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The Climate Discussion Nexus
by John Robson
Join the Climate Discussion Nexus for more open debate on all aspects of climate change, especially better use of scientific information in public discussion and policy formation.
Episodes
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Climate Vultures Linger In Nepal
John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with media and activist vultures continuing to circle the flooding disaster in Nepal and Tibet saying it was climate change…
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Who Is Bill Nye?
In this series from the Climate Discussion Nexus, Dr. John Robson examines the credibility of various prominent climate alarmists, in this case former kid-friendly science host turned foul-mouthed radical alarmist Bill Nye, aka "Bill Nye the Science Guy". To support the Climate Discussion Nexus,...
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Ghouls Do Nepal
John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with media and activist vultures swooping on tragedy in Nepal to say they don't know what happened but they know it was due to...
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Green Taxidermy
John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with what ever happened to Canada's international green man of mystery, now Prime Minister, Mark Carney (plot spoiler…
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World Off Fire
John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with more hysteria about wildfires even though as of August 5 every single continent was below the 2012-25 average for fires…
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EuroHeat
John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with more hysteria about European heatwaves this summer that misrepresents history, more hysteria about wildfires that ignores...
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Wildfire Frenzy
John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with how wildfires aren't increasing but the hysteria about them keeps getting worse, EU methane reductions being too good to…
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Real Problems
John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with a discussion of real environmental problems that get neglected because of the obsession with climate and carbon, and real...
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Canadian Wildfires, Fossil Fuels and Pseudoscience
Dr. John Robson reacts to a new World Weather Attribution study, and media feeding frenzy, on Canadian wildfires. 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...
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French Fried
John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with alarmists rushing off to American hotspots when Europe cooled, without dealing with issues from declining cloud cover to the…
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Hell Niño
John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with news outlets saying there might be a strong El Niño and it definitely will be made worse by climate change and definitely will...
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Climate Misanthropy
John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with Heatmap objecting that AI giant Anthropic is buying into carbon removal because they (Heatmap) fear that if it worked it might...
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AI AI Oh
John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with the paradox of people's love-hate relationship with AI including hating data centers but using those wretched AI…
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Carbon Capture Caper
John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with more evidence that carbon capture is a mirage, this time from Alberta, Canada, questions about the European heat wave and...
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Run Away
John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with more companies tiptoeing away from blithe Net Zero pledges as the real costs become clear, and politicians, the strange...
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Affraudability
NB it says Readout #305 at the beginning but it's not, it's #304 John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with deliberately baffling power pricing from Ontario to New...
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The Plasticity of Radicalism
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with California's state government moving from wrecking its economy with radical climate policies to wrecking it with...
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It's Not CO2
Dr. John Robson of CDN talks with Dr. Qing-Bin Lu, Professor of Physics at the University of Waterloo and author of the recent book Theories and Predictions on Ozone Depletion and Climate Change, about his theory, and testable predictions, challenging the notion of CO2 as the main driver of…
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Green Screen Of Death
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with Microsoft bailing on yet another impractical climate goal, Canada being a secret energy superpower that only seems to...
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Our Royal Petition
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with a petition to His Majesty Charles III, King of Canada, to stop talking nonsense on climate, a warning to Heatmap that...
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An Offer You Can Refuse
John Robson offers CDN viewers an offer you don't hear every day. 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/)...
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Winners' Remorse
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with this weird story out of Illinois where the legislature mandated the extinction of hydrocarbon energy and now…
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Witness: A Journey Out Of Climate Alarmism
Dr. John Robson of CDN talks with Lucy Biggers, journalist at The Free Press and recovering climate activist/influencer, about her journey into climate alarmism and back out again. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_egd...,...
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Useless Politicians
Dr. John Robson of CDN denounces excessive attention to politicians who shy away from principle instead of to those who work from coherent ideas to bold policies. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_egd..., our Rumble…
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Carbon Discredit
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with trouble in the carbon credit "market" as the only customer decides it's not valuable PR, Canada's Liberals stealing...
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Dire Straits
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with more apparently surprising news about how disruptions in world trade affect "renewables" as well as oil and gas, more...
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Ehrlich Thought People Were Bugs
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with more reflections of anti-human doomster Paul Erhlich, as cruel as he was wrong, moving on to the latest...
