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RUSH: I\u2019m in a blue funk, and I don\u2019t know why. I\u2019ve been in a flat-line blue funk since Friday. I have no clue why. These things happen to me sometimes. They\u2019re rare, but it\u2019s just one of these things where nothing excites me, nothing jazzes me up. (interruption) Well, it\u2019s not like the malaise that people claim to be feeling about the country because I feel great about the country, feel great about everything, feel great about myself — (interruption) no, it\u2019s not male menopause, there\u2019s no such thing. No, no, no, no. Don\u2019t make me laugh. Don\u2019t make me laugh here. I\u2019m in a blue funk. That\u2019s the point. I don\u2019t want to laugh when I\u2019m in one of these blue funk things. I don\u2019t want to artificially get out of it because when I realize it\u2019s an artificial escape, the realization I\u2019m still in a blue funk is going to make the blue funk worse than it was in the first place. Anyway, folks, let\u2019s just get straight to it. A global warming update to kick off the program. <\/p>\n

(Playing of the global warming update song: Fire) <\/p>\n

RUSH: Arthur Brown\u2019s Fire, with one of the wicked witches in there. Here I am, all I want to do, I\u2019m in a blue funk even though it was a great football game between the Patriots and the Colts yesterday afternoon. I was looking forward to it, but I was in a blue funk and all I want to do is watch the football game. I don\u2019t want to answer the phone. I don\u2019t want to answer the e-mails. I don\u2019t want to answer the chats. I don\u2019t want to talk to anybody. I want to watch the football game because I want to escape from the blue funk. So what happens, I\u2019m watching the pregame show and toward the end of the pregame show Bob Costas announces they\u2019re turning out the lights in the studio. They show a satellite map of the country and they say, ‘Look, all of you all over the country, look at how lit up our country is, please turn off your lights.\u2019 And I thought politics was not supposed to be part of the NFL. I thought the NFL didn\u2019t want politics to be part of what they do. It\u2019s a football pregame show. ESPN\u2019s done a bad enough job botching Monday night broadcasts. You can\u2019t watch \u2019em anymore. You have to watch \u2019em with the sound down and then even when you try to watch the game you gotta put up with some B-list celebrity in the booth yakking about something that\u2019s irrelevant to the game. So anyway, it\u2019s tough enough on Monday night without NBC botching things. Listen to this.<\/p>\n

COSTAS: As part of NBC Universal\u2019s Green is Universal initiative, we have turned out the lights in the studio to kick off a week that will include more than 150 hours of programming designed to raise awareness about environmental issues. And as part of that, we will now head north, very far north, as our colleague, Matt Lauer, as you can see, is standing by live. That is not a movie or television set. All appearances to the contrary, Matt is actually live somewhere in the Arctic Circle. Hello, Matt.<\/p>\n

LAUER: (Cris Collinsworth laughing) Hello, Bob. The giggling from the guys not helping the matter at all, I should tell you that we\u2019ve got two extraordinary shows planned over the next couple of days, part of Green is Universal. You\u2019re doing your part there in the studio; we\u2019re doing our part. We\u2019re traveling to the ends of the earth to take a look at the state of the planet and what we\u2019re doing to it and what we can do about it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What we\u2019re doing to it. I wonder how many carbon footprints were made traveling up there to the Arctic Circle to look at what\u2019s happening. The silliness of turning out the lights in a television studio as to somehow set an example and try to influence the American people. On a football show! It would be ridiculous if it was on a news show. But it is going to be. It\u2019s going to be on 150 hours of their programming, pure, 100% advocacy of a political issue at the end of a football pregame show. This is not what people tune in to the NBC football night in America pregame show to watch. Collinsworth, you heard him laughing. I wonder how many of these people in that set actually think this is idiocy, and Collinsworth actually had to turn on a flashlight. So what\u2019s the point of turning out the lights, you still have to go get a battery, the battery is made of what? Carbon! Anyway, then it continued this morning on the Today Show. They had Algore, the Nobel Peace Prize winner. He said the peace prize is not about him. It\u2019s about saving the world from the biggest challenge human civilization has ever faced. Meredith Vieira with a question: ‘Back in 1992, Algore, the first President Bush called you ozone man. He ridiculed your efforts to bring attention to climate change. He even called you crazy at one point. Is this vindication of a sort for you?\u2019<\/p>\n

