Thomas Kurz: “Why There Is No Climate Crisis” | Tom Nelson Pod #392

Thomas Kurz discusses his upcoming book, Why There Is No Climate Crisis (Kindle in May, print in June), and argues modest warming is largely natural, claiming the IPCC obscures evidence of past climate variability. He explains paleoclimate proxies (oxygen isotopes, carbon-14, beryllium-10) and links climate shifts to Milankovitch cycles, solar cycles, galactic cosmic rays influencing clouds, and ocean oscillations (AMO/PDO). Using temperature reconstructions, glacier, treeline, sea-level, historical freeze, agriculture, insect, and civilization records, he says warm periods brought prosperity while cold periods drove drought, famine, disease, and upheaval. He concludes about half of post-1850 warming is natural, warming is generally beneficial, and future cooling is likely.00:00 Guest And Book Intro00:24 Why He Dug In01:46 Focus On Climate Cycles03:44 Paleoclimate Proxies04:57 Isotopes And Temperature06:48 Cosmic Rays And Solar07:56 Milky Way Climate Cycle12:17 Milankovitch Ice Ages14:28 CO2 Follows Temperature17:10 Holocene Cooling Trend19:29 Schwabe Solar Cycles21:42 Millennial Solar Cycles23:14 Temperature Reconstructions25:04 Glaciers Treelines Seas28:44 Historical Freeze Evidence32:27 Farming And Wildlife Clues37:06 Warm Vs Cold Impacts41:28 Storm Evidence In Proxies44:44 Civilizations And Climate45:48 Holocene Optimum Prosperity47:42 2200 BC Collapse Event48:18 Minoan Warm Period Boom50:47 Greek Dark Ages Breakdown52:53 Roman Warm Period Growth54:23 Late Antique Cooling Plagues56:50 Medieval Warm Period Golden Age59:11 Little Ice Age Hardship01:06:46 Witch Hunts Climate Blame01:09:16 Modern Warming Attribution Debate01:12:17 Ocean Oscillations AMO PDO01:15:44 No Climate Crisis Wrap Up=========Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summariesMy Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1