The Climate Discussion Nexus

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 subsidy farmers farm subsidies, Canada's government subsidizing climate alarmist journalism, New York threatening to bankrupt a housing coop by shutting down its natural gas power plant, yet more meetings on climate and yet more accidental admissions that warmth is good, fools outnumbering rogues on the climate file, and mathematically preposterous claims of everywhere warming faster than the average, and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive into last summer's "red team" climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, about how extreme weather has always existed but we now handle it better, Roger Pielke Jr. celebrating the IPCC climate scenario elves finally tossing RCP8.5, and from the CO2Science.org archive evidence that Hayfield Tarweed really is a plant ant it really likes CO2.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com…

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/) and our podcast on Spotify, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com…

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 everyone's stunned that a major power plant is literally leaving the state, plus yet more meetings that will suddenly save the climate, the Canadian government going in another circle on the Memorandum of Misunderstanding, and the Iran War supposedly causing condom shortages as well as energy and everything else, and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive into last summer's "red team" climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, going deeper into the studies that wrongly said climate change would harm agriculture, more evidence that hurricanes are declining (so does CO2 get credit?) and from the CO2Science.org archive evidence that Hairy Bracken and Woolly Bracken are hard to tell apart but both like CO2.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com…

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..., our Rumble channel (https://rumble.com/user/ClimateDN), our newsletter (at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com/) and our podcast on Spotify, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com…

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 channel (https://rumble.com/user/ClimateDN), our newsletter (at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com/) and our podcast on Spotify, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com…

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 opposition MPs and ideas, while wasting money on EV facilities, more meetings on climate, some obscenity on climate, European fatuity on the Straits of Hormuz, moving on to Lucy Biggers on how much worse Net Zero would be, airlines backing away from it, Australia's government going Baghdad Bob on energy shortages but with a "Four Point Plan" for fatuity, strange dreams of reviving the Inflation Reduction Act, and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive into last summer's "red team" climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, this time on climate change and agriculture, the Little Ice Age making Stradivarius violins sound so good, and from the CO2 archive Gum Arabic loving CO2, by gum.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com…

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 apparently surprising news that the US network of temperature monitoring stations are poorly placed and even more poorly maintained, blaming CO2 for El Niño's predicted impacts and BC salmon alleged being hammered by habitat loss, pollution, stuff and oh also climate change, moving on to there still being no energy transition, more meetings on climate as if none had ever been held, asking why Roger Pielke Jr. still keeps one foot, or toe, in the climate alarmist camp, and Heatmap cheering for China, and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive into last summer's "red team" climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, this time on Extreme Event Attribution, a man-made water crisis in the US southwest because people forgot droughts are natural there, and from the CO2 archive Avicennia marina being a plant not a marina, and one that loves CO2.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com…

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 herd-of-independent-minds doomsaying over the climate being "out of balance" like never before, both terms being undefined, more evidence that at a micro level we know little of climate so the models can't know everything globally, green energy creating horrible waste, bug-food factory failure, and enthusiasts for giving up oil bitter that Trump made Cuba give up oil, moving on to more proof that we need oil to live just in case anyone really doubted it, and the hollow fakery of "carbon markets", and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive into last summer's "red team" climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, this time on the IPCC's desperate failed lunge to identify "Climate Impact Drivers", and yet another study proving cold is more deadly than heat but this time also that it hits the poor hardest.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com…

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 less of them are unhappy that the Iran War has raised the price and reduced the availability of... hydrocarbon fuels, and bizarre claims that given that war foreigners are praising the Canadian government for having its act together on energy and waving money at us, and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive into last summer's "red team" climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, this time on the strange alchemy of attribution, the puzzling case of various estimates of global surface warming trends converging when the underlying data on sea surface temperature, which is 74% of the Earth's surface, are so different, and finally from the CO2Science.org archive, Harding Grass loving CO2 as much as cattle love Harding Grass.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com…

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 "Endangerment Finding" by the U.S. EPA, the idiocy of plans to stop climate from changing, by people who don't even know what it is, and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive into this summer's "red team" climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, this time on temperature extremes which are not getting worse in the U.S., a more thorough look at the persistence it took for Clintel to get KNMI to admit it had fudged Dutch weather records and the likelihood that such stubbornness by guardians of orthodoxy has worn down other critics of bad statistical practices across the globe, and from CO2Science.org, news that we may not like goosegrass but it likes CO2.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...

