{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Paul Truesdell Podcast","title":"Dino Gas ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":577,"description":"Rough NotesOh, here we go again. Another hurricane, another round of opportunistic claims about climate change, as if Hurricane Helene is a direct result of humans meddling with the weather. Yes, because clearly, we have complete control over every gust of wind and every drop of rain. Never mind the fact that nature has been dealing devastating blows to the planet for ever, long before we even thought about lighting our first campfire. It's fascinating, really—scientists now admit for example, that space dust and viruses float around in the vast universe, sort of spook, right? And yet somehow it's always us poor humans, who drink coffee, drive vehicles, have families, and enjoy the occasional movie at a theater, who get the blame for every natural disaster. It’s that gosh darn pop corn. Stop eating the pop corn and there would be more corn for the ethanol to burn for the turbines to make electricity for a Musket Electric hot rod. Of course, Helene must be yet another sign that we're all spiraling toward doom due to our supposed mismanagement of the Earth. But hey, let's conveniently forget that the dinosaurs were wiped out without any human intervention. Big rock go book is no big deal, like cows, it was Dino gas, as in passing gas, that killed the rock haulers off in Bedrock and put Fred and Barny out of work.And my oh my, of course, humans are responsible for hurricanes, because we’ve personified hurricanes with names and thus the blame game begins because it can’t be just a weather event, it has to be a man, not woman, but man made accident? Makes sense, right? Well, if you don’t cotton to the blame game, you are not alone, but your voice is being drowned out. The people who are supposedly \"open-minded\" will tell you that fractals—the endlessly complex patterns that repeat in nature—will twist the theory and say Helene proves this is all connected to human behavior. Because nothing screams \"scientific accuracy\" like twisting the theory of fractals into some...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/115-XsjkdwCpJ99xv-8oZ76t6jr8ScWEC5MYSKzL0ig/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82MTUx/OWRiNTc0NTk0Y2Nk/M2VjYTliMGVhN2Zm/YTZkZi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}