

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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Mar 14, 2023 • 41min
Rupert Darwall: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex | Tom Nelson Pod #82
Rupert Darwall is a strategy consultant and policy analyst. He taught economics and history at Cambridge University and subsequently worked in finance as an investment analyst and in corporate finance before becoming a special adviser to the United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer. He has written extensively for publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Spectator, Wall Street Journal, National Review, and Daily Telegraph. He is the author of the books, The Age of Global Warming: A History (2013) and Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex (2017).
https://twitter.com/RupertDarwall
Rupert mentions this article: “Has Climate Change Become a Tool of Social Control?” https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2021/04/30/has_climate_change_become_a_tool_of_social_control_541655.html
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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 13, 2023 • 46min
Maaneli (Max) Derakhshani: Does ENSO Dominate Global Warming? | Tom Nelson Pod #81
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.
Slides for this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/does-enso-dominate-global-warming
https://twitter.com/MaxDerakhshani
https://co2coalition.org/teammember/maaneli-max-derakhshani/
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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 10, 2023 • 49min
Richard E. Klein on “Shivering: Heating Up the Global Warming Debate” | Tom Nelson Pod #80
Richard was born and raised in Stratford, Connecticut. As a combination of the Great Depression and WW II, it was a time of economic hardship as well as national wartime mobilization. Richard’s upbringing was deeply affected by “the war,” as well as the glory of living in a booming post-war period. Americans were the good guys – we had defeated fascism and imperialism. In 1950, a thing called The Korean War changed all that. After three years of lackluster police action, America accepted a stalemate. Richard by his own admission is an incurable romantic and altruist. America’s lack of outright victory in Korea deeply impacted Richard’s world view. Nonetheless, Richard’s writings and musings are filled with hope and bright horizons as he points the way towards a better internal mindset and a better world.
Richard earned his Ph.D. in engineering from Purdue University, 1969. In terms of higher education, Richard was a product of the post-Sputnik era. He was trained to use science and mathematics to solve problems. Richard taught systems theory for three decades at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Richard has researched and written about the causation of Earth’s periodic glaciations, i.e., ice ages. Richard authored and submitted his first peer-reviewed paper on glacial causation in 1972. His interest in ice age causation was prompted by an early report of Earth’s temperature history based on a Greenland ice core drilling. Richard has steadfastly and doggedly formed a working hypothesis that Earth’s periodic glaciations are internal to the earth and thus self-generating. His self-generating climate hypothesis stands in stark contrast to virtually all other candidate explanations. Most other candidate explanations start with the presumption that periodic glaciations result from external drivers. To date, all candidate external driver theories have failed to explain the extant climate history. The matter of explaining Earth’s periodic ice ages represents one of mankind’s most pressing and yet unsolved mysteries. Richard asserts that the present-day concern and alarmism concerning carbon emissions impacting Earth’s climate are without basis; as any discussion of climate alteration is pointless absent an understanding of Earth’s cyclical glaciation causation.
Richard and his wife of 59 years reside in the St. Louis area. They have two grown children and six grandchildren.
Richard’s book “Shivering: Heating Up the Global Warming Debate”: https://www.amazon.com/Shivering-Heating-Global-Warming-Debate-ebook/dp/B08CS18LDF/
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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

Mar 8, 2023 • 1h 19min
Willie Soon: Global warming: Mostly human-caused or natural? | Tom Nelson Podcast #79
Slides for this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/global-warming-mostly-human-caused
Here’s the Gavin Schmidt modeling talk mentioned by Willie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=p9kadoJSBN4&feature=youtu.be
Willie mentioned his “Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?” talk that has almost 1 million views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zrejG-WI3U
About Willie’s April 2022 “Weaponization of Science…” Hillsdale College talk:
https://www.ceres-science.com/post/the-weaponization-of-science-politics-vilification-and-the-climate-debate-dr-willie-soon
Full Hillsdale College talk: https://vimeo.com/710864737/c408cafffe
Chris Morrison: “Sixty seconds later, the temperature fell to 39.7°C”: Background on the question I asked around the 32-min mark: https://dailysceptic.org/2023/01/02/more-reasons-to-doubt-the-u-k-s-record-40c-temperature-was-attained-last-summer/
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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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 5, 2023 • 30min
Markus Ott: “Dismantling The CO2 Hoax” | Tom Nelson Podcast #78
Markus Ott, a chemist with a PhD, has been working as a researcher and developer in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry since 1994. He has mainly worked on the development of photolithographic methods for the production of biochips and on the development of light-curing plastics. In addition to the theoretical basics, he has the necessary practical experience to assess the interaction of light with matter. As an enthusiastic aviator, he is deeply interested in the processes in the atmosphere since his youth. The present text "Dismantling The CO2-Hoax" or the German version "Demomtage des CO2-Betruges" were written from the practitioner ́s perspective who has to deliver reliable products and cannot hide behind computer models.
"Dismantling The CO2-Hoax”: https://tomn.substack.com/p/dismantling-the-co2-hoax
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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 3, 2023 • 56min
Judith Curry on climate science and her new book
Dr. Judith Curry is President and co-founder of CFAN. Following an influential career in academic research and administration, Curry founded CFAN to support the management of weather and climate risk. She is Professor Emerita at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she served as Chair of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences for 13 years. Curry is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Geophysical Union. She is frequently called upon to give Congressional testimony and serve as an expert witness on matters related to weather and climate. Curry received a Ph.D. in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago.
Slides from this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/climate-uncertainty-and-risk
https://www.cfanclimate.net/
https://twitter.com/curryja
Curry on BizNews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBdmppcfixM
Curry’s Jordan Peterson interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q2YHGIlUDk
Curry on the Robert Bryce podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3dEGoFnvYM
Tables turned: Scientist Judith Curry and Author Mark Steyn question, school Sen Markey on climate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh6zDbWMuP0
New book by Judith Curry: Climate Uncertainty and Risk, Anthem Press, 256 pages (in press; publication date June 6, 2023)
https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Uncertainty-Risk-Environment-Sustainability/dp/1785278169/ref=sr_1_1
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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

