Tom Nelson

John Parmentola, Ph.D. in Physics, M.I.T. 1977, has built a highly distinguished career over four decades as an entrepreneur, inventor, innovator, a pioneer in the founding of new fields of research, and leader of complex research and development organizations with broad experience in the private sector, academia and high-level positions within the federal government and defense community.

Slides for this podcast: https://tomn.substack.com/p/estimating-the-holocene-warm-period

See this recent paper: https://scienceofclimatechange.org/wp-content/uploads/Parmentola-2023-Celestial-Mechanics-Holocene-Termination.pdf

https://johnparmentola.com/about-john-parmentola/my-personal-story/

https://johnparmentola.com/about-john-parmentola/biography/

Parmentola wrote: All computations utilize a tool created by J. Laskar et al.,

http://vo.imcce.fr/insola/earth/online/earth/online/index.php

Spurious Correlations: https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

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Notes for climate skeptics:

https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics

ClimateGate emails:

https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Neil Winton worked as a journalist at Reuters for 32 years, including as global Science and Technology Correspondent. 

https://twitter.com/neilwinton1

https://www.wintonsworld.com/

Wintonsworld Electric Car Test Range Data https://www.wintonsworld.com/electric-car-test-range-data/

When I Covered Climate Change for Reuters I Thought CO2 Was Certainly to Blame for Rising Temperatures. I Was Wrong https://dailysceptic.org/2023/02/23/when-i-covered-climate-change-for-reuters-i-thought-co2-was-to-blame-for-rising-temperatures-i-was-wrong/?highlight=neil%20winton

00:00 Introduction

00:42 Writing about global warming at Reuters in the 1990s

01:54 More laziness than conspiracy

02:32 Covering Climate Now propaganda

03:43 Banned on LinkedIn for climate realism

04:53 Reporting both sides for Reuters in the 1990s

06:36 Mismatch between hype and reality on EVs

07:24 Driving more than 20 EVs; getting press car for a week

08:05 Less range than advertised

12:09 Trying to make EVS as good in every way as ICE cars?

13:06 Hard to make money on small EVs

14:06 Battery replacement half the cost of a new car?

14:52 Small, affordable EVS could make sense in town

15:30 EV fire danger?

17:21 Warm periods in the past

18:56 Industry in Europe has "just gone along with" climate hysteria

20:11 97% of scientists allegedly agree, so shut up 

22:12 Attenborough propaganda

26:16 CBDCs

28:55 His blog

30:44 Musk Tesla range figures based on only 55 mph?

32:02 Battery swapping

34:23 Small, cheap Chinese EVs

35:23 Boris Johnson virtue-signalling

38:28 For EVs, the whole long distance scenario is a nightmare

40:15 Coal-powered German EVs

41:10 EVs are not zero-emission cars

42:07 Tires on heavier EVs wear out faster

42:51 How to pay for roads?

45:33 Forcing people out of their cars

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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

I have a Bsc in Physics and a PhD in High Energy Physics and have worked as a research fellow at CERN for 3 years, Rutherford Lab for 2 years and the JET Nuclear Fusion experiment for 5 years. Thereafter I worked at the Joint Research Centre in Italy until April 2008 working on Nuclear safety. Remote Sensing, and web technologies. I led the team developing media monitoring software  for the EU which summarised daily reports. 

This then led on to a health threat monitoring  system tracking Avian Flu. We developed this further to monitor any unusual health scare in multiple languages including Chinese. It was then a successful commercial spin off until  2010 and would surely have detected Covid early in  2019. I was  seconded to the African Union in Addis Ababa from  Nov 2007 until March 2008. I originally started this blog to record my experiences in Ethiopia. It started out as a travel blog, but has now morphed mainly into a science blog on climate. All results, views, opinions and errors are entirely my own fault and in no way reflect any stance of any previous employer.

I became interested in understanding the physics behind climate change after getting fed up with being told that the debate is over. Science is never a closed book and has a habit of turning round and biting those who think so.  This  explains why the blog now focuses on climate science.

I am basically a scientific sceptic but with a deep interest in other opinions and cultures.

00:00 Introduction

02:01 Nuclear fusion

04:33 Calculating Earth's temperature

04:58 Moon affects the climate?

06:55 Main presentation starts

07:09 Politicized science

07:59 Earth's atmosphere is unique because of life

09:10 Greenhouse effect is very complicated

12:51 Temperature dependence on CO2

14:00 Clouds as negative feedback

14:20 Measuring Earth's temperature

15:40 Getting rid of the hiatus

17:03 Homogenization

18:39 Best's own global temperatute "anomalies"

20:33 "Incredible" disagreement about Earth's temperature

23:09 IPCC scaremongering

25:19 Another ice age would be devastating

30:04 Britain's climate change act

31:49 The future must be nuclear

33:36 Conclusion

36:10 Little Ice Age:A sort of failed glaciation?

https://twitter.com/clivehbest

https://clivebest.com/blog/

Slides for this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/long-term-future-of-humanity

David MacKay - final interview and tribute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCyidsxIDtQ 

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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

About Yong Zhong:

1) Originally trained as a physics teacher.

