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June 14, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 14, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Oh, by the way, standby audio soundbite 18 up there.
Uh New York, I forgot to point that out to you.
CBS.
Early show weather guy was in Cape Girardo.
For another reason, I guess they had some um I didn't know it, but Eva.
What's her name?
Eva Braun lives in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, which is my hometown.
There is an Eva Braun that lives there, and she won a contest to go to Hawaii, I guess, on a CBS uh early show.
So they sent a crew in there, and the crew realized that that was my hometown, so they they went out and they did a little feature.
Uh and I have the audio for it was about a four-minute piece.
Uh yeah, we've well spent all four minutes of it, but we've uh pared it down to uh just over a minute.
Have that for you coming up.
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Harry Smith got a little snarky.
Um I didn't see it.
Uh Kathleen was telling me that she cut it up, and and uh uh Harry Smith got a little snarky when the weather guy was trying to be very nice to me.
Uh I wish she would have left this in.
They went into the barber shop where I hit my first job with shining shoes in a barber shop, and I was thirteen.
And uh uh apparently went to that barber shop, took a camera crew in there, and it was some old man getting his hair cut, who said he thought I had died.
And uh for some reason excuse me, for some reason Kathleen cut that out.
Um Cookie, if you can.
Just go put that little snippet.
Give me about ten seconds in front of it and ten seconds after it, or twenty seconds on both sides of it.
So there's a little context.
Uh, because I I'd like to hear that.
Uh she described the old man as kind of kind of snarky himself.
Uh he was getting his hair cut, not one of the barbers.
But it was the old college barbershop right there on uh on Broadway right across from uh from Hox House Stadium, which is where I played high school football.
Anyway, this is uh the weatherman Dave Price's report on Cape Girardeo, Missouri.
Here they're all sorts of things to see.
Famous old St. Vincent's church with its Renaissance style architecture, the beautiful murals along the flood wall that hold back the mighty Mississippi River, and Rush Limbaugh's boyhood home.
Yep, America's favorite conservative was born and raised right here in Cape Girardeau.
Fans who can't get enough of Rush on his daily show can rush to Cape Girardo and take the official Rush Limbaugh hometown tour.
Our first stop is KGMO Radio, where Rush got his start in high school.
Right there, that's Sentenary United Methodist Church.
And that's where Rush went to church as a small boy.
Now, right here, this is where Rush's football career began and ended.
On Hauke Field.
And this historic stop on our tour is the barber shop where Rush shines shoes as a boy.
And it's a town very devoted to him, as Rush is to this town.
So it was a lot of fun wandering around.
And don't forget, this is a stunning place to visit with natural beauty as well.
As soon as Kathleen finds the old man getting his hair cut in that barber shop, uh, who said he thought I was dead or had died, I think that's what he said.
What was that?
What that's no, that was that was they were spinning a record like like uh like uh like these modern day uh hip-hop DJs do, spinning whatever.
I mean you you would have seen I think I'm assuming you would have seen a record uh being cued up.
You know, that's how how you do it, and uh that's that's what that was as they prepared the audience for the trip up the hill to KGMO, which is where I started.
Not station I'm on now.
Um in Cape Girardo.
But anyway, as soon as we get that clip of the old man, assuming I was dead, we'll uh pass that along.
Have you seen uh this story?
Uh Bill Clinton raked in uh nearly seven and a half million dollars in speaking fees alone last year.
Sometimes earned as much as $350,000 for a single appearance.
Clinton earned a staggering six hundred and fifty thousand dollars for just two appearances in two days before major gatherings in Canada by motivational speaker Tony Robbins.
This is all according to financial disclosure reports filed uh yesterday by no actually today, filed today by his uh his wife, uh Vice President uh Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Uh as a senator, Mrs. Clinton required to report her spouse's income as well as uh as her own.
In 2004, Bill Clinton earned just $875,000 for speeches as he recovered from heart bypass surgery.
Now two years later, seven and a half million.
