

Tom Nelson
Thomas Nelson
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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Jun 21, 2023 • 58min
Irina Slav: Challenging the dominant narrative | Tom Nelson Pod #119
Irina has written about oil, gas, and all things energy since 2016. Her main focus is the reality of energy security and the many fantastical facets of the energy transition. Her work appears on Oilprice.com and Substack at Irina Slav on energy.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IrinaSlav1
Substack: https://irinaslav.substack.com
Irina’s Oilprice.com articles: https://oilprice.com/search/tab/articles/irina_slav
Ice throw from wind turbines: https://www.mdpi.com/2504-186X/4/1/4
00:00 Introduction
01:51 Evil subsidies
05:13 Intermittent power: Not enough or too much
08:18 China producing solar panels using cheap coal power
09:33 Many climate cultists are young people looking for meaning
12:09 China's energy mix
14:13 Don't forget the grid connections
17:25 Hacking renewable energy
19:43 Green jobs?
23:35 Dysfunctional solar panels
25:10 Fire danger
27:45 Ask questions when things don't add up
29:34 Green delusions
32:26 Children mining in Africa
33:52 Rube Goldberg power
37:00 Animal fat-powered jets?
38:48 Putting wind turbines and solar panels in landfills?
41:20 Ghost wind and solar facilities?
43:07 Current oil supply
45:52 Energy transition hype
48:36 Big oil exiting wind and solar
53:15 People ask more questions if you hit them in the wallet
54:18 Rise and Fall of ESG
55:40 Looming totalitarianism?
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Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/
About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html
Notes for climate skeptics:
https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Jun 20, 2023 • 48min
Lois Perry: Fighting for energy/climate realism in the U.K. | Tom Nelson Pod #118
For 18 years, Lois has been a regular commentator on BBC Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine Show. She has appeared on Channel 5 as a panelist on the Jeremy Vine Show on numerous occasions and also on the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Essex, LBC, etc.
Lois regularly provides her commentary and appears regularly on GB News and Talk Radio.
CAR26 campaigns for informed rational analysis of climate matters with an irreverent satirical spin – poking fun and calling out hypocrisy.
CAR26: https://car26.org/
https://twitter.com/CAR26_ORG
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LoisPerry26
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LoisPerry-CAR26
Here’s the mentioned clip of Boris Johnson’s dad suggesting you won’t be allowed to “go on a plane”: https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1591766939436986368
00:00 Introduction
01:10 Straight talk
01:49 Collaboration with Heartland Institute
05:32 Just Stop Oil fears Lois
06:38 Jim Dale
07:55 Viral Stanley Johnson clip
10:37 Net Zero polling poorly
12:16 Irritating drivers on purpose
12:57 80% reduction in car ownership in 15 years?
16:03 Kids are fighting back
21:31 Need more climate skeptic collaboration
24:27 15-minute cities
27:16 ULEZ
31:12 Lois Goes North
34:37 Anti-fracking nonsense
39:35 Talking directly to politicians
44:06 Removing Liz Truss
46:57 Wrap-up
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Summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries
Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/
About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html
Notes for climate skeptics:
https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Jun 20, 2023 • 1h 8min
Samuel Furfari: “I denounce energy insecurity” | Tom Nelson Pod #117
Prof. Samuel Furfari (aka Samuele) is a chemical engineer. He graduated from the Free University of Brussels. He obtained his Ph.D. from the same university in 1982. His thesis was in the field of energy.
Between 1982 and 2018, he was a senior official at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Energy, where he devoted his entire career to the development of energy technologies and energy policy in practically all areas of energy (strategy, outlook, clean coal technologies, hydrogen, fuel cells, environment, climate change, renewable energy and energy efficiency) until his final position as Advisor to the Director-General.
He is Professor of Geopolitics and Energy Policy at the ESCP (London campus). He was Professor of Geopolitics of Energy and Energy Policy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles for 18 years. He gives seminars at other universities and lectures extensively in various settings. He is the author of numerous articles and 18 books on energy and sustainable development.
https://twitter.com/FurfariSamuele
Furfari’s April 2023 book, “Energy insecurity: The organised destruction of the EU’s competitiveness”: https://a.co/d/gKcfbqt
Furfari’s Oct 2020 book “The hydrogen illusion” https://a.co/d/ef4eIrD
00:00 Introduction
01:44 Author of 18 books
02:33 Working with European Commission
09:22 Poland
10:43 Germany
15:53 When will the EU return to energy sanity?
19:33 Green peak: Peak climate hysteria?
20:57 Exxon throws in the towel on algae biofuel
24:36 Next book: Energy security
26:05 Israel is a gas producer
26:55 Qatar is investing in Texas to produce more gas.
27:31 Energy in 2050?
29:45 Urgency to electrify Africa
32:52 Future of COP junkets?
34:33 Richer people are more resilient
37:21 If you control carbon, you control life
38:42 Only four flights per lifetime?
39:23 What % of voters want their flights to be limited?
43:32 Kill cows to save the planet?
44:14 Seizing farms?
45:28 Are Europeans buying the climate scam?
47:39 Invited by monks to talk about energy realism
49:44 Keep learning
50:28 Speak up
52:28 Many of today's climate realists were once believers
54:57 It's not really about climate
59:58 Hydrogen
01:04:28 Making liquid fuels?
