Archives February 2007

WeatherBrains Episode 57 is now on the server (February 26, 2007)

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In this week’s Episode:

– “They like to be green” — Reaction to Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth winning an Academy Award from Patrick J. Michaels, a Senior Fellow of Cato Institute and members of the WeatherBrains crew;

– Sellout success — James Spann and Brian Peters report big response to an Alabama project to make alarm-equipped Weather Radios available to the public at a low price;

– From dust to blue sky…Kevin Selle provides a pictorial update of how much Texas weather can change in just 24 hours;

Visible satellite picture of dust on Saturday, February 24…

View from the ground on Saturday…

Same branch…next day…

– This Week in Weather History: Bill Murray tells the tragic story of the Spokane Express, a train whose passengers were doomed because of a massive winter storm;

– Keeping warm in the cold — How do manufacturers test the winter jackets you wear to make sure they’ll stand up to the cold? Kevin hooks up with L. L. Bean to find out;

– Talking computers: What happens when David Black gets some mischievous ideas when he finds a website that turns text into voice? Nobody is safe!

Websites featured in this Episode:

– Patrick J. Michaels’ book about the distortion of the global warming issue;

– Cato Institute

– South Texas Record Christmas snowfall book

Join James Spann, Kevin Selle, Brian Peters, Bill Murray, J.B. Elliott and David Black…