Tom Nelson

Anika Sweetland describes becoming fearful of climate change after a school assignment, obsessively following catastrophic headlines, studying climate science, and suffering severe health issues she links to eco-anxiety. During lockdown and after observing net zero’s economic impacts in England, she began questioning claims, researching data on topics like sea levels, crop yields, and past cooling vs warming scares, and concluded she had been “brainwashed.” She discusses media ethics, impacts on children, and argues climate fears enable centralized control. Sweetland and host Tom discuss her new book, its humor, an upcoming Audible version, and support from physicist Will Happer, who wrote the foreword.

00:00 Doomsday Headlines Hook
00:57 Lockdown Rabbit Hole
01:36 Questioning The Narrative
01:56 Meet The Author
04:11 All In Research Mindset
05:01 Childhood Climate Fear
07:25 Skeptic Turn In Zurich
09:48 Checking Claims One By One
13:44 Old Scares Same Script
18:18 Eco Anxiety Health Crash
21:50 Are People Waking Up
24:10 Cargo Bikes Backlash
25:02 Finding Real Climate Data
25:53 Net Zero Meets Blackouts
26:32 Nuclear For Data Centers
28:50 Renewables Reality Check
29:29 Wind Turbine True Costs
30:35 Humor In The Book
31:14 Party Of Doom Story
33:01 Reaching True Believers
33:30 Sea Level Claims Tested
34:55 Climate Fear And Moving
36:16 Mind Body Healing
37:54 Handling Critics And Online
38:51 Audiobook And Happer Forward
40:46 Conference Protest Moment
41:20 Final Book Plug Thanks

https://x.com/anika_climate
https://aloadofbollocks.com/
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Geologist James Kamis argues El Niño and La Niña are generated by geological forces near a stationary Pacific Ring of Fire source, not primarily by trade-wind shifts. Citing cone-shaped warming/cooling patterns, helium concentrations as volcanic indicators, burst-like heat “blobs,” sharp temperature boundaries, centuries of recorded events, seafloor volcanoes, hydrothermal vents, trenches, and methane hydrate “ice rocks,” he proposes magma heat melts hydrates to create La Niña cooling and continued heating yields El Niño warming. He compares related phenomena (El Padre/La Madre), points to rapid North Atlantic warming linked to a spreading center, and says volcanic impacts may be underestimated in climate studies. He calls for more seafloor mapping and denser Argo buoy coverage.

00:00 Meet the Geologist
01:14 Geology Behind ENSO
03:09 Why Wind Theory Fails
05:16 Volcanic Evidence
10:18 Ring of Fire Origins
11:05 Ocean Floor Revealed
12:20 Undersea Volcanoes
14:20 Hydrothermal Heat Engine
16:09 Faults and Quakes
17:19 Methane Hydrates Model
20:01 Source Area Deep Dive
21:46 La Niña Mechanics
23:33 Analog Events Worldwide
27:29 Atlantic Heat Spike
29:27 Climate Change Impacts
33:25 Wrap Up and Q&A

Kamis’ website: https://www.plateclimatology.com/
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David Burton argues recent warming (~1.25°C since 1870) is small and often overstated, while CO2 benefits crops and ecosystems by boosting growth and water efficiency, reducing famine risk alongside fossil-fuel-based nitrogen fertilizer. He says storm and sea-level data show little acceleration, citing linear long-term tide-gauge records like Honolulu and noting local land motion dominates. His paper discusses multiple CO2 “lifetimes”: turnover (3–5 years), bomb-spike radiocarbon (~20 years), and the climate-relevant adjustment time he estimates at ~55±10 years, with a long tail he deems currently unimportant. He criticizes IPCC “cumulative emissions/TCRE” and “carbon budget” concepts as unphysical, analyzes direct waste heat as negligible (~52–58 days), and promotes his sealevel.info tools and archived Climategate emails.

00:00 Meet David Burton
00:23 How Much Warming Really
02:04 Ice Ages And Freezing Thresholds
03:06 CO2 Greening And Crop Gains
05:28 Famine History And Fertilizer
07:48 Storms Tornadoes And Sea Level
11:00 Paper Overview CO2 Lifetimes
11:55 Turnover Bomb Spike Adjustment
14:31 Cumulative Emissions Myth
15:38 Heat Pulse Lifetime
19:45 Suess Effect Carbon14 Confusion
27:03 Why CO2 Rises Negative Feedbacks
30:03 Linear Removal Rate And Limits
34:14 Why Plant Uptake Stays Linear
35:30 CO2 Boosts Crop Yields
37:03 Airborne Fraction Myth
39:16 Emissions Plateau Math
42:14 Long Tail Lifespan Debate
43:40 Cumulative Emissions Critique
48:49 Carbon Budget Pushback
50:50 How Long Heat Lasts
55:10 Where to Find More
56:39 Sea Level Tools vs NOAA
01:01:05 Climategate Archive Access
01:02:56 Ocean Chemistry and Carbonate
01:08:08 Climate Industry FUD Wrap

