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RUSH: This is Paul in Burlington, Connecticut. Welcome, sir, nice to have you with us.<\/line>CALLER: Hey, Rush. How can you say you\u2019re grounded in reality when you keep denying the issue of global warming? And it seems to me that the — the answers don\u2019t fit your politics, and you\u2019re afraid of what the left has to say about this and their solutions, why aren\u2019t the conservatives on board? I think is the real issue. There\u2019s enough evidence. There\u2019s enough people saying it is, that we can\u2019t all be, you know, blame-America-first, freedom-hating sort of people — and I\u2019ve listened to you long enough to know you changed your position on it [sic]. You used to deny it existed. Now you\u2019ve come to some sort of terms. “Well, it may be happening. It may be sunspots,” and where are the conservative answers? <\/line>RUSH: Wait.<\/line>CALLER: It\u2019s obvious it\u2019s happening whether the hurricane was caused by it or not. <\/line>RUSH: Wait. Wait.<\/line>CALLER: Maybe it was; maybe it wasn\u2019t.<\/line>RUSH: Wait, wait. No, no, no. It\u2019s not <\/emphasize>obvious that it\u2019s happening in the sense that you guys mean it. The only stipulation I\u2019ve made is, “There may be global warming, because I\u2019m not an idiot. There have been warming cycles of the earth and freezing cycles, ice cycles, for as long as the earth has been around. We may be in a naturally warming cycle.” Where I part ways from you is that man is causing it. There is no evidence of that, zilch, zero, nada. <\/emphasize> There\u2019s nothing more than a 25-year shrill campaign to create subconsciously the idea in everybody\u2019s mind that when it gets hot in July and hot in August it must be global warming; when it gets cold and a snowstorm happens in January, and happens to be a little bit more intense than it was last year, it must be global warming. Nobody can prove it. Nobody can prove that man is causing it. To me the proof that man is not causing it is there\u2019s nothing we can do to stop it. This hurricane was said to be caused by global warming. Well, this hurricane weakened right before it hit and it had nothing to do with the ocean temperature. It had to do with some dry air that it had encountered and pushed it further east. <\/line>But the problem that I have with you guys on global warming is it\u2019s become a political issue by which you seek to advance the liberal agenda. It\u2019s nothing more than a platform for you. Whenever I see anything designed to advance the liberal agenda, I\u2019m going to oppose it because I hate the liberal agenda. I disagree with it. It\u2019s destructive; it\u2019s damaging, and it doesn\u2019t do anybody any good — other than if you define it by spreading misery equally as the New York Times accurately headlined today in their coverage of the hurricane. If you want to believe it, go ahead, but I\u2019m not going to accept your premise that there is man-made global warming. And therefore what\u2019s the conservative solution? Everything does not have <\/emphasize>a solution. Everything is not a problem. Everything that happens on earth is not a manmade problem, nor an American-made problem. If it\u2019s hot one day and not hot the next day someplace where it\u2019s cool, it\u2019s not man made. It\u2019s not our fault. And I\u2019m not going to sit here and accept the premise that somehow we are to blame for this. And that\u2019s what worries me the most about you liberals. Why can\u2019t you just accept that there are powers greater than us, greater than we have that may have influence over this over which we have no control? There\u2019s not one climactic event that we can stop, that we can alter, that we can detour. We cannot stop it raining harder; we cannot move thunderstorms; we cannot weaken hurricanes; we cannot steer them out of the way; we can\u2019t stop snowstorms; we can\u2019t stop drought; we can\u2019t do diddlysquat about all this, so in my mind there\u2019s no way we can cause it. You can\u2019t have one without the other. If we\u2019re causing <\/emphasize>it, then we can stop it. We can\u2019t stop it. <\/line>And this fossil fuel business, burning fossil fuels? It\u2019s absolutely nothing more than a theory, <\/emphasize>and there are countless scientists who disagree with it. There are countless scientists who oppose it. Why do you think we haven\u2019t signed Kyoto? Because we still have some sanity left in this country in the scientific movement. The Kyoto Accord, if you want to know the details, the Kyoto accord claims that the Celsius temperature rise over the next hundred years will be three degrees without Kyoto. With Kyoto it will be 2.86 degrees. So we\u2019re talking about four-tenths of a degree centigrade if we sign Kyoto. Do you know what that\u2019s going to matter to a hill of beans? Zero, diddlysquat, and it wouldn\u2019t have had a thing to do with stopping this hurricane or making it less intense. There are forces greater than man, Paul. There are forces far greater than man that created all of this. We do not <\/emphasize>have dominion over it all. The idea that we do is a descent into vanity that I can\u2019t relate to. On the one hand you people on the left claim we\u2019re no different than rats; we\u2019re no different than any other animal that\u2019s on earth. In fact some of you say that this would be a far better place without us. On the other hand, when we\u2019re no different than rats, and no different than other animals — who certainly don\u2019t do anything to cause global warming — we all of a sudden still are more powerful than they are because we can stop this, because we\u2019re causing it? <\/line><\/p>\n

