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RUSH: Speaking of global warming, I have it right here in the National Journal. This is the headline. National Journal! This is not some kook fringe operation. “It May Take a Global Vegetarian Movement to Combat Climate Change — It may be impossible to reach the U.N.\u2019s goals without significant changes in global diet, a new study finds.” It\u2019s by Brian Resnick. <\/p>\n

“If we really want to cut down on global greenhouse emissions, we\u2019re going to have to do something about cow farts.” That\u2019s what it says, and I am not making this up. They are now looking into the serious reduction of methane, which is what “cow farts” are. It says it right here. (interruption) It\u2019s in the first line of the story in the National Journal<\/a>. It isn\u2019t me. I\u2019m reading from the news, and they mean this seriously. <\/p>\n

This is not a humor piece. <\/p>\n

These people are not funny in the Drive-By Media. <\/p>\n

Can you imagine…? Take any of the old deans of journalism from the old days. Imagine them saying, “If we really want to cut down on global greenhouse emissions, we\u2019re going to have to do something about cow farts. That\u2019s the conclusion of a study published today in the journal Climatic Change. If we have any shot of reaching the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\u2019s global-warming mitigation goals, the world is going to have to start eating a lot less meat.<\/line><\/p>\n

“Thirty-seven percent of all human-caused methane emissions come from the worldwide agricultural industry. Compared with CO2, methane is 21 times more effective at trapping heat in the earth\u2019s atmosphere, according to the United Nations. While transportation and electricity account for more than half of emissions in the United States, the EPA reports that agriculture comprises 8% of all greenhouse-gas emissions.”<\/p>\n

They\u2019re dead serious, and there\u2019s no questioning.<\/p>\n

The UN says X, so X is true.<\/p>\n

The UN says the only way to save the planet now is by eliminating cattle. I mean, how do you stop cow farts? Frankly the only way to get rid of cow farts is to get rid of cows. It\u2019s them or us, is the way this is put in the National Journal. This is not some kook, fringe publication. (interruption) No. No. (interruption) No. No, no other animal farts matter. That\u2019s the point. Cow farts. <\/p>\n

Now, the problem is cows are cattle. You know, we get milk from cows, too, not just… (interruption) Yeah. I guess. We\u2019re supposed to go to goat milk or chicken milk. No cheese. Anything that you get from a cow\u2019s gotta go. (interruption) To save the planet. (interruption) Well, if we\u2019re gonna be able to implement what the UN says we have to do to save the planet. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites.<\/p>\n

I mean, this is also being ginned up today, folks, in addition to this propaganda with Obamacare. This is last night, actually. This is Brian Williams. I don\u2019t think it was his lead, but it\u2019s over the top. This is what you would hear a news anchor say in a movie when the aliens land, and here he is reporting about a new report on global warming and climate change. This is the NBC Nightly News.<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: The world has never been spoken to quite this way. We\u2019ve never been warned like this before, all of us, about climate change. Nor have so many countries agreed quite this much on the clear and present danger it represents. Here is the takeaway: Unless the world changes course quickly and dramatically, the fundamental systems that support human civilization are at risk!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Gee. Well, it sounds like he bought it all. I just don\u2019t know if he really does. Maybe he does. I don\u2019t know what to think. This is just so much sophistry. This is beyond description. It\u2019s genuinely pathetic. “The world has never been spoken to quite this way. We\u2019ve never been warned like this before, all of us, about climate change.<\/p>\n

“Nor have so many countries agreed quite this much on the clear and present danger it represents.” We\u2019ve only been hearing this since the seventies! You know, I sit here and I do ask, “Is there any way of combating this? Is there any way of creating an atmosphere where when people hear something like this, they just automatically reject it and laugh at it?” You know, I actually shudder when I think people watch this and soak it up and believe it. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a scary thought. <\/p>\n

But, you know, they do. They eat this up. Some people do just \u2019cause it\u2019s on television. We now have next in the audio sound bites, three certifiable global warming lunatics discussing climate change with Charlie Rose. This is last night on PBS with Charlie Rose. He spoke with Princeton University professor of geosciences and international affairs Michael Oppenheimer. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, I remember this guy. This Oppenheimer guy, the first time I saw him was in the summer of 1984. He was on This Week with David Brinkley, and he said, “We\u2019ve got 20 years!” It\u2019s 1984, and he says, “We have 20 years,” and at the time he said we couldn\u2019t conclusively prove it but that we didn\u2019t have time to find out if he was wrong.<\/p>\n

Because if he was right, the results would be so bad. “We just have to get started dealing with this whether we think we\u2019re right or not. It\u2019s so bad, we don\u2019t have time to be wrong! We don\u2019t have time to wait to see if my data are incorrect.” That\u2019s the nut of what he said. That was 1984. What is that, 30 years ago? (I\u2019m so lousy at math.) He said, “We only have 20 years.” <\/p>\n

So Charlie Rose, one of these sponges that soaks up all this stuff, said, “Even some people who are climate deniers because they\u2019re hung up about the man-made aspect of it, are looking at what\u2019s happening in the Arctic and are saying, ‘Yes, something is going on.'” Who are they? Who in the world are these “deniers”? Because what\u2019s going on in the Arctic is that there is more ice!<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t melting. <\/p>\n

This is one of these days I just feel surrounded by genuine idiocy. I feel surrounded and consumed by it. I feel trapped. No matter where I turn, no matter where I look (other than with you guys), I\u2019m seeing rampant lunacy. Okay, so again the question, “Even some people who are climate deniers because they\u2019re hung up about the man-made aspect of it, are looking at what\u2019s happening in the Arctic and are saying, ‘Yes, something is going on.'”<\/p>\n

