

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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Jan 13, 2023 • 1h 8min
#62 David Legates: A climate skeptic in government
David Legates, Ph.D. is professor of climatology in the Department of Geography at the University of Delaware and an adjunct professor at the university’s Physical Ocean Science and Engineering Program and in the Department of Applied Economics.
Dr. Legates received his Ph.D. in climatology from the University of Delaware, and he has taught at Louisiana State University, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Virginia. He has been Research Scientist at the Southern Regional Climate Center, Chief Research Scientist at the Center for Computational Geosciences, and Visiting Research Scientist at the National Climate Data Center.
Dr. Legates has been published more than 125 times in refereed journals, conference proceedings, and monograph series and has made more than 250 professional presentations.
2014: Climate Thuggery at the University of Delaware https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/climate_thuggery_at_the_university_of_delaware
David Legates Accepts Frederick Seitz Award, Talks of Being a 'Climate Skeptic' in Government:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjJHwp9CiGY
Legates/Beisner podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4pzRP5miraQtpQlmx07qFv
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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://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/useful-notes-for-climate-skeptics.html
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Jan 11, 2023 • 43min
#61 Kyle de Vries: Why I wrote “Bern, Baby, Bern!..”
Kyle deVries is a financial planner and the author of, "Bern, Baby, Bern! Why Bernie Sanders' Policies Would Incinerate the US Economy." His interests include economics, history, scuba diving, football, animals and making light of supposed experts in public policy and the climate change arenas.
https://twitter.com/KyledeVries7
“Bern, Baby, Bern!..” book: https://www.amazon.com/Bern-Baby-Sanders-Policies-Incinerate-ebook/dp/B081BDG1LY/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid
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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://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/useful-notes-for-climate-skeptics.html
ClimateGate emails: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Jan 11, 2023 • 51min
#60 Linnea Lueken: Warmists are “playing with people's lives in a very literal sense”
Linnea Lueken is a Research Fellow with the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy. While she was an intern with The Heartland Institute in 2018, she co-authored a policy brief 'Debunking Four Persistent Myths About Hydraulic Fracturing'.
Lueken graduated from the University of Wyoming in 2018 with a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering, and a minor in geology. In college, she was active in her sorority, the UW Shooting Sports Team, and College Republicans, as well as a variety of engineering organizations. Before coming to Heartland, she worked in the Gulf of Mexico on deepwater drillships as a logging geologist.
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In this article, Linnea mentions her first article in Watts Up With That:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/09/07/the-making-of-a-climate-skeptic-at-university/
Debunking Four Persistent Myths about Fracking:
https://heartland.org/publications/research-commentary-debunking-four-persistent-myths-about-fracking/
Upcoming Heartland climate conference: https://climateconference.heartland.org/
See videos from all Heartland climate conferences here: http://climateconferences.heartland.org/
Other Heartland links:
https://climateataglance.com/
https://climaterealism.com/
https://heartland.org/?s=%22energy+at+a+glance%22
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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://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/useful-notes-for-climate-skeptics.html
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Jan 9, 2023 • 39min
#59 Howard Hayden: “the IPCC does NOT apply the Stefan-Boltzmann law to their results”
Howard “Cork” Hayden is a Professor Emeritus of Physics from the University of Connecticut. A Pueblo native, he graduated from Aurora High School, entered the University of Denver as an engineering major, but soon discovered that he wasn’t temperamentally suited to all that reality. He switched to physics and went on to earn his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. at DU. On receiving his Ph.D., he went to the University of Connecticut where he spent 32 years doing teaching and research. He did accelerator-based atomic physics, including measurements of cross-sections for various processes, measurements of energy loss in atomic collisions and of lifetimes of excited states, beam-foil spectroscopy, and ion implantation. He performed a Trouton-Noble (1904) experiment with 100,000 times as much sensitivity as the original. Hayden has a long-standing interest in energy, stemming from before the OPEC oil embargoes of the 70s. Presently, he publishes a monthly newsletter, The Energy Advocate, which in August 2019 began its 24th year of publication.
A Must-Read: Energy: A Textbook, $25 at www.energyadvocate.com and www.valeslake.com
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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://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/useful-notes-for-climate-skeptics.html
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Dec 31, 2022 • 1h 13min
#58 Gerald Pollack: “Electrical charge is absolutely central to all of weather"
Gerald Pollack received his PhD in biomedical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. He then joined the University of Washington faculty and is now professor of Bioengineering. He is also Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal, WATER, convener of the Annual Conference on the Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Water, and Executive Director of the Institute for Venture Science.
His interests have ranged broadly, from biological motion and cell biology to the interaction of biological surfaces with aqueous solutions. His 1990 book, Muscles and Molecules: Uncovering the Principles of Biological Motion, won an “Excellence Award” from the Society for Technical Communication. His 2001 book, Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life, and his newest book, The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor won that Society’s “Distinguished Award,” their highest distinction. The latter book went on to receive the World Summit Excellence Award.