ALGORE: It\u2019s not about me. It\u2019s about getting this message out to as many people as possible as quickly as possible. We face a planetary emergency, Meredith. The climate crisis is by far the biggest challenge human civilization has ever faced. And we\u2019re putting 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the Earth\u2019s atmosphere every single day, as if it\u2019s an open sewer. And that pollution is trapping a lot more of the sun\u2019s heat and that\u2019s raising temperatures, melting the ice, making the storms stronger —<\/p>\n

RUSH: What storms?<\/p>\n

ALGORE: — deepening the droughts, ironically also making flooding worse and moving tropical diseases into temperate latitudes and causing a range of other changes that are not good for human civilization.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is irresponsible. This is totally irresponsible to take a political issue and to make it a cause c&eacute;l&egrave;bre of an entire company, NBC Universal, and then make it part of the week-long, 150 hours\u2019 worth of programming on NBC. What Algore said here is just ridiculous. Raising temperatures, melting the ice. The ice melts all the time. Temperatures constantly go up and they constantly go down. Storms stronger — what storms? Tropical diseases in the temperate latitudes, everything that is happened that has always happened throughout the course of this planet\u2019s life is happening today, and it\u2019s now being laid at the feet of us, at our feet. We are the ones responsible for it. Now, listen to this next bite from Algore. Meredith Vieira says, ‘Algore, you share the prize, the Nobel Peace Prize with scientists from the UN\u2019s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.\u2019 Not all of whom agree on all this, by the way. I\u2019m adding that. Meredith Vieira did not throw it in. ‘One of those scientists, John Christy, wrote an op-ed last Thursday in the Wall Street Journal in which he criticized your dire predictions about the impact of global warming. He wrote, ‘I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see.\u2019 So what do you make, Algore, of his assessment?\u2019<\/p>\n

ALGORE: Well, he\u2019s an outlier. He no longer belongs to the IPCC, and he is way outside the scientific consensus. But, Meredith, part of the challenge the news media has had in covering this story —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Get this.<\/p>\n

ALGORE: — is the old habit of taking the, on the one hand\/on the other hand, approach. There are still people who believe that the Earth is flat. But when you\u2019re reporting on a story like the one you\u2019re covering today where you have people all around the world, you don\u2019t search out for someone who still believes the Earth is flat and give them equal time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He is taking an argument that I have made about this and turning it around, the scientific consensus. When you have consensus, there is no science. It is not up to a vote. Now, he\u2019s right about one thing, this business, this habit of journalists, no matter what the story, no matter what the fact, they\u2019re always going to go find some wacko critic somewhere, and that\u2019s just part of the formula. But Algore wants to suspend that on his issue. He doesn\u2019t want both sides covered because his side cannot stand, cannot deal with the exposure it would get from the critics, and there are many of them. This is just amazing. We gotta get rid of anybody who questions this. Comparing this to people who think the Earth is flat, I can remember using that example countless times, but not in the discussion of the media, but in the discussion of consensus and science. Suppose that there was a consensus and some group of scientists said the Earth was flat? That\u2019s the equivalent of what\u2019s happening here with global warming, and yet, if you ask me, it is the other side of this issue, our side, my side, that is getting short shrift. Let\u2019s move to the final sound bite in this roster. This is this morning at the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming hearing with Ed Markey of Massachusetts. Student Charlee Lockwood of the Alaska Youth for Environmental Action testified, and here is a portion of her remarks. This is this morning, before a House committee.<\/p>\n

