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RUSH: ‘Free-market principles to global warming.\u2019 Really sounds nice, doesn\u2019t it? Free-market principles to global warming. After you\u2019ve accepted a hoax, after you\u2019ve accepted it\u2019s indisputable that man is causing it? Free-market principles to global warming is a contradiction in terms. If there was manmade global warming, the free market would already be responding to it in a more vigorous way. Instead what we have is government telling industry what must be done, and industry reacting to it, because the Drive-Bys have convinced so many customers of all businesses that we face a dire threat, and these customers have been made to believe that they can stop the threat, and they can stop the warming, and they can make their lives matter, and they can count, and they can have meaning in their lives if they go with all this green stuff. And so businesses are simply going green as a marketing technique. This is what people think, fine, we\u2019ll give it to them. The free market doesn\u2019t respond on its own to false science, by the way. <\/p>\n

A free market would reject false science, for the most part, by definition. Now, this is all about attracting young voters, this is all about McCain — you talk about independents, social minded conservatives, it\u2019s about getting younger voters as well, \u2019cause they\u2019re among those that have seen Gore\u2019s movie. They really think that all this is manmade. So you have Senator McCain echoing Algore and pretending there\u2019s no dispute about manmade global warming. See, to me, this is historical. This is an historical chance to drive a wedge between the liberal environmental radicals and the blue-collar workers that Obama cannot get. Now this is the time for McCain to enhance the party, but instead he\u2019s pandering.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Wall Street Journal today: ‘The US is fighting the clock as the earth warms to dangerous levels, Sen. John McCain says in a speech today in environmentally conscious Oregon. Reaching out to independent and moderate voters, he repeats his call for a cap-and-trade system whereby carbon-emitting companies would have to reduce emissions or pay for credits that allow them.\u2019 This is almost a dead ringer for one of the first tax increases that Bill Clinton proposed in 1993. Remember the famous carbon tax? That\u2019s what it was called and it was basically a cap-in-trade program. <\/p>\n

The way it works is some government entity is going to decide what the carbon footprint of each business can be, and that business can meet those limits or trade those limits with another company that\u2019s not going to use all of its limits, or it can buy them, or it can pay a tax to exceed the limits. It\u2019s a tax increase! By the time you slice it all up, it\u2019s a tax increase that corporations are going to end up passing on all down the line, eventually reaching consumers. To say that the US is fighting the clock as the earth warms to dangerous levels, folks, the earth isn\u2019t warming. The earth hasn\u2019t warmed since 1998. Even global warming scientists last week put out a warning that because of natural variations in ocean currents there will be no warming for another ten to 12 years, but after that look out \u2019cause it\u2019s going to skyrocket. So there\u2019s no warming predicted for the next ten to 12 years. How in the world can it be said that we\u2019re on the clock. All of this is just maddening. I see Algore out there. Algore is out there trying to say that this hurricane in Myanmar is a result of global warming. There was a worse hurricane in Bangladesh in 1991. There have been worse hurricanes than this. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Now I am just waiting for somebody to say that all these tornadoes that are wracking the United States\u2019 midsection are due to global warming. I got in touch with our official climatologist, Dr. Roy Spencer at the University of Alabama Huntsville, today, and he said, ‘Well, Rush, 2008 could set a record for the number of tornadoes if the current trend continues, but it would be the last kind of severe weather you might expect to associate with warming. In fact, the number of strong-to-violent tornadoes in America has actually decreased since the 1950s when tornado stats began, and this is probably because of persistent El Nino conditions since the late seventies, El Nino associated with global average warmth. Instead, the greatest number of tornadoes actually occur during La Nina conditions in the Pacific, which favors persistent cold air masses over North America.\u2019 So the bottom line is, all of these extreme tornadoes are being caused by cold air. They\u2019re being caused by unusually cold air, and you can look at a map the past weekend and see how cold it was in a number of places, that cold air comes south, meets the warm, moist air, bammo, you\u2019ve got the recipe for big-time tornadoes. But it\u2019s cold air masses that cause this, not global warming. <\/p>\n

Huge numbers of tornadoes occurred in 1998-99 during strong La Nina conditions. La Nina also associated with the super outbreak of April 3rd and 4th in 1974 which saw 148 tornadoes in 18 hours. Now, we\u2019re going back 34 years, April 3rd and 4th, 1974, 148 tornadoes in 18 hours, 330 people dead, 5,500 injured. As of today, the unusually stubborn cold air mass over most of North America looks like it\u2019s going to continue to cause above-normal tornado activity over the central and eastern US for at least another two weeks. The stubborn cold air mass. Now, you remember that when you hear that global warming is responsible for this or climate change or what have you. <\/p>\n

To the phones, Livingston, Montana. This is Barb. I\u2019m glad you called. You\u2019re up first. Great to have you on the program today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, good morning, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Regional cooling dittos from Montana.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: We\u2019ve had a really wet, cold, snowy spring here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, I know. I track it. I track all weather everywhere.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Well, the reason why I\u2019m calling is I\u2019ve been listening to you since about 1988, I think. Anyway, the last couple of months I\u2019ve been listening to you trying to glom everybody that\u2019s into this green that is a conservative as believing in global warming. And I know a lot of people that are conservative that are not buying this global warming, but they\u2019re getting green because they want to eat better foods and have pesticide-free meals at home. We raise natural lamb out here, and there are so many people that want to buy local because they want to support local businesses, and it has nothing to do with that they are trying to stop global warming. I just thought I\u2019d share that with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I have noted this on several occasions. It\u2019s like if you want to go out and by a hybrid, I\u2019ve always said, go ahead, just don\u2019t think you\u2019re saving the planet; do it. If you want it because you like the style, if you want it because you want to save gasoline, fine. If you want to pollute less, fine, but the idea that you\u2019ve become part of a great social cause by doing such things is unnecessary. But the green evangelicals are political with this and these were the people I was referring to here that the media is praising that McCain is now courting.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I know a lot of evangelicals who are kind of greenish, I would say, and they are not necessarily buying —<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, what\u2019s wrong with pesticides? Have you ever heard of DDT?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Have you heard about the ban of DDT?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you hear what happened because of the ban of DDT?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, we have a lot of eagles here now, I guess. I don\u2019t know what else would happen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. Basically, in Africa, DDT has been responsible for how many malaria deaths — (interruption) around the world?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, I wouldn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: About 50 million people have died because of malaria-related diseases since the ban on DDT took place with Rachel Carson back in the 1970s. She\u2019s still a heroine. I\u2019m not suggesting you go out and put DDT or any kind of pesticide on your food and eat it. The eagle thing was a myth. It did not destroy the eagle eggs, didn\u2019t destroy pelican eggs, didn\u2019t destroy condor eggs; all those things are myths. DDT didn\u2019t do it. The reason the pelican is protected, the eagle is protected and the condor was protected is because their eggs were supposedly made so thin that the young hatchlings died before they hatched, actually, and all that turned out to be a myth. Now, I could understand wanting to go organic and go green but you gotta understand the terminology, going green means you are actively involved politically in stopping manmade global warming. So you gotta be careful of the terminology that you accept and glom onto. <\/p>\n

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