The Climate Discussion Nexus

In this Climate Discussion Nexus "Crystal Ball" video Dr. John Robson looks at Hertz' disastrous venture into EVs as one more indication that the fabled "energy transition" isn't happening, won't and can't. 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 (...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , starting with companies pretending to be committed to Net Zero and annoying zealots and skeptics alike, what "climate" really means, a #Gettingworse instalment on how the U.S., which isn't getting wetter, isn't getting drier either, a Cli...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , starting with a hailstorm smashing up a solar farm and scattering toxic debris and moving on spurious claims that our melting of Arctic Ice might delay a leap second by three years, companies realizing promising Net Zero has backed them i...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , starting with a modern version of "Your Feet's Too Big" about the environmental and visual impact of "alternative" energy, and moving on to a study of carbon isotopes that says there's no human footprint in rising atmospheric CO2, praise...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , starting with the extraordinary achievement of Canadian politicians in creating an investment-repelling energy shortage and moving on to the U.S. government forcing companies to make climate predictions as unreliable as its own, global gr...

In this "Fact Check" video from the Climate Discussion Nexus, Dr. John Robson examines a list of cities most at risk of sinking into the sea and finds that "climate change" and CO2 have nothing to do with 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/ClimateDN ) , our newslett...

There's a lot of apparently confident talk about how current temperatures compare with those in the past, including claims of 2023 being the "hottest year ever" or at least in the last 125,000. But how do we actually know, and how much do we actually know, about historic and prehistoric temperatures? In this Climate Discussion Nexus "Backgrounder" video John Robson examines the uses, and abuses, o...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , from the claim that "Valley Fever" now threatens California because it has started to have weather to the clami that the Arctic will soon be ice-free unless it's not, a proposal simply to ban fossil fuels and be done with it, and everythi...

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 Franklin's ships sunk in the Canadian Arctic are vulnerable to climate change, followed by a study saying that because Antarctica warmed naturally thousands of years ago humans must be doing it now, warnings o...

In this "Fact Check" video from the Climate Discussion Nexus, Dr. John Robson debunks a stream of ignorance and misinformation directed at Ottawa City Council over fossil fuel ads, and warns that wherever you live, these kinds of meetings are going on with little or no scrutiny or diversity of opinion. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel ( http://www.youtube.c...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , starting with the bizarre geoengineering idea of putting an umbrella in space to fend of the sun's rays and hope they don't miscalculate, and moving on to journalists who can't believe anyone disagrees with them on climate,Canada's carbon...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , starting with the Streisand effect already kicking in on the Mann v Steyn libel case as Mann's defenders try to talk around his misconduct, moving on to the European farmers protesting climate policy and the out-of-touch elitists condesce...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , starting with Roger Pielke Jr. asking the highly pertinent question why alarmists prefer the weather in 1850 when they have no idea what it was like (bad, in fact) and moving on to journalistic nonsense about climate science and the Amazo...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , starting with the bizarre verdict in the Mann v Steyn libel case and its chilling impact on science, moving on to the rout of alarmist policy outside the courtroom especially in Europe, U of T thinking it's a good time to slash emissions...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , starting by telling alarmists to stop having trendy climate anxiety and look at the facts, followed by a poll that says wealthy elite Americans want rationing to fight warming and normal folks don't, more snow, Greta Thunberg's perilous l...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ..., from From the end of snow yet again, in the midst of heavy snowfall no less, to the press cliché use of “cold snap” to minimize cold weather, to Chrystia Freeland for racking up limousine expenses while claiming to go carless for climate a...

In this recurring feature from the Climate Discussion Nexus, we check claims of relentless sea level rise against actual data. 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...

In this "Fact Check" video from the Climate Discussion Nexus, Dr. John Robson rebuts claims that heat waves are getting more frequent or more severe due to climate change... or even that climate models predict that they will, with particular emphasis on the Pacific northwest of North America heat wave in 2021. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel ( http://www.y...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , from Tony Heller's splendid archival work showing how the U.S. NOAA systematically "adjusts" temperature to cool the past by implausible amounts to some media actually admitting cold weather is dangerous to other journalists saying dumb s...

In this recurring feature from the Climate Discussion Nexus, we check claims of relentless sea level rise against actual data. 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...

In this first instalment of our new "Climate Short Takes" series Dr. John Robson comments on a key item from the Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , in this case tree ring temperature proxies are brazenly cherry-picked. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel ( http://www.youtube.com/channel/U...

In this series from the Climate Discussion Nexus, Dr. John Robson examines the credibility of various prominent climate alarmists, starting with former Portuguese socialist Prime Minister and now United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel ( http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_egd ..., our Rumble channel ( https://rumbl...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , from the absurd yet predictable claims that COP28 ended in a "historic" deal of no importance to Canada's Environment minister going on jaunts and making empty boasts to Scientific American ditching the precautionary principle to endorse...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , from the oil-company-president chair of COP28 blurting out that there's no scientific basis for phasing out fossil fuels to meet an arbitrary 1.5C deadline, and it the attempt would "take the world back into caves" to admissions that the...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , from the absurdity of COP28 taking place in a facility and a nation built on oil money and being used by the host as a fossil fuel trade show to a climate researcher fired for walking the walk instead of flying the flight, taxpayers denie...