Some of that's from Dubai as well.
Um, I don't have a problem with this.
I mean, these people can pay Clinton whatever they want to get him.
What I find ironic, favorite word of journalists.
You remember when after Ronald Reagan uh retired, served his first term, two terms, uh he went to was it went to uh it was a Japan or China?
What he went to Japan.
Reagan went to Japan and got uh, I think what was it, two million dollars?
Something like that.
And they raised holy hell in the drive-by media.
They thought that dishonored the office of the presidency.
Why, that was just unheard of.
Plus Reagan only spoke for like 30 minutes.
I think it was two 30-minute speeches.
He only spoke for 30 minutes, got two million dollars.
Why, why this crass commercialism is going to result in the loss of respect for the office of the presidency around the country now, uh, with Bill Clinton earning nearly seven and a half million dollars, we get just factual reports, uh, undertones of isn't this wonderful?
Uh certainly no mention in the story of isn't this sort of taint?
The uh aura of the White House, this commercialized uh the post-presidential period.
Couldn't he have at least go hammered some nails?
Like Jimmy Carter did or something.
Then at insult injury, then Clinton will run around.
Hey, you know, I'm rich, I'm richer than you are.
The Clintons cannot cannot pass up any opportunity to tell you how wealthy they are.
Which is, folks, that is a that's a dead giveaway of no class.
Uh if if you have to tell people it's not worth telling them.
People it's like you have to say, I am not a prostitute.
You've just said that you are.
If you've uh just I'm we're gonna inject a little spirituality in our campaign here, like the Democrats said a couple weeks ago.
Well, if you have to inject it, it isn't there, is it?
Um if you have to ask how some how much something costs, you don't have the money for it.
Uh all these cliches uh founded somewhat in in truth.
And yet here's Clinton.
I'm I'm richer than you are.
I I I'm making all this money now.
I don't need these tax cuts.
I don't need these tax cuts at all.
Well, if you don't need the tax cuts, then maybe you don't need the income.
Maybe you don't need this much.
You know, it's one one thing to go out and demand these high prices for a speech.
You want to go out there and charge something like uh $350,000 for a speech, and then start complaining that you're rich and you're getting a lot of tax cuts.
The money must matter, is the bottom line.
Just like and where the course where the Clintons are concerned, they don't want you to think it does.
It's all liberals.
They want you to make youth believe that uh money doesn't mean anything to them.
Couldn't couldn't care less about they're into service.
They're into public service, improving the human condition, bonding with people.
They are as into money as anybody else, and the Clintons are at the top of the list.
Make no mistake about it.
Now, here's some of the details on the FEMA scams.
Might be better to just give you this straight out list here.
Uh FEMA could not establish that 750 debit cards worth one and a half million dollars even went to Katrina victims, the auditors said, among the items purchased with the cards, an all-inclusive one-week Caribbean vacation in the Punta Cana Resort in the Dominican Republic, five season tickets to New Orleans Saints pro football games, adult erotica products in Houston and Girls Gone Wild videos in Santa Monica.
Dom Perignon, that's how I pronounced it, heard it heard her pronounce one's new Dom Perignon champagne and other adult beverages in San Antonio.
Uh another person bought a divorce lawyer's services in Houston.
Uh The only question not answered here is how many of them are out there voting multiple times?
The person that uh paid off a divorce lawyer or hired a divorce lawyer got it with uh a thousand dollars.
Another evacuee spent two grand on five New Orleans Saints season tickets, one person's three month stay in a Honolulu hotel for a hundred and fifteen dollars a night.
The alleged scammer also collected twenty four hundred dollars in rental assistance, despite living in North Carolina, uh not in New Orleans.
So, as I folks, I I do not think you should be shocked by this.
This is SOP standard operating procedure with uh with all of these government programs, and as I say, if you think the waste and fraud here is bad, try other established ongoing every day for the past fifty years government programs.
You would probably be shocked.
In fact, the food stamp program advertises for fraud.
