{"id":10,"date":"2007-02-26T23:54:22","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T05:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/weatherbrains\/?p=10"},"modified":"2007-02-27T18:16:50","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T00:16:50","slug":"weatherbrains-57-gores-clever-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"WeatherBrains 57: Gore’s “clever rhetoric”"},"content":{"rendered":"

WeatherBrains Episode 57<\/strong> <\/a>is now on the server (February 26, 2007)<\/p>\n

(Want to play WeatherBrains right away? Click the streaming player to the right!)<\/em><\/p>\n

In this week’s Episode:<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Visible satellite picture of dust on Saturday, February 24…<\/p>\n

\"Visible<\/p>\n

View from the ground on Saturday…<\/p>\n

\"Dust<\/p>\n

Same branch…next day…<\/p>\n

\"Blue<\/p>\n

–<\/x-tab> This Week in Weather History: Bill Murray tells the tragic story of the Spokane Express<\/em>, a train whose passengers were doomed because of a massive winter storm;<\/p>\n

\"LL<\/a>–<\/x-tab> 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<\/a> to find out;<\/p>\n

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

Websites featured in this Episode:<\/p>\n

– Patrick J. Michaels’ book about the distortion of the global warming issue<\/a>;<\/p>\n

– Cato Institute<\/a><\/p>\n

– South Texas Record Christmas snowfall book<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Join James Spann, Kevin Selle, Brian Peters, Bill Murray, J.B. Elliott and David Black…<\/p>\n

\"WeatherBrains\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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