Maaneli (Max) Derakhshani: ENSO Warming vs CO2 Warming | Tom Nelson Pod #89

Maaneli (Max) Derakhshani is a postdoctoral researcher currently based at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He completed his Ph.D. in the Foundations of Physics at Universiteit Utrecht, and works in the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Gravity.

Maaneli has published his research in journals such as Physics Letters A, Journal of Physics, Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly, Entropy, and Symmetry, and has served as an anonymous referee for Physical Review A, Foundations of Physics, Fluctuations and Noise Letters, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, and Cambridge University Press; his work has also been covered in Science, New Scientist, EurekaAlert!, Phys.org, and the Clubhouse show It's About Time!, among other media outlets.

Outside of physics, Maaneli has contributed a philosophical essay, “Another Thing in This Universe that Cannot Be an Illusion,” to the volume, Sam Harris: Critical Responses, and will contribute an essay to the upcoming volume, Steven Pinker: Critical Responses.

Maaneli is also a member of the Manhattan Institute and Adam Smith Society therein, and works with them to advocate for free markets and limited government. His shift to a more sensible view about climate change was initiated by reading Thomas Gale Moore's, Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry About Global Warming, a book enthusiastically endorsed by his favorite economist, Milton Friedman, for making a compelling case that global warming will most likely bring net benefits to the general public.

Slides for this presentation: https://tomn.substack.com/p/enso-warming-vs-co2-warming
https://twitter.com/MaxDerakhshani
https://co2coalition.org/teammember/maaneli-max-derakhshani/
00:00 Introduction
00:25 Followup to an earlier podcast
01:22 Four questions
01:58 Recap of previous podcast
08:47 Magnitude of CO2 warming
15:34 Clouds
16:38 Iris effect
18:22 2/3 of Earth's surface is usually cloudy
18:59 Work of Patrick Frank
19:25 Big uncertainty
21:08 Need a 100X improvement in climate model accuracy
23:45 John Christy charts
27:47 Models predict far too much warming
32:25 M E I based regression model fits the data extremely well
33:48 Net feedbacks must not be positive
35:25 Warming from ENSO and CO2 warming are effectively independent
36:45 CO2 warming must be playing a very minor role
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