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Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), from the rapid return of climate folly about energy even as the Ukraine invasion continues to beavers making Alaska a farming powerhouse to Shackleton's ship being found under an Antarctic sea that climate change has rendered um an ice-co...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), including the ongoing foolishness of claiming the solution to the Ukraine crisis is to give up all fossil fuels not just ones from aggressive dictatorships, or that we should be fixated on the latest IPCC report not some silly war, the Mi...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), including the demented foolishness of Western nations making themselves dependent on Russian energy, the Canadian government's dilemma over pipelines and the rule of law, a major media outlet boasting of taking money to slant its climate...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), including the latest group telling Canadian Conservatives to get jiggy on global warming, an entire house collapsing due to climate breakdown, a story about snow smelling bad, methane panic, and some good sense from an unexpected directio...

Far too many people have been "conditioned" to react to bad weather by thinking "climate change". But Dr. John Robson explains that, just as Pavlov's dogs learned to salivate at the sound of a metronome (no, not a bell) even though there was no inherent connection between that device and the appearance of food, people have come to associate storms, droughts, wildfires and so on with global warming...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), including the New York Times making up climate change closing a ski resort to National Geographic making up climate change devastating crops the Daily Telegraph making up climate change ravishing Antarctica and so on. Plus Greta Thunberg...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), including the supposed end of winter 10 years ago despite snow in Athens, alarmists calling cooling more bad news, climate change causing a volcano to erupt, the gas stoves of death, natural CO2, our "Sunburnt lands up north" tour visitin...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), including the factual blunders in Agence France-Presse's effort to fact check us, the supposed end of the winter Olympics as we know them, Britain's Met Office predicting gangs of maniacs roving the UK by 2100 unless Britain rejoins the E...

Overwhelmingly, climate alarmists say we must meet our "Paris targets" to avoid disasters. But Dr. John Robson explains that their own computer models say meeting Paris will make no difference to temperature by 2100. Some activists and politicians may not know it... but the scientists do, and it's wrong of them not to speak up about the fact that the Paris Accord, like Kyoto before it, means massi...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), including fantasy hitting reality at COP26, a high tide due to lack of warmth, the whole US government focusing on climate like a bureaucracy, temperature records unheard of since 1994, some climate-like scientists threatening to shut up,...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), including our getting zapped by an AFP "Fact Check", a bunch of people saying 2021 is the year climate change finally became a reality... again, the end of snow during a brutal North American winter, our advice simply not to look at "Don'...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), from the announcement that the Thwaites Glacier is semi-doomed at some urgent distant time maybe to the idea that we are about to set the global thermostat to the ideal temperature if only we knew what it was, climate change causing infla...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), including blaming recent tornadoes in Ohio on climate change despite what the science says, the fact that Australia's weather was harsh in the 19th century too, and an effort to scare us with Ontario government buildings getting "ravaged"...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), starting with the fact that satellite data show no net warming for the past seven years, something impossible to reconcile with the simplistic "more CO2 equals more heat" equation. We also look at the tendency of one politician after anot...

In the 1970s, journalists, activists and scientists worried that human activity, especially burning fossil fuels, would disrupt the climate, causing bad weather, crop failure and a collapse of civilization due to cooling. Modern alarmists claim it was a fringe view and serious people knew all along that that human activity, especially burning fossil fuels, would disrupt the climate, causing bad we...

In the 1970s, journalists, activists and scientists worried that human activity, especially burning fossil fuels, would disrupt the climate, causing bad weather, crop failure and a collapse of civilization due to cooling. Modern alarmists claim it was a fringe view and serious people knew all along that that human activity, especially burning fossil fuels, would disrupt the climate, causing bad we...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), starting with the trendy but absurd claim that climate change is devastating albatross marriages and moving on to Justin Trudeau getting a stinging reproach from Canada's Environment Commissioner and others for being a gasbag on climate,...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), from flooding in British Columbia to the war on methane to the BBC exposing denialist plots, plus 1920 or 2020 in Kerang, Australia, and what the IPCC's AR6 really said about "atmospheric rivers". To support the Climate Discussion Nexus,...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), starting with the failure of COP26 and moving on to the hypocrisy of politicians and actors on climate, a video of someone skiing down a glacier to prove there are no glaciers any more, yet another attempted "hit" on both penguins and pol...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), starting with an observation by Jordan Peterson about people who will clearly make complex systems worse, like an economy, then the possibility of desperate alarmist politicians finally reconsidering nuclear power, woolly mammoths and cli...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), especially the appointment of radical environmental activist Steven Guilbeault as Canada's new Minister of Environment and Climate Change by our fatuously committed Prime Minister, the increasingly tendency of alarmists to assume rather t...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), from the extraordinary timing of YouTube and others trying further to stifle debate on climate to an Australian court upholding the firing of Peter Ridd to stifle debate to National Geographic lamenting that youth are in a climate panic i...

In the year 2000, the U.S. government's Global Change Research Program produced the first in a series of National Climate Assessments that made a number of projections based on computer models it insisted were ready for prime time. But as Dr. John Robson explains in this Climate Discussion Nexus "Crystal Ball" video, including an interview with Dr. Pat Michaels, the models were already known to be...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), starting with the alarming recommendation not to park your perfectly safe EV near anything you value, moving on to the supposed hottest summer ever in the US, disgusting claims of climate-driven polar bear inbreeding and cannibalism, more...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne... ), starting with the claim that climate change is making elephants' ears bigger, moving on to worms eating forests, warming eating a castle, a pointless UN conference likely to collapse too, Joe Biden blithely ordering half solar by 2050, so...