{"id":29427,"date":"2008-05-27T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:50:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:50:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:50:02","slug":"global_warming_mars_and_the_sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/05\/27\/global_warming_mars_and_the_sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming, Mars and the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Well, the Phoenix Mars landed on Mars. It landed up there near the polar regions, and it\u2019s sending back some great pictures, but one of the funniest is there\u2019s a DVD, we have made a DVD that was secured on the outside of the Phoenix waiting for a Martian to come along, pick it up, and put it in his DVD player and learn about us. It has messages from earth. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s on it. In the past they\u2019ve let guys like Carl Sagan, the big astronomer, I think it was Voyager, this deep space probe. The Star Trek guys found it, William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy found it out there. The A and the Y had come off. They thought it was Voger, they didn\u2019t know what it was, thought it was an enemy. Anyway, they let Carl Sagan describe what earth was for any aliens that might see it out there in the universe, and there\u2019s one here on the Phoenix Mars, too. Very cool. Well, no, this is not a Blu-ray, just a standard DVD. I don\u2019t think the Martians have Blu-ray. You know, HD DVD bombed out, and we might have sent the format up there to Mars for them to use. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I talked about the Phoenix Mars and the stack of DVDs that\u2019s waiting for some Martian to come along and put them in his DVD player and learn about us. No, I know it\u2019s funny, folks, but the people at Jet Propulsion Laboratory got a big scoop on this thing and are going to start digging. They think there\u2019s water, a foot, eight inches or a foot below where the thing landed because there are cracks in the surface that replicate cracks at our polar regions here. It landed in the North Pole region of Mars and that indicates expanding and contracting of surface based on frozen ice below expanding and, as it melts, it contracts. They\u2019re desperately looking for signs that there was life there and that there might be some subterranean life, who knows, somebody might see the DVD someday, watch the DVD. You know, I just hope they didn\u2019t put Orson Welles\u2019 War of the Worlds on there or the movie that was made of it. <\/p>\n

But here\u2019s some things that we have learned. By the way, this thing\u2019s got a three-month life span, because what\u2019s going to happen is that the sun is going to go below the horizon for a long period of time, and it\u2019s going to be dark up there, and carbon dioxide and other elements are going to form on the solar panels and freeze, and that will thus kill the Phoenix Mars. They don\u2019t know if it will come back to life once the sun reemerges and warms up a little bit. So it\u2019s gotta hustle, it\u2019s got a hustle out there. It\u2019s about the size of a golf cart. It\u2019s miraculous that the thing landed. We have a satellite orbiting Mars that shot a picture of this thing landing with its parachute deployed. It is amazing. I saw a videotape of the excitement at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, JPL, and there were a lot of excited guys in there. It\u2019s an amazing feat. But here\u2019s some things about the Martian atmosphere. It is only 1% as dense as earth\u2019s atmosphere. So the surface air pressure on Mars would be the same as if you were at 100,000 feet altitude on earth. You couldn\u2019t survive there without oxygen on the surface. You would need life support systems because once we get to 15,000 feet, like climbing a mountain, you need oxygen; you need tanks. So the atmosphere is only 1% as dense. <\/p>\n

Get this. The atmosphere of Mars is 95% carbon dioxide. Ninety-five percent carbon dioxide makes up the Martian atmosphere. Earth\u2019s carbon dioxide in its atmosphere, 0.38%, not even 4%, 0.38% of our atmosphere is carbon dioxide. Ninety-five percent of Mars\u2019 atmosphere is carbon dioxide. Now, I imagine that when I mention that figure, there are some dummkopf environmentalist wackos who are saying, ‘Yeah, Mr. Limbaugh, yeah, see, see? Ninty-five percent carbon dioxide, that\u2019s why there\u2019s no life on Mars. They\u2019ve killed themselves. There used to be life on Mars, but there\u2019s no longer any life because they, too, did not watch their carbon footprints.\u2019 Right? Typical reaction. This is the way the environmentalist wackos work with a statistic like this. However, despite the thin atmosphere and the 95% CO2 content on Mars, Mars has 90 times as much CO2 as earth\u2019s atmosphere, 90 times, 90 times as much CO2. ‘That\u2019s right, Mr. Limbaugh, that\u2019s because they didn\u2019t do anything in the old days to reduce their carbon footprint. There was life there, Mr. Limbaugh, everybody knows it.\u2019 Okay. You could expect this kind of reaction. <\/p>\n

Phoenix Mars has its own weather station. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s powered up yet. The expected air temperature at the landing site is minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit. So with, with an atmosphere that\u2019s 95% carbon dioxide, folks, with an atmosphere that\u2019s 95% carbon dioxide, the outside air temperature is minus 100 degrees at the polar region here. It\u2019s not even the North Pole. So for you idiot global warming people who say, ‘Yes, Mr. Limbaugh, that\u2019s exactly right, 95% carbon dioxide, they killed themselves. This is a lesson for us, Mr. Limbaugh, of what\u2019s going to happen to us unless we take drastic action now.\u2019 Well, I\u2019m telling you, if 95% of their atmosphere is carbon dioxide, then why the hell isn\u2019t that place boiling? And why do we have to dig underneath the surface to find water? Nothing should be freezing up there. The Phoenix landed near the North Pole. When the sun goes below the horizon in a few months for winter, some of the CO2 will cool, change to dry ice, cover the landing site to a depth of about three feet, burying the Phoenix, and who knows what will happen after that. So some interesting little tidbits. <\/p>\n