What about it, Dr. Oppenheimer?<\/p>\n

OPPENHEIMER: Every time one of these reports comes out, you convince a few more people who are dyed-in-the-wool opponents. But there\u2019s gonna be the hard core who are never gonna cede on this, and there are complex reasons for that. With some people, they just like to stand away from the crowd. With some people, it\u2019s economic self-interest. The point is, you can\u2019t wait for everybody to agree. You know, the climate change that we\u2019re experiencing now is essentially baked in. That is, we can\u2019t do much about what\u2019s gonna happen over the next 10 or 20 years no matter what we do on emissions except try to protect ourselves, try to have better coping and adapting mechanisms. But if we don\u2019t act now in reducing emissions a lot, there\u2019s gonna be hell to pay for particularly the next generation.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: And that\u2019s how they\u2019ve always sold it, folks. There\u2019s nothing we can do about it right now, but for our children and grandchildren, we have to act. For as long as I\u2019ve been listening to these people. Oh, it\u2019s baked in, there\u2019s nothing we can do about it, it\u2019s there. The question is, our ultimate survival, 50 years from now, hundred years from now, if we don\u2019t act, then your children and grandchildren may not know this planet the way you and I do, if we don\u2019t act. <\/p>\n

And here he\u2019s doing it again. You know, Charlie, we don\u2019t have time to wait for everybody to agree. Of course we don\u2019t have time to wait for everybody to agree because not even close to everybody\u2019s gonna agree. These are statists anyway. They don\u2019t care if anybody agrees with them. We can\u2019t do much, we\u2019re cooked, Charlie, next 10 to 20 years, I mean, it is what it is. Nothing we can do about it. The disasters that await are the disasters that await. They\u2019re gonna happen, and there\u2019s nothing we can do about it. All we can try to do, Charlie, is protect ourselves. Try to have better coping mechanisms. <\/p>\n

Oh, don\u2019t you love the scare language? Better coping mechanisms, adapting mechanisms. For me, that just means turning up the air conditioner. But it isn\u2019t getting warmer, is the point. Look, up next is Jeffrey Sachs. Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University\u2019s Earth Institute, and he then weighed in on what Oppenheimer and Charlie Rose were discussing.<\/p>\n

SACHS: We\u2019re on a trajectory, as this report makes clear, that blows the world out of the water, maybe a four degree centigrade rise compared to where we are right now, by the end of the century. Every red light is flashing on food supply, on safety, on storms. This is a disaster, the current trajectory. When you look at the time that we have to get this right, it\u2019s extremely short. We\u2019re just at the end of being able to hold to the level that the world promised itself. I would say December 2015 is the last chance to keep that two degree centigrade limit. If we miss it, it\u2019s gone, then we\u2019re talking about something beyond anything safe. Then we\u2019re talking about horrible damages.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, this borders on irresponsible, when you get right down to it. Here\u2019s this guy at Columbia, “I would say, Charlie, December 15th is the last chance to keep that two degrees centigrade.” What he means is that if we don\u2019t drastically curtail capitalism and freedom and economic progress, \u2019cause that\u2019s what these guys are talking about, that\u2019s the danger. The danger is productivity. The danger is progress. The danger is growing economies. If we don\u2019t stop that, Charlie, if we don\u2019t lock in — \u2019cause what we\u2019ve already done, we\u2019ve guaranteed ourselves that by the end of the century, we\u2019re gonna be two degrees centigrade higher.<\/p>\n

And if we don\u2019t lock that in by rolling back our economy and rolling back some liberty and raising some taxes and taking away some freedom, if we don\u2019t do that by December of 2015, Charlie, then we\u2019re gonna blow past that two degree centigrade limit and it\u2019s gonna end up being four degrees, and then we\u2019re talking horrible damages. This is just irresponsible, folks. I shudder because this guy, he\u2019s director of the Columbia University Earth Institute, this guy\u2019s a professor. He\u2019s teaching your kids that you\u2019re paying 50 grand a year to go to this place. And here, finally, Michael Mann. He\u2019s the old hockey stick guy<\/a>, Penn State, professor of meteorology and director of earth system science, and it was his chance to weigh in.<\/p>\n

MANN: The Chinese government is actually having a serious discussion about instituting a carbon tax. They recognize, the Chinese government has recognized the degradation, the damages that the emission of carbon is doing and they recognize that that has to be taken into account in any long-term, coherent, viable energy strategy. In that sense, they\u2019re way ahead of us because we have a US House of Representatives which has a science committee that is led by politicians who reject the notion that climate change even exists. And we can\u2019t have a serious discussion about policy as long as we\u2019ve got a Congress or congressional leadership in the House that takes an anti-scientific stance when it comes to issues like climate change. We\u2019ve gotta move past that.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: So we\u2019ve got to get rid of the Republicans in the House and get more people like the communist Chinese in our government, because they\u2019re running rings around us. Have you seen a picture of Shanghai or Beijing lately? You can\u2019t see anything. Smog, the pollution. They\u2019re not cutting back. These countries, the ChiComs, India, they\u2019re not going to cut back on their economic growth. And the Third World countries want some economic growth. They\u2019re not gonna willingly stay poor and riding around on oxen just to keep these pointy-heads happy.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s going on here is that they can\u2019t get anybody\u2019s attention. In every public opinion poll, global warming is down at the bottom. So they\u2019re trying to scare people out of their pants, because that\u2019s all they\u2019ve got. The lone tactic that socialists have is to scare you, and that is what they\u2019re trying to do \u2019cause you\u2019re not buying what they\u2019re saying. And as they get more radical and lunatic like this, I don\u2019t know what they expect. When you tell people that we have to get rid of cow farts to save the planet, nobody is gonna go for that. Well, not nobody. But that\u2019s how just out of control that they have gotten. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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