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 Intro

00:24 Why He Dug In

01:46 Focus On Climate Cycles

03:44 Paleoclimate Proxies

04:57 Isotopes And Temperature

06:48 Cosmic Rays And Solar

07:56 Milky Way Climate Cycle

12:17 Milankovitch Ice Ages

14:28 CO2 Follows Temperature

17:10 Holocene Cooling Trend

19:29 Schwabe Solar Cycles

21:42 Millennial Solar Cycles

23:14 Temperature Reconstructions

25:04 Glaciers Treelines Seas

28:44 Historical Freeze Evidence

32:27 Farming And Wildlife Clues

37:06 Warm Vs Cold Impacts

41:28 Storm Evidence In Proxies

44:44 Civilizations And Climate

45:48 Holocene Optimum Prosperity

47:42 2200 BC Collapse Event

48:18 Minoan Warm Period Boom

50:47 Greek Dark Ages Breakdown

52:53 Roman Warm Period Growth

54:23 Late Antique Cooling Plagues

56:50 Medieval Warm Period Golden Age

59:11 Little Ice Age Hardship

01:06:46 Witch Hunts Climate Blame

01:09:16 Modern Warming Attribution Debate

01:12:17 Ocean Oscillations AMO PDO

01:15:44 No Climate Crisis Wrap Up

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