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 (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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

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 channel (https://rumble.com/user/ClimateDN), our newsletter (at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com/) and our podcast on Spotify, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

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 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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

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 and present, and finding that they've long struggled with lack of snow but not this time, the Canadian government pivoting smartly from banning ICE car sales through legislation to banning them through regulation, and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive into this summer's "red team" climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, this time on the need for very long data sets to detect trends in variable phenomena like, gosh, weather, and from CO2Science.org, California Goldfields that pan out because they're a flower and it loves CO2.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...

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 been blaming cold on global warming, while refusing to acknowledge that the winter they didn't predict has exposed the weakness of the grid they did design, and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive into this summer's "red team" climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, this time on how models predict stratospheric cooling that didn't happen while Qing-bin Lu predicted stratospheric warming because in his view h-GHGs not CO2 were driving late 20th-century warming, polar bears flourishing and from CO2Science.org, "Goldenclub" isn't a James Bond film but an American aquatic plant that (cue dramatic music) has a carbon touch.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 make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...

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, and signs that new panics are rising to supplant climate, more winter in the US while zealots want the governments to heat-proof mobile homes at great cost, and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive into this summer's "red team" climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, this time on how models predict the troposphere to warm with altitude but it didn't, a real extinction rebellion where species refuse to die out because of climate or anything else, and from the CO2Science.org bean curd feasting on CO2 then feeding cows.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...

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 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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

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 "stop climate change", non-CO2 warming that will be blamed on CO2, and claims of "unsurvivable heat" that people will, um, survive, and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive look at this summer's "red team" climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, this time on how key model predictions for the troposphere plummeted to earth (and the IPCC knew it), more evidence that the weather is not getting worse, and from the CO2Science.org archive ginger in all its forms and glory thanks to CO2.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...

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 fossil fuels without harming the people dependent on them, a surprisingly widespread piece of ignorance, and the stubborn refusal of snow to vanish in the face of fiery alarmist rhetoric, and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive look at this summer's "red team" climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, this time on how kluged-together climate models can't even get recent warming trends right despite knowing the answer, Javier Vinós claiming vindication over claims the Hunga-Tonga eruption, not CO2, explained the 2023-24 warming spike, and from the CO2Science.org archive Spring Avens, which no one seems to hate, loving CO2.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

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 (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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

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 (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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

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, 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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

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 joining our fictional Ebenezer Kluge in being shocked into a new realism, Inside Climate News getting it again about other environmental problems and us getting a bottle of English wine, and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive look at this summer's "red team" climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, this time on the UHI and alarmists who know it but fib, and from the CO2Science.org archive old Flat-topped bogmoss grooving to CO2.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...

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 same people and babble the same cliches over and over again... including about climate change, and the apparent pivot from attacking fossil fuels because of climate to attacking them because of plastic pollution, and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive look at this summer's "red team" climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, this time on emissions scenarios and the carbon cycle, and from the CO2Science.org archive a Christmas tribute to Silver Fir and the CO2 it cherishes.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...

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 (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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with the supposed Memorandum of Understanding that would let Canada pivot from climate mania to building oil pipelines that was no understanding and barely a memorandum, the arrival of winter once again surprising the smart set, Scientific American claiming the oil industry actually wants to pollute the Earth horribly, moving on to more government prattle in place of productivity in Canada, zealots thinking government subsidies prove something is competitive, New York turning on BlackRock for not being green enough, Canada winning the "Fossil of the Day award" at COP30, a real story about toxic Chinese mines polluting Asian rivers and groundwater, and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive look at this summer's "red team" climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, this time on how unreliable calculations of "radiative forcing" are, especially since it seems the Earth is radiating more heat than it used to and nobody knows why, and from the CO2Science.org archive Knobby Club Rush (no really) also liking CO2.