They literally advertise people who don't qualify to try to come in and make them qualify somehow.
Just keep the budget levels up.
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All right, we have two more sound bites from Dave Price's report on my hometown, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, today on the CBS early show.
He is the weatherman.
Here is the episode.
He walks into the barbershop where I shine shoes at age 13.
My first job...
And this historic stop on our tour is the barbershop where Rush shines shoes as a boy.
Do you remember Rush running around town?
I I didn't even know Rush Limbaugh was alive.
Do you realize you may be a special man yourself?
As being perhaps the only man in America who didn't know that Rush Limbo was alive and from Cape Girardeau.
All right, and then this next one's kind of funny, too.
This is Price, and he's talking to Harry Smith.
I was following in the footsteps in this town of some of the famous haunts that Rush Limbaugh actually visited.
You know his brother Dave is still here.
He still wanders around town.
Brother wanders like he's homeless or something.
Hey, Dave.
You're cutting a wide swath in Gerardo.
Still wandering around town aimlessly, hopelessly.
Where's Dave today?
Anybody.
If you see him give the quarter, cost of living there is cheap.
Hello, baby.
Randy in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Welcome to the EIB networks there.
Hello.
Yeah, hey, Rush.
This whole uh FEMA story is a sham to try to make by the liberals to make Bush look bad because money is fungible, which means that if if money people get money from a FEMA credit card and they use that money to buy food, then they have other money to go to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.
So it's a total sham the stories that you have, because any time the government gives money, uh it frees up other money to do other things, so it just the story's nothing.
Well, you know, that is an interesting point in this in no wait a minute.
In this sense, it's you wouldn't probably see a story on FEMA fraud if Bill Clinton were in the White House.
Absolutely.
You probably you probably you wouldn't see it.
Now, I don't know whether in its attempt to uh make Bush look bad.
I think that's a stretch.
People know that Bush wasn't handing out these cards.
Let me give you an alternative picture to deal with.
I understand your point about money is fungible.
But let's go back to uh the second day after Hurricane Katrina is hit.
And we've got these pictures, and we've got these stories alleging what we know now never happened.
Mayhem murdered death, feces, urine lining the walls of the Super Bowl, dead bodies piled up in freezers with no power.
We've got a toxic soup of the floodwaters.
We've got an environmental disaster.
We've got people plunging over the sides of interstate bridges because they've lost all hope.
We've got people with no buses, we got no rescue, we got no air conditioned, we got mosquitoes flying around.
It's horrible.
It's the end of time.
And FEMA announces here's how we're gonna pass out the relief aid.
You show up at our office, tell us what you need, and we will buy it for you.
You head off to the store, pick it up, um, but we're not gonna give you any money whatsoever because we don't trust you.
You know what it happen?
You'd have people like Anderson Cooper, uh Geraldo down there inside of thirty seconds doing television stories on the cruelty, the lack of of uh of uh haste, the laziness on the part of the government.
Why just give them the credit card?
Just give them the money.
Look at these people, they are dying.
They are sweating, they are thirsty.
If the the only thing that you can do in these circumstances is start handing out the money.
Just get this because you have to demonstrate you're moving fast that you care and that you're gonna do what you can to help these people, and you don't have time to check to see if who's in line was actually a victim.
You just pass out the money, give them the credit card, don't check it, because if you start checking, it would have taken six months.
If we could have done it in that length of time.
So this is one of those uh damned if you do, damned if you don't circumstances.
Story's totally bogus.
Money's fungible.
Well, but I mean you y what do you mean money is fungible?
Well, what's what I mean.
I mean, I know what I know what but what do you relate it to this?
What do you mean by saying that?
But if if if people uh use the FEMA credit card to get money to buy food or shelter or other things, then it frees up other money they have to to uh get sex change operations or uh go to Dominican Republic.
Oh, that happens with all the time.
I know what you see.
You're you're you're essentially saying that because the money's being spent on goods and services that people are benefiting from.
