Clive Best: Long term future of humanity | Tom Nelson Pod #94

I have a Bsc in Physics and a PhD in High Energy Physics and have worked as a research fellow at CERN for 3 years, Rutherford Lab for 2 years and the JET Nuclear Fusion experiment for 5 years. Thereafter I worked at the Joint Research Centre in Italy until April 2008 working on Nuclear safety. Remote Sensing, and web technologies. I led the team developing media monitoring software  for the EU which summarised daily reports. 

This then led on to a health threat monitoring  system tracking Avian Flu. We developed this further to monitor any unusual health scare in multiple languages including Chinese. It was then a successful commercial spin off until  2010 and would surely have detected Covid early in  2019. I was  seconded to the African Union in Addis Ababa from  Nov 2007 until March 2008. I originally started this blog to record my experiences in Ethiopia. It started out as a travel blog, but has now morphed mainly into a science blog on climate. All results, views, opinions and errors are entirely my own fault and in no way reflect any stance of any previous employer.

I became interested in understanding the physics behind climate change after getting fed up with being told that the debate is over. Science is never a closed book and has a habit of turning round and biting those who think so.  This  explains why the blog now focuses on climate science.

I am basically a scientific sceptic but with a deep interest in other opinions and cultures.

00:00 Introduction

02:01 Nuclear fusion

04:33 Calculating Earth's temperature

04:58 Moon affects the climate?

06:55 Main presentation starts

07:09 Politicized science

07:59 Earth's atmosphere is unique because of life

09:10 Greenhouse effect is very complicated

12:51 Temperature dependence on CO2

14:00 Clouds as negative feedback

14:20 Measuring Earth's temperature

15:40 Getting rid of the hiatus

17:03 Homogenization

18:39 Best's own global temperatute "anomalies"

20:33 "Incredible" disagreement about Earth's temperature

23:09 IPCC scaremongering

25:19 Another ice age would be devastating

30:04 Britain's climate change act

31:49 The future must be nuclear

33:36 Conclusion

36:10 Little Ice Age:A sort of failed glaciation?

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Slides for this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/long-term-future-of-humanity

David MacKay - final interview and tribute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCyidsxIDtQ 

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