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RUSH: I came in today. I look at the weather forecast every day. I don\u2019t know why, because it hasn\u2019t rained here in months, and the last time it rained here of any significance, we got flooded in the parking lot. We couldn\u2019t get outta here \u2019til midnight that night. We had to walk down a flooded flight of stairs because still couldn\u2019t drive our cars down. Yeah, that is the last time it rained. Have you noticed? We have a big lake here in Florida called Okeechobee and of course everybody the Drive-Bys down here and the water management resource people are panicked. ‘Oh, no! Lake Okeechobee is lower than it\u2019s ever been, a record low! No, no!\u2019 What they are not telling us is, remember last year during the hurricanes, or two years ago during the hurricanes? They drained four feet from the lake because they were afraid of flooding and vegetation. Water management down here is a trick, with all the canals and so forth, and they have to move it around when big storms come in. So anyway they\u2019re finding all kinds of evidence. (Laughing.) They\u2019re finding boats and bones and stuff down there at the bottom of the lake, but there\u2019s another thing. See, I always tell you there\u2019s good that happens in everything. <\/p>\n

Since the lake has receded they\u2019re able to go in there and clean out the muck that they\u2019re otherwise not able to get to. They can get some of the junk outta there. It\u2019s an opportunity. Anyway, I\u2019m looking at the weather forecast, and I see that we got a 70% chance of boomers and rain starting tonight, maybe tomorrow, all the way through Sunday. I said, ‘Well, what\u2019s this?\u2019 So I came in here, and I have a collection of NOAA maps, satellite imagery. I said, ‘Look, what is that below Cuber?\u2019 [JFK pronunciation of ‘Cuba\u2019] I sent an e-mail to my buddy Roy Spencer<\/a>, climatologist extraordinaire at the University of Alabama Huntsville.<\/p>\n

He said, ‘Ah, don\u2019t worry about it. It\u2019s just like a lot of rain. The sea surface temperatures, not quite warm enough yet for formation.\u2019<\/p>\n

I went to the National Hurricane Center website. Lo and behold, they\u2019ve got an advisory out. It\u2019s not going to become a hurricane. It\u2019s just going to become a big, powerful low. <\/p>\n

So Roy wrote me back and said, ‘Look, I\u2019ll flip you for it. We need rain here in Alabama.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Well, we need it here in Florida, too. If we get the rain, I\u2019ll buy you dinner.\u2019<\/p>\n

He said, ‘Okay, ditto, vice-versa.\u2019<\/p>\n

Then I got a note from him that said he is using all of his powers as a climatologist specialist to steer that storm to Alabama. (Laughing.) I\u2019m only kidding. He wants it to go to Alabama. Everybody in the Southeast needs some rain. There\u2019s also a report on Drudge about a Russian scientist who says that we can dump sulfur into the stratosphere to cause global cooling. Now, this is not a new idea. In fact, it has been done before. It has. It\u2019s called Mt. Pinatubo, a volcano. The 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption put an estimated 20 million tons of sulfur into the stratosphere, which caused considerable cooling for a little over a year. <\/p>\n

Now, I asked Roy about this. I said, ‘What is this about this Russian scientist and sulfur in the atmosphere?\u2019 <\/p>\n

He said, ‘Yeah.\u2019 He ran the calculations, and Dr. Spencer said that it would take one 747 cargo plane — no passengers, the whole thing is cargo — carrying 100 tons of sulfur every 30 minutes to do the same thing that Pinatubo did in one eruption. <\/p>\n

It was just asked, ‘Can we encourage an eruption?\u2019 Yes. If Mt. Pinatubo does it, then that\u2019s fine. That\u2019s nature doing it. If we were to load a bunch of 747s and start dumping sulfur in the stratosphere, the environmentalists would have a cow. They wouldn\u2019t do it. But Mt. Pinatubo does. The point of this illustration, one 747 cargo plane carrying a hundred tons of sulfur every 30 minutes for a long period of time, to equal the eruption of Pinatubo, is we are nothing compared to nature, folks. I mean we\u2019re part of nature, but the idea that we\u2019re affecting all this stuff is once again absurd. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Rebecca in Noblesville, Indiana. It\u2019s nice to have you on the program. Is a Nobel- or Nobles-ville?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Nobles-ville.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Great. I saw Noble, and I know that I\u2019m nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I thought it might be pronounced Nobels-ville. But for today it is, it\u2019s Nobels-ville.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Glad to talk to you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was at the zoo yesterday with my kindergartener watching the dolphin show and I was in awe, actually moved by these wonderful creatures, until I got the sick feeling in my stomach when they started to talk about what we can do to preserve the World of Dolphin. So my question for you is, how long do you think it will be until they\u2019ll be some great stigma against having more than 1.5 children in the world or in our society because of global warming to ‘save dolphins\u2019 and everything else?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did somebody actually say that in talking about preserving the dolphins?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no, no, no. But I see here and there, when the subject of global warming comes up, people talk about it at length.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, it\u2019s humanity that\u2019s causing it. We need fewer people. This all got started with Paul Ehrlich and his Population Bomb, which was a bomb of a book in the early seventies. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, but it\u2019s just kept going.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I am. I\u2019m going to tell you the truth here. When these people get going and revved up, you can\u2019t rule anything out. The very fact that you conceive of such a question to me means that it is possible, because you are actively engaged in thinking, and you\u2019re thinking down the road, . You hear what they say and you know that there\u2019s more to that, and there\u2019s more to come, and you know that China has already done this, for different reasons.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, and they failed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And China is a bunch of communists. Look, that\u2019s why I\u2019m proud of you. That is an excellent question. It\u2019s the kind of question most people would probably think, ‘Well, this lady\u2019s off her rocker, asking this.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not talking about tomorrow, but if these people aren\u2019t checked and if they\u2019re not stopped — and they have all this collectivism that they want to do and they\u2019re blaming all these problems on our affluence; global warming is caused by our affluence — nothing is impossible or improbable with these people.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm. Well, it goes down deeply to what is the most important job to me, the thing I\u2019ve always wanted to do, and that\u2019s to be a mother. I lived in France for a few months a couple of years ago. I was walking down the street with three children, two in a stroller, and some high school kids were walking by, in French, they said, ‘That woman has too many children.\u2019 You know, this is something I encounter a lot, and I know a lot of people with large families encounter it, you know? Stares, looks, sometimes rude comments.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s the same thing. That\u2019s because in France all that socialism over there, they\u2019re talking about this. It\u2019d be no different if you walked down the street smoking a cigarette.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Ugh, she\u2019s smoking a cigarette!\u2019 This stuff subtly weaves its tentacles into the fabric of society, and people get caught up in it. How many people walk into McDonald\u2019s now, and hope nobody that they know sees them? <\/p>\n

CALLER: (Giggle.)<\/p>\n

RUSH: It spreads this way. Wait, you have three kids now?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Five.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You have five. But when you\u2019re in France you had three?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I had three with me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You had three with you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How old are your kids?<\/p>\n

CALLER: They are seven, six, four, two, and almost one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Have you studied the length of their fingers?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Um, they are probably relatively short. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve not studied them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, here\u2019s what it says here. This is Reuters health story. The length of children\u2019s fingers, finger length ‘may hint at their natural abilities in math and language.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Un-huh. Well, I\u2019ve got those covered. I was a math major, and I speak French. Their father speaks French. He\u2019s French.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow. Well, you sound like you\u2019re very educated and as we thought woman. So don\u2019t let those zoo creeps at the dolphin show creep you out. But the question is valid. Also, go out and get the Planet Earth DVD series and watch the dolphins. You won\u2019t worry about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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