November 6 – A New Report on the Alarming Rise of Global Warming; After Food Stamp Cuts, Now the Unemployed Get Hit; The Supreme Court Avoids the Easy Prayer Decision

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with a just-released report from the World Meteorological Organization that finds the global warming gas CO2 grew more rapidly last year than its average rise over the past decades. Meteorologist Michael Mann, the Director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University and author of “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars” joins us to discuss the report and his own wars with the just defeated candidate for governor Virginia’s Attorney General Cuccinelli who began a witch hunt against Michael Mann, accusing the climate scientist of fraud.

Part 2

Then with the poor being punished by cuts in food stamps, we look into how the unemployed are about to be punished with one point three million Americans losing unemployment insurance at the end of the year according to a new report from The National Employment Law Project. The author of that report, Rebecca Dixon joins us to discuss the chronic Federal underfunding of state’s unemployment programs burdened by extensive backlogs and outdated and unreliable systems which in California alone have delayed payments on 300,000 claims.

Part 3

Then finally we discuss oral argument in the Supreme Court on an important church versus state case with Eric Segall, a Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law who has an article at The Daily Beast “Supreme Court Prayer Decision in Greece v Galloway Should Be Easy”.