Yeah, it doesn't matter.
You're taking the morality out of it.
You're simply saying giving them the money, it's good for the economy.
There's money changing hands, money's fungible, the money is not fraudulent, the the way it's being spent's not fraudulent because people are spending people are benefiting on both sides of the spending, uh, the spender and the recipient.
And and rush, if they qualify for the money, if they qualify, then they get the money and they can do what they want with it.
Yeah, but we're talking about people who didn't qualify for it.
Well, that's see now if you put the moral component, let me explain to you why people, when they initially hear this, are outraged by it.
The whole point of this was to relieve people of their suffering directly related to the hurricane, and that's housing uh and clothing, you know, things that they lost.
When we hear people going out and buying Dom Perignon or vacations in the Dominican Republic or five New Orleans Saints Super Bowl tickets, well, you can throw that out because that's an investment in the town coming back, you can say.
Uh but uh well, either that or a triumph of emotion over common sense buying Saints tickets.
But throw so throw that out.
But you're you you'd have to throw the morality out in order to make your point.
What people look at, say, my we're not I'm a taxpayer, and I'll be glad to help people out if they've lost sh food and shelter and need clothes.
But I'll be damned if I'm gonna sit I wouldn't give them a dime to go out and buy girls go on wild videos, and yet my government's doing it for me, and that's what makes them mad.
But Rush, the point of the story uh that makes it news is not merely the fact that they don't qualify or qualify, because that's always gonna happen in a certain percentage of cases.
The reason they make it the story is all it was spent on things that were not related to necessity.
That aspect of the story is totally bogus because money's fungible.
If you have it in the first place, it is, but there's when somebody gives you money for the specific purpose of helping you through and recover from a tragedy over which you don't have money, then of course it's it's it is thought.
I think it's naive, but people assume that the money is going to be spent responsibly to replace those things, the necessities in life.
We're not buying people's desires here.
We're buying needs.
We're providing them money for their needs.
They're going out and saying, screw my needs, I'll find a way to bum those from somebody else.
I'm gonna take this cash and I'm gonna get what I've never had.
I'm gonna have some dumb perignon, and then I'm gonna go down to the Dominican Republic, and I'm gonna buy some Saints tickets, and I'm gonna finally go see what a girl's gone wild video is.
And that's that's what gets people upset about.
Well, and that's what happens any time the government gives money like Well, that's my point.
You can't you can't stop this.
Because if you know, a certain percentage of humanity is gonna be, you know, human debris.
And that's why it's a good thing.
They're gonna be scam artists.
That's why it's a non-story, other than they're trying to make Bush look bad somehow.
Uh well, how about the motivation?
I could you know, I could I you you may have a point uh on on that.
I I I think it may be an attack on the whole Bush government bureaucracy and so forth, but uh I don't think the people writing the story in a drive-by media care.
Uh but I just I I'll bet this story wouldn't be written had been uh been written had been Bill Clinton been president.
He may have a point on that.
But anyway, we gotta go here, back in just a second.
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Well, a bunch of immigration activity out there, swarm of federal immigration agents uh sped silently headlights off down a Boston side street early today and surrounded an apartment house.
Uh moments later, agents led a dazed-looking Jose Ferrera de Silva, 35 out in handcuffs.
Uh the Brazilian had been arrested in 2002 and deported, but had slipped back into the country.
Now faces up 20 years in prison in a blitz that began May 26th.
ICE officials have arrested nearly 2100 illegal immigrants across the country.
Officials said the raids are aimed at child molesters, gang members, and other violent criminals, as well as people like De Silva, who sneaked back into the country after Judge threw him out.
And an immigration and uh raid at Dulles International Airport resulted in 55 arrests today.
Uh the people were doing contract work at a construction site inside a secure area where they would potentially have access to runways and airplanes.
ICE agents made their move as the workers are being bussed to the site, checking work and immigration papers.
The agency says one of the workers had an airport security badge that grants unescorted access to the airport tarmac.