01:06:47 Greens don't like nuclear energy because it works too well
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Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
Summarize.tech summaries of all of Tom Nelson podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries
Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/
About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html
Notes for climate skeptics:
https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Jun 14, 2023 • 1h 24min
Simon Elmer: The Politics of Environmental Fundamentalism | Tom Nelson Pod #116
Simon Elmer was born and lives in London. In 2002, he received his PhD in the History and Theory of Art from University College London, and he has taught at the universities of London, Manchester, Reading and Michigan. In 2015 he co-founded Architects for Social Housing, for which he is Head of Research. His books include The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State (2022); Virtue and Terror: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 1 (2023); The New Normal: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 2 (2023); and, with Geraldine Dening, The Truth about Grenfell Tower (2017); Central Hill: A Case Study in Estate Regeneration (2018); For a Socialist Architecture: Under Capitalism (2021); and Saving St. Raphael’s Estate: The Alternative to Demolition (2022).
Simon’s “The Politics of Environmental Fundamentalism” article: https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/the-politics-of-environmental-fundamentalism
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SimonElmer2022
Website: https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/
Books:
The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State
https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2022/09/28/the-road-to-fascism-for-a-critique-of-the-global-biosecurity-state/
Virtue and Terror: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 1
https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2023/02/09/virtue-and-terror-selected-articles-on-the-uk-biosecurity-state-volume-1/
The New Normal: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 2
https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2023/02/09/the-new-normal-selected-articles-on-the-uk-biosecurity-state-volume-2/
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Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/
About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html
Notes for climate skeptics:
https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Jun 13, 2023 • 57min
David Blackmon: Energy Absurdities | Tom Nelson Pod #115
40 year veteran of the oil and gas industry. Long-time writer on energy issues. Widely recognized subject matter expert on energy. Contributor at Forbes.com, The Daily Caller, World Oil Magazine and The Petroleum Economist.
Substack: https://blackmon.substack.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EnergyAbsurdity
David helps to co-host The Energy Transition Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7B3Y2G8bsc&list=PLRnT6ZzvUgcAVuMCZaRTsb7Yaeuc37Ttx
The Energy Question With David Blackmon: https://www.youtube.com/@davidblackmon6807
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Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/
About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html
Notes for climate skeptics:
https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Jun 12, 2023 • 60min
Roger Pielke Jr.: Honest brokering is a group effort | Tom Nelson Pod #114
Roger Pielke Jr. is a professor at the University of Colorado, as well as a writer on Substack where he focuses on climate policy, sports governance, and the messy “place where science and politics collide.”
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https://twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/
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https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/
About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html
Notes for climate skeptics:
https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Jun 9, 2023 • 22min
Yong Zhong: A Graphical Explanation for Climate Stability (Version 2) | Tom Nelson Pod #113
About Yong Zhong:
1) Originally trained as a physics teacher.
2) Taught thermodynamics for undergraduates at age of 21.
3) Got PhD in 1991 from Monash University.
4) Made several original contributions to electron and nuclear spin resonance spectroscopy*.
5) Invited to write a chapter in a handbook for researchers in the field.
6) Irritated by the ABC’s interviews on climate change.
7) Started presenting talks on climate physics on Yong Tuition at Youtube in 2019.
*Resonant absorption and emission of microwave by electron and nuclear spins in the presence of magnetic field.
Yong Zhong’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@yongtuition
Slides for this podcast: https://tomn.substack.com/p/a-graphical-explanation-for-climate
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https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1
Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/
About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html
Notes for climate skeptics:
https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Jun 6, 2023 • 59min
Carol Roth: You Will Own Nothing | Tom Nelson Pod #112
Media: 12+ years of on camera experience. Judge, America’s Greatest Makers (TBS). Host, Microsoft’s Office Small Business Academy. Panelist, Closing Bell (CNBC) and Bulls and Bears (Fox Business). Radio Host (WGN). Host of Don’t Quit Your Day Job…Yet (CNBC.com).
Weekly commentator on current events, business, finance, markets, the economy, small business, news, current events and more. Featured in documentaries including Live Another Day and Prohibition. Interviewer of celebrities, business moguls and presidential candidates, among others.
Author of “You Will Own Nothing”, on sale July 18, 2023.
https://www.carolroth.com/
https://www.carolroth.com/nothing/
https://twitter.com/caroljsroth
https://www.youtube.com/@CaroljsRoth/videos
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Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/
About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html
Notes for climate skeptics:
https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Jun 1, 2023 • 32min
Tracy Shuchart: A sane look at energy, climate, and freedom | Tom Nelson Pod #111
CEO/Founder and Chief Market Strategist at Hilltower Resource Advisors LLC. Boutique natural resources research firm. Geopolitics. International Relations.
https://twitter.com/chigrl
https://hilltowerresourceadvisors.com/
Podcast series:
https://twitter.com/MicDropMarkets
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Summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries
Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/
About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html
Notes for climate skeptics:
https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

Jun 1, 2023 • 52min
Soeren Hansen: Why wind and solar will not work | Tom Nelson Pod #110
I have a master's degree in chemical engineering, and have worked in the Danish industry for all of my career. I got involved with the environment in connection with my employment and prepared courses for our staff over many years. This led gradually to an interest in the climate issue, which I have been following for the past some 10 years. I retired in late 2019 and thereupon devoted most of my time on the climate and renewable energy issues. I got involved with the Danish Climate Realism Association and have for the past 3 years been the editor of the Association's web page: klimarealisme.dk, as well as being a member of the Board.
The web page is uniquely in the Danish language, everything we publish is written in Danish or translated.
Besides writing and editing articles for the web page I engage in giving presentations on climate issues, whenever anyone is interested. I am also the author of a book on the renewable energy transition (why it will fail) and a dystopic novel set in 2050 where Denmark has reached the vaunted net-zero emissions status - at tremendous cost to the ordinary people.
Slides for this podcast: https://tomn.substack.com/p/why-wind-and-solar-will-not-work
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Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123
Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/
About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html
Notes for climate skeptics:
https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics
ClimateGate emails:
https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html


