Tom Nelson

James Tooley describes two decades researching “low-cost private schools” serving poor families in India, Africa, rural China, and war-torn countries, arguing parents choose them because government/public schools often abandon children. He cites widespread enrollment (e.g., majorities in parts of Lagos and Kampala), higher standardized test performance, no gender bias, affordability around 10% of family spending, and sustainability as small businesses. He now finds a similar U.S. phenomenon in hybrid/micro schools, visiting examples in Pine Ridge (Onward Learning), rural Mississippi, refugee-serving Clarkston, and rural Oregon, and surveying 5,390 parents: about 4% use low-tuition private schools. He discusses limited, careful roles for philanthropy, and worries about dependence on government ESAs.

00:00 Meet James Tooley
01:03 Hyderabad Discovery
03:25 Government School Reality
05:37 Makoko Lagos Expedition
07:49 Kibera Ghana China Proof
11:49 Beautiful Tree Thesis
13:04 War Torn Africa Schools
15:48 Five Key Features
21:06 Federations And Pushback
22:02 Low Cost Schools In America
25:53 Pine Ridge Onward Learning
29:46 Mississippi Trailer School
33:19 Refugees And Oregon Example
36:08 National Survey Findings
41:45 Philanthropy And Donations
43:26 Quality Assurance Debate
46:33 School Choice ESA Concerns
49:57 Where To Follow James
50:46 Final Reflections

The Beautiful Tree: https://a.co/d/032zFHgW
Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education: https://a.co/d/01VMoY3r
https://x.com/james_tooley
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/james-tooley-320a8410
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Tom Harris argues Canada’s claim of warming twice the global average is unreliable because northern data coverage is sparse and “homogenized” station adjustments may exaggerate trends. He questions the meaning of average temperature and says Canada’s record shows a step change around 1998, consistent with El Niño and possibly the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, not steady greenhouse-gas forcing. He cites extreme-weather records peaking in the 1930s and references Heartland’s Climate Change Reconsidered and Roger Pielke’s datasets as showing little detected change in many extremes. Harris then describes organizing local activists, using Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, rehearsing questions, and bypassing media censorship to challenge municipal climate policies.

00:00 Meet Tom Harris
00:19 Canada Warming Claims
00:41 Is Warming Bad
03:21 So Called Averages
05:13 Overlapping Ranges
08:06 Why Start 1948
11:08 Heat Records Evidence
11:54 Sparse Arctic Stations
14:39 Homogenized Adjustments
17:00 Step Change Not CO2
18:57 Hickey Speaks Out
21:59 Natural Cycles Theory
22:59 PR Versus Evidence
24:22 Extreme Weather Database
25:56 Heartland Reports
28:32 Warmer Means Milder
31:07 Pielke Teaser
31:19 Global Extremes Database
31:51 P Factor Explained
32:30 Translator Not Climatologist
33:33 Drilling Into Continents
34:48 Wildfire History Context
37:23 Heatwave Data Concerns
38:31 Local Activism Playbook
40:06 Alinsky Rules In Action
42:49 Debate Questions And Ridicule
47:16 Training Volunteers Nationwide
51:59 Beating Media Censorship
53:55 Groups Funding And Contact
56:17 Practice Sessions And Wins
57:43 Wrap Up Resources

 icsc-canada.com
 sensiblechange.ca
https://x.com/TomHarrisICSC
https://drtomharris.substack.com/
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Dai Ato presents findings from three papers arguing atmospheric CO2 rise is largely natural, claiming multivariate analyses reject human emissions as a significant predictor of annual CO2 increases while sea surface temperature (SST) is significant. He says detrended annual-change comparisons show emissions vs CO2 change has near-zero correlation, while SST retains moderate correlation, consistent with CO2 solubility in water. He also claims ice-core CO2 reconstructions are incorrect and that temperature leads specific humidity, rejecting CO2–water vapor positive feedback; absorbed shortwave and total solar irradiance correlate with SST while CO2 is negligible or negative. In Q&A, he expects the Keeling Curve to keep rising, COVID emission drops to have little effect, and rejects a stable 280 ppm preindustrial CO2.

