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Liam DeBoer describes his Substack blending philosophy, psychology, culture, politics, and history, and argues in âYour Ruling Class Is Not Secularâ that modern materialist elites still express religious impulses by mapping âsoul,â apocalypse, and salvation narratives onto gender ideology, climate change, and revolutionary politics. He discusses Orwellâs 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 âfourth turning,â and explains Nietzscheâs ressentiment and victimhood. He outlines âdaycare governanceâ in a feminized institutional culture and summarizes âpolitical ponerologyâ archetypes behind authoritarianism. He details Canadaâs âVancouver modelâ money laundering tied to triads, casinos, and politics, and discusses censorship, platform throttling, and Zuckerbergâs 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
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Ken Jensen describes his background in environmental toxicology and medical devices, then argues morality can be grounded without religion. He traces a âtrue, good, beautifulâ triad from Plato through Vitruvius and maps it to objective reality, reciprocity/voluntary exchange, and beauty/grace, contrasting it with a destructive âDOIâ (destruction, opposition, inversion) force. He critiques management tactics like permanent crisis, âred dotâ diversions, and misuse of Romans 13, citing Katrina clergy response teams. He promotes a âdartboardâ 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/
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In a Paris heatwave (33â40°C), HĂŒgo KrĂŒger 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 Franceâs electricity being largely nuclear. Apartment rules, aesthetic objections, and energy ratings discourage installation; subsidies favor air-to-water heat pumps that canât 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
âfundraiser to buy an AC for the French Heat Wave!â: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-not-melt-in-paris-2026-heatwave?lang=en_US&ts=1782483248
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Erich Schaffer critiques the âsuper greenhouse effectâ 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 âfudgingâ 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: âWater Vapor Feedback, Part Oneâ: https://youtu.be/2O4mOf9gk-s
https://x.com/erich_schaffer
https://greenhousedefect.com/
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Tom interviews Anika Sweetland, who argues Earthâs climate changes in predictable natural cycles and that today is relatively cool in a 65âmillionâyear context. Using graphs and books by Gregory Wrightstone, she describes ice-age rhythms linked to Milankovitch cycles and 1,500âyear DansgaardâOeschger 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
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Joseph Fournier discusses his Substack article proposing a âsolar-driven glacial atmospheric dipoleâ 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 âcold blobâ 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
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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 2000â2016 âhiatus,â 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
Williamâs website: https://wvanwijngaarden.info.yorku.ca/
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Irish author and analyst Emmet Connor tells host Tom he has focused since 2015 on Marxism/communist indoctrination, defining it as an international revolutionary ideology aimed at destroying existing hierarchies and rebuilding a utopia. He argues âglobalismâ and the New World Order are communism repackaged, seen in open borders, climate policy, food controls, attacks on farming, education, and cultural issues like DEI and gender ideology, with Christians targeted. He discusses Irelandâs pro-globalist politics, COVID as totalitarian economic attack linked to the CCP, and a broader China/Russia-led push for world dominance, including Africa via Belt and Road. Connor promotes his Dallas presentation and book, and provides X/email contacts.
