Tom Nelson

Ron Clutz summarizes themes from his “Science Matters” blog, framing climate change as three linked claims: humans warm the Earth, the warming is dangerous, and government can stop it. He argues climate sensitivity estimates are declining and models overpredict warming, citing comparisons of model outputs to observations, weak long-term temperature correlation with fossil fuel use, and claims that storms, wildfires, sea level rise, Arctic ice, and drought trends are not worsening as asserted. He criticizes “reductionism” to CO2 and radiative forcing, emphasizing water vapor, convection, and hydrology, plus solar/cloud and ocean-cycle influences (ENSO/PDO/AMO). He also questions adjusted temperature records and UN policy effectiveness.

00:00 Meet Ron Clutz

01:13 Climate Change Three Claims

05:18 Is Warming Dangerous

10:17 Can Government Stop It

12:23 Reductionism In Climate Science

17:32 Greenhouse Physics And Water Vapor

23:10 CO2 Sources And Temperature Lag

25:26 Complexity And Data Adjustments

33:29 Extreme Events And Attribution

35:53 Model Failures And Scenarios

42:10 Testing Greenhouse Theory

51:02 Sunshine Clouds And Solar Cycles

55:19 Oceans Drive Climate Cycles

01:02:24 Hydrology And Closing Thoughts

01:04:17 Wrap Up And Next Session

https://rclutz.com/

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David Smith explains his book “Wokicide,” arguing that “woke” (critical social justice theory rooted in critical theory and postmodernism) persists in universities and schools because education lacks quality control, not because of politics. He proposes applying ISO 9001 and HACCP-style quality assurance to K–12 and universities: validated curriculum specifications, independent expert panels, hazard analysis, audits (scheduled and targeted), corrective action, and continuous improvement. A central Workplace Improvement Notice (WIN) system would let staff and even parents file tracked complaints with guaranteed responses, replacing DEI/unconscious-bias training with “deprogramming” modules and prioritizing evidence and accountability. Smith says QA would stop unvalidated ideological drift and is affordable by redirecting existing DEI-related spending.

00:00 Intro and Two-Part Talk

00:58 Why Woke Persists

01:30 Education Lacks QA

02:10 Validation Over Ideology

04:53 Defining Woke Origins

06:35 From Civil Rights to Overreach

07:43 Flawed Woke Reasoning

10:02 How Woke Spreads

11:16 Equity Outcomes and Activism

13:33 Deconstruction Playbook

17:50 Woke Hall of Fame

21:39 Perfect Storm in Education

25:42 QA Solution Framework

27:41 ISO 9001 and HACCP

29:42 Authority and Adoption

30:55 Four Phases Implementation

33:35 Validation and Hazard Analysis

34:47 Audits Monitoring Corrective Action

37:09 Aggressive Feedback Loops

39:05 WIN Notice Explained

41:41 Curriculum Content Validation

43:12 Audits in K-12 Schools

44:53 K-12 QA Wrap Up

45:47 Universities as the Source

47:29 University Validation Hurdles

50:30 University Auditing Red Flags

51:58 Objections and Pushback

57:12 Failure Modes and Fixes

59:39 Cost and Staffing Reality

01:02:08 Closing Q&A and Next Steps

Amazon Kindle version: Wokicide: Pest Control for Education: https://a.co/d/0d0YeApM

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Gianluca Alimonti discusses three “climate matrix” papers: a 2022 review of extreme weather time series and response indicators that found no clear worsening trends (later retracted, which he argues lacked specific scientific grounds and reflected political pressure); a 2023 analysis of EM-DAT natural-disaster records concluding the post-1970 rise is largely improved reporting, with trends stable since about 2000 and disaster deaths decreasing; and a recent framework proposing 43 IPCC-aligned impact-driver and response indicators to assess “climate crisis,” finding most show no worsening, many improve, and few worsen. He criticizes media/official claims of rapidly rising disasters and emphasizes adaptation and prevention.

