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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Chuck Weiss presents his background in atmospheric science, meteorology, aviation, and inventing the Windicator, then argues Oregon universities and public schools promote a politicized “climate crisis” despite Oregon’s small share of global emissions. He defines the greenhouse effect as a radiation-flux difference and claims water vapor and clouds dominate radiative processes while CO2 mainly cools the troposphere and has negligible warming influence, especially over oceans. He argues convection and the hydrologic cycle negate CO2 effects, climate models fail due to grid-resolution and energy-tracking limits, and key predictions (e.g., tropical mid-troposphere “hotspot”) conflict with balloon/satellite data. He attributes recent warming to declining albedo, alleges temperature-data manipulation, disputes extreme-weather and Arctic-ice claims, and criticizes green-energy policies as costly and ineffective.

00:00 Meet Chuck Weiss

00:25 Credentials and Forecasting Wins

02:34 Aviation Career Highlights

03:08 Why He Challenges CO2 Theory

04:38 Oregon Climate Politics Critique

07:39 Schools and Climate Indoctrination

09:19 Defining the Greenhouse Effect

12:00 Greenhouse Gases Spectrum Breakdown

16:51 Why Greenhouse Gases Cool Air

18:49 Water Vapor Drives Convection

22:50 Clouds Cancel CO2 Warming

24:53 Ocean Absorption Reality Check

27:14 How Climate Models Work

31:48 Model Predictions vs Observations

36:04 Hotspot Failure in Mid Troposphere

39:01 Temperature Data Adjustments

42:00 Satellite Record Teaser

42:17 Satellite Warming Pause

43:41 Albedo Drives Warming

44:37 Radiative Forcing Critique

48:37 Hansen CO2 Claims

50:13 Emissions vs CO2 Rise

52:14 CO2 Cycle and E-Time

55:59 Severe Weather Myth

01:01:45 Trenberth Missing Heat

01:03:03 Arctic Ice Reality Check

01:04:58 Fake Crisis Wrap-Up

01:06:56 Why Climate Models Fail

01:09:29 AI and Turbulence Talk

01:14:46 Flying in Heat and Cold

01:17:41 Final Policy Takeaway

Chuck Wiese’s Critique of the 6th Oregon Climate assessment: https://edberry.com/critique-of-the-6th-oregon-climate-assessment/

More at Ed Berry’s site here: https://edberry.com/?s=wiese

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Iain Davis discusses his book The Technocratic Dark State, arguing Silicon Valley oligarchs (e.g., Thiel, Musk, Andreessen, Altman, Ellison) steer policy toward a tokenized “everything” economy, including natural assets, carbon markets, and a vastly expanded paper valuation. He says climate narratives may be rebranded across political demographics to sell the same goal: technocratic digital control via programmable money, digital identity, AI-driven surveillance, and BIS-led cross-border “interoperable” payment standards. Davis warns censorship will shift from speech to “reach,” citing the UK Online Safety Act and arrests for online comments, and describes “everything apps,” biometrics-based payments, and geo-fenced spending as tools for automated compliance and fines. He contends surveillance is already pervasive through devices and apps, and says adoption is ultimately a public choice.

00:00 Meet Iain Davis

00:11 Silicon Valley and Trump

03:10 Tokenizing Everything

05:18 Carbon Markets and Nature

08:39 Climate Narrative Rebrand

10:51 Digital Control Pitch

12:51 Free Speech and Shadowbans

16:04 Online Safety and Censorship

20:31 X as Everything App

23:05 Crisis Pressure and Control

28:04 Debt and Tokenized Assets

32:03 Stablecoins and New Rails

33:49 Programmable Money Interop

35:51 BIS Controls Standards

37:49 Bitcoin as Reserve Asset

41:13 Programmable Money Fears

42:12 AI Data Lake Control

46:31 Robots and Adoption Incentives

50:54 Mass Surveillance Reality

56:05 Face Pay and Auto Fines

58:45 Digital ID Skepticism

01:02:07 Agentic State Explained

01:06:15 Wrap Up and Choice

https://iaindavis.com/

https://www.ukcolumn.org/writer/iain-davis

https://x.com/_InThisTogether

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Paul Burgess presents his “Oceanic Index” model of climate change, arguing oceans regulate low cloud cover that acts as Earth’s thermostat, explaining satellite-era temperatures (1982–2025) with high accuracy and extending the approach back using proxies. He accepts anthropogenic CO2 and a direct ECS near 1–1.2°C per doubling, estimating about 0.6°C warming from CO2 since 1850, but rejects IPCC feedbacks and says a ~2.4% reduction in low clouds can account for additional warming, consistent with CERES radiation data where ocean changes lead cloud changes and then temperature. He discusses mechanisms from meteorology (marine inversion changes), historical periods (Little Ice Age, Roman/Medieval warmth) as largely natural, critiques temperature records and climate messaging, and briefly comments on Lindzen’s iris effect and energy policy debates.