LOCKWOOD: (crying) Just in my lifetime I\u2019ve seen so many&hellip; changes in our community that it just hurts to (sniffle) not be able to have our… (voice trembling) It\u2019s really scary to lose our tradition, our culture, and we\u2019ve been living here for thousands of years (sob) and it\u2019s not just that we\u2019re losing our food, it\u2019s losing our homes, and — because we are spiritually connected, and emotionally and (sniffle) physically connected to our homes, and (sob) there are so many — so many — communities that are in trouble.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So once again, it\u2019s the Democrats exploiting a young child, ladies and gentlemen, for the advancement of a political issue that will grow the size of government and increase their control over everyone. I really want to puke. I just want to throw up.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, Matt Lauer of NBC says that none of what they\u2019re doing is political. In fact, it\u2019s apolitical. He made a comment like this to some reporter at the New York Post today. He said, ‘We\u2019ll give you the information and then you decide.\u2019 Sounds like Fox News, Matt! ‘We report, you decide.\u2019 He said, ‘In Antarctica, for example, the ice there on the shield is melting twice as fast as experts thought ten years ago.\u2019 The Antarctic ice shelf is growing! There is a part of it that\u2019s melting but the whole thing is growing. (heaving breathing) One… Two… Okay, I made it. ‘In the Antarctic, for example, the ice there on the shield is melting twice as fast as experts thought ten years ago. Is it a normal pattern of climate change? Is it global warming? You decide.\u2019 Wrongo, Matt. You\u2019re not leaving it up to people to decide, otherwise you wouldn\u2019t be doing it this way. You wouldn\u2019t be politicizing a football game. Why turn off the studio lights on a football set in a pregame show, if you\u2019re not trying to reach people who actually have lives? You know, people that watch football are not paying attention to politics day-in-and-day-out; so when you do this little global initiative thing during the pregame show, you\u2019re going to reach, quote, unquote, ‘the targets\u2019 of people whose minds you want to change. <\/p>\n

Lauer also said that they\u2019re buying carbon credits in order to make up for the carbon footprint they are making in traveling to all these different Arctic and Antarctic circles. That\u2019s bogus. What are they doing? Planting trees! They\u2019re investing in sham industries. The idea is to reduce the carbon footprint. It\u2019s typical. Here\u2019s NBC saying, ‘Turn off your lights, America. Look at the satellite map. Look at all the lights on over this country. This is outrageous, and we\u2019re going to show you the way, and we\u2019re going to lead the way! We\u2019re going to do our pregame show from now on out, on the rest of the show, in the dark,\u2019 except it wasn\u2019t in the dark. You could see them. Let me tell you about television: If they turned out all the lights in a studio, you couldn\u2019t see diddly-squat. They had to keep their monitors on in the control room. They had little set lights that are decorative on. They did turn off the big klieg lights, but they still had lights on to work. The whole thing is so hypocritical. Collinsworth was out there with a flashlight to show himself what he had to say next, or what he was going to talk about next. All of this is just (sigh) a sham. You gotta hear this girl again. Let me find her name here. I put it at the bottom of the stack. I thought we were through with it, but I\u2019m getting requests (sigh) to hear this again, and I know the requests really aren\u2019t to hear this. The requests are for my reaction to this. This is Cheryl ‘Charlee\u2019 Lockwood crying in House testimony, Ed Markey\u2019s committee today, the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming. <\/p>\n

LOCKWOOD: (crying) Just in my lifetime I\u2019ve seen so many…changes in our community that it just hurts to (sniffle) not be able to have our… (voice trembling) It\u2019s really scary to lose our tradition, our culture, and we\u2019ve been living here for thousands of years (sob) and it\u2019s not just that we\u2019re losing our food, it\u2019s losing our homes, and — because we are spiritually connected, and emotionally and (sniffle) physically connected to our homes, and (sob) there are so many — so many communities that are in trouble. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Yeah. That\u2019s true. A lot of communities are in trouble over a lot of things. Go to New Orleans. Talk about losing homes. (crying) Sorry. I\u2019m just reminded here of the old PSA. Remember the television PSA that used to run back in the old days and we were kids, Iron Eyes Cody, the Indian (the Native American, sorry) standing by the roadside as worthless Americans drive by on the way to their trailer parks and so forth, and throwing trash out the window of the car, and they zero in on Iron Eyes Cody, (whispering) a founder of the country, a true founder! A Native American. It turns out he wasn\u2019t. He was an actor, made up, but doesn\u2019t matter. A little tear starts rolling down his cheek over what the white Europeans have done to his country! The stuff is oppressive. It\u2019s always been around.<\/p>\n

