John Robson

The Climate Discussion Nexus

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John Robson

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Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

Plastic People 27.01.2025

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , starting with the predictable ignominious collapse of the supposedly vital talks on plastic and the environment in Busan, South Korea, and moving on to Canada's "Captain Carbon" flying about constantly along with various other climate hyp...

This One Goes to 111 Percent 13.01.2025

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/ ), starting with spuriously precise tallies of what various sectors contribute to human GHGs that go way past 100% and moving on to Australia's energy transition to shortages and blather, the "Fire department effect" with exploding lit...

Why Didn't They See It Coming 13.01.2025

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/ ), starting with why the failure of COP29 was predictable and moving on to alarmists trying to stifle debate on BSky, people convinced peak oil is upon us despite the evidence, a journalist who bathed in oil in Azerbaijan and was appar...

Call Off The COPs 13.01.2025

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/ ), starting with the failure of COP29 because climate alarmists are wildly impractical people and moving on to Azerbaijan as a petrostate underlining how dependent on fossil fuels humans are, the absurdity of peddling low-carbon plane...

The Trump of Climate Doom 13.01.2025

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/ ), beginning with the world ending because "Trump has pledged to wage war on planet Earth" and moving on, in case it doesn't, to why "climate voters" didn't stop Trump, archeologists finding a Roman camp high in the now-frozen Alps, Ca...

Baku to the Past 13.01.2025

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/ ), beginning with the predictable failure of COP29 and moving on to the predictable failure of carbon markets, the fate of the climate hanging on school lunches, California proving the green transition works by bungling it, deep climat...

Suddenly Nothing Happened 09.12.2024

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , beginning with the UN and its hangers-on suddenly realizing three decades of hype on climate policy had produced no results and planning a highway robbery in response, more EV losses for Hertz, a lithium fire burning down a German fire st...

Javier Vinós Challenges Climate Orthodoxy 09.12.2024

Dr. John Robson of CDN talks with Dr. Javier Vinós, author of Solving the Climate Puzzle: The Sun's Surprising Role, about the complexity of climate including air and ocean currents, the inadequacy of the "Enhanced CO2 Hypothesis" and the computer models based on that paradigm, and an intriguing alternative explanation for the warming and cooling of planet Earth". To support the Climate Discussion...

H 2 No 09.12.2024

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , beginning with the meteoric rise and fall of hydrogen as the fuel of the future of the past, moving on a claim that climate change had not just killed all the polar bears but created an opportunity for polar bear tourism and once it kille...

Monty Python's Flying Climate Alarmism 09.12.2024

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , beginning with the tendency of climate zealots to substitute dogmatic assertion for reasoned argument on topics from extreme weather to the alleged "renewables revolution", and assuming everyone agrees with them anyway, moving on climate...

A Hot Time In The Old Holocene Climatic Optimum 09.12.2024

In this "Fact Check" video from the Climate Discussion Nexus, Dr. John Robson explains why climate alarmists are so determined to get rid of the Holocene Climatic Optimum and why their attempts are so unconvincing. 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 ne...

Farewell To COP 29 09.12.2024

John Robson concludes CDN's on-site coverage of COP29 with some reminiscences, a cool scarf, and some harsh words for the people who have run this whole process into the ground and either won't admit it or can't understand it. 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/ClimateD...

Time To Close Up COP? 09.12.2024

John Robson wraps up day five of COP29 by arguing that the conference had failed before it started and that rationally the whole process has run its course because these gatherings cannot possibly achieve what they say they must. 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/Clima...

What Is To Be Copped 09.12.2024

On day five of COP29 Dr. John Robson looks at the lack of convincing solutions on offer despite the often charming idealism of many participants, the slow detailed plans of others and the windiness of still others. 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 ne...

Hurricane Gotcha 09.12.2024

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , beginning with the usual suspects pouncing on Hurricane Helene as proof of climate change because a tornado hit during tornado season, moving on to solar flares that could devastate electronic communication as one more issue being ignored...

From The COP 29 Bubble To The Mud Volcano Bubbles 09.12.2024

Dr. John Robson spends day four of COP29 outside Baku but in Azerbaijan, looking at the actual country and actual people that conference-going denizens of the galactic metropolis seem to ignore or disdain. 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...

Third Time Lucky At COP29 09.12.2024

Dr. John Robson wraps up day three of COP29 from Baku, Azerbaijan with some praise for the activists in the pavilion, with big hearts and actual ideas even if not all of them are exactly on target. 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...

The Unbearable Banality of COP29 09.12.2024

Dr. John Robson checks in from Baku, Azerbaijan on the third day of COP29, and worries that everyone seems to be saying exactly the same thing not just on major issues but on minor points, and none of them seem to be worried about the arid, unproductive conformity. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel ( http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_egd ... , our Rumble cha...

Two Tier COP 29 09.12.2024

Dr. John Robson checks in from Baku, Azerbaijan on the second day of COP29, and voices a growing suspicion that it's two conferences in one, an outer colourful freak show and an insider meeting where you're lucky to get a video briefing. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel ( http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_egd ... , our Rumble channel ( https://rumble.com/us...

COP29 Saunters Into Session 09.12.2024

Dr. John Robson checks in from Baku, Azerbaijan on the second day of COP29, asking "Where is all the urgency?" given that supposedly they have two weeks to save the planet and yet the politicians aren't even rushing to the podium never mind into action. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel ( http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_egd ... , our Rumble channel ( https...

COP 29 Media Feeding Frenzy 09.12.2024

Dr. John Robson checks in from Baku, Azerbaijan on the first day of COP29, asking "What are all these journalists doing here?" and suggesting they're writing stories that were decided long before they got off the plane. 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 ) , o...

Welcome to COP29 09.12.2024

John Robson checks in from Baku, Azerbaijan on the first day of COP29, asking "What are all these people doing here?" and suggesting some possibilities he'll explore in the coming week. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel at / @climatedn , our Rumble channel at https://rumble.com/user/ClimateDN , our newsletter at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com/ , like...

A T. Rex Among Tornadoes 05.11.2024

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , beginning with the devastating, record-breaking Tri-State Tornado of... 1925, moving on to the ongoing failure of Arctic sea ice to vanish, politicians jetting about denouncing carbon dioxide, sanity among pro-nuclear alarmists, scientist...

Climate Hypocrisy Squared 30.10.2024

Oops: at 5:12 I said you could fit 153 Mercury's into the Earth but the real number is 18. Sorry. The same alert viewer who spotted that blunder added that “Ruspolia nitidula is a cricket, not a grasshopper it is not native to the Americas” which is also true though it is often called the “cone-headed grasshopper” so that mistake is less embarrassing especially as the news story did call it a gras...

Hooray, Finally A Hurricane 23.10.2024

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , beginning with climate alarmists' unseemly glee when the long lull in Atlantic hurricanes ended, weird weather from the past, and wrapping up with another of our #CheerfulCharts , showing dramatically rising life expectancy, the strange c...

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