{"id":235734,"date":"2017-06-06T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=235734"},"modified":"2017-06-07T16:21:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T20:21:28","slug":"algore-leads-the-lunatic-reaction-to-trumps-withdrawal-from-the-paris-accord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/06\/06\/algore-leads-the-lunatic-reaction-to-trumps-withdrawal-from-the-paris-accord\/","title":{"rendered":"Algore Leads the Lunatic Reaction to Trump\u2019s Withdrawal from the Paris Accord"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So much happened while I was away that I really do want to react to and comment on. So what we\u2019re gonna do is periodically during the program we\u2019re gonna hopscotch back in time, and we\u2019re gonna start here with Algore. Now, this is classic. Two sound bites from Algore. Did you see him on Fox News Sunday? I did not see him. I\u2019ve got a still shot here. You know what? The guy\u2019s starting to look more and more look Rodney Dangerfield. It\u2019s uncanny!<\/p>\n

\"\"I have it right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. The guy is looking like Rodney — and of course you might even be able to say they\u2019re both in the same business, getting no respect. Comedians. Except Rodney Dangerfield was naturally funnier. So the first bite we have is Algore on TMZ<\/a>. This is last Friday morning. And a correspondent said, “What about Trump? What about Trump? What about Trump backing out of the climate accord?”<\/p>\n

ALGORE: So this is a reckless and indefensible move, but make no mistake about it, if President Trump will not lead this struggle, the American people will. CEOs, civic leaders, mayors, governors, average citizens, we\u2019re in the middle of a clean energy revolution now that is unstoppable. We are going to solve the climate crisis no matter what President Trump does.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There isn\u2019t one. This is what it all comes down to. There is not a climate crisis. Even if there were, we are incapable of doing anything about it because we are not powerful enough to cause it. Now, as I mentioned recently, the thing about this, as a political issue, not science, that irritates me more than anything is listen to what these people all believe is responsible for not just climate change, now we are talking about the destruction of the planet.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now by pulling out of a meaningless — well, it wasn\u2019t meaningless. By pulling out of a near communist doctrine in Paris, the planet will not survive. And there are people who actually run around claiming this as though they really believe it. It\u2019s asinine. It is embarrassingly infantile. It\u2019s dumb. It is stupid. It is ignorant. And yet in their heart of hearts they believe it to the point that they\u2019re scared to death.<\/p>\n

I saw a story while I was gone about why Christians and conservatives don\u2019t believe in climate change. It was a piece that mocked Christians and conservatives. And the answer was because they believe in God. And if you believe in God, then you believe in creation. And if you believe in God and you believe in a being so powerful as to create not just the earth, but the entire universe, then you must very quickly realize we are but mere specks of sand incapable of the power the climate change crowd assigns to us. And of course they mock that and make fun of it.<\/p>\n

Thing that bothers me about it, folks, is that, as I say, we have gone beyond climate change, gone beyond global warming, and it\u2019s now we\u2019re destroying the planet. And what do they say is destroying the planet? Progress. If you\u2019ll note, the target is advanced lifestyles, advanced standards of living, increased accrual of wealth. They blame the United States as the number one cause and the greatest contributor to the destruction of the planet. And to sit around and blame what human beings are naturally, and I dare say created to do, improve their lives, the quest of humanity since the beginning of time has been a better life.<\/p>\n

The quest of humanity has been liberty and freedom. The quest of humanity has been to increase standards of living, to live longer, to live healthier. In the United States we probably have done more to clean the planet and clean the air than any other nation on earth, because we have the freedom and the innovation, the capital and the wealth to do so. This is what is so ironic. We have probably, without any agreement whatsoever, without any acknowledgment of a disaster looming whatsoever, we, because we desire a better life, have cleaned up our messes better than anybody else in the world.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve cleaned polluted rivers. We\u2019ve cleaned polluted air. We have done far more than any other nation on earth. And yet we are the target for all of this. It\u2019s purely political. It\u2019s asinine here. To even think that not signing a piece of paper or by removing a signature from a piece of paper is the death knell of the planet. And yet they really believe it. I\u2019m convinced now this is not just rhetoric. These people really believe it. And they live their lives and vote and do who knows whatever else accordingly. And it\u2019s insane. There\u2019s nothing sane about what they believe.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the next Gore sound bite. This from Fox News Sunday<\/a>. Chris Wallace actually called him on the carpet for his past climate predictions which have not come true. We should have been dead ten years ago, longer than ten because Algore\u2019s 10-year prediction of the end of the earth, the end of the country came and went. There hasn\u2019t been any warming in 15 years and Wallace calls him on all this. And he says his final question, “We\u2019re 11 years later from when you said we were in a true planetary emergency. Weren\u2019t you wrong about that, Mr. Algore?”<\/p>\n

ALGORE: Some of the responses of the last 10 years have helped, but unfortunately and regrettably, a lot of serious damage has been done. Greenland, for example, is losing one cubic kilometer of ice every single day. I went down to Miami and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Listen to this.<\/p>\n

ALGORE: — saw fish from the ocean swimming in the streets on a sunny day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. He went down to Miami and there are fish swimming in the streets. He went down to Miami, just a single day last week and found fish from the ocean swimming in the streets on a sunny day. Listen to the whole asinine thing again.<\/p>\n

ALGORE: Some of the responses of the last 10 years have helped, but unfortunately and regrettably, a lot of serious damage has been done. Greenland, for example, is losing one cubic kilometer of ice every single day.<\/p>\n