Jules de Waart: “Crisis or Hoax?: Climate Change in Science, Media, and Politics” | Tom Nelson Pod #384

Jules de Waart, an 84-year-old former geologist, Dutch parliamentarian, civil servant, and physical geographer, discusses returning to climate topics after retirement and writing his skeptical book, "Crisis or Hoax," after an article was refused. He describes translating it to English using translation software and later joining the CO2 Coalition. Using geological and satellite-temperature slides, he argues Earth’s climate has long cycled through icehouse/greenhouse periods, the Holocene had earlier warm periods, and recent temperature spikes align with natural factors rather than CO2. He disputes claims of a strong scientific consensus, cites studies showing few papers explicitly quantify IPCC dominance, critiques alarmist messaging, and urges defending the scientific method and caution on geoengineering.

00:00 Meet Jules de Waart

02:49 Why He Wrote The Book

03:08 Research And Translation Process

06:13 Two Big Climate Questions

10:26 Deep Time Climate History

14:32 Holocene Warm Periods

18:25 IPCC 1990 And Hockey Stick

21:02 Satellites Spikes And Natural Drivers

25:43 Debunking The 97 Percent Consensus

30:59 Scary Messaging And White Lies

34:19 Is The Narrative Cracking

42:49 Power Politics And Global Reset Claims

49:00 Closing Advice And Scientific Method

Amazon link for “Crisis or Hoax?: Climate change in science, media and politics”: https://a.co/d/0hF1Dizd

Tilak Doshi: “This Book by a Dissenting Climate Scientist is the Perfect Red Pill for the Curious”: https://tilakdoshi.substack.com/p/this-book-by-a-dissenting-climate?publication_id=2241724

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