00:00 Introduction to Emmet Connor
00:40 Defining Marxism
02:59 Globalism and New World Order
04:16 Unwitting Marxist Promotion
05:52 Open Borders Policy
08:31 Climate Change Movement
11:44 Controlling the Food Supply
13:01 War on Farming
14:07 Ireland's Political Situation
16:02 COVID and Great Reset
19:00 Marxism as Kryptonite
19:55 Marxism's Effect on Africa
22:41 China's Influence in Africa
24:59 Global Communist Strategy
27:15 Brexit and UK Politics
28:49 Trump and Marxism
31:33 Elections and Global Impact
33:18 Second Amendment Importance
34:24 Death Toll of Marxism
36:58 Attacking the Traditional Family
38:53 Drag Queen Story Hour
40:57 COVID and Parental Awareness
42:57 Christianity Under Attack
45:12 Population Control Agenda
46:53 UN Socialist Leadership
48:11 Stakeholder Capitalism
49:08 Internationalist Groups
50:27 Attacking the US Dollar
53:17 Greta Thunberg and Climate
56:01 Reception and Outreach
58:29 Boiling It Down
59:38 Final Thoughts
https://x.com/ResolvingR
Red Pandemic: The Global Marxist Cult on Amazon: https://a.co/d/079j3En7
Guest spot on the Peter McCormack show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb-uJmcQXcc
Emmetâs Dallas presentation on Marxism is highly recommend as an overview of the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI2cy4Dp_8M
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Ronald Stein discusses Californiaâs ârefinery crisis,â arguing that heavy regulation is driving remaining refineries to consider leaving, after recent closures and a reported 17% decline from peak refining. He says California is an âenergy islandâ with no pipelines over the Sierra Nevada, so most fuel must be made in-state; otherwise it would come from foreign refineries, potentially in Asia, raising costs, emissions, and national security concerns for military and international airports, ports, and trucking. Stein contends wind and solar only generate electricity and cannot replace refined-oil products used for transportation fuels and countless derivatives. He criticizes politicians and the press for not addressing practical replacement plans and advocates âenergy literacy.â
00:00 Refinery Crisis Begins
00:42 California Energy Island
01:22 Fuel Demand Reality Check
02:03 Refineries Leaving Warning
02:58 Climate Policy Pushback
04:12 Voters Politicians Press
05:04 Wind Solar Limits
06:00 No Backup Plan
06:14 Regulators And Newsom
08:49 Oil Derivatives Explained
09:47 Crude Types And Fracking
11:46 How Regulations Drive Out
13:15 Outsourcing Emissions Abroad
14:39 Import Dependence Grows
16:29 Shipping And Port Bottlenecks
18:34 Clean Air But High Demand
20:20 National Security Takeover Talk
22:37 Campaign Silence And Media
23:29 Planes Need Real Power
24:51 Battery Plane Reality Check
25:36 Electricity Imports Warning
25:56 Importing Power and Fuel
26:17 AI Power Crunch
29:08 Refinery Rules and Costs
30:54 Foreign Dependence Risks
32:25 Scaling Alternatives
34:35 Energy Literacy and Policy
36:25 Nuclear Future
39:26 Wind Reality Check
41:32 California Oil Underfoot
44:33 Oil Seeps and Tar Pits
46:36 Zero Emissions Reality
49:45 Global Poverty and Demand
50:45 Where to Follow Ronald
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John Parmentola discusses a puzzle of how sea levels fell ~400 feet during ice ages and argues global annual solar input is nearly constant, implying compensating regional heating when the Arctic cools. Using Antarctic ice-core temperature proxies and orbital mechanics, he introduces a new âcountervailing obliquity precession effectâ (COPE): a biannual insolation asymmetry that increases tropical-zone energy deposition while Arctic summer insolation and melt potential decline, affecting the hydrological cycle, moisture transport, albedo, and glacial descent. He estimates the evaporation energy need (~10^26 J) and says COPE energy over millennia exceeds this. He cites satellite/top-of-atmosphere energy-balance analysis (~1 W/mÂČ net gain) and notes tests: second-half-year precipitation bias, possible Arctic moisture-transport bias, and CO2 outgassing seasonality. Links to his preprint and related work are mentioned.
00:00 Sea Level Ice Age Mystery
09:33 Warming Before Glaciation
12:01 Evaporation Energy Math
13:28 Solar Input Basics
17:10 Why Insolation Stays Constant
20:54 Milankovitch Parameters Explained
26:45 Obliquity Heat Redistribution
29:08 Seasonal Zone Matrix
33:33 Arctic Insolation Then vs Now
40:05 Milankovitch Hypothesis Summary
40:56 Snow Ice Evidence
42:15 Orbit Month Swap
43:54 Hidden Insolation Split
46:12 Seasonal Energy Gap
48:48 Tropical Energy Build
50:15 COPE Defined
53:01 Satellite Signal Test
56:24 Past Interglacial Match
59:22 Summary And Wrap
01:01:08 Q And A Tests
01:05:51 Website And Preprint
01:06:30 Economic Growth Detour
01:11:21 Final Links Farewell
https://johnparmentola.com/
2019: The Great Mystery of Economic Growthâ: https://youtu.be/sx-55BhuFks
John Parmentola: Estimating the Holocene Warm Period Termination | Tom Nelson Pod #96: https://youtu.be/6c3yW6s0shQ
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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 1969âs NBA championship game seven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnu5vMfPtbw&t=8256s
