Name: Clive Best: Long term future of humanity | Tom Nelson Pod #94
Uploaded: 2023-04-12T13:08:55+00:00
Duration: 39 min 3 s
Description: 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. Thereaf

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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?