Feb 14, 2023 • 39min
John McLean: Putting the IPCC in Context | Tom Nelson Podcast #76
My full time occupation is in Information Technology but it brings the following skills
* the ability to read and process digital data (and there's plenty of that in climate research)
* the ability to analyse data
* skills in logical thinking
Compare those skills to the skills(?) that some other voices on climate have, like biologist or politician, and to Phil Jones, head of the UK's Climatic Research Unit, who was ranked as one of the UK's top 100 scientists in 2010, but admitted in a Climategate email that he had no idea how to use Excel to calculate a trend.
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John’s “Global Warming Issues” site: http://mclean.ch/climate/global_warming.html
John’s 2021 book: “How the Atmosphere Works: An introduction for people interested in climate change”:
https://robert-boyle-publishing.com/product/how-the-atmosphere-works/
John’s 2018 book: “Audit of the HadCRUT4 Global Temperature Dataset”: https://robert-boyle-publishing.com/product/audit-of-the-hadcrut4-global-temperature-dataset-mclean-2018/
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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

Feb 14, 2023 • 1h 34min
Climate Brawl III: Gerald Kutney vs Dale Johnson | Tom Nelson Podcast #75
Gerald Kutney (@geraldkutney) is a professor, journalist/speaker, author and founder/consultant of 6esm, a C-level consulting firm focused on the bio-economy, renewable energy and the politics of the Kyoto Protocol and others like it.
Gerald’s a frequent contributor to the HuffingtonPost, Canada’s National Observer and is the author of the peer-reviewed: Carbon Politics and the Failure of the Kyoto Protocol – in search for an answer to the failure of the international community to act on climate change.
Dale Johnson: Former alarmist (cooling world 1970s) Ozone (1980s) global warming (2000s)
I read the first batch of leaked emails 2009 just out of curiousity, reading the first 100 changed my alarmism into skepticism. I did read them all but just absorbed the information and started to post a few things on Twitter about it but kept getting banned. I used one ban from Twitter to take 4-5 months to read everything in ClimateGate 2.0 including Harry Read Me file, then started a new account and had a good friend that I met in the Philippine (graphics art background) team up with me and we become Dawn.
She's being stalked for our views so she can't post personal pics.
My background - high school (accounting) college (accounting) but dropped out; numbers were boring. I worked for Northern Telecom for a decade (world's top 3 telecom manufacturer - PBX, cell site equipment etc, several years quality control and ISO900 auditor for one line of cell site equipment. Other job opportunities since then included long haul truck driver (Canada - USA) Public works foreman (small municipal government in Alberta) water and waste water certified, current occupation professional driver for a local tourist related company.
Gerald Kutney: https://twitter.com/GeraldKutney
Dale Johnson: https://twitter.com/DawnTJ90
Climate Brawl I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k6vqV96L9M&t=0s
Climate Brawl II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmev8btSm68&t=0s
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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

Feb 10, 2023 • 1h
Robert Ian Holmes: Bringing real empirical science into the climate debate | Tom Nelson Pod #74
Australia - Climate Scientist - Astronomer - Mining Engineer - Environmental Engineer.
https://twitter.com/1000Frolly
https://www.youtube.com/user/1000frolly
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338393205_On_the_Apparent_Relationship_Between_Total_Solar_Irradiance_and_the_Atmospheric_Temperature_at_1_Bar_on_Three_Terrestrial-type_Bodies
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324599511_Thermal_Enhancement_on_Planetary_Bodies_and_the_Relevance_of_the_Molar_Mass_Version_of_the_Ideal_Gas_Law_to_the_Null_Hypothesis_of_Climate_Change
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323106609_Molar_Mass_Version_of_the_Ideal_Gas_Law_Points_to_a_Very_Low_Climate_Sensitivity
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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

Feb 8, 2023 • 37min
Einar R. Bordewich: “The green industry wants the $ from the oil industry” | Tom Nelson Pod #73
I am a multidisciplinary engineer within electrical engineering, electronics/IT and construction. Also has a study in physics and astronomy at the University of Tromsø.
Knowledge and rational thinking are the basis for understanding what is actually going on. By not accepting anything, but verifying everything - or at least checking out - when I find strange claims.
https://fakta360.no/
https://twitter.com/Fakta360ny
https://www.youtube.com/@fakta360
https://www.linkedin.com/in/einar-bordewich/
Einar mentioned 1000frolly and this article: https://fakta360.no/2017/11/er-co2-klimamyten-kaputt/
A calculation of the Earth's energy balance and falsification of the greenhouse effect: https://fakta360.no/2019/07/en-beregning-av-jordens-energibalanse-og-falsifisering-av-drivhuseffekten/
New theory based on observations "shatters" the IPCC's CO2 climate myth!: https://fakta360.no/2017/08/observasjoner-knuser-ipcc-sin-co2-klimamyte/
Cicero is a state funded fascist scam in collaboration with the WEF!: https://fakta360.no/2023/01/cicero-er-en-statsfinansiert-fascistisk-svindel-i-samarbeid-med-wef/
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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