00:00 Meet Gianluca Alimonti

00:02 Climate Matrix Trilogy Overview

01:31 Paper One Extreme Events

03:11 Hurricanes Rain Tornado Data

05:31 Retraction Controversy

09:50 Paper Two Disaster Claims

12:36 EM-DAT Reporting Bias

17:27 Stable Trends Since 2000

21:42 Paper Three Defining Crisis

23:12 Media Term And Search Trends

27:05 Building A Crisis Framework

28:20 Drivers Floods Cyclones Fires

31:53 Response Indicators Scorecard

35:59 Adaptation Beats Mitigation

37:49 Conclusions Media Distortion

39:38 Q&A Retraction And Outreach

41:40 Where To Find Work

44:05 Closing Thanks And Farewell

Home page: https://www0.mi.infn.it/~alimonti/homepage/indexEn.htm

Pielke Jr on “The Alimonti Addendum”: https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-alimonti-addendum

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Nicola Scafetta discusses his book, "The Frontier of Climate Science," a review based on about 650 peer‑reviewed papers arguing that IPCC global climate models have serious limitations because they fail to capture multi‑scale natural variability (oceanic, solar, astronomical, and tidal cycles). He says model claims that nearly all warming since 1850 is anthropogenic are not experimentally validated, climate sensitivity remains highly uncertain, and many models run too hot, with possible surface-record warm bias from urban heat islands. He cites past warm periods and correlations between climate and solar/cosmic-ray proxies, proposes empirical/semi‑empirical cycle-based modeling, and concludes warming risk is moderate, SSP2 could meet Paris targets, net zero is unnecessary, and adaptation should be prioritized.

00:00 Introducing Scafetta’s New Book

06:03 Earth’s Deep-Time Climate Swings

11:06 IPCC Attribution to Humans

14:44 Why Model Proof Falls Short

17:27 Paris Targets and Net Zero Logic

24:33 Are IPCC Scenarios Realistic

29:04 Model Uncertainty and Sensitivity

34:57 Satellites vs Surface Warming

38:42 Missing Past Warm Periods

43:21 Millennial Solar Climate Cycles

46:00 Forests Beneath Glaciers

46:59 Solar Records vs Climate

49:18 TSI Reconstructions Debate

52:09 Cosmic Rays and Clouds

56:07 Empirical Models Challenge IPCC

59:18 Policy Implications and Adaptation

01:01:12 Planetary Cycles Climate Theory

01:05:37 Matching Climate Spectral Cycles

01:12:51 Future Hiatus and Sensitivity

01:19:43 Next Glaciation Long View

01:24:01 Book Wrap Up and Thanks

The Frontier of Climate Science: Solar variability, natural cycles and model uncertainty: https://a.co/d/0flzOYJ3

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Brochure for Nicola’s “The Frontier of Climate Science” book, along with slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries

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Anika Sweetland argues the IPCC was created through politics, funding, and elite influence, tracing its origins to the 1985 Villach Conference and alleging it advances centralized global governance. She says media-driven fear shifted from 1970s “ice age” stories to 1988 “global warming,” citing sea-level warnings that did not occur. Sweetland claims climate finance and clean-energy investment incentives benefit IPCC-linked officials. She highlights Climategate emails as evidence of strategic data presentation (“hide the decline”), message management, and peer-review gatekeeping (“PAL review”), plus an alleged journal blacklist. She says her climate studies education omitted Climategate, emphasized policy “solutions,” and discouraged debate.

