The Climate Discussion Nexus

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , beginning with the curious juxtaposition of claims that 2024 had the hottest summer ever with the cool summers people were actually having in real places including the UK (coolest since 2015), moving on to two different stories saying the...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , beginning with Western governments slapping tariffs on cheap EVs from Communist China, moving on to a new study that says every nice heritage site is about to be trashed by climate change, before wrapping up with the discovery that alarmi...

Dr. John Robson of CDN talks with Dr. Judith Curry, professor emeritus and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology who now runs the Climate Forecast Applications Network, about the science, policy and politics of climate change. Dr. Curry is the author of the 2023 book "Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response". To support th...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , beginning with the ongoing bursting of the electric vehicle bubble and the "energy transition" more broadly, another of our #CheerfulCharts on plunging death rates from climate disasters, U.S. tornadoes getting less destructive and news t...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , beginning with the real offence at the Paris Olympics which wasn't parodying the Last Supper but the hypocrisy about the climate cult exhibited by the organizers, and the notion of spending $3 trillion a year to achieve nothing on the ene...

In this Climate Discussion Nexus "Crystal Ball" video Dr. John Robson shows that endless ongoing predictions of the imminent demise of coral if it gets even slightly warmer are contradicted by science, logic, history and current evidence. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel at / @climatedn , our Rumble channel at https://rumble.com/user/ClimateDN , our newslet...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , beginning with insistent but absurd claims that Monday July 22, 2024 was the "hottest day ever" by 0.06C and moving on to Canada's typical wildfire season despite 2023 hype, climate alarmist intolerance, "vampire summer", government prais...

Dr. John Robson of CDN talks with Roger Pielke Jr., the ‘Honest Broker,’ about his experiences in the climate research community over the past 30 years. 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 po...

In this Climate Discussion Nexus "Crystal Ball" video Dr. John Robson looks back at the history of the Climate Discussion Nexus, at triumphs and surprises, in response to audience questions. 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.cl...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , from the effort by Toronto authorities to blame flooding on climate change not their bad land management and the new British government adding unpredictability to its war on prosperity to wind turbine pollution, metal theft and geoenginee...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , from the dismal failure of corporate efforts to appease climate radicals and the climate fantasies of politicians to "Go woke, go dark", climate hypocrisy, sea-rise hype and hurricane hype to more on Qing-bin Lu's radical "CRE" theory and...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , from Canada's blazing summer that wasn't to a climate journalist who never heard of the Urban Heat Island to NASA showing CO2 as a poisonous cloud, the ongoing bursting of the EV bubble, tropical islands refusing to sink on cue, China hav...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter ( https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne ... , from the head of COP29 claiming to have to ways to enable governments to take decisive action on climate instead of just yakking and posturing for decades, Canada's government being caught hiding embarrassing carbon-tax data, and the MSM...