Tom Nelson

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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 —— https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 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
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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 —— Tom Nelson’s linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 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
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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 —— https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 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
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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  —— https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 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
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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 —— https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 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
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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 —— https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 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
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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 —— https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 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
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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 —— https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 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
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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 —— https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 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
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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. — 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? —— https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 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

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