00:00 IPCC Exposed Intro

01:01 Ice Age Media Panic

02:06 Fear as Control Tool

03:36 Global Warming Rebrand

05:23 Sea Level Scare Claims

07:28 Villach Birth of IPCC

09:31 Global Governance Agenda

10:31 Trillions and Incentives

12:20 Climategate Data Tricks

18:57 Peer Review Gatekeeping

21:44 Blacklists and Ideology

23:31 Personal Wake Up Call

25:16 Who Controls Science

26:34 What We Can Do Next

27:23 Host Reacts and Questions

27:36 Climategate Not Taught

30:10 Policy Impacts UK Europe

33:15 Witch Hunts Parallel

37:22 Climate Degree Brainwashing

40:42 Only Graduate Story

43:15 Today’s Model Driven Teaching

45:19 Books and IPCC Origins

46:17 Closing Thanks and Wrap

https://x.com/anika_climate

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Liam DeBoer describes his Substack blending philosophy, psychology, culture, politics, and history, and argues in “Your Ruling Class Is Not Secular” that modern materialist elites still express religious impulses by mapping “soul,” apocalypse, and salvation narratives onto gender ideology, climate change, and revolutionary politics. He discusses Orwell’s 1984 as a psychological study of totalitarianism reshaping perception, and links current activism to young women, noting polling showing young women moving left and widening dating/marriage mismatches. He predicts widening Western factional conflict, references the “fourth turning,” and explains Nietzsche’s ressentiment and victimhood. He outlines “daycare governance” in a feminized institutional culture and summarizes “political ponerology” archetypes behind authoritarianism. He details Canada’s “Vancouver model” money laundering tied to triads, casinos, and politics, and discusses censorship, platform throttling, and Zuckerberg’s motives.

00:00 Meet Liam DeBoer

00:33 Ruling Class Religion

03:34 Climate as Cult

04:40 Orwell and Totalitarianism

07:53 Politics and Dating Divide

11:21 Fracture and Future Conflict

14:46 Fourth Turning Cycles

17:00 Nietzsche Ressentiment

23:32 Victimhood and Agency

26:24 South Korea 4B Fallout

28:01 Daycare Governance Model

35:06 Equality Clips Greatness

37:55 Political Ponerology Types

42:46 Canada Money Laundering

52:06 Censorship and Free Speech

55:30 Zuckerberg Rebrand

57:22 Closing and Links

https://liamoutloud.substack.com/

https://x.com/liam_out_loud

https://www.youtube.com/@liam-out-loud

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Ken Jensen describes his background in environmental toxicology and medical devices, then argues morality can be grounded without religion. He traces a “true, good, beautiful” triad from Plato through Vitruvius and maps it to objective reality, reciprocity/voluntary exchange, and beauty/grace, contrasting it with a destructive “DOI” (destruction, opposition, inversion) force. He critiques management tactics like permanent crisis, “red dot” diversions, and misuse of Romans 13, citing Katrina clergy response teams. He promotes a “dartboard” model over left-right politics, says ethics and morality are inseparable (Nuremberg vs Nazi view), warns about EU-style centralization, CBDCs, and praises ridicule as a defense. He discusses sound money and presents his books The Enemies of Reason and The Memo.

00:00 Meet Ken Jensen

01:02 Morality Without God

02:23 Early Doubts and Clues

05:13 Climate Debate and First Principles

06:15 Entropy Uppers and Downers

09:02 Religion as Binding Core

10:46 Words Shape Thought

13:38 Plato Truth Good Beauty

17:47 Rome Constantine and Control

20:26 Katrina Clergy Response Teams

23:12 Triad Mapped to Trinity

29:02 Dorothy Model and Inversion

30:43 Universities and Private Property

34:57 Aesthetics vs Brutalism

35:35 Destruction Opposition Inversion

36:04 Parasitic Tactics Explained

36:59 Inverting the Trinity

37:27 Defining What We Defend

38:12 Two Books Overview

38:57 Dartboard Not Left Right

41:04 Morality vs Legal Positivism

43:13 Takeaways Recalibration

46:37 Studying Evil and Pride

49:34 Red Dot Diversions

51:17 Wizard of Oz Q and A

51:48 CBDCs and EU Centralization

56:57 Permanent Crisis and Elites

58:33 Ressentiment and Ridicule

01:01:20 Sound Money Fixes Society

01:04:17 Wrap Up and Contacts

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kpjensen/

https://www.contactauthorkpj.com/

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In a Paris heatwave (33–40°C), Hügo Krüger says France suffers more indoors because only about 25% of homes have AC, unlike near-universal AC in the US/Japan. He describes ideological and regulatory resistance to AC from ecologists and left-wing politicians, despite AC being a reversible heat pump and France’s electricity being largely nuclear. Apartment rules, aesthetic objections, and energy ratings discourage installation; subsidies favor air-to-water heat pumps that can’t cool. Demand for fans and AC is surging, and politicians propose easing restrictions. He expects fewer deaths than 2003 due to heat alerts, but argues AC would reduce vulnerability.

