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<\/p>\nRUSH: This is last night on CNN International\u2019s newsroom and they\u2019re talking about Hurricane Florence. The anchor is a guy named John Vause, and his guest is former Democrat candidate for Congress, geologist, and executive director of Blueprint Earth Jess Phoenix. Here\u2019s the question and answer, first bite…<\/p>\n
VAUSE: There is a lot of, uh, unusual stuff happening when it comes to the weather. Begging the question, “What does climate change have to do with all this?” Jess Phoenix is a geologist and executive director of Blueprint Earth, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the earth\u2019s environment. Boy, you got your work cut out for you, don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n
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PHOENIX: Oh, yeah. It\u2019s a good time to be in the environmental business!<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s a good time to be in the environmental business! So even though you heard me warn everybody — if this hurricane is exactly what they\u2019re saying, it\u2019s devastating and don\u2019t mess around with it — and you\u2019ve also heard me say that the left has polluted and corrupted practically everything they\u2019ve touched, including weather and weather forecasting. Here comes this guy on CNN talking to some guy that runs a nonprofit, “Boy, you\u2019ve got your work cut out for you!” What do you mean, “You\u2019ve got your work cut out for you”?<\/p>\n
What work does a nonprofit have to do, particularly a nonprofit on climate and the environment? What do they have to do but sit around and watch? “Boy, you\u2019ve got your work cut out for you, haven\u2019t you?” And this guy says, “Oh, yeah, it\u2019s a good time to be in the environmentalist business!” What does that mean? A good time to be in the environmental business? This guy sounds excited it\u2019s a hurricane about to hit. He sounds excited that it\u2019s big. “… executive director of Blueprint Earth, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the earth\u2019s environment.” All right. Now, but this continued as the CNN anchor continues to query the director of Blueprint Earth.<\/p>\n
VAUSE: This is what life looks like, I guess, on an overheated planet. The important point with all of this shadow, though, is that, you know, climate change didn\u2019t cause hurricanes or the typhoons, but they made them worse because this is a natural disaster — potentially a man-made catastrophe — because of the choices we\u2019ve made.<\/p>\n
PHOENIX: Right. And what we\u2019re doing —<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Wait, stop, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Cue it back to the top there, Friday. Did you notice this guy says, “Look. Climate change didn\u2019t cause the hurricanes,” right? Then, at the end of the question, it is “potentially a man-made catastrophe.” It is not man-made. We cannot make a hurricane and we can\u2019t stop a hurricane and we can\u2019t redirect a hours per week. We cannot weaken a hurricane. We cannot strengthen a hurricane. We can\u2019t do anything with hurricanes but try to adapt to them and deal with them as they happen. Okay. I just had to point that out. He says, “Climate change didn\u2019t cause it… but this is a man-made catastrophe because of the choices we\u2019ve made.”<\/p>\n
So here\u2019s the whole bite again…<\/p>\n
VAUSE: This is what life looks like I guess an overheated planet.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (groan)<\/p>\n
VAUSE: The important point with all of this shadow, though, is that, you know, climate change didn\u2019t cause hurricanes or the typhoons, but they made them worse —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
VAUSE: — because this is a natural disaster, potentially a man-made catastrophe because of the choices we\u2019ve made.<\/p>\n
PHOENIX: Right, and what we\u2019re doing is interfering with the way the jet stream operates. I mean, the jet stream is the current of air that actually goes from west to east. Uhhh, and that\u2019s why flights going west to east take a lot less time than going east to west here in the States. Normally that jet stream, uh, would push a lot of these storms back out into the open ocean. But now the jet stream\u2019s up further north than it was before, and that\u2019s because the tropical regions are actually expanding.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is absolute BS! And they get on my case for talking about weather when I\u2019m not a weather expert. This babe… It sounds like a babe. Pardon my hearing if this is a guy. I\u2019ve not… Jess. Who knows. But the tropics are expanding because of climate change? That\u2019s not what\u2019s going on here! Even I, not a weather expert, understand the concept of the Atlantic high! The Atlantic high is a high-pressure area over the Atlantic Ocean, and it sits there.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s annual. It sits there, and some years it moves and some years it doesn\u2019t! Where it happens to be right now is akin to planting a concrete barrier in the way of this hurricane. It has nothing to do with the tropics expanding! It has to do with general meteorology and physics. There\u2019s a high-pressure area. Hurricanes are low pressure areas. High pressure is gonna defeat low pressure every time, particularly the side of this high-pressure area. This hurricane cannot overcome it. It\u2019s high-pressure areas that steer hurricanes.<\/p>\n
If the Atlantic high were not there or if it were further out over the Atlantic, this hurricane would have turned already and been on its way over to the U.K. or in that direction and would have missed the United States. The reason this hurricane is making a beeline — and the reason it hasn\u2019t changed much at all — is because of the Atlantic high. It has nothing to do with the tropics moving the jet stream. So now we have the power to move the jet stream — which, of course, she says goes west to east but this hurricane\u2019s going east to west of course that doesn\u2019t work out because the tropics moved.<\/p>\n
