{"id":332198,"date":"2024-06-09T09:49:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T07:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=332198"},"modified":"2024-06-09T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T07:49:06","slug":"the-climate-scare-will-crumble-sooner-than-you-expect-an-interview-with-climate-the-movie-producer-tom-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=332198","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Climate Scare Will Crumble Sooner Than You Expect\u201d: An Interview With Climate: The Movie Producer Tom Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0HANNES SARV<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCheck out my DeSmog <\/em>page here<\/a>,\u201d is what Tom Nelson writes in the \u2018About\u2019 section of his Substack publication<\/a>, to link his profile on a publication called DeSmog<\/em>. Calling itself<\/a> \u201cthe world\u2019s number one source for accurate, fact-based information regarding global warming misinformation campaigns\u201d, DeSmog <\/em>is a well-known platform to try and debunk \u2013 or smear \u2013 the so-called climate sceptics. The publication was founded in January 2006 by Canadian PR-expert James Hoggan. Hoggan has said<\/a> that his interest in climate issues began in 2003 when he was invited to join the board of the David Suzuki Foundation, a Canadian environmental organisation that unconditionally backs the theory of a man-made climate crisis. Interaction with pro-climate crisis scientists and political activists such as Al Gore led Hoggan to take the climate issues presented to him very seriously, and this led to the founding of DeSmog <\/em>\u2013 \u201cto raise awareness and help people become savvy about the global problem of climate change disinformation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate crisis PR and the \u2018disinformation database\u2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Indirectly, the origin story itself shows that the purpose of the publication is not to provide unbiased scientific information on the arguments of all parties to the climate debate, but to present only one side of the science to the public so as to support the founders\u2019 chosen and unchallengeable basic claim that humans are changing the climate and a catastrophe lies ahead. In essence, the website can also be seen as a PR-publication for one side, which ironically was acknowledged<\/a> by Richard Littlemore, one of DeSmog<\/em>\u2018s key authors back in the day, as early as 2009. In November 2009, emails from scientists on the computer server of the East Anglia University Climate Research Unit were made public by a whistleblower or perhaps hackers. The whole affair became known as Climategate<\/a>. These emails contained 15 years of communications between the most prominent climate scientists in the world. And they were embarrassing. The emails provided insight into the practices that ranged from bad professionalism to fraudulent science. Bias, data manipulation, dodging freedom of information requests and trying to subvert the peer-review process were uncovered. In the midst of this scandal, DeSmog <\/em>author Littlemore informed Michael Mann, author of the flawed <\/a>\u2018hockey stick\u2019 graph of rising temperatures in the 20th century and a prominent climate scientist who played a major role in Climategate and mainstream climate science in general, that DeSmog<\/em>\u2018s role in reporting on the issue was \u201call about PR here, not much about science\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While such bias should make one sceptical of the publication, DeSmog <\/em>is used by both the mainstream press and fact-checkers of all kinds as a source of essentially unchallengeable truth today. And despite the errors \u2013 which can happen with any of us \u2013 there is in fact a great deal of truth to be found there. For example, it factually describes<\/a> that John F. Clauser, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022, has said he does not believe there is a climate crisis. Similarly, it reviews the lives and work of many other scientists of the same calibre, and shows where and in what words they have denied a man-made climate crisis. But if everything is as said, what is the problem? The point is that the heading under which information about these renowned scientists and other \u2018sceptics\u2019 is listed to the public is called \u2018Climate Disinformation Database\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nelson\u2019s profile, which he refers to on his Substack, is also on the same database. Why is he giving a link to it? \u201cIt\u2019s quoting what I have actually said. Somebody spent a lot of time on it, and I wouldn\u2019t have spent that much time myself to write up this kind of \u2018about me\u2019 page. So it\u2019s a pretty good \u2018about me\u2019 page and if people want to take a look at it, they can get a reference to my work over the last few years,\u201d Nelson explains. DeSmog<\/em>\u2018s Editor, for example, has read through all of his posts on social media platform X and highlighted the most important ones. It also outlines which prominent scientists he has interviewed on his climate podcast. And there\u2019s also a section explaining that Nelson is the producer of Climate: The Movie<\/a><\/em>, a recent documentary by British documentary filmmaker Martin Durkin, which critically examines the climate catastrophe claims. Nelson says he is not at all bothered by the coverage of his work alongside world-renowned scientists at such a \u2018disinformation database\u2019. \u201cWhenever somebody in the climate cult talks about \u2018disinformation\u2019 or \u2018misinformation\u2019, I replace that with \u2018information\u2019 and that\u2019s what it is \u2013 it\u2019s information,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How a woodpecker led to climate realism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Nelson is an electronic engineer with a Master\u2019s degree and has worked in tech and software for many years. He became interested in climate issues in the second half of the 2000s, and this is linked to his hobby of birdwatching. In 2004, claims were made of the rediscovery in the United States of a species of bird that was declared extinct in the 1980s, the ivory-billed woodpecker. Nelson recalls it was reported on the radio and some people were moved to tears that a species thought to no longer exist had been rediscovered. It was also the subject of an in-depth, peer-reviewed paper by 17 authors published in a scientific journal. But when Nelson delved deeper, he discovered something he was not expecting to find \u2013 no evidence of the supposed rediscovery. According to him the whole story was based on a particularly blurry video and an even blurrier photo as evidence of the species\u2019 rediscovery. \u201cIt was completely crazy. It was just groupthink. They didn\u2019t see it and they never did get a picture of it. It was all a complete crock,\u201d Nelson says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around the same time, a friend told him to take a similar look at the debate about climate and global warming. Until then, he hadn\u2019t paid much attention to the issue and believed that if that\u2019s what the scientists were saying, then humans were probably causing global warming with their CO2<\/sub> emissions, and possibly a catastrophe would eventually follow. \u201cWhen I looked at the evidence for myself I was surprised to find that there was nothing, no evidence that there\u2019s a climate crisis,\u201d he says. According to Nelson, anyone can search and look for themselves and see for themselves whether the heat is really too warm now, or were the heatwaves of the 1930s worse? Are polar bears really going extinct? Have yields dropped dramatically? Are droughts in the U.S. state of California worse than 200 years ago? Is the stormy weather becoming more frequent and storms more powerful? Are there really more wildfires?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t have to be a climatologist. You don\u2019t have to have a degree. Just an ordinary person who can read data and use Google and look at graphs \u2013 you can check all these alarming things yourself,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s a complete crock. All of it. Every single bit of anything alarming you\u2019ve heard about the climate and CO2<\/sub> causing bad weather, it\u2019s all a complete baloney. Not true and no evidence supports it,\u201d Nelson says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since about 2006, he has been researching, publishing and arguing about climate issues on a daily basis. According to Nelson, the whole climate emergency is a scam for power and money. There is a lot of money in the energy transition movement, while all sorts of \u2018climate restrictions\u2019, be they carbon credits or nudges to change our diets from beef to insects, or possible travelling instructions, are part of this power play, he argues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Podcast interview led to producing the film<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Nelson started his climate podcast<\/a> series in 2022, where he critically discusses climate science with renowned scientists and other researchers interested in the topic. One of his first guests was documentary filmmaker Martin Durkin. Nelson was already a fan of Durkin\u2019s documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle<\/a><\/em>, which was released back in 2007. This film as well critically examined the climate catastrophe predictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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