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There are about a hundred good reasons to interview Orson Scott Card. He is a bestselling author who has received both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award. He is a family man with a successful marriage. He is a newspaper columnist, a poet, and a playwright. He is a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. He is a well spoken and interesting man with firm beliefs and good opinions about most things.
On the October 26th edition of the podcast, we talked about an article called “Nobel Prize for Literature Awarded to Roomful of Monkeys?”, which was written by Orson Scott Card. Here’s a little snippet from the article.
Global warming: It runs in cycles. No serious scientific evidence indicates, let alone proves, a human cause for it. In fact, the evidence indicates the opposite, since global temperatures fell in the 1970s and 1980s, when global emissions were certainly not in retreat.
All the real evidence is supportive of solar and astronomical cycles as sufficient explanation of global warming and cooling patterns. At the very most, human-generated greenhouse gases are a small contributor to the greenhouse effect, and the greenhouse system seems to have methods of venting excess heat built in.
Not only that, but the close investigation suggests that one of the favorite “proofs” of global warming, the so-called “hockey stick,” is downright fraudulent – rather like the so-called “Ophelia complex” – which turns out to be based on “evidence” that has not been made public by its primary claimant and cannot be replicated by reputable scientists.
Global warming is, in other words, somewhere between Piltdown Man and cold fusion on the scale of fake science.
We liked the article so much we arranged to speak with Mr. Card about it in more detail. It’s going to be another great interview, and we invite you to listen in, or call in with your own questions for Orson Scott Card. Again, the interview will be this coming Monday, November 5th at 10pm Eastern, 7pm Pacific. For information about how to listen live, or call in during the show you can click here.
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