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RUSH: You know, the best thing I can do for you? I\u2019m gonna answer your question here, but I\u2019m gonna make you a complimentary subscriber to my website, Rush 24\/7<\/a>.<\/p>\nCALLER: Okay!<\/p>\n
RUSH: So when we finish here, hang on, and what we\u2019re going to do is get you a user name and password. You\u2019ll set it up yourself, but it will be good, complimentary for a year. The reason is, everything I have ever said about global warming you can find on that website, including links to stories that appeared on the website I have used in reporting it. So it\u2019s not just gonna be my opinion. There\u2019s gonna be backup.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Awesome!<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s look at timeline of the planet earth. Some scientists believe it\u2019s billions of years. Some others think it\u2019s 10,000 years or whatever. But whatever it is, Jordan, the time that we are alive on that graph is no larger than a microscopic grain of sand, okay? That\u2019s how insignificant this moment in time in terms of the age of the earth is. Yet scientists today — which are not scientists; they\u2019re liberals —<\/p>\n CALLER: (chuckles)<\/p>\n RUSH: — are trying to tell us that the climate conditions at this moment are the norm and provide the baseline from which to judge whether we\u2019re getting cooler or warmer. We don\u2019t know what the norm is. The earth is too old. We don\u2019t know if the glacial ages were the norm and we\u2019re living in an unreasonably warm period of millennia, thousands of years. We don\u2019t know if when it was insufferably hot was the norm. But because the climate change movement is totally political — it isn\u2019t rooted in science at all — the climate change stories that you hear\/see in your museum are based on one thing: computer models predicting the future 30, 50, and 100 years from now.<\/p>\n CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n RUSH: They have nothing but computer models that are predicting. And note that the predictions of disaster and calamity are all 30, 40, 50 years from now when very few of us already alive to know whether they were right or wrong.<\/p>\n CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n RUSH: It is a scare tactic that is designed to promote bigger government. Their claims as to what\u2019s causing the warming? Do you realize it\u2019s the United States that\u2019s largely responsible? Why is that? They\u2019re blaming progress. They\u2019re blaming advanced lifestyles, improved standards of living. They\u2019re blaming fossil fuels — oil, gasoline — which, if it weren\u2019t for those things, we would be living in the Stone Age. We wouldn\u2019t be able to have the economy we have today. We wouldn\u2019t have the liberty, the freedom. We wouldn\u2019t have the productivity. We wouldn\u2019t have air-conditioning. We wouldn\u2019t have the ability to heat our homes.<\/p>\n I mean, it\u2019s all absurd. It really is. The whole thing is totally absurd.<\/p>\n It\u2019s been politicized by people who are using the issue as a means of growing and expanding the government so that the government can control people\u2019s lives and how they live — and, to me, it\u2019s obscene. To blame the country on earth with the greatest standard of living — the greatest economic advancements, the greatest technological advancement, to blame all of that for the problem — is insulting. And then when you look at some of the latest predictions of doom. They are ridiculous, some of the things. Without wasting your time here in detailing a bunch of them, you\u2019ll find all of this, all those examples, some of the most outrageous claims, such as cows farting —<\/p>\n CALLER: (giggles)<\/p>\n CALLER: Oh! (giggles)<\/p>\n RUSH: — because it is contributing to global warming. The manufacturing of it and the use of it is clogging our waste systems and we\u2019d be better off using leaves or other such things. It\u2019s absurd! The stuff is just totally absurd.<\/p>\n CALLER: That\u2019s nuts.<\/p>\n RUSH: But here\u2019s what they\u2019ve done. It\u2019s really clever how they\u2019ve done it, Jordan, because, you know, everybody — you, me, your mom and dad, everybody — wants their life to mean something. You don\u2019t want to just be sitting here existing. You want your life to matter. So these people come along and they tell you that, through no fault of your own, you are helping destroy the planet because you\u2019re living with life\u2019s current progress. You\u2019re driving big, gas-guzzling cars lake SUVs. You\u2019re flying around on airplanes too much. There\u2019s too much waste. But then they give you a way of redeeming your guilt.<\/p>\n That is to vote for Democrats who will then, using Big Government, implement all of these policies that will save the planet from the horrible things we Americans have done to pollute it. So they give you a chance at redemption, and they give you a chance to have your life mean something. “Why, you, Jordan — if they recruit you — can become a warrior to save the planet!”<\/p>\n RUSH: What could be more meaningful than that? This is how they rope young people in, into thinking they\u2019re doing something that matters. But it\u2019s a premise that they cannot prove. It\u2019s all computer model predictions. Do you believe in God?<\/p>\n CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n RUSH: I do too. And I\u2019ll tell you, to be quite honest with you… You know, everybody has a foundation and a basis for believing things that they believe. I believe in God. I believe God created the earth. I believe God created man with the unique ability — of all animals and creations to think and to reason. It is man, the only living thing on earth which is concerned with its environment is human beings. I just refuse to believe — it just doesn\u2019t makes sense to me — that a loving guide like this would create human beings whose quest is to improve their standard of living for themselves and their families to make life more productive, to make it more convenient, to live longer, to live healthier — to have all of that end up destroying the planet? I don\u2019t think we have that power, Jordan.<\/p>\n CALLER: Right. I agree.<\/p>\n RUSH: At one time, they tried to tell us that everybody in southern California barbecuing at five in the afternoon was causing global warming because of all the charcoal.<\/p>\n CALLER: Why just five, though? (giggles)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/RushGLobalWarming4.jpg\")
RUSH: You\u2019re also gonna be able to see the stories from the advocates of global warming that I try to defeat and destroy. You\u2019re gonna see both sides presented. You\u2019ll have to use the search feature. If you just search “climate change” <\/a>or “global warming,”<\/a> an encyclopedic amount of information will reveal itself. Now, to answer your question briefly, I believe that the climate changes. To believe that it doesn\u2019t would be silly. We\u2019ve had ice ages. We\u2019ve had periods of time where the earth has been insufferably hot, uninhabitably so. What I disagree with is that man is responsible for it. The global warming or climate change movement accepts something… I\u2019ll see if I can explain this to you. If you look at the timeline of humanity… Well, not humanity.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/RushGlobalWarmingAlGorPolarBeas.jpg\")
RUSH: There is no evidence. They can\u2019t even point to any facts. They don\u2019t even try.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushGLobalWarming4Articles.jpg\")
RUSH: — and we need to stop eating at McDonald\u2019s because cows\u2019 farts are causing the earth to get warmer. And that\u2019s an old one. Others have suggested we stop using toilet paper —<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushGlobalWarmingVortex.jpg\")
CALLER: (chuckles)<\/p>\n
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<\/a>RUSH: It\u2019s absurd stuff! But they appeal to people emotionally. They tell \u2019em, “You have destroyed the planet. Your parents have destroyed the planet.” They have cartoon shows on Saturday morning called Captain Planet designed to make you think that evil corporations are polluting and destroying and they don\u2019t care about clean water, clean air. They rope young people in on this basis and they grow up and then they get furthered in their education in school, junior high, middle class, high school, college, all that, and it\u2019s an ongoing battle. You sound like in you\u2019re of your own mind, you may be doubtful of this, even despite your dad.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Global-Warming-Express.jpg\")
CALLER: Yes! We just learned about that the other day.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/650-120417-Rush-Climate-Change-Global-Warming.jpg\")
RUSH: Okay. So you hang on. You\u2019ve gotten a good introductory class. I tell you what else I\u2019m gonna do. I\u2019m gonna throw in an iPad Pro for you so you can read RushLimbaugh.com on the iPad Pro.<\/p>\n