Tom Nelson

Thomas Nelson
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Interviews and presentations on climate/energy realism and more, 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.

  1. 1 hr ago

    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”) and later using buprenorphine as a temporary bridge, advocating a 4–6 month taper to sobriety rather than lifelong “maintenance.” He claims methadone maintenance, originated at Rockefeller University and expanded nationally via Nixon-era policy and Medicaid incentives, aimed to curb New York City crime but instead seeded the first wave of the opioid crisis and spread heroin use. He challenges the “addiction as disease/insulin” analogy, cites Vietnam vet recovery and Rat Park, and promotes his book “Withdraw to Freedom.” 00:00 Opioid Desert Intro 01:06 Two Marketplaces Theory 02:01 Doctor No Stories 03:29 Suboxone And DATA 2000 04:50 Maintenance Therapy Critique 06:22 New York City Sets Stage 08:04 Bridge To Sobriety Plan 10:47 Long Boom And Opioid Spike 14:24 Classic Narcotic Control Era 17:26 Harm Reduction And Methadone 18:43 OxyContin Myth Busting 19:48 Addiction As Exposure 23:28 Rockefeller Methadone Origins 26:40 Crime Control Not Cure 28:14 Why Methadone Feels Dopey 31:59 National Spread And Incentives 36:46 Did Crime Drop Actually 38:46 Equality Of Misery 40:49 Dealers Adapt And Expand 43:03 Dopesick Narrative Setup 43:36 Methadone First Wave 45:22 Medicalization Lessons 48:15 Disease Model Tested 50:20 Replacement vs Proclivity 53:29 Russia and Hard Truths 55:38 Rat Park Recovery 01:00:14 Economy and Despair 01:03:18 Bock Taper and Five Fs 01:09:28 Board Backlash 01:11:28 Book Launch Pitch 01:13:51 Incentives and COVID Parallels 01:19:01 Mental Health Parity 01:22:43 Wrap Up and Dual Path https://randybock.com/ https://x.com/@DrRandallBock ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

  2. 3 days ago

    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,” plus his weekly Climate Realism Show. He recounts Heartland’s 16 climate conferences since 2008 (300+ speakers, videos online), efforts to invite opposing views, and claims the IPCC’s mandate is to emphasize human influence. They discuss natural forcings, scientific uncertainty, warming since the Little Ice Age, and skepticism about “global average temperature.” Lakely cites funding pressures in academia, conference disruptions by Climate Defiance, and notes Roy Spencer’s satellite data work. He recounts “Fakegate,” alleging Peter Gleick stole documents and forged a memo. They also discuss COPs, social-media throttling, and AI’s energy demands weakening climate media funding. 00:00 Meet Jim Lakely 00:32 Heartland Climate Mission 01:34 Inside Climate Conferences 04:25 Debate And The IPCC 07:06 Natural Forcings Focus 09:32 Warming And Perspective 12:23 Young Skeptics Rising 15:40 Disruptions And Threats 20:44 Will Happer Spotlight 23:25 Models Funding And Media 28:01 Journalism Background 29:13 Congress Reality Check 30:39 Oval Office With Bush 32:44 Climate Beat Back Then 35:09 Momentum After 2024 38:32 AI Needs Real Energy 40:24 Fakegate Scandal Recap 47:03 Inside UN COP Meetings 48:57 Social Media Censorship 51:38 YouTube UN Banners 53:02 Closing Thoughts Freedom https://x.com/jlakely See all Heartland “International Conference on Climate Change” videos here: https://climateconferences.heartland.org/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

