Tom Nelson has an MS degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He was involved in tech and software for many years. In 2005, as an avid bird-watcher, he became heavily involved in debunking a high-profile, but bogus ‘Ivory-billed Woodpecker’ rediscovery that opened his eyes to the problems with blindly trusting ‘peer-reviewed science’. Then a meteorologist pointed out lots of parallels between that woodpecker debate and the climate change debate, and Tom has been debunking climate change claims online almost daily since then.