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NOTE! Due to technical glitch, there is some dead air at the beginning. Slide the little bar thingy over to about the 6:30 mark, and from that point everything is normal (that is, assuming your idea of "normal" includes grown men talking about such topics as getting bitten by radioactive dogs, and sodomizing Nancy Pelosi).

Since Pastorius is still home recovering from a sprained testicle, the Fu2rman is joined once again by guest host Dr. Blogstein of Dr. Blogstein's Radio Happy Hour.

Tonight's show features an interview with Dr. Robert Carter of Australia's James Cook University on the topic of man-made global warming. 

Carter calls Al Gore's recent movie a work of science fiction: like all great science fiction stories, it is largely scientifically accurate.  But, all the changes Gore describes, including warming, are in fact part and parcel of our natural world.  Gore does not prove that these changes are dependent on humans.  Carter notes that all serious scientists agree that the climate is changing; but, the questionable hypothesis is that humans are causing the warming, due to our carbon dioxide output. 

Carter mentions the recent film "the Great Global Warming Swindle" by Martin Durkin, from the UK's Channel 4.  Durkin says that the current scare is indeed just that: a scare.  The film features legitimate scientists presenting a real counter-argument to Gore's film.  The film is available at the above link, and has also been featured on LGF.

So, what drives the alarmism?  Carter says that one answer is that the media is well-aware that scare tactics sell newspapers.  And, as to the scientific community, Carter discerns a sort of echo-chamber effect simply because scientists' alarmism is what justifies continuance of their government salaries.

And, this is an article of faith for many, led by the Great Goracle.  Check out Ann Coulter's "the Coming Ass Age" on how global warming is a pseudo religion for lefties, propped up by bullying tactics against heretics.  Her best line: "It's hard to imagine Niels Bohr responding to Albert Einstein's letter questioning quantum mechanics with a statement like: 'If you continue to speak out, you won't live to see further quantum mechanics.'"  Kudos to Dr. Carter for doing what scientists are supposed to do -- asking questions and reaching conclusions based on facts -- in such a climate (no pun intended).

On a sort of side note, one topic that is touched on only briefly is the recent Supreme Court decision in Mass. v. EPA.  Five Supreme Court justices think that it would be lovely if the EPA were to reuglate greenhouse gasses in order to halt the global warming crisis.  The other four justices (any guesses who?) chose the novel approach of reading the statute at issue in the case, which (fairly explicitly) leaves discretion to the EPA.  Read Roberts' and Scalia's dissents.  Here is Volokh, with links to the original. 

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