Shreveport, Louisiana, this is Chad. Chad, you\u2019re up first today on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet, sir. Make it count.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, here\u2019s the deal. I\u2019m going to make the assumption that the young lady testifying is of Inuit descent.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I would think so because the Inuits have joined the crusade up there, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How did her people get to North America from the Asian continent? Didn\u2019t they come across a land bridge that has melted?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know. They might have hitched a ride with the Vikings. Who the hell knows? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they tell me —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I know you\u2019re right. I\u2019m just in a blue funk here. I\u2019m in a real cynical mood here about all of this. Go ahead and make your point. It\u2019s a good point.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They tell me that the Inuits came across the —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who told you? Who told you? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well — <\/p>\n

RUSH: If you learned it in a college classroom, we can\u2019t trust it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, just a public school education, but if it did, in fact, melt, why would it melt and there is no connection between Alaska and Russia today? There must have been some global warming in the past.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we know there has been. So your question is: How did they get there in the first place.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, if she\u2019s worried about the climate changing, it\u2019s been changing since the beginning of time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of course, it has. Here\u2019s the thing, folks. With all of these scientists out there making the case, this so-called ‘consensus,\u2019 saying that global warming is happening; we\u2019re causing it. We have reported and shared with you any number of times, the number of scientists among that ‘consensus\u2019 who now say it\u2019s too late. It\u2019s simply too late to reverse what we\u2019ve done. Let me tell you what the real purpose of all of this is. It\u2019s a Reuters story. It\u2019s out of London. ‘Millions of people around the world are willing to make personal sacrifices, including paying higher bills, to help redress climate change, a global survey said [today]. The survey found 83 percent of those questioned believed lifestyle changes would be necessary to cut emissions of climate warming carbon gases,\u2019 and would gladly pay them, and that, folks, is what this is about.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t want to have to run through this too fast. This is what all of this global warming stuff is about, folks. I don\u2019t care what the story; I don\u2019t care what the tear-jerker testimony they get before Congress; I don\u2019t care what they tell you. I don\u2019t care what they do. The actual purpose can be found in this Reuters story from London. ‘Millions of people around the world are willing to make personal sacrifices, including paying higher bills, to help redress climate change, a global survey said on Monday. The survey found 83 percent of those questioned believed lifestyle changes would be necessary to cut emissions of climate warming carbon gases. The survey, conducted by two polling organisations for the BBC World Service, covered 22,000 people in 21 countries. In 14 of the 21 countries from Canada to Australia, 61 percent overall said it would be necessary to increase energy costs to encourage conservation and reduce carbon emissions.\u2019 Hell\u2019s bells, the market\u2019s doing that! <\/p>\n

Can anybody see what the price of oil is? By the way, the price of oil, Washington Post even admits it, this I\u2019ve been pounding to death, too, ‘Traders, and not political or supply concerns, may be pushing fuel towards $100.\u2019 There is no current shortage of oil. ”There is no current shortage, but no one deals on today\u2019s market. They make deals based on tomorrow\u2019s market. And that\u2019s what they\u2019re worried about,\u2019 said Joseph Stanislaw, an oil consultant and senior adviser to the accounting firm Deloitte &amp; Touche.\u2019 I just saw where the Chinese, the ChiComs have an oil company that\u2019s grown bigger than ExxonMobil, bigger oil company than ExxonMobil. You have Hugo Chavez who has nationalized all the oil wells and operations in Venezuela. You have a New York Times story today praising Hugo Chavez for doing this. They imply that the same thing should happen here, that government, which has no experience and no business running anything in the private sector, should start nationalizing all of these industries. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the ChiComs are drilling for oil not far from Key West. The ChiComs are making deals with the CubanComs to make oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, and we won\u2019t. So we sit around, we complain about the rising cost of oil, which the market is taking care of, by the way, and now we\u2019ve gotta have these new carbon taxes and these lifestyle rollbacks. That\u2019s what this is all about. Take a look at Charles Rangel\u2019s proposed tax increase of a couple weeks ago, $1 trillion. You don\u2019t think the world\u2019s leftists are serious about this, you need to think again. <\/p>\n