The underlying background appears in my book, "The Fourth Phase of Water", which has become popular: http://www.amazon.com/The-Fourth-Phase-Water-Beyond/product-reviews/0962689548 . Details of the application to weather will appear in my forthcoming book, to be published ~mid 2023. -- "Charged: The Unsuspected Role of Electricity in the Workings of Nature"
https://www.pollacklab.org/
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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://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/useful-notes-for-climate-skeptics.html
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Dec 30, 2022 • 55min
Tom Nelson Podcast, 2022 year-end highlight clips
00:00 Intro
00:25 Richard Lindzen
01:25 Willie Soon
01:39 Ross McKitrick
02:12 Peter Ridd
02:44 Susan Crockford
03:52 Tony Heller
04:36 Henrik Svensmark
06:43 Steven Milloy
07:10 John Robson
07:20 Julie Kelly
07:40 William Briggs
08:15 Jerome Corsi
08:39 Terry Gannon
08:50 Ronan Connolly
09:19 Hugo Kruger
09:55 Jusper Machogu
10:24 William van Wijngaarden
10:50 Gannon 2
11:00 Marc Morano
11:25 Indur Goklany
11:48 John Droz
12:57 Russell Cook
13:17 Lennert den Boer
14:29 Patrick Moore
15:50 McKitrick 2
16:10 Ken Green
16:41 Martin Durkin
16:48 Lois Perry
17:10 Lindzen 2
17:42 Chris Martz
18:00 Chris Horner
18:46 Roger Tattersall (Tallbloke)
19:23 Ben Pile
19:59 Barry Woods
20:16 Douglas Lightfoot
21:12 Brian Catt
21:36 Douglas Pollock
22:00 Tom Nelson
22:22 Catt 2
23:08 Ronald Stein
24:03 Godfrey Bloom
25:15 Happer 2
25:49 Perry 2
26:03 Andrew Montford
26:31 Durkin 2
28:16 Zuzana Janosova Den Boer
30:13 Green 2
31:10 Michelle Stirling
32:19 Joe Bastardi
32:46 Vijay Jayaraj
33:50 Gregory Wrightstone
35:16 Soon 2
37:05 McKitrick 3
38:01 Michael Kelly
39:05 Moore 2
40:00 Andy May
41:00 L. den Boer 2
42:65 R. Connolly 2
43:45 Kruger 2
44:03 Michael Connolly
45:08 Jim Steele
46:12 Droz 2
46:40 Valentina Zharkova
46:55 Goklany 2
47:21 Svensmark 2
48:24 Christopher Essex
49:39 Robson 2
50:25 Denis de Bernardy
50:46 Morano 2
51:26 Kevin Kirchman
51:46 Julie Kelly 2
52:39 Briggs 2
52:54 Gannon 3
53:23 van Wijngaarden 2
54:28 Machogu 2
Full list of my climate realist interviews/presentations: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89cj_OtPeenLkWMmdwcT8Dt0DGMb8RGR
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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://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/useful-notes-for-climate-skeptics.html
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Dec 26, 2022 • 56min
#57 Jusper Machogu: “I love fossil fuels”
About Jusper Machogu:
I am am agricultural engineer with immense passion in energy and the injustice done by the rich countries against Africa.
https://twitter.com/JusperMachogu
My tweets about this podcast: https://twitter.com/search?q=machogu%20(from%3Atan123)%20until%3A2022-12-27%20since%3A2022-12-22&src=typed_query&f=live
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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://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/useful-notes-for-climate-skeptics.html
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Dec 23, 2022 • 1h 5min
#56 William van Wijngaarden: Is Global Warming Hot Air?
William van Wijngaarden chaired the Faculty of Science and Engineering Council (2005-06) and York’s Senate (2010-13) at York University. He has been elected to several leadership positions in the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (2002-08) and also held responsible positions in the American Physical Society and the Canadian Association of Physicists.
My tweets about this podcast: https://twitter.com/search?q=wijngaarden%20(from%3Atan123)%20until%3A2022-12-24%20since%3A2022-12-21&src=typed_query&f=live
https://www.yorku.ca/science/profiles/faculty/william-van-wijngaarden/
https://wvanwijngaarden.info.yorku.ca/
Publications: https://wvanwijngaarden.info.yorku.ca/publications/
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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://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/useful-notes-for-climate-skeptics.html
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Dec 21, 2022 • 1h 38min
#55 Terry Gannon: Keeping science unsettled
About Terry Gannon: “I have a PhD in Device Physics in Semiconductors. It actually turns out to be a combination of technical abilities that serves well the study of climate. Quantum mechanics, optical physics, computer modelling, complex systems and analysis. It has served me well in my education on climate science of what we know and do not know.”
My tweets about this podcast:
https://twitter.com/search?q=gannon%20(from%3Atan123)%20until%3A2022-12-22%20since%3A2022-12-20&src=typed_query&f=live
About Terry Gannon: https://co2coalition.org/teammember/terry-gannon/
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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://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/useful-notes-for-climate-skeptics.html
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Dec 15, 2022 • 58min
#54 Jerome Corsi on abiotic oil
Dr. Corsi received his Ph.D. from Harvard University’s Department of Government in 1972, when he was 20 years old. From 1972-to 1982, he worked as a university professor, with his final faculty appointment at the University of Denver. There, Dr. Corsi conducted a National Science Foundation randomized field test proving telephone hearings met due process standards in unemployment and welfare fair hearings. He also published game-theoretic articles in scientific journals and received a national security clearance to work with the U.S. State Department on terrorism. For the next 25 years, Dr. Corsi worked in financial services, where he created two bank marketing companies that each reached sales totals of $1 billion a year in annuities and $1 billion in mutual funds. Since 2004, Dr. Corsi has written 30 books on politics and economics, two of which were #1 New York Times bestsellers. He has retired from active involvement in day-to-day politics to devote more time to writing. He is also currently working with his wife, Monica Corsi, to create HablaConUnMD.com, a telemedicine Internet company providing Spanish-speaking medical doctors to conference remotely with Spanish-speaking patients.
Author of the 2022 book: The Truth About Energy, Global Warming and Climate Change: Exposing Climate Lies in an Age of Disinformation."
https://drjeromecorsi.com/
http://www.wnd.com/author/jcorsi/
Corsi mentions Thomas Gold’s "The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth Of Fossil Fuels". Foreword by Freeman Dyson.
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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://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/useful-notes-for-climate-skeptics.html
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html