2) Taught thermodynamics for undergraduates at age of 21.

3) Got  in 1991 from Monash University.

4) Made several original contributions to electron and nuclear spin resonance spectroscopy*.

5) Invited to write a chapter in a handbook for researchers in the field.

6) Irritated by the ABC’s interviews on climate change.

7) Started presenting talks on climate physics on Yong Tuition at Youtube in 2019.

*Resonant absorption and emission of microwave by electron and nuclear spins in the presence of magnetic field.

Slides for this podcast: https://tomn.substack.com/p/basic-issues-in-the-ipcc-co2-narrative

Yong Zhong’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@yongtuition

Y.C. Zhong A quantitative description of atmospheric absorption and radiation at equilibrium surface temperature,

Progress in Physics, 2021, Vol 17, Issue 2 (October), 151-157. https://www.ptep-online.com/complete/PiP-2021-02.pdf

00:00 Introduction

00:49 Irritation at Cox/Roberts "debate"

03:23 Presentation starts

07:15 Truly empirical formulas

14:09 Whole story about the sensitivity is just a joke

18:50 Calculating moon temperature?

21:17 Spectroscopy

26:49 Calculated noise

33:31 CO2 is missing

39:53 Proportion of CO2 absorption

46:15 Measured CO2 emission

57:17 The "calculation" of forcing

01:14:49 Key point of his research

01:25:39 Concluding remarks

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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

I am a US Army veteran and a 21 year O&G professional. 

I have worked Up, Mid and Downstream in the industry. I have worked for Fortune 500 companies such as Covestro, TotalEnergies and Energy Transfer. I have also worked for smaller startups.

I am currently writing legislation to help the O&G industry by exposing ESG in banking discrimination.

https://twitter.com/RichardWelchTX

https://richardwelchforcongress.com/

Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero   https://www.gfanzero.com/

Richard wrote Texas House Bill 3661:  https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB3661/id/2729247

Jason Spiess, ESG University  https://esguniversity.substack.com/

Spiess’ The Crude Life channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCrudeLifeContentNetwork/about

Musk: “ESG is a scam. It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors.”  https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526958110023245829

Warren Buffett: We'll Never Waste Time And Money On ESG Reporting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx6ePidFBZo

00:00 Introduction

01:42 Texas House Bill 3661

02:15 Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero

04:05 Bank trouble

04:38 On his ESG-tracking bill 3661 in Texas

05:58 ESG making things difficult for companies

07:22 Flood of #ClimateScam money

08:09 ESG is a bullying tactic

10:11 Musk not an ESG fan

11:05 Who voted for ESG?

12:49 Bigger banks all-in on ESG

13:48 It's a racket

15:36 Intertwining boards

17:23 ESG University

19:56 Killing oil and gas by shutting down financing

20:42 Berkshire Hathaway and ESG

21:56 More wind, higher electricity prices in Texas

22:39 Buffett wind power admission

24:01 Chinese communists favoring U.S. gas stove ban?

25:28 Pushing the UN global agenda, not what's best for us

26:49 "Nobody knows about Glasgow yet"

29:17 National political pushback?

30:21 Banning internal combustion engines?

31:24 How can we fight back?

34:57 Run for Congress

35:40 2021 blackout

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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

Writes for Spectator, Telegraph, Mail.   Not Zero is published by Forum Press.   Satirical novel The Denial is published by Lume Books.

https://twitter.com/RossjournoClark

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Ross+Clark

ROSS CLARK: The hysterical language and scaremongering we hear about climate change is self-defeating; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-11892529/ROSS-CLARK-Hysterical-language-scaremongering-hear-climate-change-self-defeating.html

00:00 Introduction

02:32 Expensive pumps

04:53 Banning ICE cars

06:40 British EV sales have stalled

07:56 7 charging stops to get to Scotland

08:31 Battery-powered planes?

10:45 Naive politicians buying green lies

12:11 Perverse incentives to close down British industry

13:44 Folly of passing up a British shale gas industry

15:44 Boris Johnson converted to warmism?

16:54 British electricity heading for a large cliff

18:58 Realism in China

20:38 Grenfell Tower fire

23:03 Fight CO2, ignore fire safety?

