Tom Nelson

Thomas Nelson
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Mar 14, 2025 • 49min

Lynne Balzer: Why Biofuels Are Not Sustainable | Tom Nelson Pod #286

After retiring from a career teaching physics, chemistry and biology, Lynne Balzer began organizing extensive notes from a decade-long investigation of the climate change issue. Considering all the facts and looking at the connection between the science, history and politics of this issue, Lynne reached the inevitable conclusion that “human-caused global warming” is one of the greatest hoaxes ever visited upon mankind. Working with Faraday Science Institute, a nonprofit organization, she has researched the topic of global climate change for thirteen years, sorting out fact from fiction.00:00 Introduction to Lynn Balzer and Biofuels00:03 History and Types of Biofuels00:47 The Rise of Petroleum and Decline of Biofuels01:30 UN's Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals02:41 Ethanol: Production and Impact03:50 Government Policies and Ethanol Mandates07:23 Environmental and Economic Consequences of Biofuels15:25 Global Impact and Food Security Issues18:00 Biofuels vs. Traditional Fuels: Efficiency and Emissions27:55 Alternative Uses of Biofuels30:12 Wood as a Biofuel and Its Environmental Impact38:39 Critique of Climate Change Policies and Biofuels41:45 Summary and Call to Action45:24 Closing Remarks and Final ThoughtsSlides for this podcast, along with AI summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summariesExposing the Great Climate Change Lie (2023): https://a.co/d/i6iRW1yHere’s Why Using Biofuels for Energy is Unsustainable and Must Stop NOW:  https://joehoft.com/heres-why-using-biofuels-for-energy-is-unsustainable-and-must-stop-now/=========AI summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summariesMy Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
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Mar 11, 2025 • 55min

Daryl Ritchison: BIG temperature discrepancies | Tom Nelson Pod #285

Daryl is North Dakota’s state climatologist.  His career includes weather forecasting in all regions of the country and for various regional television stations.00:00 Introduction to Daryl Ritchison00:37 The Importance of Climate Data Integrity00:57 The Fargo Airport Incident02:03 Challenges with Airport Climate Data02:15 Historical Climate Records in Fargo02:48 Urban Heat Islands and Their Impact04:56 Temperature Measurement Standards06:08 Comparing Historical and Modern Sensors07:15 The Role of Mesonets in Accurate Weather Data13:02 The Fargo Airport Temperature Sensor Issue15:35 Evidence of Sensor Malfunction19:05 The Impact of Sensor Errors on Climate Data22:58 Quality Control in Weather Data24:41 Comparing ASOS and AWOS Systems26:30 Verification of Sensor Issues27:30 Introduction to Temperature Sensor Issues28:47 Analyzing Temperature Data Discrepancies30:34 Sensor Reliability and Replacement Challenges32:46 Bureaucratic Hurdles in Data Integrity35:12 Investigating Historical Temperature Records38:36 Global Temperature Records and Uncertainties40:20 Minnesota's Dew Point Record Controversy43:32 North Dakota's Historical Temperature Extremes49:44 Concluding Thoughts and Future DirectionsSlides for this podcast, along with AI summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summarieshttps://x.com/DarylRitchisonMinnesota: Record State Dew Point Temperatures: https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/climate/journal/110719_record_dew_point.html=========AI summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summariesMy Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
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Mar 7, 2025 • 52min

David Dilley: Imminent global cooling | Tom Nelson Pod #284

Professor David Dilley is a Meteorologist-Climatologist-Paleoclimatologist and a former NOAA National Weather Service Meteorologist.  Professor Dilley is the founder and CEO of Global Weather Oscillations (GWO), a company heavily involved in research and development of technology for prediction of natural climate and weather cycles.Professor Dilley has 54 years of experience ranging from the Air Force to NOAA National Weather Service and GWO.  As the senior research scientist and forecaster for GWO, Mr. Dilley developed ClimatePulse Technology based on Geomagnetic Cycles of the earth-moon-and sun, and how these cycles align with historical, present day and future cycles of climate and weather.00:00 Introduction and Overview00:34 David Dilley's Background and Expertise02:23 Common Misconceptions About Climate Change03:55 Historical Global Warming Cycles05:28 Arctic Ice Melt and Gravitational Cycles09:53 NOAA's Temperature Calculation Methods11:42 Long-Term Climate Change Cycles17:52 Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Analysis26:51 Debunking Fossil Fuel Impact on Climate Change27:26 Ice Core Samples and CO2 Levels28:46 Atmospheric Gases Composition30:27 Solar Cycles and Climate Change33:12 Ocean Temperature Cycles37:10 Future Climate Predictions40:03 Natural Cycles vs. Political Science45:36 Impact of Global Cooling on Agriculture46:35 Media and Climate Change Narrative50:08 Mentoring the Next Generation of Climate Scientists51:29 Conclusion and Contact Informationhttps://www.globalweathercycles.com/http://www.globalweatheroscillations.com/https://x.com/WeatherCycleshttps://www.youtube.com/@DilleyGlobalWeatherCycles=========Tom’s Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
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Mar 4, 2025 • 57min

