

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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Sep 6, 2022 • 49min
#13 - Tony Heller on the importance of knowing climate and weather history
About Tony Heller:
People are constantly questioning my credentials. Here are a few of them:
BS Geology, Arizona State University
Masters Electrical Engineering, Rice University
Boston University Geology
Northern Arizona University Computer Science
Colorado State University Computer Science
University of New Mexico Geochemistry
Lifelong environmentalist.
I testified at my first Congressional hearing in support of Wilderness in 1972.
I fought for the Clean Air and Water acts
Wilderness Ranger Cibola National Forest, New Mexico
Wilderness Ranger Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico
Currently battling the City of Boulder, Colorado to stop development on the South Boulder Wetlands
Full time cyclist for all my local transportation, for the past 40 years
Member of The CO2 Coalition

Sep 4, 2022 • 1h 8min
#12 - Douglas Pollock on big problems with wind and solar power
Douglas Pollock studied at “The Grange School” and “Colegio Verbo Divino” and received his degree in Industrial Civil Engineering from the University of Chile.
His professional background has covered administration, commercial, manufacturing and C.E.O. areas, having taken part in projects from design and assessment stages through implementation and subsequent administration. He has worked in food, mining, manufacturing, computer, telecommunications, IT&C services, real estate & construction, postgraduate university teaching, training and consulting, financial services, in both Chilean and American companies and institutions.
Douglas, as a Civil Industrial Engineer, for the last five years has dedicated to studying in depth Climate Change from the science and economics perspective, without neglecting its moral aspect.
His efforts are focused on spreading this vision, banned not only in Chile but throughout the Latin American continent, in order to warn companies, education institutions, unions and the government of the unnecessary harm that mitigation and adaptation measures to fight climate change are and will continue to cause to economies that adopt them.
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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

Sep 2, 2022 • 42min
#11 - Steven Milloy on junk science
Steven Milloy is a recognized leader in the fight against junk science with more than 25 years of accomplishment and experience. He joined the Board of Directors of The Heartland Institute in 2020.
Credited with popularizing the term “junk science,” Milloy is the founder and publisher of JunkScience.com and, from 2000-2009, wrote the popular “Junk Science” column for FOXNews.com. He is an expert on energy, environmental and public health issues, a public affairs consultant, author, TV/radio commentator and public speaker. Milloy was trained in natural sciences, biostatistics, law and securities regulation. He has also been an attorney for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a broker-dealer; and a registered securities principal, investment fund manager, non-profit executive, print/web columnist on science and business issues, and coal company executive. Milloy’s latest book is Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the EPA. Milloy served on the Trump EPA transition team.
JunkScience.com has garnered numerous awards, including being named a “Top Resource” and one of the “Most Popular” health news Web sites by Yahoo!; “One of the 50 Best Web Sites of 1998” by Popular Science; and a “Hot Pick” by the journal Science. Milloy has testified on risk assessment and Superfund before the U.S. Congress; and has lectured before numerous organizations. He is the author of several books, including Junk Science Judo: Self-defense Against Health Scares and Scams (Cato Institute, 2001) and has written more than 500 published commentaries on a variety of business and junk science topics.
Milloy received a B.A. in Natural Sciences and Master of Health Sciences (Biostatistics) from Johns Hopkins University, a JD from the University of Baltimore, and a Master of Laws (Securities regulation) from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Steve on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JunkScience
Web: https://junkscience.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

Aug 30, 2022 • 2h 51min
#10 - Lord Christopher Monckton
Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, has held positions with the British press and in government, as a press officer at the Conservative Central Office, and as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s policy advisor. He is a policy advisor to The Heartland Institute.
Lord Monckton was Special Advisor to Margaret Thatcher as U.K. Prime Minister from 1982 to 1986. In 1986 he was among the first to advise the prime minister that “global warming” caused by carbon dioxide should be investigated. Two years later she set up the Hadley Centre for Forecasting: but she, like him, later changed her view.
Lord Monckton has authored numerous papers on the climate issue for the layman, as well as for leading peer-reviewed scientific journals. He established in a paper for the World Federation of Scientists that CO2 has a social benefit, not a social cost. He was also a co-author of the paper that showed the claim of “97% scientific consensus” about climate change to be false (the true figure is 0.35).
His latest paper, currently in draft, exposes a substantial error in the computer models of climate that has led to wild official exaggerations of the high-end estimate of future manmade global warming.
More about Christopher Monckton: https://heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/lord-christopher-monckton
Christopher Monckton speaking in St Paul, MN, 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stij8sUybx0
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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

