{"id":25264,"date":"2007-08-22T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:40:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:40:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:40:27","slug":"global_warming_update2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/08\/22\/global_warming_update2\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming Update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Time for some global warming news. <\/p>\n

(Playing of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown\u2019s ‘Fire\u2019 Global Warming Update Theme.) <\/p>\n

RUSH: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. It hit the top of the charts in 1968. I used to play that song as a struggling, young disc jockey, star-of-the-future, in my second year in broadcasting, 1968 back in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Okay, Global Warming Update time. Some doozies today in the stack. First off, I know. I\u2019ve been pummeled with e-mails from people who happened to see Newt Gingrich and John Kerry (who served in Vietnam), and their so-called debate on global warming yesterday. It was on C-SPAN. When I first heard that this was going to happen, I said, ‘Well, it\u2019s about time,\u2019 and I hate saying this (you have to understand, I hate saying this), but something happens to Newt when he gets up there face-to-face with these libs. It\u2019s like make nice. It\u2019s like kiss up. It\u2019s almost like he gets star-struck in front of these people. Remember his joint press conference with Hillary on health care? He was on the program after that, and I told him I was a little incredulous at that. He said, ‘Well, forget partisanship. A good idea is a good idea.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Well, that\u2019s the problem. I\u2019m not sure,\u2019 but Kerry? He\u2019s a sitting duck! It\u2019s sitting duck time, and to sit there and agree with the notion that we\u2019re in a crisis because of humanity, is to just (sigh) ignore the central political theme of this whole issue. So, like you, I was sad. It was just very sad. That\u2019s about the best way I can characterize this. Now, one of the things during the entire effort of mine here to educate as many people as possible on the real truth of the political movement of global warming, has been to tell you that what this is all aimed at is you and your lifestyle and the entire American lifestyle, and by extension, the lifestyles of Western democracies in general, but the focus is on us. ‘We\u2019re the bad guys. It is our excessive consumerism. It is our attempt to drive bigger cars that is the problem,\u2019 they say, and that becomes the target. We\u2019re supposed to roll back our lifestyles. We\u2019re supposed to have less expectations for the future, because our actions as human beings — using our brains as God created to create longer life spans and a better standard and quality of life — has become the focus and target. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve told you this over and over again. Looky here, from the UK Guardian<\/a>: ‘Stop Shopping…Or The Planet Will Go Pop — In the week that saw Primark mania, Jonathon Porritt, the government\u2019s green guru, says consumerism is now a lethal disease. ‘Many big ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet,\u2019 begins the argument by Jonathon Porritt, government adviser and all-round environmental guru. ‘Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion.\u2019 He lumps them all together. He\u2019s a lib! Fascism. Communism. Democracy<\/emphasize>. Religion. These are the primary ills and evils of the world! ‘But only one has achieved total supremacy. Its compulsive attractions rob its followers of reason and good sense. It has created unsustainable inequalities and threatened to tear apart the very fabric of our society. More powerful than any cause or even religion, it has reached into every corner of the globe. It is consumerism.\u2019 According to Porritt, the most senior adviser to the government on sustainability, we have become a generation of shopaholics. We are bombarded by advertising from every medium which persuades us that the more we consume, the better our lives will be.<\/p>\n

‘Shopping is equated with fun, fulfillment and self-identity. It is also, Porritt warns, killing [killing!] the planet. He argues, in an interview with The Observer, that merely switching to ‘ethical\u2019 shopping is not enough. We must shop less.\u2019 This guy better watch out; he is going to lose female support here. The men will love it if he keeps this up. It\u2019s what he says. He said, ‘Ethical shopping is not enough,\u2019 meaning, buying Priuses and compact fluorescents. We gotta stop buying everything. We gotta stop buying all things. We gotta shop less! You think women want to hear that? Men might. H.R. is going to use that on Theresa tonight. ‘Hey, Theresa, your shopping is destroying the planet.\u2019 Actually, turn this around and use it. All of a sudden, all of us deniers, all of us skeptics go home and tell our wives, our spouses. I, of course, have neither, but you can do it for me. You can go home, and you can say, ‘Honey, I just read the most amazing thing. I heard it on the Rush Limbaugh show today and he cited the source. It\u2019s The Guardian in the UK. We gotta stop shopping. Shopping is killing the planet!\u2019 <\/p>\n

Go tell all these parents that are watching Algore\u2019s movie and coming home, ‘Oh, my God we\u2019re killing the polar bears!\u2019 Tell them, ‘No, it\u2019s the shopping that\u2019s killing the polar bears. We have to stop shopping!\u2019 It\u2019s what the guy is saying here. ‘There are, however, a growing number of dissenting voices such as the so-called ‘Froogles\u2019, individuals who use the internet to seek a simpler lifestyle, and organisations and websites which urge people to kick the retail habit. Porritt, chairman of the government\u2019s Sustainable Development Commission, has concluded that consumerism is central to the threat facing the planet, cannibalising its natural resources and producing the carbon dioxide emissions which result in climate change…. ‘I think capitalism is patently unable to go on growing the size of the consumer economy for any more people in the world today because levels of consumption are already undermining life support systems on which we depend – so if we do it for any more people, the planet will go pop,\u2019 Porritt told The Observer.\u2019<\/p>\n

