John Robson

The Climate Discussion Nexus

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John Robson

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Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

Run Away 08.07.2026

John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/ ), starting with more companies tiptoeing away from blithe Net Zero pledges as the real costs become clear, and politicians, the strange news that the Canadian government is subsidizing conventional as well as electric vehicles, people say...

Affraudability 03.07.2026

NB it says Readout #305 at the beginning but it's not, it's #304 John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/ ), starting with deliberately baffling power pricing from Ontario to New England that lets politicians preach "affordability" while their alternative energy drives up the cos...

The Plasticity of Radicalism 26.06.2026

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/ ), starting with California's state government moving from wrecking its economy with radical climate policies to wrecking it with radical anti-plastic policies, Honda pivoting away from EVs no matter how much money the Canadian governm...

It's Not CO2 22.06.2026

Dr. John Robson of CDN talks with Dr. Qing-Bin Lu, Professor of Physics at the University of Waterloo and author of the recent book Theories and Predictions on Ozone Depletion and Climate Change, about his theory, and testable predictions, challenging the notion of CO2 as the main driver of modern global warming. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel ( http://ww...

Green Screen Of Death 22.06.2026

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/ ), starting with Microsoft bailing on yet another impractical climate goal, Canada being a secret energy superpower that only seems to import electricity from the US, with cabinet ministers who don't even seem to think independently ev...

Our Royal Petition 15.06.2026

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/ ), starting with a petition to His Majesty Charles III, King of Canada, to stop talking nonsense on climate, a warning to Heatmap that subsidy farmers farm subsidies, Canada's government subsidizing climate alarmist journalism, New Yor...

An Offer You Can Refuse 10.06.2026

John Robson offers CDN viewers an offer you don't hear every day. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel ( http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_egd ... , our Rumble channel ( https://rumble.com/user/ClimateDN ) , our newsletter (at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com/ ) and our podcast on Spotify , like us on Facebook , follow us on Twitter and Gettr , and make a...

Winners' Remorse 10.06.2026

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/ ), starting with this weird story out of Illinois where the legislature mandated the extinction of hydrocarbon energy and now everyone's stunned that a major power plant is literally leaving the state, plus yet more meetings that will...

Witness: A Journey Out Of Climate Alarmism 02.06.2026

Dr. John Robson of CDN talks with Lucy Biggers, journalist at The Free Press and recovering climate activist/influencer, about her journey into climate alarmism and back out again. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel ( http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_egd ... , our Rumble channel ( https://rumble.com/user/ClimateDN ) , our newsletter (at http://www.climatedis...

Useless Politicians 27.05.2026

Dr. John Robson of CDN denounces excessive attention to politicians who shy away from principle instead of to those who work from coherent ideas to bold policies. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel ( http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_egd ... , our Rumble channel ( https://rumble.com/user/ClimateDN ) , our newsletter (at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com/...

Carbon Discredit 26.05.2026

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/ ), starting with trouble in the carbon credit "market" as the only customer decides it's not valuable PR, Canada's Liberals stealing opposition MPs and ideas, while wasting money on EV facilities, more meetings on climate, some obsceni...

Dire Straits 14.05.2026

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/ ), starting with more apparently surprising news about how disruptions in world trade affect "renewables" as well as oil and gas, more apparently surprising news that the US network of temperature monitoring stations are poorly placed...

Ehrlich Thought People Were Bugs 11.05.2026

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/ ), starting with more reflections of anti-human doomster Paul Erhlich, as cruel as he was wrong, moving on to the latest herd-of-independent-minds doomsaying over the climate being "out of balance" like never before, both terms being u...

There's No Pleasing Some People 28.04.2026

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/ ), starting with the irony that climate alarmists who spend decades trying to raise the price of hydrocarbon fuels so people would use less of them are unhappy that the Iran War has raised the price and reduced the availability of... h...

The Energy Independence Snooze Button 23.04.2026

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/ ), starting with the strange way governments, including in Canada, supposedly learned a lesson about energy and sovereignty when Russia invaded Ukraine, moving on to the US giving the IEA an ultimatum to drop its climate obsession, the...

Sun Tan Oil 20.04.2026

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/ ), starting with California being obliged to import oil from the Bahamas because their wacky climate policies assumed away the importance of hydrocarbon energy and crushed their ability to produce it... but then they turned out to need...

15 Inches Of Snow In The Park, 15 Inches Of Snow 16.04.2026

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , starting with the New York Times blaming warm and cold winters on climate change, and declaring the end of snow while the dang stuff keeps falling, and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive into last summer's "red team"...

A Flood of Nonsense 16.04.2026

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/ ), starting with claims that British banks are under pressure from increasing floods when it's really increasing hysteria, of the sort that led a Canadian bank to claim climate disasters have shot up in Canada by counting dollar cost n...

Update From The Road 16.04.2026

John Robson reports from Canada’s Western Arctic—from Cambridge Bay to Inuvik at the mouth of the Mackenzie River. While filming his documentary exploring what we really know about Arctic ice and climate, John shares some highlights from the trip including the sheer scale of our planet, the realities of life in extreme conditions, and the critical role energy plays in making northern communities p...

The Robson Expedition: Coming Soon 16.04.2026

In this trailer Dr. John Robson previews CDN's upcoming documentary "The Robson Expedition: Arctic Ice, Alarmist Misconceptions & Climate", a first-hand look at the real state of Arctic ice including just how big the Arctic is and from there discusses long cycles in ice, glaciation and everything else, and the failure of climate alarmists to grasp the variability of nature, the resulting diffi...

The Endangerment Of Science 24.03.2026

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/ ), starting with the "Green Money Machine" and the alarmist nervous breakdown over the bureaucratic repeal of the 2009 bureaucratic "Endangerment Finding" by the U.S. EPA, the idiocy of plans to stop climate from changing, by people wh...

Climate Doom Archive VIII: Extreme Flooding 23.03.2026

In this recurring feature from the Climate Discussion Nexus, we examine popular past climate alarmist predictions of doom against what actually happened, including extreme flooding. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel ( http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_egd ... , our Rumble channel ( https://rumble.com/user/ClimateDN ) , our newsletter (at http://www.climatedi...

A Modern Miracle Part I: What Oil And Gas Do For Us 20.03.2026

In this documentary Dr. John Robson takes a first-hand look at the vital role of hydrocarbon energy in our lives, starting in Part I with what oil and gas do for us. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel ( http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_egd ... , our Rumble channel ( https://rumble.com/user/ClimateDN ) , our newsletter (at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.co...

Climate Doom Archive VII: Antarctica 19.03.2026

NB the passage quoted at 2:29 is from AR6 WGI not the Synthesis Report. In this recurring feature from the Climate Discussion Nexus, we examine popular past climate alarmist predictions of doom against what actually happened, including the melting of Antarctic ice. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel ( http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_egd ... , our Rumble cha...

Gold Medal In Hype 10.03.2026

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , starting with the Washington post brandishing RCP8.5 to claim the looming end of the Winter Olympics instead of checking the record, past and present, and finding that they've long struggled with lack of snow but not this time, the Canadi...

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