes for Spectator, Telegraph, Mail. Not Zero is published by Forum Press. Satirical novel The Denial is published by Lume Books.
https://twitter.com/RossjournoClark
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Ross+Clark
ROSS CLARK: The hysterical language and scaremongering we hear about climate change is self-defeating; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-11892529/ROSS-CLARK-Hysterical-language-scaremongering-hear-climate-change-self-defeating.html
00:00 Introduction
02:32 Expensive pumps
04:53 Banning ICE cars
06:40 British EV sales have stalled
07:56 7 charging stops to get to Scotland
08:31 Battery-powered planes?
10:45 Naive politicians buying green lies
12:11 Perverse incentives to close down British industry
13:44 Folly of passing up a British shale gas industry
15:44 Boris Johnson converted to warmism?
16:54 British electricity heading for a large cliff
18:58 Realism in China
20:38 Grenfell Tower fire
23:03 Fight CO2, ignore fire safety?
24:04 Beware sick buildings
25:29 Climate change-related government jobs
26:20 Generalized AGW support dies away quickly
27:27 British heat pump scheme is falling way short
29:04 Highly subsidized solar
31:17 Hysteria over extreme weather
32:03 Underspending on flood defense
33:23 Cold kills far more than heat
35:52 Don't confuse electricity use with total energy use
36:36 Nuclear power
40:07 Making steel and cement
42:07 Eat the hamburger
43:35 His current and future books
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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

Apr 5, 2023 • 42min
Robert Bryce: “Electrify Everything” is crazy town | Tom Nelson Pod #91
Robert Bryce is an author, film producer, and podcaster. He’s the author of six books including his latest, A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations, the producer of a feature-length documentary, Juice: How Electricity Explains the World, and the host of the Power Hungry Podcast.
Follow him on Substack: robertbryce.substack.com
https://twitter.com/pwrhungry
powerhungrypodcast.com
robertbryce.com
juicethemovie.com
https://linktr.ee/robertbryce
00:00 Introduction
00:55 2019 documentary film: Juice
02:35 Congressional testimony
03:31 Texas 2021 blackout
04:26 Electrify Everything is dangerous policy
06:49 Rube Goldberg grid
07:39 Deregulation not good for consumers?
08:17 Electricity is a service. We don't want random Uber
09:26 $240 billion for wind and solar
11:24 TikTok video about Ford losing $34k per EV
12:23 Exciting time to be an independent journalist
13:32 Electric grids reflect the society they power
13:55 Generator mafia
14:38 Perverse incentives
17:33 Stealing electricity
18:49 Three grid imperatives: Integrity, capital, and fuel
20:35 Importance of electric elevators in city development
24:02 Transformer shortage
27:17 The hyped green transition takes a lot of diesel fuel
29:02 Worry about EMP/solar events destroying our grid?
31:23 Strategic transformer reserve?
32:26 Rejecting renewable energy locally
34:22 Massive subsidies lead to malinvestment
35:54 Shutting down bitcoin?
38:03 Why so many podcasters in Austin?
39:04 Who else do you recommend?
41:28 Know your units
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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

Mar 31, 2023 • 38min
Maaneli (Max) Derakhshani: ENSO Warming vs CO2 Warming | Tom Nelson Pod #89
Maaneli (Max) Derakhshani is a postdoctoral researcher currently based at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He completed his Ph.D. in the Foundations of Physics at Universiteit Utrecht, and works in the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Gravity.
Maaneli has published his research in journals such as Physics Letters A, Journal of Physics, Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly, Entropy, and Symmetry, and has served as an anonymous referee for Physical Review A, Foundations of Physics, Fluctuations and Noise Letters, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, and Cambridge University Press; his work has also been covered in Science, New Scientist, EurekaAlert!, Phys.org, and the Clubhouse show It's About Time!, among other media outlets.
Outside of physics, Maaneli has contributed a philosophical essay, “Another Thing in This Universe that Cannot Be an Illusion,” to the volume, Sam Harris: Critical Responses, and will contribute an essay to the upcoming volume, Steven Pinker: Critical Responses.
Maaneli is also a member of the Manhattan Institute and Adam Smith Society therein, and works with them to advocate for free markets and limited government. His shift to a more sensible view about climate change was initiated by reading Thomas Gale Moore's, Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry About Global Warming, a book enthusiastically endorsed by his favorite economist, Milton Friedman, for making a compelling case that global warming will most likely bring net benefits to the general public.
YouTube version of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo8lyL6lYQU
Slides for this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/enso-warming-vs-co2-warming
https://twitter.com/MaxDerakhshani
https://co2coalition.org/teammember/maaneli-max-derakhshani/
00:00 Introduction
00:25 Followup to an earlier podcast
01:22 Four questions
01:58 Recap of previous podcast
08:47 Magnitude of CO2 warming
15:34 Clouds
16:38 Iris effect
18:22 2/3 of Earth's surface is usually cloudy
18:59 Work of Patrick Frank
19:25 Big uncertainty
21:08 Need a 100X improvement in climate model accuracy
23:45 John Christy charts
27:47 Models predict far too much warming
32:25 M E I based regression model fits the data extremely well
33:48 Net feedbacks must not be positive
35:25 Warming from ENSO and CO2 warming are effectively independent
36:45 CO2 warming must be playing a very minor role
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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

Mar 29, 2023 • 52min
Alexander Pohl: “Wind power as a proxy for corruption” | Tom Nelson Pod #88
Former London banker Alexander Pohl worked for years for one of the world’s greenest banks. Idealistically driven, he financed big wind and solar farms, genuinely convinced he was making the world a better place.
Gradually, he woke up to the fact that today’s green is a broken system. He gave up banking and emigrated with his family to his little forest paradise in remote, northern Sweden. The dream was to get back to Nature, start an eco-farm and put as much distance as he could between his family and the industrialization of nature.
Until a wind park was planned at the gates of his paradise garden.
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Headwind 21 documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RgyLDVlAg4
Q&A - HEADWIND"21, with Alexander Pohl and Marijn Poels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXEQEZS4000
Alexander mentions this short video: “Allen Savory - What Is Science?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGDbpg1nG8Y
00:00 Introduction
02:46 Learning how the world works
06:00 Leading Climate Business for HSBC
06:54 Sometimes you get blinded by your passion
07:53 Escape to Sweden
09:45 Headwind 21
13:50 Wind power propaganda
16:45 Insane amounts of money wasted
21:42 Wind farm fraud led Alexander to many other places
24:17 UN/WEF partnership
27:09 Myriad of green fraud
29:00 Do wind turbines create millions of jobs?
31:16 Politicians are like actors with scripts
31:55 Who funds The Guardian?
35:23 Rockefellers
37:11 Conflicts of interest
38:43 Wallenberg family
40:23 Strange influence of Sweden on global views
45:20 Alexander's journey
46:56 Talking to 350.org folks
48:01 Greta protesting wind power
50:49 What is climate justice?
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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