Raymond Inauen, a graphic artist with 35 years’ experience, presents a free website of downloadable charts (PDF/PNG/ZIP) meant to teach CO2, climate, and energy basics or serve as a single reference. Charts cover CO2’s molecule, atmospheric composition (about 420 ppm), natural vs anthropogenic emissions (4.9% manmade), ocean/land fluxes, plant physiology (stomata), C3/C4/CAM plants, photosynthesis, and a logarithmic CO2–temperature relationship. He also includes long-term temperature/CO2 history, Holocene and recent warming, sea-level rise since the last ice age, and glacier/tree-line evidence from the Alps. Energy charts break down global fuel use and electricity sources. He adds references, a CO2 mascot “Conrad,” discusses reduced social-media reach, and shares a visual condensing atmospheric CO2 into a 16×16 km cube.

00:00 Meet Raymond Inauen

00:32 CO2 Molecule Basics

01:09 Atmosphere Composition Explained

02:17 Natural vs Human CO2 Sources

04:18 CO2 Cycle In and Out

05:21 Plants and CO2 Benefits

06:35 C3 C4 Plants and Greening

08:36 Plant Respiration Day Night

09:10 Logarithmic Warming Idea

10:16 Design Sources and Trace Gas

12:11 Exhaled CO2 Context

13:01 Deep Time CO2 and Temps

14:41 Human Body Carbon Link

15:11 Climate History Overview

16:13 Ice Ages and Holocene Temps

17:45 Modern Warming and Sea Levels

19:23 Glaciers Tree Lines Debate

23:02 Global Energy Charts Tour

28:19 Need a Scientist Narrator

30:07 Downloads and Conrad Mascot

31:49 Social Media and CO2 Cube

34:30 Wrap Up and Website Updates

https://x.com/theworldofco2

https://www.the-world-of-co2.com/co2

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Tom interviews Bernie Lewin about his 2017 book Searching for the Catastrophe Signal and his path from local environmentalism to blogging and writing for the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Lewin argues postwar “big science,” shifting religion’s role in policy, and media narratives helped drive recurring environmental scares: DDT, ozone depletion tied to supersonic transport and CFCs, then 1970s global cooling amid energy crises. He claims funding incentives encouraged extreme atmospheric claims, and that policy often diverged from scientific uncertainty. The discussion covers the 1988 Hansen hearing as orchestrated, Thatcher and Bush support for expanded climate science, and IPCC early processes, focusing on the 1995 Second Assessment controversy where summaries and underlying text were allegedly altered around detection and “fingerprint” evidence.

00:00 Meet Bernie Lewin

00:28 From Environmentalism to Skepticism

02:25 Science Replaces Religion

04:30 Big Science After WWII

06:05 Silent Spring and DDT Panic

08:46 Supersonic Jets and Ozone Fears

12:29 CFCs and the Ozone Hole

18:29 Feedbacks and Funding Incentives

21:33 Global Cooling Takes Off

22:40 Energy Crisis and Climate Instability

28:36 Coal vs Nuclear and CO2 Program

36:12 Cooling to Warming Flip

39:53 Hansen 1988 Hearing Moment

41:32 Thatcher Bush and Politics

Searching for the Catastrophe Signal: The Origins of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: https://a.co/d/0bmYZdUX

https://enthusiasmscepticismscience.wordpress.com/about/

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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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Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summaries

My Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1