Tom Nelson

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/
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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
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https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

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/
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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
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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
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