Tom Nelson

Iain Davis: “The Technocratic Dark State” | Tom Nelson Pod #437

Iain Davis discusses his book The Technocratic Dark State, arguing Silicon Valley oligarchs (e.g., Thiel, Musk, Andreessen, Altman, Ellison) steer policy toward a tokeniz

Paul Burgess: “An explanation of climate change, pure and simple” | Tom Nelson Pod #436

Paul Burgess presents his “Oceanic Index” model of climate change, arguing oceans regulate low cloud cover that acts as Earth’s thermostat, explaining satellite-era tempe

Ed Hoskins: “Weather-Dependent “Renewables” | Tom Nelson Pod #435

Ed Hoskins presents slides comparing renewables (onshore/offshore wind, solar PV, plus biomass and hydro) with gas, coal/lignite, and nuclear on productivity, EROEI, CO2

Randall Bock: “Non-scary viruses” | Tom Nelson Pod #434

Dr. Randall Bock, a primary-care physician and author of Overturning Zika, argues that public-health research and media often fuel panic to secure funding, citing Peter H

John Costella: “ClimateGate” #433

John Costella, a former physicist turned data scientist and software engineer, recounts how watching climate-skeptic films, then reading leaked “Climategate” emails in 20

Stephen Andrews: “Extension to the cosmic ray hypothesis” #432

Steve Andrews presents an “extension to the cosmic ray hypothesis” for climate change, building on Svensmark and Shaviv’s idea that galactic cosmic rays influence low clo

Cohler/Soon: “ Response to Ed Berry’s recent presentation” #431

Jonathan Cohler, joined by Willie Soon, says he is correcting false statements Ed Berry made about their paper “Dominance of Natural Atmospheric CO2 Dynamics,” which is u

Eric Huxter: “Metrology vs Meteorology” #430

Eric Huxter, a former geography teacher, presents research on UK Met Office maximum temperature records, arguing that the shift from liquid-in-glass thermometers to plati

Ed Berry: “Nature Controls the CO2 Level” #429

Ed Berry presents a step-by-step, nontechnical overview of his theoretical climate physics work, arguing that “consensus” and authority claims are not science and that cl

Will Wilkinson on his Will Happer biography: “Standing Up for Science” #428

Will Wilkinson discusses a biography he was hired to write about Princeton physicist William Happer, combining four chapters of life story with a climate-focused second h

Jonathan Cohler: “ Fossil fuel combustion drove essentially none of the atmospheric CO2 growth” #427

Jonathan Cohler presents a newly submitted paper using mass conservation, isotopic signatures (delta 13C), and multiple datasets to apply the Keeling relation and infer a

James Tooley: “ You don't need government for education” #426

James Tooley describes two decades researching “low-cost private schools” serving poor families in India, Africa, rural China, and war-torn countries, arguing parents cho

Tom Harris: “Pushing back against climate hysteria in Canada” #425

Tom Harris argues Canada’s claim of warming twice the global average is unreliable because northern data coverage is sparse and “homogenized” station adjustments may exag

Dai Ato: “ Spurious Correlation Between Atmospheric CO2 Increase and Human Emissions” #424

Dai Ato presents findings from three papers arguing atmospheric CO2 rise is largely natural, claiming multivariate analyses reject human emissions as a significant predic

Ron Clutz Part 2: “Highlights from 3400 Climate Blog Posts” #423

Ron Clutz continues a three-part framework on climate change: humans cause warming, warming is dangerous, and government can stop it. He argues observed warming can be ex

Henrik Svensmark: “Cosmic Rays, aerosols, and clouds” #422

Henrik Svensmark discusses how solar activity modulates cosmic rays, which ionize the atmosphere and can help form aerosols that grow into cloud condensation nuclei, pote

Randall Bock: “Withdraw to Freedom: Navigating the Addiction Maze” #421

Randall Bock argues opioids have dual legal and illicit markets and that most prescribed users don’t become street addicts. He recounts refusing drug-seekers (“Dr. No”) a

Jim Lakely #420

Jim Lakely, EVP and communications director at The Heartland Institute, describes Heartland’s free-market mission and its global role “pushing back on climate alarmism,”

Thomas Kurz: “Greenhouse Gases and Climate Feedbacks” | Tom Nelson Pod #419

Thomas Kurz discusses chapters from his book Why There Is No Climate Crisis, citing positive reviews, then explains the greenhouse effect and argues CO2’s warming is limi

Ray Sanders #418

Ray Sanders updates his Surface Stations project to classify all 385 UK Met Office weather stations using WMO siting classes, claiming 88% are class 3–5 and 112 meet no r