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RUSH: I just stole a glance at MSNBC. You know, there\u2019s a tropical disturbance out there southeast of the Yucatan peninsula. The National Hurricane Center has been going back and forth on the odds of it becoming a tropical storm. Today the odds are high that it\u2019s gonna become one. So now all the meteorologists are out there trying to figure out, because the track model has it going either right at New Orleans, some of them take to the east, some to the west of New Orleans, and, of course, here come the, ‘Oh, God, we hope so! We don\u2019t really hope so. Oh, we hope it! Please let\u2019s not have this. We want this disaster.\u2019 I mean the media is going back and forth. They really want it. So I\u2019m watching Brian Williams, I know Brian Williams, Brian Williams I would say is an acquaintance, certainly, and a friend of mine, and Brian Williams is talking to Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, about all of the new science being learned here about can a hurricane form with oil on the surface of the sea, of the Gulf of Mexico, because it affects the temperature, and of course hurricanes do not feed off of oil, they feed off of warm water. <\/p>\n

So they\u2019re wondering that maybe the hurricanes destined for the Gulf are not going to form because of so much oil on the surface. They don\u2019t know. They\u2019re speculating. It\u2019s new science. So they\u2019re kind of torn. Folks, I\u2019m not making this up. They really want a hurricane with oil plastered all over everywhere so they can tarnish Big Oil and the private sector. And on the other hand they don\u2019t want it because of all the damage it would do to people. But man, they would love it. They\u2019re really torn. Oh, gosh, we really hope there\u2019s a hurricane. No, we don\u2019t, but we would love to cover an oil hurricane. Oh, yeah. Man, we could really tar and feather Big Oil, but we don\u2019t want the people to get hurt, but if the people get hurt, it makes an even better story. So what do we do? They\u2019re flipping coins, do we or don\u2019t we want a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. I don\u2019t know, Snerdley, I don\u2019t know what the volume on the surface is. <\/p>\n

I saw a story earlier in the week that — get this, now — you\u2019re not going to believe this. We had two stories that tell you, in relation to the full volume of water in the Gulf, the genuinely insignificant amount of oil we\u2019re talking about here. But that\u2019s not good because the oil that gets to shore and gets in the groundwater, that\u2019s horrible, you can\u2019t clean that up, that\u2019s a mess, you don\u2019t want that. But the oil that stays in the sea is gonna eventually evaporate and emulsify and just be eaten up by the vast expanse. The amount of oil that has been leaked at the time we did this report, probably last week sometime, the amount of the oil that\u2019s been leaked is equivalent to an ounce of oil in a full bathtub of yours. Not even that, not even a full ounce, a tenth of an ounce or something. The other story was, late last week, the amount of oil leaked would not fill the Superdome. Did you see that one? The amount of oil leaked would not fill the Superdome. But it\u2019s hard to make people believe that because you look at the pictures here of the oil gushing out of that hole down there, and it\u2019s the majority of the frame. There\u2019s no way to show the entire volume of the Gulf with this little trickle of oil as it would appear if you could see the entire Gulf, this is nothing more than a trickle. But we can\u2019t see that because there\u2019s no way we can photograph underwater the entire Gulf. That technology just doesn\u2019t exist. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: For those of you in the Gulf region who are now eagerly eyeing with great anticipation this potential tropical storm that might become a hurricane, let\u2019s go back to 1979 — 1979 is when the giant oil spill in Mexico took place, Ixtoc1. And once again, forgive me if I\u2019m mispronouncing that. It\u2019s I-x-t-o-c, and in Spanish there are any number of ways you could pronounce the X in that word. But the Ixtoc 1 spill was huge. Much, much larger than this. Okay? In 1979, there were five hurricanes. Hurricane Henri was a rare tropical storm that entered the Gulf of Mexico without having made landfall anywhere else. It was the second of four times this occurred during the twentieth century. So it is possible that the oil on the surface of the Gulf does retard or prohibit the formation of a genuine cyclone or hurricane. <\/p>\n