Aug 26, 2022 • 60min
#9: Peter Ridd on record Great Barrier Reef coral cover and scientific integrity
Peter Ridd is a geophysicist with over 100 publications and 35 years’ experience working on the Great Barrier Reef and developed a wide range of world-first optical and electronic instruments for measuring environmental conditions near corals and other ecosystems. He was head of Physics at James Cook University for over a decade before being fired, in 2018, for questioning the quality assurance systems used by reef science institutions. Some of the poor-quality work relates to the effect, or lack of effect, of climate change, and agriculture, on the reef. Ridd now works, unpaid, with agricultural organisations, and the Institute of Public Affairs to improve quality assurance systems of “science” used by Australian governments to make environmental laws and regulations.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/peter_ridd
Plato GBR: https://platogbr.com/
Reef Rebels: https://realscience.org.au/reef-rebels/
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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

Aug 25, 2022 • 1h 34min
#8 - Brian Catt
Acclaimed physicist and engineer Brian Catt:
I am a Chartered physicist and electrical engineer, who worked in research activities before entering technology business, where the technology has to work as claimed or you don't get paid. I returned to research and publishing in retirement, so am now informed by current experience and personal contact with leading figures in University research, as well as the industries and politics associated with the "science" that it claims to follow. Hence my view is broad and my formation covers all the areas I discuss. I question how "scientific" research really is, both at the heart of the problem being considered, and also across the broad range of University scientific research
Over 500,000 views on this Aug 2022 Brian Catt TalkTV clip!:
https://twitter.com/BigBluexlt/status/1560958961855201280
Catt on Net Zero: https://twitter.com/CAR26_ORG/status/1554575090532089858
Catt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/catandman
Freeman Dyson tells it like it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hswLwqRIW8&t=203s
William Happer on photosynthesis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCCE-sw_Sc
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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

Aug 22, 2022 • 32min
#7 - Doug Lightfoot
About H. Douglas Lightfoot:
Born in Vancouver, B.C., he graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1952, and received an MBA from Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, in 1976. He spent eighteen years with Domtar Inc. at the Research Centre in Senneville, Quebec, working on research, engineering and economic studies of a wide variety of projects for the pulp and paper, chemicals and construction materials businesses as well as alternate energies.
Prior to joining Domtar, he spent a year as Business Analyst and five years as Design Engineer designing, building and starting up chemical plants at Dupont of Canada, Montreal, Quebec. Before that, twelve years of project engineering at Standard Chemical Limited, Beauharnois, Quebec.
He is a retired member of the Order of Engineers of Quebec, Professional Engineers of Ontario, and a Life Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
He was a member of the Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3) and its predecessor at McGill University branch, Montreal, Quebec for 23 years until it closed in 2015. He wrote and contributed to published reports for the Centre on various subjects related to energy.
Since retirement he co-founded the Lightfoot Institute, published a dozen papers on energy and the role of CO2 in the atmosphere, and reviewed more than 250 papers for energy journals.
He looks upon his current energy work as service to the community to guide people to understand the importance of energy to our society and to making good decisions to ensure an adequate and reliable energy supply.
Nobody's Fuel - an engineer's guide to saving the planet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOeoXvRQPiI
People can also learn more at our websites:
http://www.thelightfootinstitute.ca
http://www.nobodysfuel.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

Aug 19, 2022 • 1h 24min
#6 - Barry Woods
Should activists who don't know anything about energy or climate push stupid energy policies in an attempt to "fix" an imaginary climate crisis? Barry talks about his experiences as a long-time voice for sanity in the climate debate.
About Barry Woods:
BSc Applied Chemistry and MSc Information Systems Engineering (Reading Uni - Cybernetic Dept - Lovelocks' old department as a visiting Prof)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BarryJWoods
Some of Barry’s Watts Up With That posts: https://wattsupwiththat.com/author/realclimategate/
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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

Aug 13, 2022 • 1h 8min
#5 - Susan Crockford
Dr. Susan Crockford is a professional zoologist with a special interest in evolutionary theory and dozens of peer-reviewed papers on a variety of topics; from 2004-2019 she was an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Since 2012, she has challenged claims that polar bears and other Arctic species face devastation due to loss of summer sea ice, which over the years has generated a surprisingly nasty backlash from climate activists and their supporters. She blogs at http://polarbearscience.com.
Her books include The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened, Sir David Attenborough and the Walrus Deception, Polar Bear Facts & Myths (for kids), and (for fiction lovers) a polar bear attack thriller set in Newfoundland called EATEN.

Aug 11, 2022 • 1h 30min
#4 - Ben Pile
About Ben Pile: Blogging @ www.climate-resistance.org since 2007 -- slogan:
challenging climate orthodoxy. Main emphasis is broadening the debate
out from science, and being a bit more curious about the role of
institutional science in politics than was fashionable at the time,
ultimately focussing more on green ideology than climate science.
Writing for Spiked-online on climate/science & politics since 2006.
Worked as researcher for Godfrey Bloom UKIP MEP from 2009-2013.
Tweeting @clim8resistance, but currently in twitter prison. Now also
Youtubing @ https://www.youtube.com/c/ClimateResistance . Setting up a
new project for launch at the end of the summer, more TBA.
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Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
About Tom (includes other podcast appearances): https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html
Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/
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