So, okay. Keep the poor, poor; make the rich as poor as possible, and save the planet. Now, Paul Ehrlich tried this and he is still a guru even though every projection and prediction he made was deemed to be wrong. The Population Bomb? He made the bet with Julian Simon. Julian Simon said, I\u2019ll make you a bet that by the year 2000 or whatever his apocalyptic year was, we\u2019ve got more of the following minerals blah, blah, blah, than we have today. Ehrlich said, ‘I\u2019ll take that. I\u2019m going to skunk you,\u2019 and of course Ehrlich was dead wrong. We had more of everything. We had more abundance. We had cheaper prices on a number of things (factored for inflation, of course), and the reason was the good old supply and demand. When there\u2019s demand, people are going to go out and supply it. (interruption) Yes, Mr. Snerdley, what\u2019s the…? (interruption) Well, we\u2019re not… (sigh) Snerdley\u2019s question is, ‘How is society supposed to function if people don\u2019t buy what they need?\u2019 He\u2019s not advocating the total end of shopping, but look, you\u2019re asking me to analyze some guy rationally. This is a kook!<\/p>\n

The point is, this is kooky but it\u2019s being passed off as brilliance. It\u2019s being passed off as insightful. It\u2019s being passed off as enlightened — and it\u2019s going to attract its fellow kooks here. So first they take away our big cars, then they\u2019re going to take away the lightbulbs and we gotta get these little screwy things, then our plastic bags. LA is going to get rid of plastic bags in grocery stores. Then they\u2019re going to get rid of hair spray, which they tried to do with the aerosol spray can. Now they want us to stop consumin\u2019 or we all die. I\u2019m telling you, folks, the environmental movement is the new home of displaced communists and their attack is on capitalism, pure and simple, if you just listen to them. You have to trust me. Meanwhile, ‘The groundhog\u2019s prediction for an early spring is proving wrong in New York City. A cold front has kept temperatures about seven degrees below the historical average this month. Just ten days into April temperatures have averaged 42 degrees.<\/p>\n

‘That\u2019s about a degree warmer than the average for April of 1874 which was the coldest on record.\u2019 So the bottom line is that New York temperatures rival the record for the coldest April since records have been taken, 1874. Baseball games are cancelled. You have a snowstorm in the upper Midwest today. It\u2019s got all kinds of airports bogged down, Chicago O\u2019Hare and others. Major League Baseball, having to cancel even more games. The Cleveland Indians moving games to Milwaukee where they\u2019ve got a retractable roof there, so they can play the Los Angeles Angels. This is normal stuff. Snowstorms in April happen. <\/p>\n

But the pi&egrave;ce de r&eacute;sistance today, ‘Sheryl Crow and Laurie David in a biodiesel bus traveling the country to raise consciousness on global warming,\u2019 and there are numerous stories out there with quotes like this. This is Sheryl Crow speaking. ”Laurie and I just met in November and now we\u2019re sleeping together,\u2019 she said with a laugh. ‘Yeah, we\u2019re sleeping on a bus in separate bunks.\u2019 On a more serious note she told People magazine, ‘When I learned how serious global warming is, I wanted to do something to help. <\/p>\n

”So when Laurie and I were talking about what we could do, well, my answer to everything is to get on the bus and take it to the people, in the true troubadour fashion,\u2019 but what was she doing to be ecofriendly? ‘Well, I try to wash my clothes in cold water as much as I can. I turn off lights in rooms that I\u2019m not using. I drive a hybrid. I\u2019m getting solar panels for my house. To save water, I\u2019m going to going to shower once a week,\u2019 she joked, ‘like I did when I was a kid, on Saturdays.\u2019 She also had her tour bus retrofitted to use ecofriendly biodiesel fuel. ‘We\u2019re in a bus powered by vegetable oil so we\u2019re craving french fries the whole tour.” It\u2019s like Hillary\u2019s bus tour for education, except Laurie David and Sheryl Crow in a bus tour across the country to (sigh) raise consciousness about global warming. The tour began at southern Methodist University in Dallas. (interruption) Yeah, I know it snowed the day before they got there. Snowing! (laughing) It\u2019s a joke, except these people are treated as heroines. These people are treated as Paul Reveres. They\u2019re riding across the country, and they\u2019re sounding the warning, ‘The British are coming! Global warming is coming, and it\u2019s going to kill us.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘I\u2019m here because the more I learn about global warming the more I feel compelled to do something in my own way, whatever it is.\u2019 Just do something. Whether it matters or not, just do something, and that\u2019s the clarion call: Just do something. By the way, April is currently tracking as the coldest April in 113 years in the whole country<\/emphasize>, not just in New York. How does this square with global warming? ‘Well, Mr. Limbaugh, global warming is not primarily happening in the United States, Mr. Limbaugh. It is our actions in the United States, Mr. Limbaugh, that\u2019s affecting climate in other<\/emphasize> places on the planet like Greenland and the arctics, and that\u2019s the problem, Mr. Limbaugh. Nobody ever sad that we\u2019re heating up America. It\u2019s that we\u2019re going to suffer for what we\u2019re doing.\u2019<\/p>\n

I\u2019m trying to warn everybody the best I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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