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. 23 hr ago

    Mel Counts: “Olympic Gold; Played With Bill Russell, Wilt, Havlicek & West” | Tom Nelson Pod #399

    Mel Counts recounts growing up in a small Oregon town, being mentored by an early coach, his rapid growth to 6'11", and recruitment to Oregon State, where he made a Final Four and later realized he could turn pro. He describes making the 1964 U.S. Olympic team under Hank Iba and winning gold over the Russians, his most cherished team honor. Drafted by the Boston Celtics, he won two championships and shares stories about Red Auerbach, Bill Russell, travel and pay in the era, and later stops including the Bullets, Lakers, and Suns, facing legends like Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West, Kareem, and Walton. He discusses pensions, family, faith, giving back, and staying active at 84. 00:00 Meet Mel Counts 00:21 Small Town Beginnings 01:29 Oregon State Breakthrough 01:51 Slats Gill Lessons 03:12 Final Four Teammates 04:01 Olympic Tryouts Camp 04:40 Tokyo Gold Medal 06:45 Celtics Rookie Life 08:21 Traded To Bullets 09:25 Scary Team Flight 11:21 NBA Travel Pay Then 14:53 Red Auerbach Stories 16:35 Wilt Chamberlain Era 17:42 Rings Watches Stages 18:32 Physical Game Changes 19:24 Wilt Strength Tales 21:24 Guarding Legends Film 22:26 Lakers Suns Wilt Sweat 23:41 Wilt Helped My Role 24:46 Practice With Russell 25:39 Road Trip Win Streak 26:23 Playing With Jerry West 27:30 Game 7 Balloons Drama 29:27 Bill Russell The Ultimate Winner 30:36 Boston Life Lessons 33:02 Hall Of Famers Era 33:57 Pete Maravich Memories 34:46 Three Point Revolution 37:21 Durability And Old School Training 39:53 Nutrition And Wilt Hot Dogs 41:46 Pensions And Player Benefits 43:40 Money Mistakes Then And Now 45:17 Rings Faith And Family 45:57 Giving Back And Life Advice 48:51 Staying Active And Final Wrap Basketball Reference: https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/countme01.html Mel Counts highlights: https://youtu.be/7XcO7xAc_r4 Mel Counts NBA2K: https://youtu.be/JllZNFwnn9A Mel Counts replaces Wilt Chamberlain late in 1969’s NBA championship game seven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnu5vMfPtbw&t=8256s ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

    50 min

  2. 4 days ago

    Marc Morano: “Great Reject: Triumphant Trump Dismantles the Climate Agenda” | Tom Nelson Pod #398

    Marc Morano talks about his decades covering climate politics and his view that the climate movement is in rapid collapse due to overreach, public skepticism, and post-COVID distrust of “appeal to authority.” Morano contrasts Trump 1.0’s limited actions with Trump 2.0’s aggressive agenda: hundreds of pro-energy moves, exits from numerous UN bodies, a push to end the EPA CO2 endangerment finding, and a consensus-busting climate report later vacated over procedural issues. He says Democrats, media, Wall Street, and major figures like Bezos and Gates have gone quiet or shifted, while UN COP summits have become smaller and scandal-prone. He warns climate controls may reappear via public-health framing and future administrations. 00:00 Marc Morano Returns 00:36 Climate Movement Hits Low 02:31 Trump 1.0 vs 2.0 Setup 04:02 UN Climate Origins and Data Wars 07:14 GOP Nominees and Climate Drift 09:23 Trump 1.0 Wins and Limits 11:27 Biden Reversal and Green Mandates 14:57 Trump 2.0 Energy Blitz 15:19 Consensus Report Court Setback 16:58 Zeldin Targets Endangerment Finding 18:55 Iran War and Energy Shock Risk 20:00 Media Silence and Narrative Flip 21:59 Great Reset and WEF Agenda 27:22 Elites Pivot From Climate to AI 28:13 COVID Blowback Fuels Skepticism 33:42 Mainstream Admits Net Zero Failure 40:25 UN Summits Implode at COP30 44:28 Amazon Highway Coverup 45:39 Burgers Not Bugs 46:57 Toilet Paper Contraband 49:06 Summit Results Reality Check 51:40 Billionaires Media Flip 56:11 Energy Boom Coal Security 57:56 Climate Agenda Collapse 01:00:19 Narrative Culture War 01:02:46 Rio Treaty Withdrawal 01:05:20 Endangerment Finding Repeal 01:08:27 Climate Meets Public Health 01:11:31 Next Scares New Summits 01:18:43 COP Future And Coalition 01:25:40 Closing Thanks And Wrap https://x.com/ClimateDepot Climate ranked #35 of 39 American voter issues: https://x.com/davidshor/status/2033906948525928569 ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