There was a lot of oil, and a lot of it got out and a lot of it hit the Texas shoreline. It was a disaster in 1979, Ixtoc 1. So there were five hurricanes that year and just one, Hurricane Henri, entered the Gulf without having made landfall. The others got nowhere near it. So that means Hurricane Henri basically formed near the Gulf and then made like a bat out of hell for the shoreline. Like Katrina was an Atlantic hurricane that crossed the state of Florida. Katrina was supposed to hit us, and it veered south and creamed — it was a cat one at the time — Ft. Lauderdale and Weston and in places like that and then it cut across the state, and when it hit the Gulf, bam! It just went nuts. School Bus Nagin was looking at it and said, ‘Man, I\u2019m getting outta here and I\u2019m not even going to deploy the buses.\u2019<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Jennifer in Las Vegas. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. It is an honor to speak with you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: And congratulations on your marriage with Kathryn.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I\u2019m a little bit nervous.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You don\u2019t sound it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I don\u2019t?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, okay. Well, I just wanted to —<\/p>\n

RUSH: In fact, you\u2019re projecting very well. You\u2019re projecting with confidence, verve, vigor, and assuredness.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh. Well, thank you very much, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, I have been a long-term listener right from the get-go, though I\u2019ve missed here and there because of work and whatever, but my husband and I are a big supporter of Arizona, and as you know we live here in beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And last May we went to Arizona for a weekend trip. This weekend we\u2019re going to Arizona for my birthday, and next September we\u2019re going down to Sierra Vista for ten days in support of Arizona.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why, this sounds like economic stimulus to me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, we\u2019re gonna spend our vacation dollars down there. They\u2019re gonna need it to fight the regime. But, oh, could I make a quick comment about the hurricane?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, there isn\u2019t one yet, but go ahead, you reminded me of something phenomenal about that Hurricane Henri in 1979 I forgot to mention. Go ahead.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I don\u2019t think that there\u2019s going to be hurricanes this year because of global warming.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because of global warming?<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: You know, do you know the name Joe Bastardi at AccuWeather?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, Joe is a good guy, and he\u2019s a friend of our official climatologist, Dr. Roy Spencer, and Joe has been ramping up his hurricane predictions. He says it\u2019s going to be a major, major year. And Joe tries to make the case that we here in Florida are going to get creamed, I mean we\u2019re gonna get pummeled according to Joe Bastardi at AccuWeather. And he\u2019s a good guy, don\u2019t misunderstand. I want to get in the prediction game, too, because my prediction is probably as good as anybody else\u2019s. And before I get my hurricane prediction for this season, Hurricane Henri, 1979, the same year as the Ixtoc 1 oil spill, the huge one, dwarfs this one, in Mexico, Hurricane Henri never, ever struck land. It never went ashore. That\u2019s almost unheard of. Hurricane Henri, 1979, formed in the Gulf and died there. <\/p>\n

I mention this because there\u2019s some thinking that with all the oil on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, or however much it is, that the oil might in fact retard hurricane formation in the Gulf of Mexico because the there were only five hurricanes in 1979. Hurricane Henri did form but it never struck land. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s coincidence or if there\u2019s some scientific relevance to it. My hurricane prediction is that there will be between zero and 40 storms before the season ends. My next prediction is that between zero and 40 of them will become tropical cyclones, between zero and 40 of them will become major category three or above storms, and between zero and 40 of these will strike somewhere on the United States coast, either the East Coast, the Gulf Coast, between zero and 40. And there\u2019s also between zero and 40 that will not strike the US coastline. And there you have it, and I live in Florida. So that makes me a hurricane expert.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, about Hurricane Henri: Ladies and gentlemen, the big thing about Hurricane Henri, 1979, the year of the Ixtoc oil spill, the Gulf Coast had no hurricanes all year. Zip, zero, nada. Now, it could be a coincidence. But wouldn\u2019t it be ironic if the BP spill saves the Gulf Coast from their annual hurricane devastation? There\u2019s still devastation from the oil spill. The real losers there are the media who are sitting around. (laughing) You know they\u2019re going back and forth. They\u2019re salivating. They see that potential hurricane down there off the Yucatan, and they\u2019re just (breathing heavy). It\u2019s like Algore in a massage parlor. Oh, they just want that thing to form, but then they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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