All right, who\u2019s next? Lou in Short Hills, New Jersey. Hi, Lou, welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Mr. Limbaugh, it\u2019s an honor to speak with you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: You said that Senator Gore was concerned about 70 million tons per year of carbon going into the environment.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, wait a minute, Gore said it himself. Don\u2019t put words in my mouth. I coulda said it, but he said it, we played a sound bite from Gore on the green Today Show today, which is not political, of course not. It\u2019s not political when you have the number-one advocate for this socialism as your primary guest. Of course, it can\u2019t be political. Who do they think they\u2019re fooling with here? Do they think we\u2019re idiots? I\u2019m sorry about this, Lou. What were you going to say?<\/p>\n

CALLER: How much does that compare to the amount of carbon going into the atmosphere by natural sources?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you know what the number-one source of greenhouse gases on this planet is?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hot air from liberals?<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Water vapor. Water vapor is the largest greenhouse gas on the planet. And you know where it comes from?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The ocean.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, yeah, that\u2019s a good guess because that\u2019s where all the water is, is in the oceans. Water vapor. Any climatologist will tell you this, and there\u2019s nothing we can do about it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But people exhale 2.2 pounds of carbon every day —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of course, we do. The cows and the caribou, the moose, expelling gas and so forth up there, all this is so absurd. It\u2019s just so absurd. It has no reason, by the way, no bearing on my blue funk.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Isn\u2019t the 70 million tons just a drop in the bucket compared to the total amount that\u2019s put into the environment every year?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m going to have to ask our expert climatologist here on staff at the EIB Network, Roy Spencer.<\/a> He told me once, but the percentage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere right now, if every one of these outrageously wild predictions would come true, it would raise the carbon dioxide level of the atmosphere maybe 31%, 31% to 32%. I\u2019ll get him to correct me on this, the numbers. But it\u2019s minuscule. You are exactly right. What\u2019s missing in all this is that the Earth somehow is powerless to do anything to help itself. The Earth is just sitting there waiting to be destroyed by wealthy capitalists who have brought prosperity to this planet and the people of this population like at no other time in American history. That\u2019s what I resent the most about this, the fact that prosperity, a rapidly growing economy, opportunity for gazillions of people on this planet, is causing this stuff, folks. That ought to be the first dead giveaway as to who it is pushing this stuff. A bunch of damned socialists. I tell you, and when they co-opt an entire TV network — and they think they\u2019re going to get ratings out of it. This is why they\u2019re doing it, plus they\u2019re pushing the political agenda side. There\u2019s no question about that. But they think they\u2019re going to get ratings out of this. <\/p>\n

But I\u2019ll tell you, my good old boy buddies that watch football, the pregame show, and all of a sudden we get 30 minutes of preaching to us about ‘Turn out your lights?\u2019 ‘How am I going to get to the beer if I can\u2019t see the refrigerator,\u2019 is what the average football fan is saying. You want me to sit here watch a game, how can I watch a game if I gotta turn off my damn television set? That\u2019s a damn light. What are you doing? You\u2019re making me watch the game, I want to watch it, you\u2019re broadcasting it, you\u2019re putting it on my TV. Go dark! If you really mean this, don\u2019t televise the game. Take your network dark all night if you really want to save power. Don\u2019t sit there and tell us we should do it while you\u2019re making a show of turning off some klieg lights in the studio. <\/p>\n

Mike in Lexington, Kentucky, nice to have you with us on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega bluegrass dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Happy to talk to you. Just wanted to say how I accommodated their stupid request on NBC last night. It follows what you just said, I turned them off. <\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Well, did you listen to the game on the radio?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just didn\u2019t listen to it at all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it was a blowout, you knew it was going to be a blowout. The Eagles didn\u2019t have a chance, their season is over. It was over before last night. Well, it is. It\u2019s just a bad year for them, and the Cowboys are for real.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, they are. They really are.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hell, I went to bed at halftime. I was in such a blue funk, I got tired. I didn\u2019t even watch it past halftime.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Nope.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I left some lights on in the house, damn it, left more lights on in my house last night. The turtle season is over and I\u2019ve got all of my outdoor lights blaring, blazing. Screw it!<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s good. And if NBC really wants to save energy, why don\u2019t they just go dark for 150 hours?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly. Exactly. Make people miss them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If you really want to set an example, set the example, don\u2019t preach to us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I don\u2019t think anybody would miss \u2019em.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s one of my points. Some of these clowns have missed the football game on Sunday night, some of their other programming. Ha-ha, you have a point. I gotta run. Thanks for the call out there, Mike. <\/p>\n