Oh, and guess what? Honest to God, folks, honest to God, they found another little storm on Jupiter, big red spot. It\u2019s a giant storm. Another one\u2019s popped up. You know what they\u2019re crediting it to? Climate change. Climate change on Jupiter. Yeah. Climate change on Jupiter. Exactly right. But we\u2019re not there. Climate change on Jupiter. We don\u2019t know of any human activity producing CO2 on Jupiter. This is why this is stuff that\u2019s so disingenuous, because they know that they\u2019ve got enough people in this country, enough morons who have bought into the whole climate change, it is now happening in the whole universe, ‘Oh, my God, oh, gee, we\u2019ve gotta act, we gotta do something!\u2019 When the truthful reaction, if it\u2019s happening on Jupiter, and with nobody there, what can we do about — (interruption) Nope. They couldn\u2019t sell that, Snerdley. They couldn\u2019t sell that the exhaust fumes from American automobiles and their usage finally made it to Jupiter. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I erred a moment ago when comparing the US atmosphere and the Martian atmosphere. I was way high when I said the earth\u2019s atmosphere is almost 4% CO2 because I was misreading the decimal point. The fact is that the amount of CO2 in earth\u2019s atmosphere is way less than 1%. It is .00038. You know, 1% is 0.01. I was just misreading the decimal point. It\u2019s way less than 1% CO2 here. It\u2019s 95% CO2, the Martian atmosphere. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: All right, sir, Aaron in Philadelphia, you\u2019re next, great to have you here on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, it\u2019s great to speak with you. How are you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Great. Thanks much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good. Well, I just wanted to do a couple things. I want to jump on this before the tree huggers do. Mars\u2019 temperature might have something to do with the radius of its orbit. It\u2019s further away from the sun than the earth is, so I\u2019m sure that\u2019s —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m glad you explained that to people in Rio Linda. ‘The radius of its orbit\u2019 might not have been understood by all in the audience in Rio Linda. So basically what you\u2019re saying is, of course, Rush, it\u2019s going to be minus hundred degrees on Mars. They\u2019re farther from the sun?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That would play a part, yeah. A part, but again, astrophysics is not my area of expertise.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, I understand it. I\u2019ve been waiting for somebody to call and say, ‘But, Rush! But, Rush!\u2019 and you were the first to do it. But here\u2019s the answer. If the tree huggers and the environmentalist wackos call here and say it, the answer is, ‘Wait a minute. You guys say the sun has no impact on global warming in this country; on this planet.\u2019 <\/p>\n

CALLER: Uh-huh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And they do. They don\u2019t consider the sun. They don\u2019t factor sunspots or flares or any solar activity, they don\u2019t. They can\u2019t afford to. Their theory would crumble faster than dust in an Indiana Jones movie.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, what is the next thing we\u2019re going to have to do, stop wearing sunscreen because it\u2019s bleaching the coral reefs?<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughter) <\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a physician, and let me tell you, I\u2019d rather deal with preventing melanoma than bleaching the coral reefs.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really? What kind of doctor are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a general practitioner.<\/p>\n

RUSH: General practitioner. Cool!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. So I\u2019m a humanist and I try to help people and save their lives. So the next time the tree huggers have a problem with the cost of health care, remind them that it\u2019s going to get even more expensive as the cost of a barrel of oil goes up, because all the disposable sterile plastics and the sterile saline and the refrigerated blood products that have to get shipped all over this country, are going to go up in cost. A bag of normal saline right now —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s my point.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — costs $180 a bag. One liter of saltwater is $180, and it\u2019s going to go up even more.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We have to make sure the number-one priority — and I hope somebody from McCain\u2019s group is listening — we have to make sure the number-one priority for us is to get energy independence for our health care system.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh, energy independence. Yes. Meaning: We need to go get our own. Yes. I don\u2019t know exactly what you mean. I want to go back to this business…. Look, by the way, oil is under 130 bucks. Oil is falling. Oil is falling. I warned you people. I told you last week this is a bubble, that the market is not going to be able to support this never-ending three and four dollar a day increase in the price of oil. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a trend down or not. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on, but it was 135 bucks last week, and it\u2019s $129, just under $130 now. Somebody comes along and tells you, ‘Well, Rush! Well, Rush! Of course it\u2019s minus a hundred degrees Fahrenheit on Mars. They\u2019re much further from the sun.\u2019 It doesn\u2019t matter, \u2019cause the sun is not a factor in global warming here. If the sun\u2019s not a factor here, it can\u2019t be on Mars. They got 95% of their atmosphere is carbon dioxide. They ought to be melting! There ought to be one hell of a greenhouse effect up there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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