So apparently it can be done.
Brian in Troy, New York.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you, Mr. Limbaugh.
Yes, sir.
A while ago I heard you talk about Democrats and war.
And I took I'm a veteran Democrat.
Some questions I have for you.
Nine out of ten Iraqi and Afghanistani that are going to run for House or Senate are running on the Democratic line.
The House and Senate today.
Veterans are represented by Democrats at a two to one ratio over Republicans.
And even amongst Republicans, Lindsey Graham and John McCain, when it comes to matters of war, are almost Democrats.
So how can you beat up on Democrats for that?
Well, let me explain this.
We're going to start with this.
Number one, I I do not automatically accept your figures on nine out of ten who are running or running on the Democratic side, and that uh the vast majority of uh veterans are Democrats and so forth.
But I'm not talking about vets, I'm not talking about soldiers.
Don't be absurd here.
Uh if you're gonna ask me and talk about Dems uh you know not supporting the war.
I'm talking about prominent elected Democrats in Washington, and I've played the clips.
I'm just repeating what they say.
It is inescapable.
There is an ongoing effort to sabotage victory in this war over this enemy.
Al Qaeda.
There is an ongoing effort to do it.
The cut and run crowd, the people that want to get out.
Now they couch it in we've got to protect our troops.
Well, the troops don't sign up for protection.
Troops sign up knowing full, especially now, sign up knowing what they're getting into.
That's what's so remarkable about all of you who do it.
Uh but to say that McCain and Graham sound like Democrats on the war, that's the one area McCain doesn't sound like a Democrat.
Uh uh one area where he doesn't sound like he's trying to curry favor with the with the drive-by media.
I mean, it's it's it's it's absurd to dispute this.
It's ridiculous to dispute it.
The Democrats are obsessed with getting out of there.
They're not obsessed with winning it.
They're not concerned with winning it.
They've got us already defeated.
They think we're humiliated.
Our reputation in the world is ruined.
Our image around the world is ruined.
We've got to get out.
Oh, bring our boys home.
This is bad news.
We can't win it a civil war, blah, blah.
Meanwhile, we just keep moving the ball forward and chalking up victories.
And what they're doing is not contributing to morale at all.
Did you people I didn't talk about this?
But it was clearly big news.
Um, the report of how many murders there were in the country last year.
What was that number?
I'm I'm convinced it was either 47,000 or 87,000.
It was all it was in the story about crime being up after five years of violent crime going down.
And I remember reading that article, and you know, the first thing, the first thing that struck me, hear the Democrats all concerned about life.
They're all concerned about death, and they're all concerned about the troops, and they've been counting up along with the drive-by media.
From the moment we had a thousand battlefield deaths, then the number was fifteen, and then it was two thousand.
And there was an eager panting before we reached each of these round numbers.
Two thousand deaths in Iraq, ring the bells, run the presses, get on the air, two thousand battlefield deaths in Iraq, two thousand battlefields, and then it got to twenty five hundred, they did the same thing.
As though this is unacceptable, unheard of, why outrageous.
Why we're getting our troops killed.
And then I saw the report of the number of murders in this country.
The number of murders in this country is higher than the number of people killed in traffic accidents in this country.
Murders.
It's either we're looking it up now, but I think the number was around either it's 47 or 87,000 murders.
And we've got a political party all concerned about 2500 deaths.
It's like I said earlier.
They have this selective application of compassion.
Like 24 citizens in Hadith allegedly massacred by U.S. troops.
And all of a sudden, why that's that's unconscionable.
Why 24 dead Iraqis, why this is worse than Saddam, we're gonna stop this.
This is horrible.
We've got to put these Marines in jail, we're gonna find out what they did, we're gonna put them in the dock.
And yet they never cared about the 300,000 Iraqis that Saddam killed in his tenure.
Didn't care a whit.
Would never have been a reason to go in and stop this tyrant from doing it.
