Neil Winton: Former Reuters journalist; current climate realist | Tom Nelson Pod #95

Neil Winton worked as a journalist at Reuters for 32 years, including as global Science and Technology Correspondent. 

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Wintonsworld Electric Car Test Range Data https://www.wintonsworld.com/electric-car-test-range-data/

When I Covered Climate Change for Reuters I Thought CO2 Was Certainly to Blame for Rising Temperatures. I Was Wrong https://dailysceptic.org/2023/02/23/when-i-covered-climate-change-for-reuters-i-thought-co2-was-to-blame-for-rising-temperatures-i-was-wrong/?highlight=neil%20winton

00:00 Introduction

00:42 Writing about global warming at Reuters in the 1990s

01:54 More laziness than conspiracy

02:32 Covering Climate Now propaganda

03:43 Banned on LinkedIn for climate realism

04:53 Reporting both sides for Reuters in the 1990s

06:36 Mismatch between hype and reality on EVs

07:24 Driving more than 20 EVs; getting press car for a week

08:05 Less range than advertised

12:09 Trying to make EVS as good in every way as ICE cars?

13:06 Hard to make money on small EVs

14:06 Battery replacement half the cost of a new car?

14:52 Small, affordable EVS could make sense in town

15:30 EV fire danger?

17:21 Warm periods in the past

18:56 Industry in Europe has "just gone along with" climate hysteria

20:11 97% of scientists allegedly agree, so shut up 

22:12 Attenborough propaganda

26:16 CBDCs

28:55 His blog

30:44 Musk Tesla range figures based on only 55 mph?

32:02 Battery swapping

34:23 Small, cheap Chinese EVs

35:23 Boris Johnson virtue-signalling

38:28 For EVs, the whole long distance scenario is a nightmare

40:15 Coal-powered German EVs

41:10 EVs are not zero-emission cars

42:07 Tires on heavier EVs wear out faster

42:51 How to pay for roads?

45:33 Forcing people out of their cars

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