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There's No Pleasing Some People
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with the irony that climate alarmists who spend decades trying to raise the price of hydrocarbon fuels so people would use...
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The Energy Independence Snooze Button
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with the strange way governments, including in Canada, supposedly learned a lesson about energy and sovereignty when…
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Sun Tan Oil
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with California being obliged to import oil from the Bahamas because their wacky climate policies assumed away the...
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15 Inches Of Snow In The Park, 15 Inches Of Snow
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with the New York Times blaming warm and cold winters on climate change, and declaring the end of snow while the dang stuff keeps...
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A Flood of Nonsense
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with claims that British banks are under pressure from increasing floods when it's really increasing hysteria, of the sort...
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Update From The Road
John Robson reports from Canada’s Western Arctic—from Cambridge Bay to Inuvik at the mouth of the Mackenzie River. While filming his documentary exploring what we really know about Arctic ice and climate, John shares some highlights from the trip including the sheer scale of our planet, the...
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The Robson Expedition: Coming Soon
In this trailer Dr. John Robson previews CDN's upcoming documentary "The Robson Expedition: Arctic Ice, Alarmist Misconceptions & Climate", a first-hand look at the real state of Arctic ice including just how big the Arctic is and from there discusses long cycles in ice, glaciation and everything...
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The Endangerment Of Science
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with the "Green Money Machine" and the alarmist nervous breakdown over the bureaucratic repeal of the 2009 bureaucratic...
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Climate Doom Archive VIII: Extreme Flooding
In this recurring feature from the Climate Discussion Nexus, we examine popular past climate alarmist predictions of doom against what actually happened, including extreme flooding. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel…
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A Modern Miracle Part I: What Oil And Gas Do For Us
In this documentary Dr. John Robson takes a first-hand look at the vital role of hydrocarbon energy in our lives, starting in Part I with what oil and gas do for us. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_egd..., our Rumble...
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Climate Doom Archive VII: Antarctica
NB the passage quoted at 2:29 is from AR6 WGI not the Synthesis Report. In this recurring feature from the Climate Discussion Nexus, we examine popular past climate alarmist predictions of doom against what actually happened, including the melting of Antarctic ice. To support the Climate…
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Gold Medal In Hype
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with the Washington post brandishing RCP8.5 to claim the looming end of the Winter Olympics instead of checking the record, past...
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Cold Climate
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with an acknowledgement that, while we typically claim climate zealots call heat climate and cold just weather, some have lately...
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Flight Of The Alarmists
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with the gathering rout of climate alarmists, while noting the stubborn refusal of some to admit their predictions have failed…
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Climate Doom Archive VI: Sea Level Rise
In this recurring feature from the Climate Discussion Nexus, we examine popular past climate alarmist predictions of doom against what actually happened, such as catastrophic sea level rise including submerging tropical islands. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube...
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Trump Destroys Planet, Detroit
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with claims that Donald Trump's alleged "war on climate" has destroyed Detroit as mere collateral damage, foolish claims we can...
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Berlin Blackade
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with the blackouts in Berlin due to sabotage by environmental extremists who actually didn't know you couldn't target…
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The Endless End Of Snow
In this recurring feature from the Climate Discussion Nexus, we examine popular past climate alarmist predictions of doom against what actually happened, including claims that snowfall was inexorably dwindling away. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel...
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They Know Snow
In this recurring feature from the Climate Discussion Nexus, we examine popular past climate alarmist predictions of doom against what actually happened, including claims that snowfall was inexorably dwindling away. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel...
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Climate Doom Archive IV: AMOC
In this recurring feature from the Climate Discussion Nexus, we examine popular past climate alarmist predictions of doom against what actually happened, including claims of the imminent collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation current. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus,...
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A Climate Carol
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with "A Climate Carol" (it being our last newsletter before Christmas 2025) and the fact that real-life Democratic governors are...
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The Carbon Is Flying
Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with the strange and hypocritical political habit, especially in Canada, of hopping on airplanes and spewing carbon to meet the...
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Is Climate Change A Religion?
In this "Fact Check" video from the Climate Discussion Nexus, Dr. John Robson asks whether global warming has become a religion or even a cult, with so many activists claiming God Himself is a climate alarmist. To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel...
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Join the Climate Discussion Nexus for more open debate on all aspects of climate change, especially better use of scientific information in public discussion and policy formation.
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