About this episode
Linda Moulton Howe joins Art fresh from his New York media tour promoting The Coming Global Superstorm. The discussion follows NBC coverage questioning how meteorologists missed predicting a major East Coast storm despite sophisticated computer models. Art recounts his trip including appearances on the Today Show with Matt Lauer, interviews at Fox and WABC, encounters with Curtis Sliwa, and discovering a large alien gray figure in Rush Limbaugh's studio. Extreme weather reports dominate: Pacific Northwest windstorms with 115 mph gusts moving houses off foundations, basketball-sized ice blocks weighing 8 pounds plummeting from Spanish skies, hundreds of thousands of dead fish in Indiana rivers, and 70-degree temperatures in January New York. The lunar eclipse captures attention as clouds obstruct desert viewing. Discussion touches on Alan Greenspan's economic stewardship, cloning breakthroughs with rhesus monkeys, and spy satellite failures.