Marc Morano talks about his decades covering climate politics and his view that the climate movement is in rapid collapse due to overreach, public skepticism, and post-COVID distrust of “appeal to authority.” Morano contrasts Trump 1.0’s limited actions with Trump 2.0’s aggressive agenda: hundreds of pro-energy moves, exits from numerous UN bodies, a push to end the EPA CO2 endangerment finding, and a consensus-busting climate report later vacated over procedural issues. He says Democrats, media, Wall Street, and major figures like Bezos and Gates have gone quiet or shifted, while UN COP summits have become smaller and scandal-prone. He warns climate controls may reappear via public-health framing and future administrations.

00:00 Marc Morano Returns

00:36 Climate Movement Hits Low

02:31 Trump 1.0 vs 2.0 Setup

04:02 UN Climate Origins and Data Wars

07:14 GOP Nominees and Climate Drift

09:23 Trump 1.0 Wins and Limits

11:27 Biden Reversal and Green Mandates

14:57 Trump 2.0 Energy Blitz

15:19 Consensus Report Court Setback

16:58 Zeldin Targets Endangerment Finding

18:55 Iran War and Energy Shock Risk

20:00 Media Silence and Narrative Flip

21:59 Great Reset and WEF Agenda

27:22 Elites Pivot From Climate to AI

28:13 COVID Blowback Fuels Skepticism

33:42 Mainstream Admits Net Zero Failure

40:25 UN Summits Implode at COP30

44:28 Amazon Highway Coverup

45:39 Burgers Not Bugs

46:57 Toilet Paper Contraband

49:06 Summit Results Reality Check

51:40 Billionaires Media Flip

56:11 Energy Boom Coal Security

57:56 Climate Agenda Collapse

01:00:19 Narrative Culture War

01:02:46 Rio Treaty Withdrawal

01:05:20 Endangerment Finding Repeal

01:08:27 Climate Meets Public Health

01:11:31 Next Scares New Summits

01:18:43 COP Future And Coalition

01:25:40 Closing Thanks And Wrap

https://x.com/ClimateDepot

Climate ranked #35 of 39 American voter issues: https://x.com/davidshor/status/2033906948525928569

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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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