00:00 Paris Heatwave Check In

01:00 Why France Lacks AC

01:33 Myths About Air Conditioning

03:00 Hospitals Trains And Culture

03:42 Politics And Nuclear Power Angle

07:20 Heat Deaths And Public Response

14:47 Regulations Blocking Reversible AC

16:44 How Rare Is This Heat

17:54 2003 Heatwave Lessons

20:31 Hardliners And Building Lobby

22:14 Insulation Fans And Daily Life

24:11 Bigger Pattern And Nuclear Future

29:04 Wrap Up And GoFundMe Plug

https://x.com/hkrugertjie

“fundraiser to buy an AC for the French Heat Wave!”: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-not-melt-in-paris-2026-heatwave?lang=en_US&ts=1782483248

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Erich Schaffer critiques the “super greenhouse effect” and argues that tropical outgoing longwave radiation stays flat mainly because tropospheric temperature is sluggish relative to surface temperature, not because water vapor amplifies greenhouse trapping. He says regional and seasonal proxies for water vapor feedback are invalid (citing admissions by Ramanathan/Inamdar and Dessler et al.) and claims interannual proxy results are distorted by aspect-ratio choices and improper OLS regression, advocating TLS or rotated-benchmark methods. Reanalyzing published plots (Spencer, Lindzen-Choi, Chung, Andy May), he concludes water vapor plus lapse rate implies strong negative feedback and low ECS (~1 K). He also alleges data “fudging” and broader scientific incompetence.

00:00 Super Greenhouse Effect

02:20 OLR Calculations Explained

03:28 Troposphere Sluggishness

05:32 Ramanathan Admission

10:23 Feedback Breakdown Math

12:37 Two Proxies Debunked

14:05 Revisiting Interannual Proxy

16:02 Bad Regression Plotting

17:16 Aspect Ratio Distortion

23:45 OLS vs TLS Regression

30:53 Negative Feedback Emerges

33:22 Spencer Regression Mystery

37:45 Lindzen Choi Critique

41:03 Fixing Lindzen Plot

51:17 Recent Andy May Example

53:21 Rotate Plot Method

55:19 Benchmark Slope Trick

57:38 Questionable Outliers

01:01:26 Proxies Fall Apart

01:02:22 Lapse Rate Physics

01:05:45 Tropical Hotspot Feedback

01:11:10 AR6 Codependency Critique

01:14:24 MODTRAN Water Vapor Test

01:19:44 Emission Altitudes Explained

01:25:22 Net Feedback and ECS

01:27:17 Blunders and Sociology

01:40:54 Q&A and Takeaway

01:44:44 Bonus Coal Math Error

01:47:42 Wrap Up

Erich Schaffer: “Water Vapor Feedback, Part One”: https://youtu.be/2O4mOf9gk-s

https://x.com/erich_schaffer

https://greenhousedefect.com/

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Tom interviews Anika Sweetland, who argues Earth’s climate changes in predictable natural cycles and that today is relatively cool in a 65‑million‑year context. Using graphs and books by Gregory Wrightstone, she describes ice-age rhythms linked to Milankovitch cycles and 1,500‑year Dansgaard–Oeschger cycles, including the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age, and claims solar activity and cosmic rays better correlate with temperature than CO2. She says the IPCC smooths data and governments use fear for control, while net-zero policies are wasteful and geoengineering in the UK is concerning. Sweetland recounts university climate studies as CO2-focused indoctrination, discusses backlash and support online, and previews a part two on the IPCC.

00:00 Meet Anika Sweetland

04:40 Ice Ages and Long Cooling

07:18 Milankovitch Cycles Explained

09:14 Dansgaard Oeschger Cycles

11:04 Medieval Warmth and Little Ice Age

14:01 Sun Cosmic Rays and Clouds

18:21 CO2 Claims and Propaganda

21:07 Her Climate Degree Experience

23:22 Education Debate and Models

27:47 Conference Disruption and Activism

30:34 Social Media Pushback

34:54 Part Two and Wrap Up

35:22 Energy Policy and Geoengineering

39:18 Final Thanks and Goodbye

https://x.com/anika_climate

The 16th International Conference on Climate Change: https://climateconference.heartland.org/

Anika on being bombarded with global warming propaganda: https://x.com/anika_climate/status/2037550091544785239

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