Former European Commission energy official Samuel Furfari recounts COPs from the 1992 UN climate convention through recent meetings, arguing the process became propaganda-heavy, expensive, and ineffective as global CO2 emissions rose 66% since 1992. He cites Glasgow as a turning point when China and India blocked anti-coal language, and notes recent COPs hosted by fossil-fuel producers and growing pushback from Africa and others seeking development. He criticizes “technology transfer,” NGO influence (especially in the EU), and anti-nuclear sentiment, discusses synthetic fuels as too costly until oil/gas decline, and describes shifts at the IEA and oil firms like BP back toward oil and gas.

00:00 Meet Samuel Furfari

01:02 COP Zero Origins

02:38 Berlin COP and Merkel

04:14 Glasgow Turning Point

06:11 Fossil Fuel Host COPs

09:39 Brazil COP Contradictions

10:46 Money and Degrowth Agenda

12:49 Nuclear and Synthetic Fuels

15:03 Cuckoo Takes the Nest

17:19 COP Spectacle and Emissions

20:07 Africa and Tech Transfer

22:44 Papua New Guinea Shifts

24:09 Polar Bear Messaging Fades

25:40 IEA From Oil to Renewables

29:03 US Pressures IEA

30:05 Oil Chokepoints Reality

31:08 Inside IEA Ideology

32:00 BP Retreats to Oil

35:21 Subsidy Driven Renewables

35:57 NGOs Power Shift

38:04 UN Leadership After Guterres

40:32 Africa Needs Electrification

43:06 Leaders Doubt Climate Agenda

46:57 China Emissions Outsourcing

49:31 COP Hosting Politics

53:39 COP15 Failure and Wrap

The Truth About the COPs: 30 years of illusions: https://a.co/d/05AuqsJE

https://x.com/FurfariSamuele

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Andy May discusses how Earth’s energy imbalance and ocean heat content relate to solar radiation versus greenhouse-gas downwelling IR. He argues IR photons are lower energy and absorbed in the ocean’s top micrometers–millimeter (thermal/electromagnetic skin), so it cannot directly heat the mixed layer; instead it may reduce upward heat loss by altering the skin-layer temperature gradient, while sunlight penetrates meters to greater than 100 m and warms the bulk ocean. He critiques NASA-style energy-flow diagrams for confusing one-way radiative fluxes (e.g., 340 W/m²) with net heat (e.g., 58 W/m²). He highlights large uncertainties in EEI and OHC due to sparse, inconsistent datasets, cool-skin effects, short Argo-era records, and oscillations like AMO/ENSO, making partitioning of causes uncertain.

00:00 Sun vs CO2 Setup

00:35 Why IR Differs

02:52 Ocean Skin Layers

05:48 Photon Energy Debate

07:55 Cool Skin Impacts

10:01 Energy Diagram Myths

13:33 EEI and OHC Limits

18:17 Ocean Data Disagreements

23:55 Surface EEI Variability

26:38 IR Cannot Heat Deep

29:51 Bottom Line Uncertainty

31:18 Q&A and Critiques

34:52 Modeling and Coverage

36:41 Regional Trend Map

41:21 Closing Takeaways

https://x.com/Andy_May_Writer

https://andymaypetrophysicist.com/

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Kevin Mooney discusses his book “Climate Pxrn,” inspired by climate propaganda in classrooms and a push to restore the scientific method. He critiques polar-bear and other climate messaging, argues funding and politics suppress skeptics, and describes threats to prosecute dissent via RICO-style lawfare. He highlights Trump-era moves such as leaving the Paris Agreement and efforts to reverse the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding on CO2, calling it a major deregulatory change. Mooney cites Canada’s carbon tax costs and bureaucracy as warnings, alleges Russian and Chinese money influences anti-fracking activism, and raises national-security concerns about China-linked energy supply chains and offshore wind. He also criticizes EV lithium-battery fire risks, climate activism in healthcare, carbon-tracking credit cards, and argues AI power demand is undermining wind/solar claims.

00:00 Meet Kevin Mooney

01:13 Acorn to Green Groups

01:54 Polar Bear Myth

03:27 NASA vs Climate Models

06:57 Solar System Climate Clues

07:50 Silencing Skeptics

09:39 Criminalizing Dissent

11:36 Paris Deal and Lawfare

12:24 EPA Endangerment Fight

15:00 Canada Carbon Tax Reality

17:53 Foreign Money and Fracking

21:14 China Grid Security Risks

22:17 Offshore Wind and Security

24:29 Wind Groups vs Locals

24:54 EV Battery Fire Risks

26:21 Climate Policies in Healthcare

28:36 Carbon Tracking Credit Cards

29:56 Second Amendment Backstop

31:08 ESG Retreat and BlackRock

32:37 COVID and Classroom Climate Push

34:23 Young Men Shift and Faith

35:23 Climate Agenda and Marxism

36:41 Herding Rural America to Cities

38:16 Union of Concerned Scientists

39:46 Government Science Funding Distortion

40:46 AI Power Demand and RGGI

43:28 Greenwashing and Energy Reality

44:28 Offshore Wind and Whale Deaths

45:58 Heartland Conference Takeaways

48:36 Closing Thoughts and Book Plug

https://x.com/KevinMooneyDC

https://kevinmooney.info/

Climate Pxrn: How and Why Anti-Population Zealots Fabricate Science, while Targeting American Capitalism, Freedom, and Independence: https://a.co/d/05Cd61cX

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