T.H. Platt:  The Dark Side of Hunger Mountain | Tom Nelson Pod #283

Currently adrift on the planet with a preference for villages near managed forests full of beauty and wildlife, T.H. PLATT is a researcher, writer and photographer with a background in government affairs focusing on agriculture, fishing and property rights.00:00 Introduction to Teresa Platt00:07 Early Life and Career Beginnings01:21 Transition to Writing Fiction02:13 The Dark Side of Hunger Mountain03:34 Themes of Globalization and Environmentalism04:12 Setting and Plot of the Book04:56 Challenges in Writing and Research07:16 Spotted Owl vs. Barred Owl Debate08:12 Insights on Scientific Integrity18:41 Publishing and Audience Reach21:14 Potential for a Movie Adaptation22:37 Connection with Willie Soon27:24 Impact of Global Campaigns31:19 The Evolution of Campaigns and Debt31:47 Challenges in Writing and Research32:11 Global Perspectives and the Treaty Clause32:47 The Long Journey of Writing the Book33:38 Building Coalitions and Gaining Insights35:54 The Importance of Fiction in Communication36:47 Plans for an Audible Version38:49 Pitching for Film and Audio Production43:32 Unintended Consequences of Globalism48:24 The Conflict Industry and Environmental Issues52:52 Reflections on COVID and Scientific Integrity55:08 Final Thoughts and Future PlansThe Dark Side of Hunger Mountain: https://a.co/d/9PDBiXSSubstack: https://thedarksideofhungermountain.substack.com/=========AI summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summariesMy Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
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Mar 1, 2025 • 1h 44min

Efrat Fenigson | Tom Nelson Pod #282

Efrat Fenigson is an Israeli journalist, podcaster and public speaker. She’s a marketing expert and former Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of global companies with a strong technology background for the past 20 years, who turned into a journalist when the void left by the mainstream media and their lies became too big to bear. Efrat strives to uncover the hidden truth from Israel and report it to the world, while bringing the world’s hidden reality to uninformed Israelis. As a freedom activist and granddaughter to Holocaust survivors, she has been a vocal dissenter of the Israeli government's response to Covid and human rights violation. Efrat writes on her Substack and for Bereshit - one of the only papers in Israel without censorship, covering topics such as the growing global control regime, monetary changes & CBDC, mind-control, marketing & propaganda, digitalization, climate agenda, Covid and more. Efrat hosts two podcasts, in English and in Hebrew, as well as Twitter Spaces, and her channels reach 70K+ subscribers with a monthly average of 3-4 million views. Efrat was featured by The Wall Street Journal as one Israel’s 2022 top tech leaders, one of StartIsrael’s 2021 most promising marketing leaders, and was awarded “CMO of the year” for 2019. For the past 6 years, Efrat is also a co-founder of G-CMO (Global CMO forum), a community of Israel’s top CMO’s, consisting of 150 CMOs.Efrat holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and a dual citizenship – Israeli and Australian. ====00:00 Introduction and Agenda Overview00:49 The Great Awakening and Personal Transformation04:48 Challenges of Awakening and Inner Work09:09 Research Process and Content Creation12:12 Balancing Personal Interests and Important Topics19:07 Content Creation Strategy and Team Management34:46 Insights on the Bitcoin Community and Health Choices46:47 Experiences and Reflections on October 7th Attacks56:51 Crime in Arab Society in Israel57:18 Researching Post-October 7th Events58:00 Build Back Better Theory59:19 Debt-Based Economy and Printing Money01:00:10 Gaza Rehabilitation Project01:01:55 Global Conspiracy Theories01:06:56 Agenda 2030 and Climate Action01:08:45 New Monetary Order and Blockchain01:16:42 Personal Carbon Footprint and CBDC01:33:10 Geoengineering and Weather Modification01:43:55 Concluding Thoughts and Farewell“One Atmosphere” UN doc: https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/41903Amazingly brave woman walked into the office of the pilot that had been spraying for three hours, twice a day over her home with cloud seeding flares: https://x.com/tboo211/status/1887113451761222031?s=46&t=Jhcbjet-nTmr1c7DBXF9vgI finally confront the pilots who have been geoengineering Tuolumne's skies.: https://mellowkat.substack.com/p/i-finally-confront-the-pilots-whoChemtrails / SAI / Geoengineering: Conspiracy or Reality?: https://www.efrat.blog/p/chemtrails-sai-geoengineering-conspiracyEfrat’s “Personal Carbon Footprint” thread: https://x.com/efenigson/status/1752958348037959984Efrat’s Linktree: https://linktr.ee/efenigson=========About Tom Nelson:https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
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Feb 25, 2025 • 1h 1min

