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RUSH: Nick in Detroit. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.<\/line>CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.<\/line>RUSH: You bet.<\/line>CALLER: I wanted to start off by saying thank you for being the beacon of truth in some of the dark moments we get from our media. It\u2019s good to have a course correction on a daily basis. So thank you very much.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you, sir. You\u2019re more than welcome. I\u2019m happy and honored to do it.<\/line>CALLER: Sounds great. Hey, I wanted to…not belabor this point, and I\u2019m not particularly sure about the scientific evidence surrounding this, but when I was in Switzerland at the Jungfrau outlook point there on the Jungfrau Mountain<\/a>, they have an ice palace there which is a pretty much carved out of a palatial landscape in the ice glacier there. And throughout the tour, you see this sort of a dark line that looks a lot like a line in a tree stump. What the tour guide had explained to us is that was a line that was created by the soot from the factories during the Industrial Age. I was trying to think back. It just occurred to me today that if there was that much emissions at that time — now, granted this was from coal and other type of things — but if there was that much to actually stain the Swiss Alps per se, that\u2019s not too far back to really go and see what maximum carbon emissions has on the effect of our environment here, and it just kind of surprised me that hasn\u2019t been very long ago and doesn\u2019t seem to come up as a fact.<\/line>RUSH: What is your point? I don\u2019t get the point. <\/line>CALLER: Well, why is this global warming even being debated? It seems that time seems to be a factor. We don\u2019t know how much time it takes.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: It is being debated because it\u2019s an entirely political <\/emphasize>issue. It\u2019s a leftist issue that is designed to achieve political means. It is not about science. It\u2019s more religious than it is science, and the reason there\u2019s a debate going on is because there\u2019s a whole lot of people that don\u2019t buy the propaganda that the left is putting out. You can use examples like yours and countless others. One of the things I keep asking myself is, why is it that propaganda like Gore\u2019s movie works? Well, one of the reasons it works is because it\u2019s aimed at kids, and all you have to do is put in some animation of suffering polar bears and you melt their hearts. You know, kids will believe anything. You drag their parents to school and make \u2019em watch it. But aside from that, why is it that so many adults are not thinking. They just act like sponges and soak all this up! There are countless societal and cultural reasons for it here in the United States, and one of the reasons is we are so affluent and we\u2019re so self-absorbed that we actually are open to all of the guilt that is forced on us. People are willing to accept the blame for it and willing to admit the ‘sin,\u2019 and in the process they want to ‘repent,\u2019 but it\u2019s beyond that. <\/p>\n

Anybody with any education about science, geology or biology would be able to debunk these claims with common sense. So it makes me wonder: where is this education and this common sense? For example, your description, your example is one, but we\u2019ve had ice ages throughout the history of this world, and they have come and gone. Now, what is it that caused the ice to roll back? What is it caused ice to melt long before <\/emphasize>human beings were capable of producing 4% of the world\u2019s CO2? These are natural cycles. You can go back to 1300s. It was so warm in the 1300s that they grew crops and so forth in Scotland and in Greenland. You can\u2019t do that now. It\u2019s much colder now than it was in the 1300s. In the 1300s there was no Industrial Revolution, no activity by man that was making all these pollutants. Why don\u2019t people just go to that? Because everything is personal. It\u2019s sort of like most people\u2019s historical perspective begins with the day of their birth. That\u2019s when history started. Anything beyond that takes effort to learn. So I think in a similar way most people think that the earth is no older than their grandparents, for some odd reason. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s a little bit of a flawed analogy and it\u2019s an exaggeration, I understand that, but how in the world can anybody know anything about the past regarding ice ages and the woolly mammoth and these warmups that have taken place? How can anybody know about that and fall for this rhetoric, this propaganda that\u2019s being spewed today? It boils down to this: there are apparently enough human beings in the world who are wandering aimlessly. If they don\u2019t believe in God, they\u2019ll believe in anything. At the same time they have no belief in God and no belief in anything greater than that which exists on earth, they have this vain attachment to themselves, which makes them accept the notion that they are that powerful, that driving around certain cars and burning coal — all of which is natural. Oil, coal, they are organic. <\/p>\n

Everybody says we gotta go organic to save the planet. They\u2019re organic. The stuff is here. It was placed here by God. It was placed here for a reason. We\u2019re not misusing <\/emphasize>it. We\u2019re using it for reasons that are owing to our creativity. We couldn\u2019t have gotten along and be as advanced a civilization as we are without discovering and using those things. Yet it is those discoveries, inventions, and progress that are being blamed for all of this. This is poppycock. Yet so many people are willing to just buy into it. It has to be a lack of confidence and a lack of education combined with an awesome case of vanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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