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with the revealing hypocrisy of COP30 being a polluting event staged amid real pollution that the delegates ignored, and being futile which delegates also ignored, the shocking discovery that Chinese bamboo tissue paper isn't greener than the Western wooden stuff because... China burns so much coal to power its economy, people thinking retrofitting a parking lot will fix the weather, winter returning in winter, and more green-tech pie-in-the-sky, moving on to the Sierra Club shedding members as it turns into the red green show, alarmists cherry-picking bad weather, the failed Canadian pivot from climate zealotry to "climate competitiveness", New York not making it on the green energy transition either, and wrapping up with a long-term ocean cooling trend, the first installment in our #DOEDeepDive look at this summer's "red team" climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, and from the CO2Science.org archive Sheep Fescue, which sheep don't like though golf course designers do and which itself likes CO2.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

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 demise of the world's coral, a warm-water species.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

Dr. John Robson asks viewers to contribute to support the work of the Climate Discussion Nexus with a one-time or ideally monthly pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com/donate/ or via the YouTube “Thanks” button.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with the International Energy Agency putting down its climate zealotry and backing away at least on "peak oil", a lot of other alarmists now claiming they were always secretly non-hysterical despite appearances, the end of The End Of Winter As We Know It (again), and moving on to the way that harsh anti-conventional-energy policy tends to lower the quality as well as the amount of investment, zealots wanting to decarbonize Canada's failing health-care system, having at least some protestors show up for COP30, snobs clinging to alarmism, and wrapping up with a #HaveItBothWays installment on drought in Britain, climate fingerprinting framing humanity, and from the CO2Science.org archive Myrtle Spurge, a plant not a comic character, enjoying CO2.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with an apparently real climate tipping point, away from hysterical alarmism, including the collapse of the "Dairy Methane Action Alliance", moving on to someone blaming slumping oat milk sales on climate doom-and-gloom rhetoric, the New York Times fiddling graphics to save climate policy while destroying it, and wrapping up with a #HaveItBothWays installment on warming in the Antarctic Peninsula, Grok declaring that there's no climate crisis, and from the CO2Science.org archive Water Fern, which is Mosquito Fern if you hate it and Water Velvet if you like it, disregarding your views and slurping up the CO2 regardless.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with Bill Gates' sudden insight that things like malaria are worse than tiny temperature increases, especially for the poor and vulnerable, excessive hype about Hurricane Melissa, fine English wine and Inside Climate News noting that a Chinese-financed hydroelectric dam in Indonesia threatened a rare orangutan, moving on to more evidence that the failure of the green energy transition is no longer a taboo subject, the difficulty many alarmists have with scale, including just how big the Earth is (including a hare-brained scheme to fix the weather by burying wood), and wrapping up with a #HaveItBothWays installment on "debris flow events" in the Swiss Alps, the Antarctic Peninsula not warming fast or at all, and from the CO2Science.org archive fenugreek allegedly tasting like maple syrup and certainly liking CO2.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with Bjorn Lomborg again cancelling the often-scheduled but never held funeral for the Great Barrier Reef, alarmist clutching at Hurricane Melissa with unseemly relief, and the unreasonable cost of EV charging points, moving on to Carbon Carney's ongoing shameless constant jet travel, another EV battery fire, Scientific American insisting that the Earth warming for non-CO2-related reasons just made CO2 worse, the Atlantic blaming Trump for deforestation in the Amazon while COP30 was busy deforesting the Amazon, and claims that climate change is making people crazy (they speak for themselves) and hurting sparrows and killing South Korean fishermen, and wrapping up with a #HaveItBothWays installment on accelerating sea level rise, scientists surprised that Arctic ice had stopped melting getting over it and claiming they secretly saw it coming, and from the CO2Science archive encouragement to make more and more buckwheat pancakes because that stuff, which is not wheat, does like CO2.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