Lois Perry:  Abolish all net zero policies | Tom Nelson Pod #281

Lois Perry is the Executive Director of Heartland UK/Europe. She is a former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and the founder of Car26, an organization opposed to Great Britain’s headlong direction of Net Zero by 2030.Heartland UK/Europe is the European arm of The Heartland Institute, one of the world’s most prominent free-market think tanks known for advancing skepticism about man-made climate change and promoting policies that support individual liberty and economic freedom.00:00 Introduction and Guest Update01:59 Heartland Institute and UK Politics05:00 Climate Change Debate09:36 Electric Cars and Control13:57 UK Political Landscape24:21 Farmers' Protests and Policies31:38 Energy Crisis in the UK33:46 Subsidized Power Stations and Environmental Ironies34:35 Fighting Net Zero: Key Figures and Organizations36:11 Heartland Institute and Future Conferences38:26 A Near-Death Experience and Its Impact43:56 Personal Life and Public Persona49:55 Career Journey: From Journalism to Activism56:31 Climate and Nature Bill: A Controversial Debate59:22 Final Thoughts and Future Planshttps://x.com/LoisPerry26https://heartlanduk.org/=========AI summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summariesMy Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
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Feb 21, 2025 • 1h 6min

Richard Jeffs: Stakeholder Capitalism | Tom Nelson Pod #280

In his recent documentary series called Stakeholder Capitalism, filmmaker and tech entrepreneur, Richard Jeffs, investigates our current undemocratic ten-year transition to an authoritarian political system called Stakeholder Capitalism. View our films and articles to learn what Stakeholder Capitalism is and how, since 2020 (when it was enacted), it’s been driving the rise in strange societal and global events.To summarise, Stakeholder Capitalism is the brainchild of Klaus Schwab, the Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF). The WEF’s exclusive members, called Stakeholders, include the heads of all G20 countries, multinational NGOs and most fortune 500 companies. Enacted through a ten-year initiative called The Great Reset, the Stakeholders are driving our transition to a single, global, authoritarian political system called Stakeholder Capitalism.00:00 Introduction to Richard Jeffs00:42 Transition to Investigative Filmmaking02:15 The Great Reset and Stakeholder Capitalism05:10 Climate Change and Propaganda10:17 Cultural Marxism and Social Justice Movements21:40 The Fourth Industrial Revolution25:51 Digital Currency and Financial Control29:06 Censorship and Cancel Culture35:40 Introduction to Stakeholder Capitalism Documentary36:42 Public Perception and Indoctrination37:57 Climate Change and Corporate Shifts39:41 Understanding ESG and Its Implications40:58 Pushback Against Stakeholder Capitalism46:15 The Role of Media and Censorship48:03 Future Plans and Call to Action01:06:07 Conclusion and Final Thoughtshttps://x.com/YellowForumhttps://yellow.forum/Stakeholder Capitalism – Ep 1: Our New Political System (40 min Documentary):https://youtu.be/cVupsbYhw_c?si=FSdOax6cMQa78VC_=========AI summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summariesMy Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
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Feb 17, 2025 • 1h 16min

