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If I chose to take a brief section from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inagural address, and rearrange a few words, I could easily change this...

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself...

...to this...

Fear is the only thing we have.

The notion is nothing short of ludicrous, but this is precisely what the global warming denial sound machine (pun intentional) recently did to a recording of Al Gore. Here's what we've got in this edition of The Celsias Show:

• Last week Al Gore was interviewed on NPR. Soon after, short segments from the interview were spliced together, and out of sequence, to make it sound like one conversation -- significantly changing the meaning of the discussion -- and the doctored audio was posted in an article at the Business & Media Institute's website under the headline, "Al Gore Calls Myanmar Cyclone a 'Consequence' of Global Warming". It subsequently made the rounds on Drudge, Fox, et al. Brad Johnson from the Center for American Progress Action Fund was the eagle-eye who discovered the audio maniuplation and gives us the details.

• Leslie Berliant interviews Walter K. Dodds, whose recently released book, Humanity's Footprint: Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment, depicts in clear, non technical terms the root causes and global environmental effects of human behavior.

• And of course news personality Morton Welles joins us with the news, and the president offers his comments on the tragedy in Myanmar, or something that sounds like Myanmar.

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The Celsias Show Staff: Produced by Doug Snodgrass. Head Writer: Jonny Rod. Writers: Phil English, Ande Parks, Doug Snodgrass. Lead Interviewer: Leslie Berliant. Voice Talent: Jameel Battle, Steve Caratzas, Vincent Miller, John Nevin, Ande Parks, Albert Reinoso. Additional Production by Albert Reinoso