00:00 Cloud Thermostat Intro

01:25 Oceanic Index Basics

03:16 What I Accept

04:45 Out of Sample Proof

06:00 ECS Debate Explained

07:32 Ocean Cloud Mechanism

09:16 CERES Sunshade Evidence

12:59 Small Cloud Drop Big Warming

14:26 Back to 1695

16:34 Holocene Lessons

17:40 Oceans Through Minima

20:57 Warm Periods Without CO2

22:03 Mediterranean Cloud Check

24:51 Extending Index to 1800s

28:02 Connolly Adjustment Fit

29:49 El Nino 1870s Peak

30:55 El Niño Context

31:22 ECS Assumptions

31:52 Clouds Fill The Gap

33:32 Feedback Claim Rebuttal

34:57 Frozen Formula Validation

36:02 CERES Versus IPCC

38:04 Scorecard Evidence

40:12 Cloud Mechanism Explained

41:07 Kid Friendly Ocean Cycle

44:21 Alarmism And Propaganda

50:49 Iris Effect Question

52:40 Net Zero Cost Reality

55:27 Closing Thoughts

Climate Realism by Paul Burgess: https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateRealism

Main paper: https://paulburgess3.substack.com/p/how-the-sun-via-the-oceans-controls

The paper on comparing the Mediterranean study: https://paulburgess3.substack.com/p/a-mediterranean-study-of-the-effect

The Paper On The Holocene as far as LIA: https://paulburgess3.substack.com/p/holocene-to-the-little-ice-age-a

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Ed Hoskins presents slides comparing renewables (onshore/offshore wind, solar PV, plus biomass and hydro) with gas, coal/lignite, and nuclear on productivity, EROEI, CO2 embedded in construction, land use, materials, build time, service life, and costs adjusted for capacity factors. He cites European capacity factors since 2010 (offshore ~32%, onshore ~20s, solar ~11%), a combined renewables average near 15% and declining since 2020, and a 2023 wind lull leaving large multi-day deficits. He argues storage to cover such gaps is infeasible, renewables require backup and expanded grids, wear out faster, and become far costlier once productivity is included; nuclear is most energy-productive. He criticizes Germany’s nuclear shutdown and questions CO2-driven policy.

00:00 Renewables Reality Check

02:17 Capacity Factors Since 2010

05:33 Dispatchability And Grid Backup

08:42 Wind Drought Case Study

11:43 Storage Costs And Scale

13:25 Energy Return On Investment

16:19 Germany Nuclear Shutdown

17:35 Embedded CO2 And Biomass

21:38 Land Use And Grid Sprawl

25:01 Build Times And Lifespans

29:16 Cost Comparisons With Productivity

41:00 2025 Installations And Conclusions

46:48 CO2 Warming Diminishing Returns

49:34 Q&A Grid Reliability And China

56:06 Wrap Up And Resources

About Ed: https://edmhdotme.wpcomstaging.com/

https://edhoskins.substack.com/

CO2 concentration Ed Hoskins 2014: https://edmhdotme.wpcomstaging.com/co2-concentration-ed-hoskins-2014/

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Dr. Randall Bock, a primary-care physician and author of Overturning Zika, argues that public-health research and media often fuel panic to secure funding, citing Peter Hotez’s warnings about dengue, chikungunya, Zika, and a “lights out” U.S. yellow fever scenario. Bock says U.S. sanitation and mosquito control limit these risks and that vaccines could be ramped up quickly. He contends the 2015–16 Brazil Zika–microcephaly crisis was driven by inconsistent microcephaly definitions, weak testing, and miscounting, noting Zika later persisted without microcephaly. He criticizes Zika human challenge trials and Fauci-era spending, discusses “science under siege” rhetoric, and briefly shares cautious views on childhood vaccination timing.

00:00 Why Non-Scary Viruses

01:29 Who Am I

03:09 Hotez Warning Yellow Fever

05:46 Climate Link Tomatoes Analogy

07:37 Yellow Fever Reality Check

08:35 COVID Vaccine Warp Speed

11:25 Zika Forecasts Fell Flat

16:11 Microcephaly Counting Mess

20:42 Vaccines and Zika Trials

26:37 Science Under Siege Critique

30:15 Dark Money and mRNA Push

32:56 Mann Lawsuit and Hygiene

35:14 Hygiene and Dengue

36:01 McNeil and Zika Panic

39:53 Microcephaly Metrics

42:08 Hotez and Fauci Reboots

44:37 Soviet Science Rhetoric

47:53 Yellow Fever Scares

50:12 Ghost Babies Fallout

59:22 Vaccines Parenting Choices

https://x.com/@DrRandallBock

https://dailysceptic.org/2026/09/28/the-experts-are-still-trying-to-scare-us-with-non-scary-viruses/

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