All of a sudden, 24 Iraqis allegedly killed in a massacre.
Well, that gives them the opportunity to blame the U.S. military, Brian.
And that's what the Democratic Party today revels in doing.
Any chance they can blame the military, any chance we killed Zarkawi, they said it was meaningless.
Don't try to tell me that the Democrats care about this.
They well, they care about it, but not the same way most Americans do.
Uh most Americans understand that a war is a war, and they understand that until the full details of Hadith are known, not going to rush to any kind of conclusion on this.
Democrats and the drive-by media already have twenty, five hundred deaths on the battlefield in Iraq.
Get them out.
Put them into Kuwait.
Hit them out of there.
This is horrible.
87,000 murders in the United States.
We don't even hear a word about it.
In fact, most of these cases, the drive-by media Democrats will be sympathetic to the killer.
Well, what were the socioeconomic circumstances?
You know, it could be America's fault that people do bad things because America is an evil country.
I'm going to tell you something, Brian.
I'm going to hit you right between the eyes.
I'm talking about people who hate this country.
And there are people in the drive-by media that hate this country.
It is time to stop glossing over this and play in a ring around the rosy.
There are American haters in a Democrat Party.
There are America haters in a drive-by media.
It's hard to accept, it's hard to explain, but they're there.
It forms uh or derives from guilt.
I It derives from the fact that they're liberals and they hate capitalism and they hate prosperity and they hate the inequality of life in America or what have you.
It's sick, it's maddening and infuriating.
But you don't find American haters on the right.
And you don't find a hate America crowd on a Republican party.
And you don't find a hate America contingent in the so-called new media made up of conservatives.
It's just the opposite.
But there's a bunch of America haters out there.
They are prominent.
They are in the drive-by media, and they're doing everything they can to undermine this country, particularly they hate this country when a Republican is president and Republicans are running the Congress.
Nice try, however.
Savannah, Georgia.
And Gene, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi.
It's quite an honor to talk to you.
I've been trying for years to get in touch with you, but uh was able to get through today.
Well, I'm glad you made it, and welcome.
Well, thank you.
Uh I just wanted to comment on the collar that said that uh nine out of ten of uh the people that he knows in the military or Democrats.
Yeah.
Um I spent twenty-three years in the Air Force.
I met maybe four Democrats in that amount of time.
And as uh take him back, I think all of them are under the rank of E3.
Uh well, look, when I went to Afghanistan, I took a troop visit to Afghanistan a year ago, February.
It's what is that, uh, almost a year and a half ago.
And I wasn't Democrats in the troops.
They were there.
Uh they weren't that they weren't anywhere near a majority, but there was a sizable number of them uh at various bases in Afghanistan.
Uh, but I'm not who if anybody's gonna make the assumption that I am talking about uniformed volunteers.
As Democrats who are trying to sabotage the war effort.
I I refuse to accept that there are people that stupid in this audience, and I would have to stoop that low to explain.
By the way, I'm not talking about uniform military personnel.
Especially in the context of discussing what we're hearing from people like John Kerry and Howard Dean and Jack Mertha and Nancy Pelosi and all the rest of this cabal that's doing its best to undermine this particular war on this particular enemy.
Uh gotta go.
Appreciate the call out there, Gene.
We'll be back.
Not looking good for Al Gore.
There's a great piece today at uh the uh Canada Free Press by a man named Tom Harris.
He's gone out and talked to some scientists who have no connection with corporations or governments and not part of government grants and whatever, and they've asked these, he asked these scientists to assess Al Gore's stupid, idiotic movie, uh, an inconvenient truth, and some of the uh answers he got uh are very interesting.
Murder over uh was sixteen, nine hundred sixteen thousand nine last year, sixteen thousand nine hundred.
Well, that's not more than the uh traffic deaths, because that's around forty-seven thousand.
But let's add them together.
I mean, but but believe it.
Sixty, nine, let's call it seventeen thousand in one year, twenty, five hundred in three years in Iraq.