    1hr 26min

  3. 28 May

    Raymond Inauen: “Excellent website: The World of CO2” | Tom Nelson Pod #397

    Raymond Inauen, a graphic artist with 35 years’ experience, presents a free website of downloadable charts (PDF/PNG/ZIP) meant to teach CO2, climate, and energy basics or serve as a single reference. Charts cover CO2’s molecule, atmospheric composition (about 420 ppm), natural vs anthropogenic emissions (4.9% manmade), ocean/land fluxes, plant physiology (stomata), C3/C4/CAM plants, photosynthesis, and a logarithmic CO2–temperature relationship. He also includes long-term temperature/CO2 history, Holocene and recent warming, sea-level rise since the last ice age, and glacier/tree-line evidence from the Alps. Energy charts break down global fuel use and electricity sources. He adds references, a CO2 mascot “Conrad,” discusses reduced social-media reach, and shares a visual condensing atmospheric CO2 into a 16×16 km cube. 00:00 Meet Raymond Inauen 00:32 CO2 Molecule Basics 01:09 Atmosphere Composition Explained 02:17 Natural vs Human CO2 Sources 04:18 CO2 Cycle In and Out 05:21 Plants and CO2 Benefits 06:35 C3 C4 Plants and Greening 08:36 Plant Respiration Day Night 09:10 Logarithmic Warming Idea 10:16 Design Sources and Trace Gas 12:11 Exhaled CO2 Context 13:01 Deep Time CO2 and Temps 14:41 Human Body Carbon Link 15:11 Climate History Overview 16:13 Ice Ages and Holocene Temps 17:45 Modern Warming and Sea Levels 19:23 Glaciers Tree Lines Debate 23:02 Global Energy Charts Tour 28:19 Need a Scientist Narrator 30:07 Downloads and Conrad Mascot 31:49 Social Media and CO2 Cube 34:30 Wrap Up and Website Updates https://x.com/theworldofco2 https://www.the-world-of-co2.com/co2 ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

    36 min

  4. 22 May

    Bernie Lewin: “Origins of the IPCC” | Tom Nelson Pod #396

    Tom interviews Bernie Lewin about his 2017 book Searching for the Catastrophe Signal and his path from local environmentalism to blogging and writing for the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Lewin argues postwar “big science,” shifting religion’s role in policy, and media narratives helped drive recurring environmental scares: DDT, ozone depletion tied to supersonic transport and CFCs, then 1970s global cooling amid energy crises. He claims funding incentives encouraged extreme atmospheric claims, and that policy often diverged from scientific uncertainty. The discussion covers the 1988 Hansen hearing as orchestrated, Thatcher and Bush support for expanded climate science, and IPCC early processes, focusing on the 1995 Second Assessment controversy where summaries and underlying text were allegedly altered around detection and “fingerprint” evidence. 00:00 Meet Bernie Lewin 00:28 From Environmentalism to Skepticism 02:25 Science Replaces Religion 04:30 Big Science After WWII 06:05 Silent Spring and DDT Panic 08:46 Supersonic Jets and Ozone Fears 12:29 CFCs and the Ozone Hole 18:29 Feedbacks and Funding Incentives 21:33 Global Cooling Takes Off 22:40 Energy Crisis and Climate Instability 28:36 Coal vs Nuclear and CO2 Program 36:12 Cooling to Warming Flip 39:53 Hansen 1988 Hearing Moment 41:32 Thatcher Bush and Politics Searching for the Catastrophe Signal: The Origins of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: https://a.co/d/0bmYZdUX https://enthusiasmscepticismscience.wordpress.com/about/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