This is David in Hendersonville, North Carolina. You\u2019re next, sir, great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Greetings, Maha Rushie. Along the same lines, I was going to go to Universal Studios during my Christmas break this year and, you know, I think I\u2019ll just stay home and not do that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, because if you go there, you\u2019re going to make \u2019em run the exhibits, run the rides, show all the neat tricks they can do making Hollywood movies and so forth. They ought to shut down the Universal Studios up there at Disney World, right? Shut it down. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean, if they want to save some money and some power and they want to be communists, let \u2019em be communists.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s not use ‘communists\u2019 here. Let\u2019s just say liberals and socialists. They\u2019re being activists right now. And, believe me, you know, they\u2019re doing two things here. One of the things they\u2019re doing is proselytizing and preaching. Number two, they\u2019re trying to get ratings. They think this is a big ratings getter. Don\u2019t forget that\u2019s the purpose of all media, is to get ratings. It\u2019s a business. I don\u2019t mean that in a cutting way. That\u2019s how you define business success, and this is clearly what they are attempting to do. <\/p>\n

Monte in Nashville, thank you for waiting sir, welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It is awesome, great to talk to you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: You agree with me about 99% of the time. The one place that we separate is the Dallas Cowboys. I had a question for you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Last night — I know your feelings about Donovan McNabb — who did you pull for, the Cowboys or the Eagles?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, now you\u2019re trying to box me into a corner.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: How could you not root for the Cowboys?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Amen, I agree with you, but I know being a Steelers fan that\u2019s hard to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t have intrinsic dislike for teams that have been easily beaten by the Steelers in the past.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, seems to me we won the last Super Bowl we played.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s true, but there\u2019s something crazy about that game. I don\u2019t want to sit here and talk football, but the quarterback throws two interceptions where there\u2019s not a Steelers receiver anywhere around, can you say conspiracy?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I always thought he was paid off, but I\u2019m glad from a Cowboys standpoint he was.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you the truth about this NFL season, is there\u2019s no NFC team that has a chance of winning a Super Bowl, Cowboys included.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Pure and simple. Good, see, you do agree with me more often than even you know it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m going to have to turn \u2019em off or I\u2019m not going to be able to get through this. I\u2019m watching PMSNBC and all their graphics are green, and their weather guy is out on the streets of New York talking to some five-year-old about recycling! <\/p>\n

‘How do you recycle?\u2019 <\/p>\n

(classic little kid voice) ‘Well, I asked my mommy, and she says, ‘Put it in that bag.\u2019 I really care about the Earth.\u2019 <\/p>\n

(sigh) This is how they do it, folks. This is how they do it. By the way, I have these statistics here on the carbon in the atmosphere. Get this now: thirty-eight of every 100,000 molecules of air in the atmosphere are CO2. That\u2019s 380 parts per million. It takes mankind five years to add one molecule per 100,000. So we\u2019ve got 38 of every 100,000 molecules of air is CO2! You realize how small that is? And it takes five years to add one more molecule. So in five years, it will be a 39 out of every 100,000 molecules. Yet we get this BS on how polluted the planet is. By the way, one of the callers today had a great point. I don\u2019t know how we\u2019re going to reduce this because we all exhale, and that\u2019s CO2.<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s next? This is Wayne in eastern Virginia. Hi, Wayne. It\u2019s nice to have you with us on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sorry I missed your blue funk, but I may add to it a little bit. The Blue Ridge Mountains stretch all the way from Maine to Georgia.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yup.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They get their name, the Blue Ridge Mountains, because — I\u2019m a Ph.D. chemist — and pine trees exude a compound called ‘pinene\u2019 that is all carbon and hydrogen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. How do you spell that, pinene? <\/p>\n

