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    Thomas Kurz: “Greenhouse Gases and Climate Feedbacks” | Tom Nelson Pod #419

    07/08/2026 | 1h 2 mins.
    Thomas Kurz discusses chapters from his book Why There Is No Climate Crisis, citing positive reviews, then explains the greenhouse effect and argues CO2’s warming is limited and logarithmic. He claims doubling CO2 yields about 3 W/m² effective forcing, or ~0.9°C via Stefan–Boltzmann calculations, and says even burning all known fossil fuel reserves would add under ~1°C. He argues “climate crisis” claims rely on compounded positive feedbacks in IPCC models, but says observations show models overpredict warming, relative humidity aloft is declining, and a predicted tropical hotspot is missing. He attributes discrepancies to cloud/aerosol cooling, proposing an Earth “thermostat” and net slightly negative feedback.

    00:00 Guest and Book Update
    02:31 Greenhouse Effect Basics
    04:53 CO2 Absorption and Saturation
    07:38 Four Ways to Calculate Forcing
    17:11 Convert Forcing to Temperature
    21:19 Logarithmic Warming Limits
    24:20 Fossil Fuels and Max Warming
    28:13 Feedbacks Behind the Crisis
    32:55 Models vs Observations
    41:30 Clouds and Cooling Evidence
    55:51 Earth Thermostat Conclusion
    57:52 Q&A and Scientific Method
    01:01:33 Wrap Up and Farewell

    “Why There is No Climate Crisis: The Surprising Evidence You Should Know”: https://a.co/d/05rKxsYU
    https://www.whynoclimatecrisis.com/
    Email: info@WhyNoClimateCrisis.com
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    Ray Sanders #418

    04/08/2026 | 1h 16 mins.
    Ray Sanders updates his Surface Stations project to classify all 385 UK Met Office weather stations using WMO siting classes, claiming 88% are class 3–5 and 112 meet no regulations, including many in walled or private gardens and car parks. He argues poor siting, degraded maintenance after automation, and rapid platinum resistance thermometers in Stevenson screens create spikes and non-comparable records versus older liquid-in-glass methods. He alleges rounding/conversion issues, data from non-existent “climate averages” sites, refusals under FOI, and deletion of queried webpages. He presents analyses of stable long-term records at Wye and effects from a solar farm at RAF Lyneham, and plans more reconstructions with helpers.

    00:00 Project Update Intro
    01:49 WMO Siting Classes Explained
    03:23 Most Stations Fail Standards
    05:54 Walled Gardens Hotspots
    11:55 Car Parks and Heat Sources
    13:58 Thermometers and Response Time
    18:27 Stevenson Screen Meets PRT
    20:36 Sampling Rates and Spikes
    24:45 Fahrenheit to Celsius Rounding
    28:00 Maintenance and Automation Decay
    32:30 Phantom Stations and FOI Fight
    37:59 Allies and Data Deletions
    42:16 Searching for Good Stations
    42:30 Best Station Locations
    43:39 Wye Data Deep Dive
    44:59 Anomalies And Baselines
    46:36 Manual Records Reveal 1930s
    50:00 Solar Farm Heat Jump
    51:19 Dyce Vs Craibstone
    55:06 Met Office Classification Errors
    59:53 Questionable Data Practices
    01:02:21 US Climate Reference Network
    01:07:38 Why He Started The Crusade
    01:13:53 Focus On Great Britain
    01:14:51 Thanks And Wrap Up

    https://x.com/RaySand17710097
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    Willie Soon and Jonathan Cohler on natural atmospheric CO2 rise #417

    31/07/2026 | 1h 21 mins.
    Willie Soon and Jonathan Cohler argue the rise in atmospheric CO2 is mostly natural, challenging claims it is 100% manmade from hydrocarbon burning. They cite analyses using bomb-produced carbon-14 showing a single-exponential decay and a short CO2 atmospheric residence time (~3.8 years), contrasting with IPCC claims of thousands of years and criticizing undefined terms like “adjustment time.” They say their work falsifies the Suess effect and that delta-13C of atmospheric change stays near -13‰ from 1978–2022 and in proxies over 500 years, inconsistent with a dominant fossil-fuel signature (~-28‰). They discuss ocean/land cycling, solar/energy imbalance hypotheses, and skepticism of ice-core CO2 constancy claims.