    1hr 8min

  5. 18 May

    Erich Schaffer: “Water Vapor Feedback, Part One” | Tom Nelson Pod #395

    Erich Schaffer argues climate science contains major blunders, chiefly that water vapor cools the planet and provides negative feedback. He explains the greenhouse effect as determined by emission altitude and the adiabatic lapse rate, criticizing older “back radiation” explanations. He claims climate budgets and attribution studies overstate surface emission by assuming Earth’s surface is a blackbody, ignoring water’s non-Lambertian behavior and ~0.91 hemispheric emissivity, which he says inflates the greenhouse effect and misattributes missing radiation to water vapor. He highlights latent heat cooling and contends empirical “proxy” methods used to infer strong positive water-vapor feedback are invalid due to lapse-rate behavior. He concludes climate sensitivity would drop to ~1 K or less. 00:00 Meet Erich Schaffer 01:06 Why Climate Basics Matter 04:52 Greenhouse Effect Explained 07:30 Lapse Rate Physics 10:52 IPCC Definition Shift 12:38 Debunking Back Radiation 16:04 Cloud Window Mistake 19:25 Latent Heat Cooling 20:40 Who Causes Warming 31:04 Reading the Spectrum 33:46 What CO2 Forcing Means 37:03 Deriving 3.7 Wm2 41:41 Water Vapor Feedback Setup 45:35 Models vs Observations 46:57 Empirical Feedback Proxies 51:10 Calculating Feedback From Slopes 54:16 Super Greenhouse Tropics Claim 56:52 Lapse Rate Versus Water Vapor 58:45 Moist Adiabats And Latent Cooling 01:00:58 Clouds Versus Water Vapor Paradox 01:05:21 Water Reflectivity And Polar Amplification 01:09:55 Infrared Emissivity Of Water 01:15:01 Surface Emissions Overstated 01:21:16 Reattributing The Greenhouse Effect 01:28:30 Thought Experiments Removing Water Vapor 01:34:26 Why Regional Proxy Fails 01:40:24 Seasonal Proxy Broken By Inversions 01:44:37 Sluggish Troposphere Explains Slopes 01:49:33 Wrap Up And Next Parts https://x.com/erich_schaffer https://greenhousedefect.com/ ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

    1hr 51min

  6. 14 May

    Catherine McBride: “Premeditated Industrial Destruction?” | Tom Nelson Pod #394

    Catherine McBride talks about her paper “Premeditated Industrial Destruction,” arguing UK net-zero policies have driven deindustrialization without lowering global emissions by shifting production and emissions to countries like China. They discuss UK energy reliance on fossil fuels (about 75–80%), gas backup for wind, bans and legal obstacles to new North Sea and shale projects while importing gas, and high industrial electricity costs from wind-related grid and balancing costs plus multiple carbon taxes. McBride criticizes EV mandates and fines, insufficient charging and grid capacity, and policies pushing carmakers and firms like BP away. She says EU net-zero rules hurt farming and industry, notes coal’s role and storage advantages, questions activist funding (including alleged Russian support), and contrasts Norway’s hydro and state oil strategy with UK decisions. 00:00 Meet Catherine McBride 00:11 How Net Zero Killed Industry 02:37 Fossil Fuels Reality Check 04:19 Importing Gas While Banning Drilling 07:05 Norway Hydro And LNG 09:33 Hybrids Versus Pure EVs 11:54 EV Mandates And Car Industry Exit 15:38 China EVs And Charging Limits 19:05 Grid Can’t Handle Electrification 35:33 BP Profits Politics And US Option 37:37 Free Speech Shift And Chris Wright Wish 38:54 UK Cabinet Energy Illiteracy 41:29 Coal Mines Versus Activists 43:44 Europe’s Coal Reality Check 47:50 Batteries and Load Shedding 51:45 Why Solar Fails in Britain 53:48 Subsidies Warp Farming 57:16 Tariffs and Media Blind Spots 01:03:29 NGO Funding and Anti-Fracking 01:06:29 Russia Gas Markets and Nord Stream 01:08:52 Norway’s Oil Wealth Playbook 01:10:27 UK Bets on Carbon Capture 01:11:37 Trees Beat Tech Wrap-Up https://x.com/CeeMacBee https://catherinemcbride.substack.com/ Premeditated Industrial Destruction?: https://gbbc.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Premeditated-Industrial-Destruction-Final-6th-April-2026-with-added-security-issue-v2.pdf ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