24:04 Beware sick buildings

25:29 Climate change-related government jobs

26:20 Generalized AGW support dies away quickly

27:27 British heat pump scheme is falling way short

29:04 Highly subsidized solar

31:17 Hysteria over extreme weather

32:03 Underspending on flood defense

33:23 Cold kills far more than heat

35:52 Don't confuse electricity use with total energy use

36:36 Nuclear power

40:07 Making steel and cement

42:07 Eat the hamburger

43:35 His current and future books

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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

Robert Bryce is an author, film producer, and podcaster. He’s the author of six books including his latest, A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations, the producer of a feature-length documentary, Juice: How Electricity Explains the World, and the host of the Power Hungry Podcast.

Follow him on Substack: robertbryce.substack.com 

https://twitter.com/pwrhungry

powerhungrypodcast.com

robertbryce.com

juicethemovie.com

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00:00 Introduction

00:55 2019 documentary film: Juice

02:35 Congressional testimony

03:31 Texas 2021 blackout

04:26 Electrify Everything is dangerous policy

06:49 Rube Goldberg grid

07:39 Deregulation not good for consumers?

08:17 Electricity is a service. We don't want random Uber

09:26 $240 billion for wind and solar

11:24 TikTok video about Ford losing $34k per EV

12:23 Exciting time to be an independent journalist

13:32 Electric grids reflect the society they power

13:55 Generator mafia

14:38 Perverse incentives

17:33 Stealing electricity

18:49 Three grid imperatives: Integrity, capital, and fuel

20:35 Importance of electric elevators in city development

24:02 Transformer shortage

27:17 The hyped green transition takes a lot of diesel fuel

29:02 Worry about EMP/solar events destroying our grid?

31:23 Strategic transformer reserve?

32:26 Rejecting renewable energy locally

34:22 Massive subsidies lead to malinvestment

35:54 Shutting down bitcoin?

38:03 Why so many podcasters in Austin?

39:04 Who else do you recommend?

41:28 Know your units

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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

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.

YouTube version of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo8lyL6lYQU

Slides for this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/enso-warming-vs-co2-warming

https://twitter.com/MaxDerakhshani

https://co2coalition.org/teammember/maaneli-max-derakhshani/

00:00 Introduction

00:25 Followup to an earlier podcast

01:22 Four questions

01:58 Recap of previous podcast

08:47 Magnitude of CO2 warming

15:34 Clouds

16:38 Iris effect

18:22 2/3 of Earth's surface is usually cloudy

18:59 Work of Patrick Frank

19:25 Big uncertainty

21:08 Need a 100X improvement in climate model accuracy

23:45 John Christy charts

27:47 Models predict far too much warming

32:25 M E I based regression model fits the data extremely well

33:48 Net feedbacks must not be positive

35:25 Warming from ENSO and CO2 warming are effectively independent

36:45 CO2 warming must be playing a very minor role

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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

Former London banker Alexander Pohl worked for years for one of the world’s greenest banks. Idealistically driven, he financed big wind and solar farms, genuinely convinced he was making the world a better place.

Gradually, he woke up to the fact that today’s green is a broken system. He gave up banking and emigrated with his family to his little forest paradise in remote, northern Sweden. The dream was to get back to Nature, start an eco-farm and put as much distance as he could between his family and the industrialization of nature.

Until a wind park was planned at the gates of his paradise garden.

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Headwind 21 documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RgyLDVlAg4

Q&A - HEADWIND"21, with Alexander Pohl and Marijn Poels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXEQEZS4000

Alexander mentions this short video: “Allen Savory - What Is Science?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGDbpg1nG8Y

00:00 Introduction

02:46 Learning how the world works

06:00 Leading Climate Business for HSBC

06:54 Sometimes you get blinded by your passion

07:53 Escape to Sweden

09:45 Headwind 21

13:50 Wind power propaganda

16:45 Insane amounts of money wasted

21:42 Wind farm fraud led Alexander to many other places

24:17 UN/WEF partnership

27:09 Myriad of green fraud

29:00 Do wind turbines create millions of jobs?

31:16 Politicians are like actors with scripts

31:55 Who funds The Guardian?

35:23 Rockefellers

37:11 Conflicts of interest

38:43 Wallenberg family

40:23 Strange influence of Sweden on global views

45:20 Alexander's journey

46:56 Talking to 350.org folks

48:01 Greta protesting wind power

50:49 What is climate justice?

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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

Kevin Killough is the state energy reporter for Cowboy State Daily, based in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He covers energy technology, energy economics and climate change issues from a pro-civilization, pro-human perspective. He has over a decade of experience in reporting. Kevin first got into energy reporting as a community journalist in the heart of the Bakken during the height of North Dakota’s oil boom.

Kevin attended the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and completed his graduate studies at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada.

https://twitter.com/kevindkillough

Kevin’s Cowboy State Daily articles: https://cowboystatedaily.com/?s=kevin+killough

Climate Imperative: https://climateimperative.org/

GuideStar: https://www.guidestar.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://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics

ClimateGate emails:

https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html