The focus in this disaster ought to be on the destruction and the lives and the people, and the rebuilding and everything that we see on TV. But the focus with the left is on affixing blame, affixing blame that cannot be proven, cannot be established. Global warming, if the listen to Max Mayfield of the National Hurricane Center, he\u2019s an expert, William Gray, they\u2019re getting tired of the question. There\u2019s no relationship to hurricanes and global warming. It\u2019s a natural cycle that these storms go through,<\/emphasize> and the cycles are 40 years long, and they\u2019re irrelevant to global warming. The question that I have for people like you, Paul, is: “Why are you so gullible? Why are you such a sponge? Why are you so willing to soak up news and information that blames your country, that blames your lifestyle, that blames your species? What is it about you that wants to sit here and accept all the blame and then after you\u2019ve accepted it transfer it to Republicans who disagree with you?” That\u2019s what I want to know. What kind of life must you live, to have to want to sit here and accept all the blame for these things? There are countless <\/emphasize>disasters the world over. To blame America, to blame fossil fuels, when these disasters have happened throughout time. When you understand that a volcanic eruption will spew more destructive pollution into the atmosphere than all automobile pollution since the history of the invention of the car combined, you have to understand that we are pretty inconsequential when it comes to the climate system and the ecology system of this planet. We are residents. <\/emphasize>Yes, there are things that we can do, and I\u2019m not opposed to keeping things as clean as we can — and we do a better job of that than any country in the world.<\/emphasize> We clean up our messes better than anybody in the world, and we spread that assistance and the technology that we have developed and the things that we have learned, and we have shared this with the rest of the world that has the ability to incorporate it. The idea that it all comes back to us, that it all comes back to be our fault, and it\u2019s all Bush\u2019s fault? Do you realize how absurd this all sounds, particularly when you say it next to the pictures we all see on TV?<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>I am sorry, my friends, I cannot let this go. (sniveling liberal impression) “What are you conservatives going to do to offer a solution? You keep changing your mind. You know it\u2019s happening out there.” Let me give you the conservative answer. For those of you on the left out there and those of you who are still straddling the fence on this environmentalist wacko stuff and you may think there\u2019s some relevance to it, the answer to the question, “What are you conservatives going to do to solve things?” let me throw this right back at you, and it goes right along with what I\u2019ve always said about don\u2019t accept the premise. You liberals need to show me what you\u2019ve fixed <\/emphasize>before I\u2019m going to rely on you to fix anything else. You complain about things is all the liberals do. You would have us destroy our economy and millions of jobs based on pseudoscience. You are driving up the cost of energy; you are driving down the supply of energy, and you are going to make it more difficult to heat homes during winter and cool homes during the summer if you succeed. You are going to drive up <\/emphasize>the cost of food and all products which are processed and transported with fuel. You are going to cause us to rely more and more on foreign countries and foreign regimes that seek to harm us but happen to control countries that are rich in oil. You are driving up <\/emphasize>costs. You are driving down supply, and then you blame others for the consequences of your policies, like George W. Bush! You don\u2019t fix anything out there. All you do is complain and whine and moan, and your solutions to the problems would bring about total destruction and havoc, if you were given free rein. <\/line>The environmentalists make it much more difficult to survive Mother Nature, not to tame her. Mother Nature can\u2019t be tamed! The folly of thinking that. Any time any local or state government attempts to build limited defenses against floods and the like, who runs into court? Who runs into the EPA and the interior department? Who throws up one obstacle after another? It\u2019s the environmentalists, folks, who treat Mother Nature like god, <\/emphasize>left to be untouched. On the one hand they use the power of government to obstruct <\/emphasize>progress, and on the other hand they demand the government act when tragedy hits! It\u2019s the same thing with military and law enforcement. They work year after year to undermine them and then when there\u2019s a disaster, they\u2019re the first to demand the military and law enforcement come to the rescue. Have you noticed all the Navy ships down there that have come to the rescue? If we\u2019d listened to the left and if the left had their way there wouldn\u2019t be <\/emphasize>any Navy ships to run to the rescue and there wouldn\u2019t be <\/emphasize>a National Guard because they don\u2019t think it\u2019s anything but a bunch of draft dodgers. They don\u2019t <\/emphasize>offer solutions. They don\u2019t <\/emphasize>fix things. They only make things worse — and that\u2019s why I oppose the liberal agenda.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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