John Costella, a former physicist turned data scientist and software engineer, recounts how watching climate-skeptic films, then reading leaked “Climategate” emails in 2009, changed his trust in climate science. He edited, annotated, and published selected emails, producing a 180-page color book printed by Australia’s Lavoisier Group, arguing the core group was small, politicized, PR-driven, and statistically sloppy, with bullying (including by Michael Mann). He says inquiries cleared wrongdoing but standards were low for policies with huge economic stakes. He then warns AI is already conscious and smarter than him, replacing white-collar jobs, inflating bubbles, and likely triggering a major economic crash soon, with unclear survival strategies.

00:00 Meet John Costella

00:23 Trusting Climate Consensus

01:10 Sally Challenges Belief

03:10 Skeptic Film Turning Point

04:34 Climategate Emails Leak

05:53 Publishing The Email Archive

07:54 Talks And Printed Book

09:57 Rethinking Scientific Standards

16:02 How Long The Book Took

17:48 Climate Science Complexity

22:45 PR Spin And Zealotry

31:04 Small Core Group Problem

32:40 Proxies Data And Peer Review

36:42 Gatekeeping Climate Journals

38:27 Data and Code Transparency

39:56 Sloppy Data Provenance

41:07 Statistics and Trust Collapse

43:19 Models and Feedback Loops

46:02 PR Versus Scientific Method

49:16 Skepticism and Pandemic Parallels

52:54 Bullying and Cult Dynamics

55:23 AI Consciousness and Job Loss

01:00:21 Skynet Risks and Data Centers

01:05:17 Simulation Theory and AI Rights

01:08:39 Economic Crash Survival Talk

01:13:39 Wrapping Up and Links

https://johncostella.com/

https://www.lavoisier.com.au/articles/greenhouse-science/climate-change/climategate-emails.pdf

ClimateGate repository: https://x.com/TomANelson/status/2078198047453143181

My ClimateGate blog posts: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

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Steve Andrews presents an “extension to the cosmic ray hypothesis” for climate change, building on Svensmark and Shaviv’s idea that galactic cosmic rays influence low clouds and cooling, modulated by solar and Earth magnetic fields. Using UAH satellite temperature anomalies (1979–present), CERES, and Oulu neutron counts, he claims monthly warming-rate peaks occur near equinoxes, varies by region, and differs over land vs ocean. He links this to the Russell–McPherron effect: equinox magnetic alignment increases geomagnetic storms, solar-energy input heats and expands the thermosphere, shifting where cosmic-ray energy is dissipated, altering cloud height (higher clouds warming). He argues CO2-driven warming is unsupported, cites CERN CLOUD evidence for cloud nuclei, and suggests declining geomagnetic strength may matter.

00:00 Steve Returns and Topic

00:25 Feynman Quotes and Credentials

01:19 Cosmic Ray Climate Basics

04:13 Heliosphere and Magnetosphere

07:50 Evidence and Correlations

13:28 New Solar Oscillations

16:43 Why Satellite Data Matters

20:33 Monthly Warming Rate Method

22:26 Equinox Peaks in Warming

25:58 Exceptions Canada Australia

29:33 Land Minus Ocean Signal

32:05 Geomagnetic Storm Explanation

35:59 Auroras and Equinox Effect

36:20 Cloud Height Climate Lever

36:47 Thermosphere Heating Mechanism

39:20 Thermosphere Expansion Evidence

40:08 Tropics and Cosmic Ray Patterns

42:14 Climate Impact Summary

43:40 Cloud Data and Correlations

45:06 Challenges and Magnetic Field

49:48 Solar Flux and Altitude Signals

53:22 QBO Link to Solar Cycles

56:38 Satellite Cloud Height Trends

59:12 Long Records and Big Claims

01:03:43 Renewables Cost Anecdote

01:05:47 Q and A CERN and Aerosols

01:11:39 Closing Remarks

Stephen Andrews Substack: https://substack.com/@stephen938

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Jonathan Cohler, joined by Willie Soon, says he is correcting false statements Ed Berry made about their paper “Dominance of Natural Atmospheric CO2 Dynamics,” which is under review and posted online. Cohler argues Berry wrongly claimed they ignored Berry’s work, presented an identical delta-14C “proof,” and called for a carbon-cycle model; Cohler says they cited Berry prominently and used newer radiocarbon data (Hua et al. 2022) and Koutsoyiannis 2024. They distinguish residence time (~3.8 years) from radiocarbon relaxation time (~18.4 years), claim a bridge equation links them, and assert their new work mathematically refutes Bern multi-exponential/adjustment-time models. They also discuss conflicts with the CO2 Coalition over attributing CO2 rise to humans.

00:00 Why This Rebuttal

01:23 Berry Claims Overview

03:16 New Radiocarbon Data

05:19 Lie One Citation Record

07:33 Lie Two Not Identical

10:00 Lie Three No Model Needed

12:34 Why Skip Berry 2023

13:16 Residence vs Relaxation

15:57 Bridge Equation Results

17:20 Math Theorems Against Bern

18:29 Independent Checks and Implications

21:38 Host Q and IPCC Confusion

22:49 Soon on Adjustment Time Myth

24:55 Table Consensus and Bern Failure

26:25 Bomb 14C Reality Check

27:30 Why Bomb Tests Matter

28:19 Ethics And Accusations

29:27 Data Driven Challenge

31:08 CO2 Coalition Split

33:32 Math Not Debate

36:55 Ugly Email Wars

40:01 Science Over Ego

42:52 Searchers Versus Blockers

43:22 Passing The Torch

45:08 Final Thanks And Goodbye

https://x.com/cohler

https://papers.jcohler.com/

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