00:00 Intro And Agenda
00:39 Three Paper Overview
04:01 CO2 Rise Not Human
07:05 Detrending Spurious Links
10:33 Water Vapor Feedback Tested
13:19 Solar And Albedo Drivers
17:12 Past Evidence SST Leads
21:50 Global Temperature Averaging
23:58 Key Takeaways And DOE
26:04 Why I Wrote These Papers
33:06 Ice Core Reconstruction Issues
34:17 Closing Thoughts And Q&A

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Ron Clutz continues a three-part framework on climate change: humans cause warming, warming is dangerous, and government can stop it. He argues observed warming can be explained by post–Little Ice Age recovery plus multidecadal oscillations and solar-orbital effects, and says “alarmists” deny these. He describes a taxpayer-funded “climate scare machine” and cites a Climate Change Business Journal estimate of a $3.4T/year global climate industry. Using Joseph D’Aleo’s materials, he disputes claims about heatwaves, storms, droughts, wildfires, ice loss, ocean acidification, health, and food, then focuses on Arctic sea ice cycles and sea-level model projections versus tide gauges. He stresses climate is local (Köppen zones) and says climate policies are wasteful, ineffective, and harmful, citing project failures, costs, and energy poverty.

00:00 Framework Recap
01:07 Natural Warming Factors
03:56 Climate Scare Machine
07:59 Eleven Empty Claims
13:56 Polar Bears and Sea Ice
20:00 Sea Level Scare Tactics
28:27 Climates Are Local
35:13 Warming Impacts Summary
35:59 Can Governments Stop It
37:56 Energy Transition Reality
40:19 Why Hydrocarbons Rule
42:06 Energy Mix Big Picture
43:47 Trillions Visualized
45:22 Waste One Missing Funds
45:59 Waste Two Project Failures
48:35 Waste Three Blade Graveyards
49:13 Waste Four Operational Collapse
50:18 Hydrogen And Biofuels
51:32 Fear Sells Climate Policy
53:06 Policy Weapons And Results
55:51 Energy Poverty And Jobs
59:09 Rare Metals And Land Use
01:01:40 Better Priorities Consensus
01:02:29 Absurd Costly Pointless
01:03:59 Cartoons And Media Satire
01:09:33 Arctic Update And Data
01:13:28 Wrap Up Links And Wildfires

https://rclutz.com/
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Henrik Svensmark discusses how solar activity modulates cosmic rays, which ionize the atmosphere and can help form aerosols that grow into cloud condensation nuclei, potentially altering clouds and Earth’s energy balance. He describes lab experiments showing more aerosols with increased ionization, critiques models that predicted no cloud effect, and presents observations from Forbush decreases where drops in cosmic rays are followed days later by reduced aerosols, cloud changes, and radiative-budget responses. He argues solar-cycle forcing may be ~1–1.5 W/m² and could affect CO2 sensitivity. On longer timescales, he links supernova-driven cosmic-ray variations to glaciations, ocean temperature, organic carbon burial, oxygen production, and biodiversity, while noting funding and career pressures.

00:00 Cosmic Rays and Clouds
00:42 Meet Henrik Svensmark
02:59 Solar Activity Basics
03:31 IPCC Forcing Debate
05:13 Sunspots and Cosmic Rays
07:03 Cosmic Ray Showers
08:55 Isotopes as Solar Proxies
11:48 Climate Correlations
15:17 Ocean Heat Amplification
17:55 Clouds as Amplifier
19:39 How CCN Form
22:22 Testing in Chambers
24:59 Models vs Reality
27:52 Forbush Natural Experiments
36:14 Fixing the Physics
41:17 Billion Year Timescales
42:08 Galactic Spiral Arms
44:02 Star Formation Setup
44:33 Open Clusters Explained
45:57 Mapping Nearby Clusters
46:53 Supernovas Meet Climate
48:27 Zooming Into Ice Ages
51:31 Nutrients And Carbon Isotopes
53:54 Organic Burial Correlation
55:15 Deep Time Starbursts
57:12 Oxygen And Complex Life
59:51 Dwarf Galaxies Trigger Stars
01:02:18 Fossils And Diversity Curves
01:05:13 Shelf Area Drives Richness
01:09:04 Area Normalization Test
01:11:34 Big Picture Conclusions
01:13:35 Funding And Career Risks
01:22:15 Critiques And Solar Events
01:25:16 Wrap Up And Farewell

Svensmark: The Cloud Mystery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANMTPF1blpQ
The Chilling Stars [2008]: https://www.amazon.com/Chilling-Stars-New-Theory-Climate/dp/1840468661
Papers: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2843-3417
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