Tom Nelson

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 Germany’s 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 “technology transfer,” 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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Andy May discusses how Earth’s energy imbalance and ocean heat content relate to solar radiation versus greenhouse-gas downwelling IR. He argues IR photons are lower energy and absorbed in the ocean’s top micrometers–millimeter (thermal/electromagnetic skin), so it cannot directly heat the mixed layer; instead it may reduce upward heat loss by altering the skin-layer temperature gradient, while sunlight penetrates meters to greater than 100 m and warms the bulk ocean. He critiques NASA-style energy-flow diagrams for confusing one-way radiative fluxes (e.g., 340 W/m²) with net heat (e.g., 58 W/m²). He highlights large uncertainties in EEI and OHC due to sparse, inconsistent datasets, cool-skin effects, short Argo-era records, and oscillations like AMO/ENSO, making partitioning of causes uncertain.

00:00 Sun vs CO2 Setup
00:35 Why IR Differs
02:52 Ocean Skin Layers
05:48 Photon Energy Debate
07:55 Cool Skin Impacts
10:01 Energy Diagram Myths
13:33 EEI and OHC Limits
18:17 Ocean Data Disagreements
23:55 Surface EEI Variability
26:38 IR Cannot Heat Deep
29:51 Bottom Line Uncertainty
31:18 Q&A and Critiques
34:52 Modeling and Coverage
36:41 Regional Trend Map
41:21 Closing Takeaways

https://x.com/Andy_May_Writer
https://andymaypetrophysicist.com/
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Kevin Mooney discusses his book “Climate Pxrn,” inspired by climate propaganda in classrooms and a push to restore the scientific method. He critiques polar-bear and other climate messaging, argues funding and politics suppress skeptics, and describes threats to prosecute dissent via RICO-style lawfare. He highlights Trump-era moves such as leaving the Paris Agreement and efforts to reverse the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding on CO2, calling it a major deregulatory change. Mooney cites Canada’s carbon tax costs and bureaucracy as warnings, alleges Russian and Chinese money influences anti-fracking activism, and raises national-security concerns about China-linked energy supply chains and offshore wind. He also criticizes EV lithium-battery fire risks, climate activism in healthcare, carbon-tracking credit cards, and argues AI power demand is undermining wind/solar claims.

00:00 Meet Kevin Mooney
01:13 Acorn to Green Groups
01:54 Polar Bear Myth
03:27 NASA vs Climate Models
06:57 Solar System Climate Clues
07:50 Silencing Skeptics
09:39 Criminalizing Dissent
11:36 Paris Deal and Lawfare
12:24 EPA Endangerment Fight
15:00 Canada Carbon Tax Reality
17:53 Foreign Money and Fracking
21:14 China Grid Security Risks
22:17 Offshore Wind and Security
24:29 Wind Groups vs Locals
24:54 EV Battery Fire Risks
26:21 Climate Policies in Healthcare
28:36 Carbon Tracking Credit Cards
29:56 Second Amendment Backstop
31:08 ESG Retreat and BlackRock
32:37 COVID and Classroom Climate Push
34:23 Young Men Shift and Faith
35:23 Climate Agenda and Marxism
36:41 Herding Rural America to Cities
38:16 Union of Concerned Scientists
39:46 Government Science Funding Distortion
40:46 AI Power Demand and RGGI
43:28 Greenwashing and Energy Reality
44:28 Offshore Wind and Whale Deaths
45:58 Heartland Conference Takeaways
48:36 Closing Thoughts and Book Plug

https://x.com/KevinMooneyDC
https://kevinmooney.info/
Climate Pxrn: How and Why Anti-Population Zealots Fabricate Science, while Targeting American Capitalism, Freedom, and Independence: https://a.co/d/05Cd61cX
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Vlad Bogorov talks about Glasgow City Council’s plans to spend tens of billions to pursue net zero and Bogorov’s three YouTube videos from public meetings where officials gave vague, cliché answers, asked for written questions, and objected to being filmed. Bogorov argues such environmentalism is “low resolution thinking,” primarily about power and public money, and claims renewables and policies like EVs can increase CO2 when accounting for grid losses, mining, and transmission. He cites Germany closing nuclear and burning more coal, contends nuclear is safest and necessary for net zero, and urges critics to focus on whether environmentalism raises or lowers CO2 rather than debating global warming itself.

00:00 Glasgow Net Zero Meetings
01:07 YouTube Complaint Fallout
02:00 Vague Answers No Details
03:54 Renewables And Public Trough
04:35 Low Resolution Thinking
05:02 History Slavery Nuclear Examples
09:36 Sahara Solar Fantasy
11:53 Environmentalism Blocks Nuclear
14:24 Wrong Conversation On Costs
16:31 Electric Vehicles Emit More
20:06 Germany Coal After Nuclear
24:34 Politics Is About Power
27:31 Debating CO2 And Focus
28:45 Environmentalism Backfires
30:11 EV Batteries and Tradeoffs
31:15 Glasgow Council Push
32:28 Power Without Accountability
34:29 Why Facts Dont Persuade
39:23 Placards and Public Reactions
41:15 Change the Battlefield
42:04 Anti Nuclear Contradiction
46:46 Winning and the Real Cost
47:48 Social Movements End Hard
49:45 Closing Thanks

His YouTube channel, “Buchanan Street is my pub.”: https://www.youtube.com/@Buchanan1111
When History Had Other Plans, 2025: https://a.co/d/4ykoJrJ
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