Jim Steele:  They’re trying to baffle us with BS | Tom Nelson Pod #279

00:00 Introduction to Jim Steele and Climate Skepticism 00:34 The Concept of Zonerisms 02:26 Scientific Ignorance and Public Manipulation 04:26 CO2 and Climate Crisis Debate 05:53 Natural Variability vs. Climate Change 09:12 Pakistan Floods and Climate Racism 19:37 Atmospheric Rivers and Mega Floods 30:21 Wildfires and Climate Misconceptions 40:32 Understanding the Role of Kindling in Wildfires 40:45 Fire Suppression and Its Impact on Wildfires 41:32 Vegetation Types and Fire Behavior 42:21 Santa Ana Winds and Fire Ignition 43:16 The Role of Relative Humidity in Fire Risk 44:58 Grassland Fires and Landscape Changes 47:33 Human Ignitions and Year-Round Fire Season 48:09 Critique of Climate Change Attribution to Fires 53:05 Polar Bears and Climate Change Misconceptions 58:46 Arctic Sea Ice and Warm Atlantic Water 01:14:12 Challenges in Climate Modeling 01:15:27 Conclusion and Final Thoughts https://twitter.com/JimSteeleSkepti Slides for this podcast, along with AI summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
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Feb 12, 2025 • 1h 13min

Valentina Zharkova:  Grand solar minimum is underway | Tom Nelson Pod #278

00:00 Introduction to Valentina Zharkova and Solar Activity 00:35 Understanding the Solar Cycle and Sunspots 04:22 Challenges in Measuring Sunspot Activity 05:06 Discovering the Background Magnetic Field 05:56 Analyzing Magnetic Waves and Principal Component Analysis 07:42 Predicting Solar Activity with Eigenvectors 14:43 Grand Solar Minimum and Historical Solar Cycles 27:27 Implications of the Grand Solar Minimum 37:58 CO2 and Temperature Correlation 39:15 Solar Cycles and Earth's Temperature 42:41 Solar Inertial Motion and Climate Impact 48:18 Future Climate Predictions 01:05:17 Volcanic Activity and Climate 01:07:33 Earth's Magnetic Field and Solar Influence 01:12:11 Concluding Thoughts and Future Research Her site: https://solargsm.com/ Slides for this podcast, along with AI summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries Valentina’s previous appearance on this podcast: https://youtu.be/LYOMKLDbeYE?si=OPu_wH27JGK4_xsn ========= My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
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Feb 7, 2025 • 1h 27min

Ned Nikolov: The Ill-defined “Greenhouse Effect” | Tom Nelson Pod #277

Dr. Ned Nikolov obtained his Ph.D. Degree in ecosystem modeling from Colorado State University in 1997. He then spent 3 years as a post-doctorate researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN. Since 2001, he has been working as a physical scientist in one capacity or another for a project funded by the US Forest Service focused on developing of fire-weather applications based on historical climatological data and producing operational fire-weather forecasts to assist the wildfire- and smoke management in the USA. He has been conducting climate research since 2011. 00:00 Introduction and Guest Introduction 01:05 Defining the Greenhouse Effect 03:23 Historical Context and Key Papers 03:56 Convective Fluxes and Atmospheric Dynamics 05:51 Critique of Mainstream Climate Science 13:05 Thermodynamics and Ideal Gas Law 17:03 Hydrostatic Equilibrium and Barometric Equation 23:45 Polytropic Processes in the Atmosphere 32:44 Adiabatic Lapse Rates and Atmospheric Stability 37:57 Impact of Water Vapor on Lapse Rates 43:18 Thermal Kinetic Energy and Surface Flux Attenuation 46:14 Energy Flux and Atmospheric Pressure 47:27 Effective Emission Height and Tropospheric Energy 50:12 Greenhouse Effect Misconceptions 53:45 Earth's Energy Imbalance 01:03:41 Shortwave Radiation and Temperature Correlation 01:09:49 Modeling Climate Change 01:15:07 Conclusions and Implications 01:18:22 Funding and Climate Science 01:20:35 Glaciation Cycles and Atmospheric Mass 01:25:38 Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up X: https://x.com/NikolovScience ========= AI summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89cj_OtPeenLkWMmdwcT8Dt0DGMb8RGR X: https://x.com/TomANelson Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/ About Tom: https://tomn.substack.com/about

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