Anika Sweetland describes becoming fearful of climate change after a school assignment, obsessively following catastrophic headlines, studying climate science, and suffering severe health issues she links to eco-anxiety. During lockdown and after observing net zero’s economic impacts in England, she began questioning claims, researching data on topics like sea levels, crop yields, and past cooling vs warming scares, and concluded she had been “brainwashed.” She discusses media ethics, impacts on children, and argues climate fears enable centralized control. Sweetland and host Tom discuss her new book, its humor, an upcoming Audible version, and support from physicist Will Happer, who wrote the foreword.

00:00 Doomsday Headlines Hook

00:57 Lockdown Rabbit Hole

01:36 Questioning The Narrative

01:56 Meet The Author

04:11 All In Research Mindset

05:01 Childhood Climate Fear

07:25 Skeptic Turn In Zurich

09:48 Checking Claims One By One

13:44 Old Scares Same Script

18:18 Eco Anxiety Health Crash

21:50 Are People Waking Up

24:10 Cargo Bikes Backlash

25:02 Finding Real Climate Data

25:53 Net Zero Meets Blackouts

26:32 Nuclear For Data Centers

28:50 Renewables Reality Check

29:29 Wind Turbine True Costs

30:35 Humor In The Book

31:14 Party Of Doom Story

33:01 Reaching True Believers

33:30 Sea Level Claims Tested

34:55 Climate Fear And Moving

36:16 Mind Body Healing

37:54 Handling Critics And Online

38:51 Audiobook And Happer Forward

40:46 Conference Protest Moment

41:20 Final Book Plug Thanks

https://x.com/anika_climate

https://aloadofbollocks.com/

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Geologist James Kamis argues El Niño and La Niña are generated by geological forces near a stationary Pacific Ring of Fire source, not primarily by trade-wind shifts. Citing cone-shaped warming/cooling patterns, helium concentrations as volcanic indicators, burst-like heat “blobs,” sharp temperature boundaries, centuries of recorded events, seafloor volcanoes, hydrothermal vents, trenches, and methane hydrate “ice rocks,” he proposes magma heat melts hydrates to create La Niña cooling and continued heating yields El Niño warming. He compares related phenomena (El Padre/La Madre), points to rapid North Atlantic warming linked to a spreading center, and says volcanic impacts may be underestimated in climate studies. He calls for more seafloor mapping and denser Argo buoy coverage.

00:00 Meet the Geologist

01:14 Geology Behind ENSO

03:09 Why Wind Theory Fails

05:16 Volcanic Evidence

10:18 Ring of Fire Origins

11:05 Ocean Floor Revealed

12:20 Undersea Volcanoes

14:20 Hydrothermal Heat Engine

16:09 Faults and Quakes

17:19 Methane Hydrates Model

20:01 Source Area Deep Dive

21:46 La Niña Mechanics

23:33 Analog Events Worldwide

27:29 Atlantic Heat Spike

29:27 Climate Change Impacts

33:25 Wrap Up and Q&A

Kamis’ website: https://www.plateclimatology.com/

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David Burton argues recent warming (~1.25°C since 1870) is small and often overstated, while CO2 benefits crops and ecosystems by boosting growth and water efficiency, reducing famine risk alongside fossil-fuel-based nitrogen fertilizer. He says storm and sea-level data show little acceleration, citing linear long-term tide-gauge records like Honolulu and noting local land motion dominates. His paper discusses multiple CO2 “lifetimes”: turnover (3–5 years), bomb-spike radiocarbon (~20 years), and the climate-relevant adjustment time he estimates at ~55±10 years, with a long tail he deems currently unimportant. He criticizes IPCC “cumulative emissions/TCRE” and “carbon budget” concepts as unphysical, analyzes direct waste heat as negligible (~52–58 days), and promotes his sealevel.info tools and archived Climategate emails.

00:00 Meet David Burton

00:23 How Much Warming Really

02:04 Ice Ages And Freezing Thresholds

03:06 CO2 Greening And Crop Gains

05:28 Famine History And Fertilizer

07:48 Storms Tornadoes And Sea Level

11:00 Paper Overview CO2 Lifetimes

11:55 Turnover Bomb Spike Adjustment

14:31 Cumulative Emissions Myth

15:38 Heat Pulse Lifetime

19:45 Suess Effect Carbon14 Confusion

27:03 Why CO2 Rises Negative Feedbacks

30:03 Linear Removal Rate And Limits

34:14 Why Plant Uptake Stays Linear

35:30 CO2 Boosts Crop Yields

37:03 Airborne Fraction Myth

39:16 Emissions Plateau Math

42:14 Long Tail Lifespan Debate

43:40 Cumulative Emissions Critique

48:49 Carbon Budget Pushback

50:50 How Long Heat Lasts

55:10 Where to Find More

56:39 Sea Level Tools vs NOAA

01:01:05 Climategate Archive Access

01:02:56 Ocean Chemistry and Carbonate

01:08:08 Climate Industry FUD Wrap

https://co2coalition.org/teammember/david-burton/

ClimateGate emails on Dave’s site: https://x.com/TomANelson/status/1916076156371058904

Watts Up With That article on Dave’s site: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/01/21/new-website-gives-you-the-real-deal-on-sea-level-rise-and-rates/

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