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RUSH: This temperature business, 118 here and 116 there, yip yip! I remember when I lived in Sacramento in the eighties (I was there from 1984 to 1987), in July and August it wasn\u2019t unusual for temperatures there to hit 115 with low humidity, sometimes as high as 120, you know, a day or two of it, but at night it got down to 55 or 60. It was incredible. It\u2019s a valley out there, and while it was 115 in Sacramento, it would be 65, 56 in San Francisco, just 90 miles away. It\u2019s normal. It\u2019s summertime. But you knew this was going to happen. By the way, the local television news last night was explaining why there haven\u2019t been any tropical storms yet. It\u2019s that same old excuse they gave us last year: dust from the Sahara Desert is in the atmosphere up there and it\u2019s confusing the systems that produce tropical storms. Now, if it was there last year, and they know now it\u2019s there, why wasn\u2019t this factored into the forecasts earlier this year of all these massive mega-storms? I don\u2019t know. It almost could be like a dog-ate-my-homework kind of thing. Well, they gotta come up with some excuse to explain why the predictions so far haven\u2019t materialized. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jason in Las Vegas, you\u2019re next, sir, and welcome to the EIB Network on Open Line Friday.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you for taking my call, Rush. Triple-digit dittos here from the desert. You mentioned about the temperatures here in the desert that you\u2019ve experienced them in Las Vegas. You know, the week prior to this one, which this is a mini-heat wave that here having right here, we just reached the record yesterday of 116 degrees. They predicted 120 the whole week prior. They were showing temperatures in red, way above average, global warming! We didn\u2019t even come close to 120, and there is a difference between 116 and 120 because I also have a residence down in Lake Havasu City where it regularly reaches 120 degrees.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, I know, that\u2019s the whole point. But we predicted this. We predicted that this is exactly the way it would be covered. Isn\u2019t it funny that there are probably places in this country where it\u2019s below normal, but we\u2019re not going to hear about that today because tomorrow is Live Earth! We\u2019re only going to hear about where it\u2019s hotter than normal.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The entire month of May here in Las Vegas we were below normal. Not one single time did they mention it, not once did they bring it up, did they highlight it, did they put it in blue showing that we weren\u2019t reaching the beating red temperatures or otherwise — and that\u2019s why they call it an ‘average,\u2019 anyway.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not only that, they don\u2019t talk about temperatures at that time of year that are below normal as maybe being reason to question this ‘consensus\u2019 on global warming. You know, you get 116 degrees, in a desert, in July!<\/p>\n

CALLER: In the middle of the desert.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Global warming!<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know. It is an average because sometimes it\u2019s lower and sometimes it\u2019s warmer. I\u2019ve been here off and on since 1968 when I was five years old, and I\u2019ve seen it cool. I\u2019ve sen 12 inches of snow in April, in the valley here in the seventies —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of course.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — so it\u2019s absolutely nuts, but I appreciate bringing that up, and, yes, we\u2019re doing just fine here in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate it. I know you are. I\u2019ve been there this time of year. I\u2019ve been there in August, and it\u2019s quite normal, and the air-conditioning works out there. They plan for it. (sigh) The ground doesn\u2019t crack. Buildings don\u2019t fall through the cracks. It works. People that live in the desert in the summertime know what they\u2019re going to get and they prepare for it using manmade technology that allows us to do so comfortably. Speaking of all of this, story: ‘Greenland Ice Yields Hope on Climate.\u2019 Of course the Algore acolytes are telling us that Greenland\u2019s in danger of melting along with the polar ice caps. Well, get this. ‘An international team of scientists drilling deep into the ice layers of Greenland has found DNA from ancient spiders and trees, evidence that suggests the frozen shield covering the immense island survived the earth\u2019s last period of global warming.\u2019 What do you mean, ‘last period of global warming\u2019? Why, when was that? ‘The findings…\u2019 Well, I ask that because the Algore acolytes of the day want you to believe it\u2019s hotter today than it\u2019s ever been, and it\u2019s our fault, and we gotta do something fast — like raise taxes; take away your freedom; take away the kind of car you want to drive; make you use one square of toilet paper per bathroom visit. (You just go in and out of the bathroom how many times it takes would be the way to counter that.)<\/p>\n

