Thomas Nelson

Tom Nelson

Science EN ↓ 414 episodes

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.

Author

Thomas Nelson

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Science

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tomn.substack.com

Latest episode

Jul 10, 2026

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#39 - Russell Cook: On climate change, “the mainstream media has not done its job” 02.11.2022

Russell Cook is an unpaid advisor to Heartland regarding the origins of false 'industry corruption' accusations leveled at global warming "skeptics." Among those occasional contributions is "Merchants of Smear," which was published as a Heartland Policy Brief in 2014. In 2013, Heartland created the bare-bones online structure for his GelbspanFiles.com blog, which has a regular outlet for Cook to p...

#38 - Michael Connolly: “People who thought the science was settled are in for a shock” 01.11.2022

Dr. Michael Connolly is an independent scientist, based in Ireland. Lecturer and tutor at third level in the fields of physics, chemistry, electronic engineering, computer science, mathematics, and statistics. I qualified as a plasterer in 1969, as an electrician in 1970 and have experience in all building trades. In 1975, I built our first house entirely on my own. The last time this house was so...

#37 - Hugo Kruger: “I’ve seen how people can fall for their own models” 28.10.2022

Hügo Krüger is a writer, podcaster, and structural engineer with working experience in the nuclear, concrete, and oil and gas industry. He has a master’s degree in the design of nuclear structures, and has also worked on renewable energy. Hugo's podcast guests have included Richard Lindzen, Will Happer, Judith Curry, Tony Heller, Patrick Moore, and Noam Chomsky. Twitter: https://twitter.com/HgoKrg...

#36 - Ronan Connolly: “rural U.S., we're finding it was about as warm in ‘30s, ‘40s as present” 27.10.2022

I am an independent scientist, environmentalist and writer. My primary university degree was in Chemistry, and my PhD in computational chemistry/polymer physics. However, in 2004, I shifted to environmentalism, and began working with my father, Dr. Michael Connolly, on developing sustainable methods of fish-farming, aquaponics and waste-water treatment. We also carried out research into developing...

#35 - Lennert den Boer: “It's The Sun, Not Us” 26.10.2022

Lennert D. den Boer is a Canadian geoscientist and professional geophysicist, who graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1983. He is a current member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA), and past member of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) and Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). He has authored or co-a...

#34 - Andy May: “CO2-driven climate models of the IPCC are inadequate” 24.10.2022

Andy May is a writer, blogger, and author living in The Woodlands, Texas; and enjoys golf and traveling in his spare time. He is the author of three books on climate change issues and one on Kansas history. Andy is the author or co-author of seven peer-reviewed papers on various geological, engineering and petrophysical topics. He retired from a 42-year career in petrophysics in 2016. You can find...

#33 - Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore: “CO2 is entirely beneficial” 21.10.2022

Dr. Patrick Moore has been a leader in the international environmental field for over 30 years. He is a founding member of Greenpeace and served for nine years as President of Greenpeace Canada and seven years as a Director of Greenpeace International. As the leader of many campaigns Dr. Moore was a driving force shaping policy and direction while Greenpeace became the world's largest environmenta...

#32 - Former British MP Lembit Opik: “The greens, not me, are the climate change deniers." 19.10.2022

Lembit Opik is a former Member of Parliament in the U.K. He has been a climate realist for many years, and is a member of a group called Transport Reality. https://twitter.com/TransportR2022 https://twitter.com/lembitopik —— 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 clim...

#31 - Michael Kelly: An engineer shows us what net zero would really mean 18.10.2022

Michael Kelly was Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge during 2002-16 and Emeritus since 2016. His previous career in academia and industry concerned the physics of high-performance semiconductor devices and the manufacturability of nanoscale artefacts. His interest in climate science and mitigation was piqued by the UK Climate Change Act of 2008, where, as part-tim...

#30 - Ross McKitrick on big problems with paleoclimate data and land temperature records 17.10.2022

Ross McKitrick is a Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph where he specializes in environment, energy and climate policy. He has published widely on the economics of pollution, climate change and public policy. His book Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2010. His background in applied statistics has also led him to collaborat...

#29 - Willie Soon: “This CO2 stuff is…pure delusion. You cannot find any signature of that.” 15.10.2022

Dr. Willie Soon, an astrophysicist and geoscientist, is a leading authority on the relationship between solar phenomena and global climate. In this 32+ years of singular pursuit, he seeks to understand the Sun-Earth relations in terms of not only meteorology and climate, but also in terms of orbital dynamics of Sun-Earth-other planets interactions, magmatic (volcanoes) and tectonic (earthquakes) a...

#28 - Gregory Wrightstone: Celebrate the BENEFITS of modest warming & increased CO2! 14.10.2022

Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist (BS and MS in Geology), bestselling author (Inconvenient Facts), and an Expert Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR6). His science and fact-based approach exposes many of the alarmist myths concerning our changing climate. Gregory is a strong proponent of the scientific process and believes that policy decisions should be driven by scien...

