James Tooley describes two decades researching “low-cost private schools” serving poor families in India, Africa, rural China, and war-torn countries, arguing parents choose them because government/public schools often abandon children. He cites widespread enrollment (e.g., majorities in parts of Lagos and Kampala), higher standardized test performance, no gender bias, affordability around 10% of family spending, and sustainability as small businesses. He now finds a similar U.S. phenomenon in hybrid/micro schools, visiting examples in Pine Ridge (Onward Learning), rural Mississippi, refugee-serving Clarkston, and rural Oregon, and surveying 5,390 parents: about 4% use low-tuition private schools. He discusses limited, careful roles for philanthropy, and worries about dependence on government ESAs.

00:00 Meet James Tooley

01:03 Hyderabad Discovery

03:25 Government School Reality

05:37 Makoko Lagos Expedition

07:49 Kibera Ghana China Proof

11:49 Beautiful Tree Thesis

13:04 War Torn Africa Schools

15:48 Five Key Features

21:06 Federations And Pushback

22:02 Low Cost Schools In America

25:53 Pine Ridge Onward Learning

29:46 Mississippi Trailer School

33:19 Refugees And Oregon Example

36:08 National Survey Findings

41:45 Philanthropy And Donations

43:26 Quality Assurance Debate

46:33 School Choice ESA Concerns

49:57 Where To Follow James

50:46 Final Reflections

The Beautiful Tree: https://a.co/d/032zFHgW

Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education: https://a.co/d/01VMoY3r

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https://uk.linkedin.com/in/james-tooley-320a8410

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Tom Harris argues Canada’s claim of warming twice the global average is unreliable because northern data coverage is sparse and “homogenized” station adjustments may exaggerate trends. He questions the meaning of average temperature and says Canada’s record shows a step change around 1998, consistent with El Niño and possibly the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, not steady greenhouse-gas forcing. He cites extreme-weather records peaking in the 1930s and references Heartland’s Climate Change Reconsidered and Roger Pielke’s datasets as showing little detected change in many extremes. Harris then describes organizing local activists, using Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, rehearsing questions, and bypassing media censorship to challenge municipal climate policies.

00:00 Meet Tom Harris

00:19 Canada Warming Claims

00:41 Is Warming Bad

03:21 So Called Averages

05:13 Overlapping Ranges

08:06 Why Start 1948

11:08 Heat Records Evidence

11:54 Sparse Arctic Stations

14:39 Homogenized Adjustments

17:00 Step Change Not CO2

18:57 Hickey Speaks Out

21:59 Natural Cycles Theory

22:59 PR Versus Evidence

24:22 Extreme Weather Database

25:56 Heartland Reports

28:32 Warmer Means Milder

31:07 Pielke Teaser

31:19 Global Extremes Database

31:51 P Factor Explained

32:30 Translator Not Climatologist

33:33 Drilling Into Continents

34:48 Wildfire History Context

37:23 Heatwave Data Concerns

38:31 Local Activism Playbook

40:06 Alinsky Rules In Action

42:49 Debate Questions And Ridicule

47:16 Training Volunteers Nationwide

51:59 Beating Media Censorship

53:55 Groups Funding And Contact

56:17 Practice Sessions And Wins

57:43 Wrap Up Resources

 icsc-canada.com

 sensiblechange.ca

https://x.com/TomHarrisICSC

https://drtomharris.substack.com/

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Dai Ato presents findings from three papers arguing atmospheric CO2 rise is largely natural, claiming multivariate analyses reject human emissions as a significant predictor of annual CO2 increases while sea surface temperature (SST) is significant. He says detrended annual-change comparisons show emissions vs CO2 change has near-zero correlation, while SST retains moderate correlation, consistent with CO2 solubility in water. He also claims ice-core CO2 reconstructions are incorrect and that temperature leads specific humidity, rejecting CO2–water vapor positive feedback; absorbed shortwave and total solar irradiance correlate with SST while CO2 is negligible or negative. In Q&A, he expects the Keeling Curve to keep rising, COVID emission drops to have little effect, and rejects a stable 280 ppm preindustrial CO2.

00:00 Intro And Agenda

00:39 Three Paper Overview

04:01 CO2 Rise Not Human

07:05 Detrending Spurious Links

10:33 Water Vapor Feedback Tested

13:19 Solar And Albedo Drivers

17:12 Past Evidence SST Leads

21:50 Global Temperature Averaging

23:58 Key Takeaways And DOE

26:04 Why I Wrote These Papers

33:06 Ice Core Reconstruction Issues

34:17 Closing Thoughts And Q&A

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