This is gibberish, folks. This is full-fledged gibberish that CNN put on television last night as expertise, and they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about. Neither the host nor the guest. But we\u2019re not finished because we have one more sound bite, and that is, “Whose fault is all this?” The question from the anchor is this: “Trump has rolled back Obama-era regulations. It would be one thing if the U.S. government did nothing to fight climate change. It\u2019s quite another to see it actively working to make climate change worse.” So that\u2019s the question.<\/p>\n
Trump is making climate change worse because we backed out of Paris, which had no teeth and did nothing. There isn\u2019t a single climate change accord which would do anything to lower temperatures because it\u2019s not possible to do it. But yet because we\u2019re pulling out of Obama regulations, Trump is now actively working to make the environment worse, actively working to make it hotter, actively working to make climate change worse, and here\u2019s the learned answer.<\/p>\n
PHOENIX: We have a history of Republican presidents actually taking environmental action. You had Nixon created the EPA.<\/p>\n
VAUSE: He did! Yes!<\/p>\n
PHOENIX: You had Ronald Reagan dealing with chlorofluorocarbons. You had George W. Bush who actually, uhh, dealt with cap and trade —<\/p>\n
VAUSE: Mmph!<\/p>\n
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PHOENIX: — to put in limits —<\/p>\n
VAUSE: Yes!<\/p>\n
PHOENIX: — so that we could help deal with these sort of challenges that we\u2019re facing. And Trump is, I\u2019d say, the first president in recent memory, probably ever, who has actively worked against a conservative principle —<\/p>\n
VAUSE: Right!<\/p>\n
PHOENIX: — which is to conserve the natural environment.<\/p>\n
VAUSE: Yeah!<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. Again, a total incorrect mis-definition of “conservative” and “conserve,” and this is never what they mean when they start ripping conservatives anyway. But, I mean, this is classic. In the meantime, you have all of this, I mean, genuine ignorance. Neither of these two have the slightest idea what they\u2019re talking about, and it\u2019s all over prime time television even though it\u2019s CNN and nobody saw it.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, they\u2019re out there saying that I am telling people to ignore the hurricane because it\u2019s just a bunch of hype to promote climate change, which is what this babe did. “It\u2019s a great time to be in the environmental business!” What the hell does that mean on any of this. You think this is bad? Wait \u2019til you hear. We\u2019ve got people blaming Trump for the response to Hurricane Florence, and I don\u2019t know if you know it yet, but Hurricane Florence hasn\u2019t hit yet, and so there hasn\u2019t been any “response” to Hurricane Florence actually making landfall.<\/p>\n
Oh, that reminds me of another thing. I said something yesterday that you heard in the excerpt from yesterday\u2019s program that these hurricanes from the first moment when you see the cone, when they\u2019re first forecast, I can\u2019t recall a one of them that\u2019s actually ever hit where a four-day, five-day, six-day forecast predicted it would hit. This is not to be critical, folks. It\u2019s just a recognition that these things are too complex and massive to be able to predict precise. That\u2019s why the cone is 200 miles wide. They don\u2019t…<\/p>\n
I mean, they can\u2019t narrow it down any more than that. If they could, they would. This is not a criticism. It\u2019s an acknowledgment of what is. I know some people in North Carolina and I told them a couple days ago. They were panicking. I said, “My best guess is that this is not gonna hit where they\u2019re saying it\u2019s gonna hit today. It\u2019s gonna move. The track is gonna move between now and when it hits,” and sure enough it has. That high-pressure area is so strong, it\u2019s actually turning — and forecasts show that the hurricane is going to stop moving northwest.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s gonna pause and then turn back southwest, and it\u2019s gonna start perhaps hugging the North Carolina-South Carolina coast before it goes inland. That is one powerful high-pressure area that\u2019s steering this thing back to the southwest, when it\u2019s basically on a north-northeast track right now. But if you go back and you look at the forecast tracks four or five days ago, they were practically right at Wrightsville City, North Carolina, splitting the state.<\/p>\n
And I was telling the people that live in North Carolina, “It isn\u2019t gonna be that,” and it isn\u2019t. I\u2019m not saying they\u2019re making it up. Do not misunderstand. I\u2019m just saying forecast changes as it gets closer. The data becomes more accurate, becomes more reliable — and sure enough, the forecast track changed late yesterday afternoon. There was one model, the European model, the ECMWF, that started moving south and west. They decided to follow it, decided to trust it, and that\u2019s what the track is now.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: So now people are confused between the jet stream and the Gulf Stream. The jet stream is a flow of air at rapid speed at altitude, and it does go around the globe from east to west — or west to east, rather. The Gulf Stream is water. The Gulf Stream is off the coast of Florida. And when you get out to it, you can see it. And it basically runs north to south or northwest to southeast. And the Gulf Stream is actually like a conveyor belt. It runs all the way very close to the U.K. and on the surface and then comes as a conveyor belt back to Florida underneath it.<\/p>\n
And it is crucial, the Gulf Stream is crucial in keeping temperatures in the U.K. moderate. It limits their winters \u2019cause it carries warm air with it on the surface. And of course there was a report not long ago that we were destroying the Gulf Stream because of climate change. And nothing could be further from the truth. The Gulf Stream is as strong and powerful as ever. The jet stream, it alternately dips south, stays in Canada, depending on winter or summer, but it has nothing to do with the tropics and climate change for this hurricane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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