

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 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
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 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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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

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

Mar 28, 2023 • 41min
Kevin Killough on energy: “Our policies are being set by very unserious people” | Tom Nelson Pod #87
Kevin Killough is the state energy reporter for Cowboy State Daily, based in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He covers energy technology, energy economics and climate change issues from a pro-civilization, pro-human perspective. He has over a decade of experience in reporting. Kevin first got into energy reporting as a community journalist in the heart of the Bakken during the height of North Dakota’s oil boom.
Kevin attended the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and completed his graduate studies at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada.
https://twitter.com/kevindkillough
Kevin’s Cowboy State Daily articles: https://cowboystatedaily.com/?s=kevin+killough
Climate Imperative: https://climateimperative.org/
GuideStar: https://www.guidestar.org/
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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

Mar 23, 2023 • 44min
Jacob Nordangård: UN/WEF openly planning to use the CO2 scam to control us | Tom Nelson Pod #86
Jacob Nordangård is a Swedish researcher, author, lecturer, and musician.
Ph.D. in Technology and Social Change at Linköping University. Master of Social Science in Geography, and Master of Social Science in Culture and Media Production.
Founder and chairman of the Swedish foundation Stiftelsen Pharos and CEO of the independent publishing and media production company Pharos Media Productions.
Has previously worked as graphic designer, editor, media producer, press officer, politician, and Senior lecturer at the universities of Linköping, Jönköping, and Stockholm.
He is also the band leader, singer and songwriter of the doom metal band Wardenclyffe, with lyrics inspired by his research. His dissertation was issued with a soundtrack and his latest books are available with optional CD singles as soundtrack.
Jacob’s blog: https://blog.jacobnordangard.se/
Jacob’s books (not on Amazon): https://www.pharosmedia.se/shop#!/jacob-nordang%C3%A5rd/sort/manual
Jacob at Northern Light Convention, 2022, 54 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyDWt9nHwmg
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JacobNordangard
UN: Our Common Agenda https://www.un.org/en/common-agenda
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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 22, 2023 • 2h 8min
Ed Calabrese: The History of the Linear Non-Threshold (LNT) Model of Radiation | Tom Nelson Pod #85
Edward J. Calabrese is a professor of toxicology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s School of Public Health and Health Sciences. Calabrese has done extensive research in the area of host factors affecting susceptibility to pollutants and is the author of over 750 papers in scholarly journals, as well as more than 10 books. He has been a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and NATO Countries Safe Drinking Water committees and on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Calabrese also serves as chairman of Biological Effects of Low Level Exposures and as director of the Northeast Regional Environmental Public Health Center at the University of Massachusetts.
He was awarded the 2009 Marie Curie Prize for his body of work on hormesis and is the recipient of the International Society for Cell Communication and Signaling–Springer award for 2010. He was awarded an honorary doctor of science Degree from McMaster University in 2013. His research has led to important discoveries that indicate that the most fundamental dose response in toxicology and pharmacology is the hormetic-biphasic dose response relationship. These observations are leading to a major transformation in improving drug discovery and development and in the efficiency of the clinical trial, as well as in the scientific foundations for risk assessment and environmental regulation for radiation and chemicals.
Slides from this podcast: https://tomn.substack.com/p/the-historical-foundations-of-the
The History of the Linear No Threshold Model of Radiation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ytR1-o7dI
What is Hormesis? From Hugo Schultz to Radiation Hormesis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GANStqWcZg4
Health Physics Society, Episode 1 of 22: Who Is Dr. Edward Calabrese? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5FjhgcnMjU
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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 21, 2023 • 47min
Simon Smith: Tech startup CEO on climate realism, free speech, crypto/bitcoin | Tom Nelson Pod #84
Simon Smith is the CEO and Founder of Excalibur.FM - the decentralised podcasting/audio platform.
Simon has had a career that has included many things. Starting out his career, working for a bank as a systems developer, he managed to escape the corporate world in 2004 and start making a living as a private trader in the futures market. He also became an Angel Investor in early stage tech and has been running the two investment strategies successfully alongside each other for the last 19 years. Having had multiple exits for the start ups he invested in and ridden out some very hairy investment cycles, he has achieved financial freedom, but still continues to work hard.
Simon started investing in Crypto in 2013 and took a deep dive down that rabbit hole over the years to get a really good understanding of the technology and what it can do for us all. Bringing together his understanding of economics, finance, technology and the psychology of human incentives, he holds high hopes that decentralized systems can create a revolution in money, media applications and governance structures. He now runs a team of developers that he funds from the money that he has made out of crypto investing. They are building user applications on top of the block chain. The main application they are working on right now is Excalibur.FM, a decentralised audio application that enables creation of NFTs of their audio content.
The Excalibur Podcast: https://excalibur.fm/creator/D96n6EMdTgduRCS48WqcePUyxvrYyLJnCj2HCFA2X2zs
About Excalibur DAO:
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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 16, 2023 • 42min
Tom Moser: Climate realism from actual rocket scientists | Tom Nelson Pod #83
Tom began his career 50 plus year career in the aerospace industry at NASA, where he participated in every U.S. human space flight program from Mercury to Space Station. He served as the Chief Engineer at the Johnson Space Center and as senior manager in the Apollo, Space Shuttle and Space Station Programs in Houston and Washington, D.C.
When he retired to Kerrville in 1997, he immediately failed retirement when he became the Executive Director of the Texas Aerospace Commission for Governor George W. Bush. He established commercial Spaceports in Texas. Space-X is operating at the south Texas Spaceport.
He failed retirement again, when he was elected Kerr County Commissioner for three terms.
He has been interested in the Truth regarding “Global Warming” and CO2 for over 30 years. As such he founded the “Right Climate Stuff” 12 years ago. An organization of retired NASA colleagues and other scientists with the objective of disseminating the Truth regarding Climate Change.
Tom has multiple engineering degrees and studies from the University of Texas, University of Pennsylvania and Rice University. He is a distinguished graduate of the UT College of Engineering and a Fellow of National and International Aerospace organizations.
“Former Astronauts & NASA Employees Letter on Global Warming”: https://www.livescience.com/19643-nasa-astronauts-letter-global-warming.html
https://www.therightclimatestuff.com/
NASA Uses Models to Transport a Shuttle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDET3VuT9jE
Moser mentions H. Leighton Steward’s book “Fire, Ice, and Paradise”:
https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Ice-Paradise-Leighton-Steward/product-reviews/1438983794
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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