#27 - Vijay Jayaraj on evil insanity of blocking fossil energy for people living in energy poverty 12.10.2022

Vijay Jayaraj is a Research Associate at CO2Coalition, a Virginia based non-profit that informs the public about the benefits of CO2 and the truth about climate change. He is also a contributor for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. Vijay holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences from University of East Anglia, UK which is the home of Climatic Research Unit. He also has...

#26 - Joe Bastardi: Expecting perfect weather is crazy; it’s cooling over the tropics; temperature's a very poor metric for climate 12.10.2022

https://twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi https://www.weatherbell.com/ Joe’s 2020 book: The Weaponization of Weather in the Phony Climate War https://www.amazon.com/Weaponization-Weather-Phony-Climate-War/dp/1662903650/ —— 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 skept...

#25 - Michelle Stirling on going viral pushing back against fake science and fake consensus 11.10.2022

Michelle Stirling is the Communications Manager for Friends of Science Society. She has worked in marketing communications, advertising and film/video production most of her career. In 2005, she worked for a time at Alberta Environment as an Information Coordinator, the year that the Sierra Club gave Alberta an "F"...and Ontario a "B+". That jump-started her interested in climate change policies....

#24 - IPCC expert reviewer Kenneth P. Green on the IPCC and the climate "socialist amoeba" 08.10.2022

Kenneth P. Green is a Fraser Institute senior fellow and author of over 800 essays and articles on public policy, published by think tanks, major newspapers, and technical and trade journals in North America. Mr. Green holds a doctoral degree in environmental science and engineering from UCLA, a master’s degree in molecular genetics from San Diego State University, and a bachelors degree in genera...

#23 - Zuzana Janosova Den Boer on conversion of free democratic countries to totalitarianism 06.10.2022

Zuzana Janosova Den Boer is a professional engineer, working for the oil and gas industry. In 1997, she moved to Canada with her family and settled in Calgary, Alberta. She has personal experience with a totalitarian regime and propaganda. After a provincial election in 2015, she decided to share her experience and observations with people who grew up in western society. Zuzana authored this extre...

#21 - Andrew Montford (aka Bishop Hill) on the hockey stick farce and his work with GWPF/Net Zero Watch 05.10.2022

Andrew Montford is the deputy director of The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Andrew is a writer specialising in climate and energy issues. He appears frequently in the media as a prominent commentator and analyst. Twitter: https://twitter.com/aDissentient The Global Warming Policy Foundation: https://twitter.com/GWPF_org https://www.thegwpf.org/ Net Zero Watch: https://twitter.com/NetZeroWatch...

#22 - Martin Durkin on updating The Great Global Warming Swindle, and fighting the “new class” 05.10.2022

Martin Richard Durkin is an English television producer and director of the 2007 documentary film The Great Global Warming Swindle. https://twitter.com/Martin_Durkin — 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://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/usef...

#20 - Lois Perry, director of car26.org, on climate realism, British media and fracking 23.09.2022

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 matt...

#19 - Richard Lindzen on climate science from the inside 22.09.2022

Richard Lindzen, Ph. D. is Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT. He has made major contributions to the development of the current theory for the Hadley Circulation, which dominates the atmospheric transport of heat and momentum from the tropics to higher latitudes, and has advanced the understanding of the role of small scale gra...

#18 - Will Happer: Demonizing CO2 is “the craziest thing I ever heard” 21.09.2022

Dr. William Happer, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Princeton University, is a specialist in modern optics, optical and radiofrequency spectroscopy of atoms and molecules, radiation propagation in the atmosphere, and spin-polarized atoms and nuclei. Dr. Happer received a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of North Carolina in l960 and the PhD degree in Physics from Princ...

#17 - Godfrey Bloom, former Member of the European Parliament 16.09.2022

Godfrey Bloom is a libertarian author with six books published on both military history & Austrian School Economics. He worked in the City of London where he won an international prize for fund management (fixed interest) with Mercury Asset Management. He represented Yorkshire & Lincolnshire in the European Parliament & was a staunch campaigner for Brexit for twenty five years. During...

#16 - Ronald Stein on the huge advantages of fossil fuels over wind/solar power 13.09.2022

Ronald Stein, P.E. is an engineer and Founder of PTS Advance, drawing upon decades of project management and business development experiences. He is an internationally published columnist, energy expert, and Pulitzer Prize nominated author who writes frequently about all aspects of energy and economics and is a Policy Advisor for The Heartland Institute. More about Stein: https://www.heartland.org...

#15 - Brian Catt on energy density, the climate "crock", and much more 11.09.2022

Acclaimed physicist and engineer Brian Catt: I am a Chartered physicist and electrical engineer, who worked in research activities before entering technology business, where the technology has to work as claimed or you don't get paid. I returned to research and publishing in retirement, so am now informed by current experience and personal contact with leading figures in University research,...

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