Tom Nelson

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
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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
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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/
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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/
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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
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