CALLER: P-i-n-e-n-e.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Pinene, and it\u2019s all carbon and all hydrogen?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. It\u2019s also got a double bond which makes it reactive.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So what\u2019s the point? We gotta cut down pine trees?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right. The point is, every pine tree in the country should be cut down to reduce the carbon we put into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But then what would happen to the Blue Ridge range?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It would disappear. You\u2019d cut down all the pine trees.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we can\u2019t cut down trees. The environmentalists won\u2019t let us cut down trees, but they\u2019ll burn the next time a fire breaks out.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) I know that. But they\u2019re just being so idiotic about the whole thing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you are not a member of the ‘consensus\u2019 of scientists who believes in this man-made global warming hoax?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I believe that there may be some climatic change going on, but I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s global warming, and I don\u2019t believe that we have enough data to predict what\u2019s going to happen in the next 50 years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of course not. That\u2019s why they say 50 years, instead of next year. Because 50 years, ‘Oh, we can\u2019t afford to wait! We\u2019ve got time to fix it: raise taxes, roll back your lifestyles, make some sacrifices, vote Democrat, and go socialist.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right. I\u2019ve done enough modeling, computer modeling to know that I can tweak the parameters on the model and make it say anything I want to.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, of course. Exactly. The models do not factor in all the relevant data anyway, such as precipitation, because we can\u2019t even measure every drop of precipitation that happens on the planet every day. We simply don\u2019t have the ability. We don\u2019t have the systems. We don\u2019t have the equipment, and when you leave precipitation out of these models, it renders them worthless. You know, you, as someone who doesn\u2019t believe in the man-made aspect of the warming that is going on — according to Algore, you, Wayne — are an ‘outlier.\u2019 <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I know. In scientific data, I would be called an outlier in statistics and just chopped off at the ankles.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, you know, but I want to make sure everybody else knows. Outlier is spelled o-u-t-l-i-e-r, and it\u2019s not that you\u2019re lying. It means that you are on the fringes. <\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re way outside the ‘mainstream of accepted science\u2019 on this bogus hoax.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right — and in science, outliers are ignored.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In fact, they are totally ignored.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s why they\u2019re called outliers. All right, thanks, Wayne. I appreciate that. Well, so what? We\u2019re going to have to cut down every pine tree to eliminate… Well, that\u2019s sacrifice. Sacrifice. Bye-bye Christmas trees! Cut down all the pine trees. A Christmas tree is a relative of the pine tree. By the way, the Brits, some stupid government agency in the UK has warned Santa Claus to lose weight because he\u2019s setting a bad example for British kids. I kid you not. I have that and more coming up on the program in the stacks of stuff.<\/p>\n

Taylors, South Carolina, this is Katie. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush! It\u2019s great to talk to you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I just needed you to clarify something for me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, I\u2019ll be happy to.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I saw on the news that the polar ice cap is melting; there\u2019s three different countries going for the oil that\u2019s underneath where all this ice is melted, and Algore promised me that when that ice cap melted, that New York was going to wind up all flooded and it was going to be wiped off the face of the Earth, and it\u2019s still there! What happened?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Excellent question. It is when Greenland melts that Manhattan will flood, not the Arctic Circle.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But they said the Arctic ice caps to start with. Now he\u2019s changing it to Greenland. <\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a minor distinction because Greenland is very close up there. Parts of it probably are in the Arctic Circle.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I hate it when they change their mind!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, well… (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: They got my hopes up.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughter) We\u2019ll take a break on that and be back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mentioned to you last hour that I was watching PMSNBC, the weather guy, beautiful, crystal clear day in New York, talks about all the pollution that\u2019s out there causing global warming, and they interviewed a bunch of little kids about recycling on the streets of New York City. The weatherman is Jeff Ranieri, and he may be a good guy. When you work there, you gotta do what they tell you to do. Gotta go out there and do this green BS. So here\u2019s the exchange that Ranieri had with a little kid, Mika.<\/p>\n

CRUMB CRUNCHER: Cans and kind of bottles.<\/p>\n

RANIERI: And how do you recycle them? Show me with your feet.<\/p>\n

CRUMB CRUNCHER: Well, we step on them first, and — and then we put them where we got to put them.<\/p>\n

RANIERI: Wow. That\u2019s fantastic. So you can see little people doing their part. While it may seem little, it certainly adds up to a lot in helping to save the Earth.<\/p>\n

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