In this recurring feature from the Climate Discussion Nexus, we examine popular past climate alarmist predictions of doom against what actually happened, starting with confident predictions of an imminent return of the glaciers 50 years ago.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with the Earth passing the first of an endless series of catastrophic climate tipping points that might be reversible or not even exist, this one dooming coral eventually unless it recovers, the actually doomed subsidized EV industry, global heating causing snow on Everest utterly unprecedented in the last, um, six years, Mark Carney spewing carbon as he flies hither and yon promoting the views behind his vaunted GFANZ that just collapsed, and climate cancel culture, moving on to a plan from people who claim to love nature to make solar power work by turning night into day and some zealot who thinks if Russia got a bit warmer Putin would be in huge geopolitical trouble, and wrapping up with a #HaveItBothWays installment on rainfall in the Sahel, a strong argument that the all-time temperature record of 134F in Death Valley in 1913 didn't actually happen, and from the CO2Science archive evidence that European Larch has a boring name but likes CO2.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...

In this recurring feature from the Climate Discussion Nexus, we examine popular past climate alarmist predictions of doom against what actually happened, starting with polar bears.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with Britain's Met Office exhausting the alternatives then doing the right thing and withdrawing data they just invented from weather stations that closed years ago, more delusions about alternative energy and basic biology, early snow and more "experts say", moving on to the crawling pace of Canada's EV charging stations, the Earth becoming less reflective which increases warming for reasons unrelated to CO2, climate obsessives, and the Canadian government thinking the solution to failed climate ambitions is more ambition not better planning, and wrapping up with a #HaveItBothWays installment on plants moving uphill due to warming or downhill instead, another climate science scandal via Roger Pielke Jr. and from the CO2Science archive evidence that a plant with the displeasing name of Sticky Snakeroot likes CO2 more than people like 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 newsletter (at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com/) and our podcast on Spotify, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with the chattering classes in the West making excuse after excuse for Communist China including on climate, fatuous praise and concerns for Mark Carney's "climate competitiveness", more on Carney's high-flying hypocrisy and vacuity, moving on to the Philippines protecting the most "climate resilient" corals when you'd think they'd protect the vulnerable ones, real progress cleaning up the Chicago River by focusing on real pollution, claims that you can't run a marathon if it's 86F, Michael Mann stepping down or being pushed as University of Pennsylvania "Vice Provost for Climate Science", and claims of exceptional drought that happens a lot, and wrapping up with a #HaveItBothWays installment on plants spewing methane, the models exaggerating Greenland ice melting, and from the CO2Science archive evidence that a plant with the absurd name of Darwin Woollybutt might not like CO2 very much.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with the way in which alarmists peddle the failure of Arctic ice to set another record low for the 13th straight year as something extraordinary, the hypocrisy of Carbon Carney jetting about lecturing people including on climate, the claim that Earth has now breached seven of nine critical we-are-all-going-to-die thresholds without any ill effects, more left-wing enabling of Communist China, more journalists no longer caring about whales, and wrapping up with a #HaveItBothWays installment on the salinity of the North Atlantic and the AMOC, the fine print on a study of climate change devastating crops that says it won't but we must cut emissions anyway, and from the CO2Science archive evidence that while the Sydney Blue Gum is not blue, it does love CO2.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with the way in which Arctic ice is rebounding from its 2012 low no matter how often alarmists and heir models tell it not to, or shout that it isn't, it can't be, and the stampede to attribution science with its sure-fire rubbish findings, people obsessed with climate and their expensive follies, moving on to more of the Canadian government pivoting on climate but not, journalists who think plant food kills plants, more grudging honesty about alternative energy costs, more stubbornness about the active hurricane season that wasn't, and wrapping up with a #HaveItBothWays installment climate and North Sea cod, the fact that the total ferocity as well as total number of North Atlantic hurricanes is low this year, and from the CO2Science archive evidence that the stay-at-home Narrowheart Lovegrass is not pining for lower CO2.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