It's just also bogus, folks.
Frankly, I'm getting fed up with it.
We'll be back.
All right, uh WWW dot Canada Free Press dot com, uh billed as Canada's fastest growing independent news source.
A piece here by Tom Harris, guest column scientists respond to Gore's warnings of climate catastrophe.
The inconvenient truth is indeed inconvenient to alarmists.
Scientists have an independent obligation to respect and present the truth as they see it.
Al Gore's sensibly abserts or asserts in his stupid movie an inconvenient truth.
Showing it Cumberland Force Cinemas wrote a little bit of a professor Bob Carter of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University in Australia gives what for many Canadians is a surprising assessment.
Quote, Gore's circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic.
It is simply incredible that they and his idiotic movie are commanding public attention.
He didn't say idiotic.
I threw it in there because I frankly can't Help myself today.
But surely Carter is merely part of what most people regard as a tiny codbre of climate change skeptics who disagree with the vast majority of scientists that Gore cites.
Uh no.
Carter is one of hundreds of highly qualified, non-governmental, non-industry, non-lobby group climate experts who can test the hypothesis that human emissions of carbon dioxide CO2 are causing significant global climate change.
Climate experts is the operative term here.
Why?
Because what Gore's majority of scientists think is immaterial when only a very small fraction of them actually work in the climate field.
Even among that fraction, many focus their studies on the impacts of climate change.
Biologists, for example, who study everything from insects to polar bears to poison ivy.
While many are highly skilled researchers, they generally do not have special knowledge about the cause of global climate change, explains former University of Winnipeg professor, Dr. Tim Ball.
They usually can tell us only about the effects of changes in the local environment where they conduct their studies.
This is highly valuable knowledge, but it doesn't make them climate change experts, only climate impact experts.
So we have even a smaller fraction, but become smaller still among experts who actually examine the causes of change on a global scale.
Many concentrate their research on designing and enhancing computer models of hypothetical futures.
These models have been consistently wrong in all their scenarios, asserts Ball.
Since modelers concede computer outputs are not predictions, but are, in fact, merely scenarios, they are negligent in letting policymakers and the public think that they're actually making forecasts.
We should listen most to scientists who use real data to try to understand what nature is actually telling us about the causes and extent of global climate change.
Do we can we agree on something, folks?
Something simple and axiomatic.
At any moment in time, the Earth is either warming or cooling.
We know for a fact that that's the case.
We know for a fact because we've had ice ages, and we've had boiling volcanoes.
We have the Earth is either cooling or warming at any given time.
How long am I going to keep doing this before the country realizes these people are a bunch of charlatans?
I've been on this for twelve years and I'm I'm getting impatient.
I'll have to keep it up as long as the other side keeps putting up bogus BS.
Here is a small sample of the side of the debate that we almost never hear.
Appearing before the Commons Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development last year, Carlton University paleoclimatologist Professor Tim Patterson testified, quote, there is no meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and Earth's temperature over this geologic time frame.
In fact, when CO2 levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half billion years.
Patterson asked the committee, on the basis of this evidence, how could anyone still believe that the recent relatively small increase in CO2 levels would be the major cause of the past century's modest warming.
Patterson concluded his testimony by explaining what his research and hundreds of other studies reveal.
On all-time scales, there is very good correlation between Earth's temperature and natural celestial phenomena, uh, such as changes in the brightness of the sun.
No.
Why, ladies and gentlemen, I myself am not a scientist.
And yet, I have a reasonable amount of intelligence, common sense, a fair education, and even I, someone unsophisticated, not an elitist.
Not Ivy League born bred or educated, can be led to understand that activities on the sun might have a greater impact on temperatures here than any other damn thing that might be happening on this planet.
We found a picture of my brother David, uh, wandering streets of my hometown Cape Girardo, Missouri, to be on the website, Rushlimbo.com as we update it to reflect the contents of this program later this afternoon.
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Another great day with you, and tomorrow more the same.
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