Erich Schaffer argues climate science contains major blunders, chiefly that water vapor cools the planet and provides negative feedback. He explains the greenhouse effect as determined by emission altitude and the adiabatic lapse rate, criticizing older “back radiation” explanations. He claims climate budgets and attribution studies overstate surface emission by assuming Earth’s surface is a blackbody, ignoring water’s non-Lambertian behavior and ~0.91 hemispheric emissivity, which he says inflates the greenhouse effect and misattributes missing radiation to water vapor. He highlights latent heat cooling and contends empirical “proxy” methods used to infer strong positive water-vapor feedback are invalid due to lapse-rate behavior. He concludes climate sensitivity would drop to ~1 K or less.

00:00 Meet Erich Schaffer

01:06 Why Climate Basics Matter

04:52 Greenhouse Effect Explained

07:30 Lapse Rate Physics

10:52 IPCC Definition Shift

12:38 Debunking Back Radiation

16:04 Cloud Window Mistake

19:25 Latent Heat Cooling

20:40 Who Causes Warming

31:04 Reading the Spectrum

33:46 What CO2 Forcing Means

37:03 Deriving 3.7 Wm2

41:41 Water Vapor Feedback Setup

45:35 Models vs Observations

46:57 Empirical Feedback Proxies

51:10 Calculating Feedback From Slopes

54:16 Super Greenhouse Tropics Claim

56:52 Lapse Rate Versus Water Vapor

58:45 Moist Adiabats And Latent Cooling

01:00:58 Clouds Versus Water Vapor Paradox

01:05:21 Water Reflectivity And Polar Amplification

01:09:55 Infrared Emissivity Of Water

01:15:01 Surface Emissions Overstated

01:21:16 Reattributing The Greenhouse Effect

01:28:30 Thought Experiments Removing Water Vapor

01:34:26 Why Regional Proxy Fails

01:40:24 Seasonal Proxy Broken By Inversions

01:44:37 Sluggish Troposphere Explains Slopes

01:49:33 Wrap Up And Next Parts

https://x.com/erich_schaffer

https://greenhousedefect.com/

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Catherine McBride talks about her paper “Premeditated Industrial Destruction,” arguing UK net-zero policies have driven deindustrialization without lowering global emissions by shifting production and emissions to countries like China. They discuss UK energy reliance on fossil fuels (about 75–80%), gas backup for wind, bans and legal obstacles to new North Sea and shale projects while importing gas, and high industrial electricity costs from wind-related grid and balancing costs plus multiple carbon taxes. McBride criticizes EV mandates and fines, insufficient charging and grid capacity, and policies pushing carmakers and firms like BP away. She says EU net-zero rules hurt farming and industry, notes coal’s role and storage advantages, questions activist funding (including alleged Russian support), and contrasts Norway’s hydro and state oil strategy with UK decisions.

00:00 Meet Catherine McBride

00:11 How Net Zero Killed Industry

02:37 Fossil Fuels Reality Check

04:19 Importing Gas While Banning Drilling

07:05 Norway Hydro And LNG

09:33 Hybrids Versus Pure EVs

11:54 EV Mandates And Car Industry Exit

15:38 China EVs And Charging Limits

19:05 Grid Can’t Handle Electrification

35:33 BP Profits Politics And US Option

37:37 Free Speech Shift And Chris Wright Wish

38:54 UK Cabinet Energy Illiteracy

41:29 Coal Mines Versus Activists

43:44 Europe’s Coal Reality Check

47:50 Batteries and Load Shedding

51:45 Why Solar Fails in Britain

53:48 Subsidies Warp Farming

57:16 Tariffs and Media Blind Spots

01:03:29 NGO Funding and Anti-Fracking

01:06:29 Russia Gas Markets and Nord Stream

01:08:52 Norway’s Oil Wealth Playbook

01:10:27 UK Bets on Carbon Capture

01:11:37 Trees Beat Tech Wrap-Up

https://x.com/CeeMacBee

https://catherinemcbride.substack.com/

Premeditated Industrial Destruction?: https://gbbc.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Premeditated-Industrial-Destruction-Final-6th-April-2026-with-added-security-issue-v2.pdf

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Tom interviews investigative journalist Sonia Elijah about her book 3/11 Viral Takeover, a five-year, evidence-based chronicle of the COVID era with 941 citations drawn from FOIA releases, emails, and leaked documents. Elijah argues COVID policy reflected a coordinated, censorship-driven response, tracing a timeline of pre-2020 pandemic exercises, media/government coordination, and conflicts of interest. She discusses the WHO’s March 11, 2020 pandemic declaration, alleged suppression of lab-origin discussion, flawed modeling used to justify lockdowns, and problems with PCR testing. The conversation covers propaganda and censorship networks (including the Trusted News Initiative), suppression of early treatments, harms from ventilators and drugs, and allegations of misclassified vaccine trial and safety data, including pregnancy and myocarditis concerns, urging accountability and preparedness against repetition.

00:00 Meet Sonia Elijah

00:18 Book Thesis and Censorship

01:17 Research Depth and Purpose

02:49 Will It Happen Again

04:40 Why 3 11 Matters

06:01 Pandemic Drills and mRNA Push

10:53 Bat Database Goes Dark

12:18 FOIA Emails and Lab Leak

15:04 Cracks and Conflicts

18:10 Lockdowns Driven by Models

19:19 PCR Testing Anomalies

25:31 Harms and Care Homes

26:37 Testing Kit Profiteering

29:40 Fear Messaging and Propaganda

32:10 Dancing Nurses and Empty Wards

33:39 Trusted News Initiative

37:17 Natural Immunity Censored

38:17 Lancet Study Fallout

40:13 Ivermectin Smear Campaign

41:57 Silencing Doctors Online

43:30 Hospital Protocol Controversies

45:09 Redefining Vaccinated Data

46:38 Retracted Myocarditis Research

48:46 Missing Safety Reports

53:31 Pfizer Papers Deep Dive

58:13 Vaccine Injured Silenced

59:52 Pregnancy Harms Revealed

01:04:40 Justice and Accountability

01:07:32 Closing Thoughts on the Book

https://x.com/sonia_elijah

https://linktr.ee/SoniaElijah

Book Review by Robert Malone— 3/11: Viral Takeover: https://www.malone.news/p/book-review-311-viral-takeover

Order it at Amazon here: https://www.malone.news/p/book-review-311-viral-takeover

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