  3. 7 Aug

    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 limited and logarithmic. He claims doubling CO2 yields about 3 W/m² effective forcing, or ~0.9°C via Stefan–Boltzmann calculations, and says even burning all known fossil fuel reserves would add under ~1°C. He argues “climate crisis” claims rely on compounded positive feedbacks in IPCC models, but says observations show models overpredict warming, relative humidity aloft is declining, and a predicted tropical hotspot is missing. He attributes discrepancies to cloud/aerosol cooling, proposing an Earth “thermostat” and net slightly negative feedback. 00:00 Guest and Book Update 02:31 Greenhouse Effect Basics 04:53 CO2 Absorption and Saturation 07:38 Four Ways to Calculate Forcing 17:11 Convert Forcing to Temperature 21:19 Logarithmic Warming Limits 24:20 Fossil Fuels and Max Warming 28:13 Feedbacks Behind the Crisis 32:55 Models vs Observations 41:30 Clouds and Cooling Evidence 55:51 Earth Thermostat Conclusion 57:52 Q&A and Scientific Method 01:01:33 Wrap Up and Farewell “Why There is No Climate Crisis: The Surprising Evidence You Should Know”: https://a.co/d/05rKxsYU https://www.whynoclimatecrisis.com/ Email: info@WhyNoClimateCrisis.com ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

  4. 4 Aug

    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 regulations, including many in walled or private gardens and car parks. He argues poor siting, degraded maintenance after automation, and rapid platinum resistance thermometers in Stevenson screens create spikes and non-comparable records versus older liquid-in-glass methods. He alleges rounding/conversion issues, data from non-existent “climate averages” sites, refusals under FOI, and deletion of queried webpages. He presents analyses of stable long-term records at Wye and effects from a solar farm at RAF Lyneham, and plans more reconstructions with helpers. 00:00 Project Update Intro 01:49 WMO Siting Classes Explained 03:23 Most Stations Fail Standards 05:54 Walled Gardens Hotspots 11:55 Car Parks and Heat Sources 13:58 Thermometers and Response Time 18:27 Stevenson Screen Meets PRT 20:36 Sampling Rates and Spikes 24:45 Fahrenheit to Celsius Rounding 28:00 Maintenance and Automation Decay 32:30 Phantom Stations and FOI Fight 37:59 Allies and Data Deletions 42:16 Searching for Good Stations 42:30 Best Station Locations 43:39 Wye Data Deep Dive 44:59 Anomalies And Baselines 46:36 Manual Records Reveal 1930s 50:00 Solar Farm Heat Jump 51:19 Dyce Vs Craibstone 55:06 Met Office Classification Errors 59:53 Questionable Data Practices 01:02:21 US Climate Reference Network 01:07:38 Why He Started The Crusade 01:13:53 Focus On Great Britain 01:14:51 Thanks And Wrap Up https://x.com/RaySand17710097 ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

  5. 31 Jul

    Willie Soon and Jonathan Cohler on natural atmospheric CO2 rise #417

    Willie Soon and Jonathan Cohler argue the rise in atmospheric CO2 is mostly natural, challenging claims it is 100% manmade from hydrocarbon burning. They cite analyses using bomb-produced carbon-14 showing a single-exponential decay and a short CO2 atmospheric residence time (~3.8 years), contrasting with IPCC claims of thousands of years and criticizing undefined terms like “adjustment time.” They say their work falsifies the Suess effect and that delta-13C of atmospheric change stays near -13‰ from 1978–2022 and in proxies over 500 years, inconsistent with a dominant fossil-fuel signature (~-28‰). They discuss ocean/land cycling, solar/energy imbalance hypotheses, and skepticism of ice-core CO2 constancy claims. 00:00 Big CO2 Claim Questioned 01:30 Decades of Doubt 02:16 Researchers Who Challenged It 04:13 Natural Rise Hypothesis 05:14 Suess Effect Origins 07:35 Bomb Pulse Carbon-14 12:39 Short Residence Time 14:22 Word Games vs Definitions 16:44 3.8 Years Explained 21:21 Bridge Equation Breakthrough 25:34 Peer Pushback and Talks 29:43 Physical Tether Theorem 34:01 Koutsoyiannis Delta13C Test 42:46 Why Delta13C Still Drops 44:23 Lineage and Credit 45:43 Cycle Time vs IPCC 49:14 Debunking Net Sink 51:06 Biosphere Expansion Idea 51:48 Satellite Imbalance Fraud 56:17 Outgassing Explains CO2 Rise 01:01:40 Proxy Limits and Ice Cores 01:09:26 Future CO2 and Benefits 01:13:18 C14 Tracers and Dating 01:15:02 Suez Effect Model Critique 01:21:15 Wrapping Up and Links Jonathan Cohler – “The IPCC Circle of Lies: Five Papers Falsify the Entire Framework” https://x.com/cohler/status/2081407310493081791 Willie Soon – “From Demon to Dinner: The Scientific Case for CO₂ and Fossil Fuels” https://x.com/cohler/status/2081408758308077952 Slides: Jonathan Cohler: https://x.com/cohler/status/2081410426147938599 Willie Soon: https://x.com/cohler/status/2081410908392133048 CERES-Science: https://www.ceres-science.com/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