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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 âappeal to authority.â Morano contrasts Trump 1.0âs limited actions with Trump 2.0âs 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 yearsâ 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 CO2âs 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 CO2âtemperature 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 âConrad,â discusses reduced social-media reach, and shares a visual condensing atmospheric CO2 into a 16Ă16 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 âbig science,â shifting religionâs 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 âfingerprintâ 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 âback radiationâ explanations. He claims climate budgets and attribution studies overstate surface emission by assuming Earthâs surface is a blackbody, ignoring waterâs 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 âproxyâ 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 âPremeditated Industrial Destruction,â 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 75â80%), 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 coalâs role and storage advantages, questions activist funding (including alleged Russian support), and contrasts Norwayâs 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 Canât 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 Europeâs 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 Norwayâs 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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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 WHOâs 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 Maloneâ 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
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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
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Brenda Shaffer discusses her Wall Street Journal piece arguing that current renewable-driven policies undermine energy security by making Western systems less reliable, more expensive, and dependent on concentrated supply chains, often tied to China. She says maritime security failures (Red Sea, Russia-Ukraine, Strait disruptions) show poor preparation, and argues fossil fuels still dominate the global energy mix (87%) despite decades of subsidies, while wind/solar remain limited and require backup baseload. She criticizes restricting fossil-fuel finance, especially in Africa, for worsening energy access and development. Shaffer claims UN climate institutions are political, seek taxation power withouBt representation, and that climate movements often oppose both fossil fuels and nuclear. She highlights Germanyâs costly energy transition, emphasizes operational energy in warfare, and calls to restore energy security as national security and enable open debate.
00:00 Renewables and Crisis
00:57 Energy Security Failures
03:04 Emperor New Clothes
05:36 China and Methane Politics
10:32 Climate Narratives vs Reality
12:33 Myths of Transition
16:26 Cutting Supply Hurts Poor
19:50 Africa Needs Real Power
26:36 Germany Energiewende Fallout
29:21 Climate Activism and Anti West
30:33 Hydrocarbon Roadmap Skepticism
31:19 UN Climate Taxes and Power Grabs
33:18 Transparency and Budget Secrecy
34:39 Trump Era Workarounds and Lawfare
38:08 Gatekeepers and Speaking Freely
39:13 Languages and Middle East Shifts
44:07 Operational Energy in Warfare
47:53 Military Electrification Limits
51:52 IPCC Politics and Carbon Markets
55:27 Extreme Weather Narratives
58:01 Energy Realism Closing Message
https://x.com/ProfBShaffer
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Former European Commission energy official Samuel Furfari recounts COPs from the 1992 UN climate convention through recent meetings, arguing the process became propaganda-heavy, expensive, and ineffective as global CO2 emissions rose 66% since 1992. He cites Glasgow as a turning point when China and India blocked anti-coal language, and notes recent COPs hosted by fossil-fuel producers and growing pushback from Africa and others seeking development. He criticizes âtechnology transfer,â NGO influence (especially in the EU), and anti-nuclear sentiment, discusses synthetic fuels as too costly until oil/gas decline, and describes shifts at the IEA and oil firms like BP back toward oil and gas.
00:00 Meet Samuel Furfari
01:02 COP Zero Origins
02:38 Berlin COP and Merkel
04:14 Glasgow Turning Point
06:11 Fossil Fuel Host COPs
09:39 Brazil COP Contradictions
10:46 Money and Degrowth Agenda
12:49 Nuclear and Synthetic Fuels
15:03 Cuckoo Takes the Nest
17:19 COP Spectacle and Emissions
20:07 Africa and Tech Transfer
22:44 Papua New Guinea Shifts
24:09 Polar Bear Messaging Fades
25:40 IEA From Oil to Renewables
29:03 US Pressures IEA
30:05 Oil Chokepoints Reality
31:08 Inside IEA Ideology
32:00 BP Retreats to Oil
35:21 Subsidy Driven Renewables
35:57 NGOs Power Shift
38:04 UN Leadership After Guterres
40:32 Africa Needs Electrification
43:06 Leaders Doubt Climate Agenda
46:57 China Emissions Outsourcing
49:31 COP Hosting Politics
53:39 COP15 Failure and Wrap
The Truth About the COPs: 30 years of illusions: https://a.co/d/05AuqsJE
https://x.com/FurfariSamuele
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