https://co2coalition.org/teammember/david-burton/
ClimateGate emails on Dave’s site: https://x.com/TomANelson/status/1916076156371058904
Watts Up With That article on Dave’s site: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/01/21/new-website-gives-you-the-real-deal-on-sea-level-rise-and-rates/
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Chuck Weiss presents his background in atmospheric science, meteorology, aviation, and inventing the Windicator, then argues Oregon universities and public schools promote a politicized “climate crisis” despite Oregon’s small share of global emissions. He defines the greenhouse effect as a radiation-flux difference and claims water vapor and clouds dominate radiative processes while CO2 mainly cools the troposphere and has negligible warming influence, especially over oceans. He argues convection and the hydrologic cycle negate CO2 effects, climate models fail due to grid-resolution and energy-tracking limits, and key predictions (e.g., tropical mid-troposphere “hotspot”) conflict with balloon/satellite data. He attributes recent warming to declining albedo, alleges temperature-data manipulation, disputes extreme-weather and Arctic-ice claims, and criticizes green-energy policies as costly and ineffective.

00:00 Meet Chuck Weiss
00:25 Credentials and Forecasting Wins
02:34 Aviation Career Highlights
03:08 Why He Challenges CO2 Theory
04:38 Oregon Climate Politics Critique
07:39 Schools and Climate Indoctrination
09:19 Defining the Greenhouse Effect
12:00 Greenhouse Gases Spectrum Breakdown
16:51 Why Greenhouse Gases Cool Air
18:49 Water Vapor Drives Convection
22:50 Clouds Cancel CO2 Warming
24:53 Ocean Absorption Reality Check
27:14 How Climate Models Work
31:48 Model Predictions vs Observations
36:04 Hotspot Failure in Mid Troposphere
39:01 Temperature Data Adjustments
42:00 Satellite Record Teaser
42:17 Satellite Warming Pause
43:41 Albedo Drives Warming
44:37 Radiative Forcing Critique
48:37 Hansen CO2 Claims
50:13 Emissions vs CO2 Rise
52:14 CO2 Cycle and E-Time
55:59 Severe Weather Myth
01:01:45 Trenberth Missing Heat
01:03:03 Arctic Ice Reality Check
01:04:58 Fake Crisis Wrap-Up
01:06:56 Why Climate Models Fail
01:09:29 AI and Turbulence Talk
01:14:46 Flying in Heat and Cold
01:17:41 Final Policy Takeaway

Chuck Wiese’s Critique of the 6th Oregon Climate assessment: https://edberry.com/critique-of-the-6th-oregon-climate-assessment/
More at Ed Berry’s site here: https://edberry.com/?s=wiese
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Iain Davis discusses his book The Technocratic Dark State, arguing Silicon Valley oligarchs (e.g., Thiel, Musk, Andreessen, Altman, Ellison) steer policy toward a tokenized “everything” economy, including natural assets, carbon markets, and a vastly expanded paper valuation. He says climate narratives may be rebranded across political demographics to sell the same goal: technocratic digital control via programmable money, digital identity, AI-driven surveillance, and BIS-led cross-border “interoperable” payment standards. Davis warns censorship will shift from speech to “reach,” citing the UK Online Safety Act and arrests for online comments, and describes “everything apps,” biometrics-based payments, and geo-fenced spending as tools for automated compliance and fines. He contends surveillance is already pervasive through devices and apps, and says adoption is ultimately a public choice.

00:00 Meet Iain Davis
00:11 Silicon Valley and Trump
03:10 Tokenizing Everything
05:18 Carbon Markets and Nature
08:39 Climate Narrative Rebrand
10:51 Digital Control Pitch
12:51 Free Speech and Shadowbans
16:04 Online Safety and Censorship
20:31 X as Everything App
23:05 Crisis Pressure and Control
28:04 Debt and Tokenized Assets
32:03 Stablecoins and New Rails
33:49 Programmable Money Interop
35:51 BIS Controls Standards
37:49 Bitcoin as Reserve Asset
41:13 Programmable Money Fears
42:12 AI Data Lake Control
46:31 Robots and Adoption Incentives
50:54 Mass Surveillance Reality
56:05 Face Pay and Auto Fines
58:45 Digital ID Skepticism
01:02:07 Agentic State Explained
01:06:15 Wrap Up and Choice

https://iaindavis.com/
https://www.ukcolumn.org/writer/iain-davis
https://x.com/_InThisTogether
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