In this condensed 15-minute version of the documentary "In The Dark: Senegal As A Case Study In Energy Poverty", featured at the Oct. 14, 2025 premiere in Calgary, Dr. John Robson takes a brief first-hand look at the real-life consequences of do-gooding Western "Green Imperialists" in the hope that it will persuade you to watch the full version available here: https://climatediscussionnexus.com/videos/in-the-dark-senegal-as-a-case-study-in-energy-poverty/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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with the clickbait Nature study in which weather attribution wizards pin heatwaves on specific companies so they can be sued not so we will understand climate better, moving on to some honesty about alternative energy costs, more lunacy from experts say, European record wildfires all the way back to... um... 2003 and Bryce rubbishing McKibben, and wrapping up with a #HaveItBothWays installment on climate change and malaria, stunning news that the massive Pacific Northwest heatwave of 2021 labelled "impossible" without climate change was just like one in ... um... 1941, and the CO2Science archive evidence that the rock-star-named Weeping Lovegrass is not crying over CO2.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with the impudent way journalists put some variant of "experts say" in a headline where "random leftist who thinks like me says" would be more honest and accurate, the UK having the "hottest summer ever" if you believe data from a hundred non-existent stations and Canada's pivot away from climate zealotry and right back toward it again, evidence that tidal gauges have it right and satellites have it wrong on sea level rise, and from the CO2Science archive evidence that the Emblic tree, once hailed by Buddhists, takes a wise attitude to CO2.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

In this documentary Dr. John Robson takes a first-hand look at the real-life consequences of do-gooding Western "Green Imperialists" denying poor people and poor countries the ability to develop their own energy resources.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne..., starting with the way in which the unstoppable green energy transition seems to be screeching to a halt whenever and wherever subsidies are withdrawn, a minatory tale about a peer-reviewed junk paper in Nature and another "scorch watch" installment, moving on to legacy media daring to recycle the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and AMOC collapse scare stories, the fact that there's been a "regime shift" in Arctic ice where it's no longer diminishing but scientists say it's about to start again, and from the CO2Science archive evidence that African Palm Oil loves carbon "pollution".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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...

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 phenomenon of climate alarmists citing the thus-far-quiet 2025 hurricane season as vindication of their predictions of a fierce one, ex-prime minister Justin Trudeau flaunting his carbon footprint while his successor tries to outdo it, a chef who climate-virtue-signaled his vegan restaurant bringing back meat to make money, and a brutal cold spell in South America the press ignored, moving on to the Canadian government boosting defence spending by throwing money at decarbonizing equipment we don't even have, more westerners gaga about China's green pivot it doesn't even have, a journalist who apparently didn't know wood sucks CO2 out of the air, more evidence that the greenlash is the fault of climate zealots not deplorables, and wrapping up with a #HaveItBothWays installment on more and less snow hitting the Great Lakes region due to climate change and alarmists loving a dataset that very obviously overcounts recent weather disasters.ATo 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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

Dr. John Robson of CDN rebuts a recent study in Nature that claims to attribute responsibility for specific weather events to specific energy companies.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly "Wednesday Wakeup" newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/newsletter/), starting with the report from the U.S. Department of Energy in which five climate experts discuss what we know, what we don't and why it matters, including our latest webinar guest Dr. Steven Koonin who has also written a book on that subject, and Canada's government pouring money into climate propaganda aimed at kids while claiming to be restoring balance, plus Scientific American admitting climate change isn't killing sea stars without admitting it, moving on to more polar bear propaganda, the Washington Post blurting out that chronic bad weather isn't new, the CBC saying it is and it's ruining festivals, Ottawa getting less smokey, Gavin Newsom trying to lure back the oil companies he's trying to drive out of California, the Economist hyping a new climate policy art of the possible just like the old impossible kind, and wrapping up with a #HaveItBothWays installment on Earth's rotation, evidence that humans are adapting faster than climate is changing, and studies from the CO2Science.org archive that Indian goosegrass likes CO2 whether or not you like Indian goosegrass.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

In this trailer Dr. John Robson previews CDN's upcoming documentary "In The Dark: Senegal As A Case Study In Energy Poverty", a first-hand look at the real-life consequences of denying poor people and poor countries the ability to develop energy resources.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...

In this trailer Dr. John Robson previews CDN's upcoming documentary "In The Dark: Senegal As A Case Study In Energy Poverty", a first-hand look at the real-life consequences of denying poor people and poor countries the ability to develop energy resources.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 us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Gettr, and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com...You can also now buy CDN merchandise at https://climatediscussionnexus.com/st...