    1hr 12min

  7. 10 May

    Sonia Elijah: “3/11 Viral Takeover” | Tom Nelson Pod #393

    Tom interviews investigative journalist Sonia Elijah about her book 3/11 Viral Takeover, a five-year, evidence-based chronicle of the COVID era with 941 citations drawn from FOIA releases, emails, and leaked documents. Elijah argues COVID policy reflected a coordinated, censorship-driven response, tracing a timeline of pre-2020 pandemic exercises, media/government coordination, and conflicts of interest. She discusses the WHO’s March 11, 2020 pandemic declaration, alleged suppression of lab-origin discussion, flawed modeling used to justify lockdowns, and problems with PCR testing. The conversation covers propaganda and censorship networks (including the Trusted News Initiative), suppression of early treatments, harms from ventilators and drugs, and allegations of misclassified vaccine trial and safety data, including pregnancy and myocarditis concerns, urging accountability and preparedness against repetition. 00:00 Meet Sonia Elijah 00:18 Book Thesis and Censorship 01:17 Research Depth and Purpose 02:49 Will It Happen Again 04:40 Why 3 11 Matters 06:01 Pandemic Drills and mRNA Push 10:53 Bat Database Goes Dark 12:18 FOIA Emails and Lab Leak 15:04 Cracks and Conflicts 18:10 Lockdowns Driven by Models 19:19 PCR Testing Anomalies 25:31 Harms and Care Homes 26:37 Testing Kit Profiteering 29:40 Fear Messaging and Propaganda 32:10 Dancing Nurses and Empty Wards 33:39 Trusted News Initiative 37:17 Natural Immunity Censored 38:17 Lancet Study Fallout 40:13 Ivermectin Smear Campaign 41:57 Silencing Doctors Online 43:30 Hospital Protocol Controversies 45:09 Redefining Vaccinated Data 46:38 Retracted Myocarditis Research 48:46 Missing Safety Reports 53:31 Pfizer Papers Deep Dive 58:13 Vaccine Injured Silenced 59:52 Pregnancy Harms Revealed 01:04:40 Justice and Accountability 01:07:32 Closing Thoughts on the Book https://x.com/sonia_elijah https://linktr.ee/SoniaElijah Book Review by Robert Malone— 3/11: Viral Takeover: https://www.malone.news/p/book-review-311-viral-takeover Order it at Amazon here: https://www.malone.news/p/book-review-311-viral-takeover ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

    1hr 9min

  8. 6 May

    Thomas Kurz: “Why There Is No Climate Crisis” | Tom Nelson Pod #392

    Thomas Kurz discusses his upcoming book, Why There Is No Climate Crisis (Kindle in May, print in June), and argues modest warming is largely natural, claiming the IPCC obscures evidence of past climate variability. He explains paleoclimate proxies (oxygen isotopes, carbon-14, beryllium-10) and links climate shifts to Milankovitch cycles, solar cycles, galactic cosmic rays influencing clouds, and ocean oscillations (AMO/PDO). Using temperature reconstructions, glacier, treeline, sea-level, historical freeze, agriculture, insect, and civilization records, he says warm periods brought prosperity while cold periods drove drought, famine, disease, and upheaval. He concludes about half of post-1850 warming is natural, warming is generally beneficial, and future cooling is likely. 00:00 Guest And Book Intro 00:24 Why He Dug In 01:46 Focus On Climate Cycles 03:44 Paleoclimate Proxies 04:57 Isotopes And Temperature 06:48 Cosmic Rays And Solar 07:56 Milky Way Climate Cycle 12:17 Milankovitch Ice Ages 14:28 CO2 Follows Temperature 17:10 Holocene Cooling Trend 19:29 Schwabe Solar Cycles 21:42 Millennial Solar Cycles 23:14 Temperature Reconstructions 25:04 Glaciers Treelines Seas 28:44 Historical Freeze Evidence 32:27 Farming And Wildlife Clues 37:06 Warm Vs Cold Impacts 41:28 Storm Evidence In Proxies 44:44 Civilizations And Climate 45:48 Holocene Optimum Prosperity 47:42 2200 BC Collapse Event 48:18 Minoan Warm Period Boom 50:47 Greek Dark Ages Breakdown 52:53 Roman Warm Period Growth 54:23 Late Antique Cooling Plagues 56:50 Medieval Warm Period Golden Age 59:11 Little Ice Age Hardship 01:06:46 Witch Hunts Climate Blame 01:09:16 Modern Warming Attribution Debate 01:12:17 Ocean Oscillations AMO PDO 01:15:44 No Climate Crisis Wrap Up ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

    1hr 27min
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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
    402
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