‘The findings published today in the journal Science…\u2019 What else did I read that was published in the journal Science? That stupid survey on men and women talking I think was published today in the journal Science. I gotta subscribe to this magazine. I\u2019ve been reading about this magazine but I\u2019ve never seen it. I\u2019ve never seen it on a newsstand. I\u2019ve never seen it in a doctor\u2019s office. I\u2019ve never seen it anywhere, and yet it gets quoted all the time. This magazine gets more free publicity than anything I\u2019ve ever heard. (interruption) It doesn\u2019t matter that I\u2019m not a scientist. They publish it. It\u2019s out there. (interruption) Well, yeah, what they need is ‘Science in a Hurry.\u2019 They need a feature like we have at RushLimbaugh.com, ‘Science in a Hurry,\u2019 because that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing anyway. All this purported gobbledygook is science. ‘The findings, published today in the journal Science indicate that Greenland\u2019s ice may be less susceptible to the massive meltdown predicted by [Algore\u2019s] computer models… the article\u2019s main author said in an interview. ‘If our data is correct, and I believe it is, then this means the southern Greenland ice cap is more stable than previously thought,\u2019 said Eske Willerslev, research leader and professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Copenhagen. ‘This may have implications for how the ice sheets respond to global warming. They may withstand rising temperatures.” <\/p>\n

No! No kidding! Maybe if you would think of something practical like ‘Greenland is still there,\u2019 it has to have survived a whole bunch of stuff. The vanity of these people, to think that what we\u2019re doing destroys and shifts entire land masses. You know, we could try it, but we couldn\u2019t do it. It\u2019s going to happen whether we do anything or not. It\u2019s continuing to happen. It\u2019s constantly changing. ‘If our data is correct…the Greenland ice cap is more stable than previously thought.\u2019 Temperatures, by the way… ‘The discovery of organic matter in ice, dating from half a million years ago offers evidence that the Greenland ice shield remain frozen even during the earth\u2019s last interglacial period, some 120,000 years ago, when average temperatures were nine degrees Fahrenheit warmer than they are now.\u2019 Well, I\u2019ll tell you, our buddies in the global warming crowd are not even predicting that much of an increase. ‘That\u2019s slightly higher than the average temperatures foreseen by most scientists for the end of this century, although some environmentalists warn it might get even…\u2019 Oh, of course, ‘some environmentalists warn.\u2019 Are you using the same environmental experts you are using to predict the economy every month? This is a Danish-led team. ‘Researchers said that the unanticipated findings appear to fly in the face of prevailing scientific views about the likely fate of Greenland\u2019s thickly layered ice. Although Willerslev stressed that the findings do not contradict the basic premise that the earth\u2019s temperature is rising to worrisome levels.\u2019 What\u2019s worrisome about it? Who says that this is ideal now anyway? Who says we couldn\u2019t do better if it was a little warmer anywhere in the world. Anyway, the earth can withstand all this. The evidence is, it\u2019s here, and it\u2019s been around here for far longer than any of us have, and it survives. The vanity of these people. Tom in Toledo, Ohio, you\u2019re up on Open Line Friday. It\u2019s great to have you with us, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, the Algore circus, I think, is just a diversion from what Washington is really up to. They\u2019re in this global warming thing. They\u2019re reaching ahead trying to pass a cap-in-trade program on energy use, which is really just an energy rationing bill, and it\u2019s essentially going to raise prices so high, I would call it the alternative minimum-maximum tax that they\u2019re going to impose on people. The McCain, Lieberman, Bingaman bill, all these people are talking about ratcheting down the amount of carbon we can use by as much as 80% by 2050 and they\u2019re afraid to call it a carbon tax because then they would get blamed for it so they\u2019re going to do it in terms of actually disallowing what people can produce and sell in fuels, and we have to buy permits to use the fuel.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have not heard about this piece of legislation, and I\u2019ve heard about everything.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Will it\u2019s in the major bills. It\u2019s even in the energy bills that the Senate has passed. They have kind of a carbon policy built into it that essentially is just going to raise the transportation fuel costs. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know what else it\u2019s going to do, if it\u2019s not doing it already? It\u2019s going to irreparably damage the US automobile industry, because they\u2019re not going to be able to make cars that people want to buy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s going to damage all industry, Rush, because when you put a cap in trade bill on, the easiest way to avoid it is don\u2019t produce something in this country. Just go to China and produce it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, something like that, if it were to happen, would be so destructive, it wouldn\u2019t last long. I must confess that I\u2019m hearing this for the first time. But I don\u2019t think global warming is a diversion from it. I think it\u2019s a lead liberal Democrat issue. You know, liberalism advances itself in stealth ways, and it has techniques of doing so, and they\u2019re all shrouded in ‘good intentions,\u2019 saving poor people, saving poor earth, saving the environment or what have you, and they play on people\u2019s guilt because they also (at the same time they\u2019re doing this) blame people for having caused the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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