    00:00 Big CO2 Claim Questioned
    01:30 Decades of Doubt
    02:16 Researchers Who Challenged It
    04:13 Natural Rise Hypothesis
    05:14 Suess Effect Origins
    07:35 Bomb Pulse Carbon-14
    12:39 Short Residence Time
    14:22 Word Games vs Definitions
    16:44 3.8 Years Explained
    21:21 Bridge Equation Breakthrough
    25:34 Peer Pushback and Talks
    29:43 Physical Tether Theorem
    34:01 Koutsoyiannis Delta13C Test
    42:46 Why Delta13C Still Drops
    44:23 Lineage and Credit
    45:43 Cycle Time vs IPCC
    49:14 Debunking Net Sink
    51:06 Biosphere Expansion Idea
    51:48 Satellite Imbalance Fraud
    56:17 Outgassing Explains CO2 Rise
    01:01:40 Proxy Limits and Ice Cores
    01:09:26 Future CO2 and Benefits
    01:13:18 C14 Tracers and Dating
    01:15:02 Suez Effect Model Critique
    01:21:15 Wrapping Up and Links

    Jonathan Cohler – “The IPCC Circle of Lies: Five Papers Falsify the Entire Framework”
    https://x.com/cohler/status/2081407310493081791

    Willie Soon – “From Demon to Dinner: The Scientific Case for CO₂ and Fossil Fuels”
    https://x.com/cohler/status/2081408758308077952

    Slides:
    Jonathan Cohler: https://x.com/cohler/status/2081410426147938599
    Willie Soon: https://x.com/cohler/status/2081410908392133048

    CERES-Science: https://www.ceres-science.com/
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    Steve Milloy #416

    28/07/2026 | 59 mins.
    Steve Milloy reviews Trump’s fossil-fuel agenda, EPA rollback of the 2009 endangerment finding, and concerns that litigation delays and Justice Department staffing could let a future Democratic administration reverse course. The speaker attacks the National Academy of Sciences as climate activists, cites a climate chapter in a judges’ science manual, notes Elena Kagan said she didn’t read it, and urges cutting NAS funding. They praise Matt Wielicki’s appointment to lead the U.S. Global Change Research Program. They argue wildfire-smoke PM2.5 health scares lacked NYC hospital spikes, criticize linear no-threshold regulation (radiation, PFAS), and discuss Yucca Mountain standards. They describe shareholder activism against corporate ESG (Netflix, Exxon), criticize carbon capture subsidies, and praise young “climate realist” advocates.

    00:00 Trump EPA Rollbacks
    01:37 NAS Versus Trump
    04:16 Defunding NAS Push
    06:30 Kagan Foreword Controversy
    08:24 Climate Realist Appointment
    09:43 Democrats And Green Money
    11:59 Big Tech Climate Censorship
    13:21 X Algorithms And Reach
    16:10 Viral Tweet No Warming
    18:20 Wildfire Smoke Reality Check
    22:30 EPA PM2.5 Experiments
    26:12 LNT Model And Hormesis
    30:18 Yucca Mountain Absurdity
    32:37 PFAS And Low Dose Effects
    33:37 Forever Chemicals Are Inert
    34:41 Dose Makes the Poison
    36:34 Parts Per Trillion Panic
    37:31 Why Fear Spreads
    38:06 Conservative Shareholder Activism
    41:07 Exxon and ESG Battles
    42:23 Carbon Capture Reality Check
    43:53 Subsidies and Nanny Government
    45:31 Next Gen Climate Realists
    47:43 Awards and Staying the Course
    50:31 NASA Names and Media Retreat
    56:01 Debate Challenge and Wrap Up

    Steve on X: https://x.com/JunkScience
    Web: https://junkscience.com/
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    Marc Glendening #415

    24/07/2026 | 54 mins.
    Mark Glendening argues free speech in Britain and the West is under increasing internal attack, citing “non-crime hate incidents,” broad Public Order Act powers, online and even private-message prosecutions, and proposals to criminalize non-affirmation of transgender identity under “conversion therapy” laws. He says enforcement is often aimed at the right and anti-transgender feminists, though he notes prosecutions of some left-wing Palestine Action supporters. Glendening traces today’s speech controls to cultural strategies developed after Marxism waned, highlighting Gramsci, the Frankfurt School (especially Marcuse), and French postmodernists. He urges electoral pressure campaigns, praises Elon Musk and X, and warns that debanking, digital ID, and Soros-backed regulation threaten liberties.

    00:00 Meet Mark Glendening
    01:07 Britain’s Free Speech Legacy
    02:04 Non Crime Hate Incidents
    04:23 Policing Private Speech
    06:52 Who Gets Targeted
    09:29 Conversion Therapy Crackdown
    16:09 Why the New Left Censors
    21:21 Three Intellectual Roots
    28:37 The Sixties Cultural Turn
    36:12 Words Liberal vs Progressive
    43:31 Digital ID and Debanking
    44:46 Fighting Back Politically
    48:04 Elon Musk and X
    50:07 US Elections and Internet Speech
    52:20 Final Thoughts on Liberty

    https://iea.org.uk/tag/marc-glendening/
    https://iea.org.uk/publications/transgender-ideology-a-new-threat-to-liberal-values/
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Interviews and presentations on climate/energy realism and more, with guests including Will Happer, Jerome Corsi, Marc Morano, Carl-Otto Weiss, Valentina Zharkova, Christopher Essex, Henrik Svensmark, Patrick Moore, Ross McKitrick, Willie Soon, Susan Crockford, Peter Ridd, Christopher Monckton, and Richard Lindzen.
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