The Climate Discussion Nexus

Despite its fortified position as orthodoxy in academia, not to mention the press and politics, climate alarmism shows every sign of being on the ropes as a scientific theory. In this Climate Discussion Nexus "Backgrounder" video John Robson delves into the history and philosophy of science, particularly the theories of Thomas Kuhn, to explain why this apparently mighty paradigm is close to exhaustion.

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Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with the "demonstration project" of Spain and Portugal plunging into alternative energy and darkness and Canada's upcoming demonstration project of revitalizing an economy while plunging into Net Zero, moving on to your elation at being slagged as deniers, the idea of the world's biggest plane being green (or ever flying), people who think peer review can still fly, a welcome turn toward nuclear power among environmentalists, a scientific trick to make charts more convincing and an unscientific trick to make Canada's Supreme Court less convincing, and wrapping up with a #LookItUp on Canadian weather stats, rank alarmist denialism over Arctic ice, and CO2 gas benefitting a C3 grass.

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Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with how alarmists respond to rebounding Arctic Ice and rubbish about better AI-driven climate models, moving on to mistaking aspirations for accomplishments, Ontario's obscurely costly alternative energy, our tree-hugging badge, nonsense about tornadoes, the ongoing collapse of the EV craze and the resurgence of nuclear energy plus hopes for solar panel recycling, and wrapping up with a #LookItUp on clouds, dodgy renaming of the same old bad climate scenarios, and more CO2 being good for rosewood.

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Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with the way politicians can waste huge sums of other people's money on failed subsidy schemes and boast about it and the ongoing crumbling of the climate alarmist position including the "green energy transition", moving on to an absurdly fawning piece of non-journalism on WWA and why people distrust establishment science, and wrapping up with a #LookItUp on historical extreme weather events, models flopping on the east-west temperature gradient in the tropical Pacific, and more CO2 being good for dill.

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Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with the last steel mill in Britain, home of the industrial revolution, being closed by its Communist Chinese owners partly on strategic grounds and partly because energy is unaffordable in the UK, and the sudden discovery by alarmists that the 1.5C temperature increase since "pre-industrial" times that they said was crucial to prevent didn't really matter but now 2C is vital, moving on to the refusal of winter to end, the refusal of Mark Carney's GFANZ to realize it ended, Israel warming faster than average according to some people in ... Israel, MSN blurting out that there's always been bad weather, the mysterious persistence of coal as fuel, the reassuring lifting of the taboo on nuclear energy despite nonsense about fusion, and wrapping up with a #LookItUp on cyclones real and expected, a retrospective on the 2024 hurricane season, and more CO2 being food for mandarin oranges.

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Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with the Guardian claiming climate change will destroy capitalism, which they hate, but they're still unhappy, Scientific American thinking big banks see climate doom coming when they don't, moving on to the U.S. government hurling cash at failed battery recyclers and feeble climate museums, Heatmap saying Trump's tariffs are destroying electricity demand and the oil industry, which they hate, but they're still unhappy, a preposterous claim that climate change could ruin your vacation because suddenly weather is unpredictable, another vague lurid prediction of ocean current collapse, a cold spring, a lack of fierce tornados, American scientists supposedly losing faith in the public (small world), and the usual guff about the green energy transition being profitable, and wrapping up with a #LookItUp on Canadian Arctic ice records before 1979, Mediterranean rain washing out the models, and evidence that cotton also loves CO2.

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Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with the lingering of winter into early April, claims of "generational flooding" backed by misinformation about IPCC reports and reliance on World Weather Attribution jiggery-pokery, moving on to cliches about climate "whiplash", stubborn climate zealots who claim the computer ate their homework, more watermelons, the Canadian government still failing to plant trees, clickbait about climate catastrophes, backlash against wind and solar, alarmists struggling with the past, and wrapping up with a #LookItUp revisiting our video on Great Lakes water levels, part two on peer-reviewed studies casting doubt on alarmist reconstructions of past climate, and evidence that summer squash loves CO2 so much it may take over your garden.

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Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with the German government incredibly blowing up a costly, new, clean coal plant to make room for imaginary green hydrogen power just as BP pivots back to oil and gas, the Guardian complaining about the high cost of living its climate advocacy helped cause new and worse climate models and mathiness about sea levels, and serious questions about whether the public ever really bought into climate alarmism, and wrapping up with a #LookItUp item on that same sea level rise, a peer-reviewed study of the distorting inadequacy of past climate proxies, and evidence that cucumbers love CO2.

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Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with Canadian energy executives urging political leaders to be less fanatical on climate only to be reminded that they themselves endorsed both the panic and the resulting policy, plans to save Canada's Rideau Skateway from warming that isn't showing up, lithium battery fires somehow making lithium batteries unpopular, and wrapping up with a #LookItUp item on tornadoes, empirical findings that a key runaway warming mechanism inside computers doesn't exist outside them, and a study philosophers will hate showing that hemlock loves CO2.

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Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with Michael Mann and his lawyers getting a vicious smackdown from a court for "bad faith" presentation of false evidence, which surely casts a dark shadow on his scientific work, and the hosts of COP30 in Belém, Brazil hacking a highway through a protected rainforest to accommodate carbon-spewing global do-gooders, and moving on to heckling clickbait climate stories, addled politicians and green parties that are boring standard mechanistic leftists, more bad news on EVs, more bad news on winter and the trendy "polar vortex collapse", the irony of local opposition foiling environmental dreams, and wrapping up with a #LookItUp item on global satellite temperature measurements, a study finding that rainfall in the Mediterranean once again defying modelers, and a St. Patrick's Day note that clover also loves CO2.

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