  6. 28 Jul

    Steve Milloy #416

    Steve Milloy reviews Trump’s fossil-fuel agenda, EPA rollback of the 2009 endangerment finding, and concerns that litigation delays and Justice Department staffing could let a future Democratic administration reverse course. The speaker attacks the National Academy of Sciences as climate activists, cites a climate chapter in a judges’ science manual, notes Elena Kagan said she didn’t read it, and urges cutting NAS funding. They praise Matt Wielicki’s appointment to lead the U.S. Global Change Research Program. They argue wildfire-smoke PM2.5 health scares lacked NYC hospital spikes, criticize linear no-threshold regulation (radiation, PFAS), and discuss Yucca Mountain standards. They describe shareholder activism against corporate ESG (Netflix, Exxon), criticize carbon capture subsidies, and praise young “climate realist” advocates. 00:00 Trump EPA Rollbacks 01:37 NAS Versus Trump 04:16 Defunding NAS Push 06:30 Kagan Foreword Controversy 08:24 Climate Realist Appointment 09:43 Democrats And Green Money 11:59 Big Tech Climate Censorship 13:21 X Algorithms And Reach 16:10 Viral Tweet No Warming 18:20 Wildfire Smoke Reality Check 22:30 EPA PM2.5 Experiments 26:12 LNT Model And Hormesis 30:18 Yucca Mountain Absurdity 32:37 PFAS And Low Dose Effects 33:37 Forever Chemicals Are Inert 34:41 Dose Makes the Poison 36:34 Parts Per Trillion Panic 37:31 Why Fear Spreads 38:06 Conservative Shareholder Activism 41:07 Exxon and ESG Battles 42:23 Carbon Capture Reality Check 43:53 Subsidies and Nanny Government 45:31 Next Gen Climate Realists 47:43 Awards and Staying the Course 50:31 NASA Names and Media Retreat 56:01 Debate Challenge and Wrap Up Steve on X: https://x.com/JunkScience Web: https://junkscience.com/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

  7. 24 Jul

    Marc Glendening #415

    Mark Glendening argues free speech in Britain and the West is under increasing internal attack, citing “non-crime hate incidents,” broad Public Order Act powers, online and even private-message prosecutions, and proposals to criminalize non-affirmation of transgender identity under “conversion therapy” laws. He says enforcement is often aimed at the right and anti-transgender feminists, though he notes prosecutions of some left-wing Palestine Action supporters. Glendening traces today’s speech controls to cultural strategies developed after Marxism waned, highlighting Gramsci, the Frankfurt School (especially Marcuse), and French postmodernists. He urges electoral pressure campaigns, praises Elon Musk and X, and warns that debanking, digital ID, and Soros-backed regulation threaten liberties. 00:00 Meet Mark Glendening 01:07 Britain’s Free Speech Legacy 02:04 Non Crime Hate Incidents 04:23 Policing Private Speech 06:52 Who Gets Targeted 09:29 Conversion Therapy Crackdown 16:09 Why the New Left Censors 21:21 Three Intellectual Roots 28:37 The Sixties Cultural Turn 36:12 Words Liberal vs Progressive 43:31 Digital ID and Debanking 44:46 Fighting Back Politically 48:04 Elon Musk and X 50:07 US Elections and Internet Speech 52:20 Final Thoughts on Liberty https://iea.org.uk/tag/marc-glendening/ https://iea.org.uk/publications/transgender-ideology-a-new-threat-to-liberal-values/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

  8. 21 Jul

    Ron Clutz Part 1: “Highlights from 3400 Climate Blog Posts” #414

    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/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

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Interviews and presentations on climate/energy realism and more, 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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  • Creator
    Thomas Nelson
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    423
  • Rating
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