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. 21h ago

    Anika Sweetland: “IPCC EXPOSED!!! Response to a global problem? Or formation of 1 world gov’t?” #410

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

    47 min

  2. 4d ago

    Liam DeBoer | Tom Nelson Pod #409

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

    58 min

  3. Jun 30

    Ken Jensen: “The Enemies of Reason” | Tom Nelson Pod #408

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

    1h 5m

  4. Jun 28

    Hügo Krüger: “Great idea: If it’s really too hot in your house, get some AC” | Tom Nelson Pod #407

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

    30 min

  5. Jun 26

    Erich Schaffer: “Water Vapor Feedback, Part Two” | Tom Nelson Pod #406

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

    1h 48m

  6. Jun 23

    Anika Sweetland Part 1: “The science lesson you never received” | Tom Nelson Pod #405

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

    40 min

  7. Jun 19

    Joseph Fournier: “Solar-Driven Glacial Atmospheric Dipole” | Tom Nelson Pod #404

    Joseph Fournier discusses his Substack article proposing a “solar-driven glacial atmospheric dipole” to explain the Last Glacial Maximum contrast between ice-covered North Atlantic regions and ice-free Beringia. He reviews Milankovitch cycles, zonal vs meridional winds, ITCZ migration, Holocene aridity/desert formation around 4,200 years ago, and Neoglacial solar sensitivity. He focuses on how solar variability (UV, interplanetary magnetic field, energetic particle precipitation, cosmic rays) affects stratospheric polar vortices and couples to tropospheric indices (NAO, SAM), influencing clouds, sunshine, ocean circulation (AMO/AMOC), and glaciers, citing proxy reconstructions and Bond events. They also address the Atlantic “cold blob” freshwater argument and farming implications. 00:00 Beringia Glacial Mystery 02:35 Dedication and Wind Focus 06:08 Holocene ITCZ Shifts 10:21 Deserts and Neoglacial Questions 15:02 Milankovitch Limits 17:22 Zonal vs Meridional Flow 22:09 Southern Annular Mode Basics 25:12 SAM Impacts and Ocean Carbon 28:48 Cloud Belts and Brightening 34:32 SAM History and Solar Minima 38:12 Polar Vortex Coupling 40:17 Solar Magnetism Explained 45:18 GCRs and Stratosphere Temps 52:01 Sunspots vs Hurricane Power 56:01 EPP Ozone and Aurora Link 58:36 Solar System Harmonics 01:01:02 Solar Wobble Link 01:02:34 Jupiter Quakes Core 01:06:41 Zonal vs Meridional 01:11:32 NAO SPV Coupling 01:14:21 Bond Events Framework 01:17:42 Ice Rafted Debris 01:25:26 Greenland Melt Drivers 01:30:38 AMO Gulf Stream THC 01:37:10 Cosmogenic Isotope Cycles 01:42:34 Glacial Dipole Conclusion 01:45:46 Atlantic Cold Blob 01:49:13 Farming Outlook Wrap https://x.com/JosephF55175005 ========= Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

    1h 53m

  8. Jun 16

    William van Wijngaarden: “Evidence doesn’t support climate hysteria” | Tom Nelson Pod #403

    William Van Wijngaarden explains the greenhouse effect as higher, colder radiating layers caused by more greenhouse gases, noting roles of CO2, water vapor, ozone, methane, and N2O, and emphasizing cloud uncertainties. He cites rising CO2 (320 ppm in 1960 to ~430), N2O and methane increases, but highlights non-monotonic temperature history including a 2000–2016 “hiatus,” and claims climate models overpredict warming by about threefold. He argues data do not show worsening trends in Arctic ice (recently flat), hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, or precipitation, and glacier retreat began after the Little Ice Age. He says ocean pH would drop from 8.18 to ~7.93 with doubled CO2, corals grow fastest in warm water, eliminating cattle would cool ~0.05°C, and fertilizer cuts risk food shortages. He calls for more observations (clouds, Argo oceans) and concludes warming is modest (~1°C ±1°C) and net-zero policies lack evidence. 00:00 Meet The Guest 03:19 Key Greenhouse Gases 05:44 Temperature Record Mysteries 07:20 Models Versus Reality 08:39 Infrared Spectrum Explained 10:53 Satellites Confirm Physics 11:58 Clouds And Uncertainty 15:10 Arctic Ice Reality Check 16:28 Glaciers Wildfires Hurricanes 20:12 Natural Variability Lesson 21:52 Ocean Acidification Facts 23:52 Corals And Warm Water 24:48 Methane And Livestock Myth 27:06 Fertilizer And Food Tradeoffs 28:51 CO2 Greening Benefits 30:56 Big Picture Conclusions 33:04 New Research Water Vapor 34:04 Observations Over Modeling 36:05 Measuring Oceans And Ice 39:21 Looking Ahead Calmly 41:16 Final Thanks And Wrap William’s website: https://wvanwijngaarden.info.yorku.ca/ ========= 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
    413
  • Rating
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