Episode June 28, 2023 29 min 48s

Gordon Tomb: “Net Zero: An Existential Threat to Grid Reliability – and More” | Tom Nelson Pod #120

From Tom Nelson Thomas Nelson

Gordon Tomb is a Senior Advisor at the CO2 Coalition, Arlington, Virginia, whose membership of approximately 120 world-class scientists and researchers are committed to educating the public and policymakers on the benefits of carbon dioxide. He is the primary editor of the best-selling “Inconvenient Facts: The science that Al Gore doesn’t want you to know.” Gordon is also a Senior Fellow with the Commonwealth Foundation, Pennsylvania’s premier free-market think tank. He has spoken on behalf of the International Atomic Energy Agency on lessons of the Fukushima and Three Mile Island nuclear accidents and has presented testimony to legislative committees on the fallacies of carbon taxes and the ESG movement. Gordon led communications teams in the recovery from the Three Mile Island accident, the development of an electric transmission project and the reorganization of a FORTUNE 500 company. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a consultant with an international management consulting firm. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and attended Grove City College.

PDF doc for this podcast: https://tomn.substack.com/p/net-zero-an-existential-threat-to

CO2 Coalition: https://co2coalition.org/

Inconvenient Facts: https://inconvenientfacts.xyz/

Commonwealth Foundation: https://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/gwtomb

00:00 Introduction

02:14 Modern warming not unusual

03:54 Climate religion

06:59 Got 1 quadrillion dollars to waste?

08:06 Messing with the power grid to prevent bad weather?

11:14 Voters care about affordability and reliability

22:18 Discussion