Dr. Michael Mann, Earth System Science Center-Penn State University/Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change (2nd edition) joins Thom. Climate Scientist Thomas Karl has been accused by House Science Committee Chair Lamar Smith of playing a part in a vast conspiracy - all for publishing a groundbreaking study on global warming. Why are oil companies and their Republican lapdogs in Congress waging a war on science? And what kind of effect is that war having on valuable environmental research?

Professor Ann Marie Gardinier Halstead, Bucket Filling Fairy joins Thom. What has been missing or problematic about bullying prevention programming up to this point?

And the very, very ugly! Ted Nugent If there's an awful narrative in the media - you can count on Ted Nugent to find a way to make it even worse. Take the student who was thrown to the ground and dragged out of her desk in South Carolina earlier this week. Ted Nugent's ugly attitude is summed up in the blog post that he titled: "That High-School Brat Had it Coming." And he ends it with - "Act like an animal and you will end up being treated like an animal." In that one statement - Nugent manages to be racist - fascist - AND pro-animal abuse.

Negotiators from around the world are preparing to meet in Paris to try to hash out a climate agreement in just a few months. But world leaders are saying that they probably won't consider the easiest solution that would reduce carbon emissions and make the fossil fuel industry pay.