Limbaugh cites existence of God to argue against global warming
February 02, 2010 1:42 pm ET
From the February 2 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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As for fossils, etc. from the current era, yes, there would be evidence, but the 'great structures' will fall within a millenium.
what?
Well, one degree of increase in average global temperature per year is pretty ambitious. But let's say we wanted to do something more modest: maybe just raise the average global temperature by one degree Fahrenheit over the course of a century. How would we best go about that?
First we'd need to pick a mechanism for effecting that kind of change. Fortunately, we've been aware of this thing called "the greenhouse effect" since the early 19th century. Based on research on the greenhouse effect, we know that we don't actually need to heat the planet -- we just need to manipulate levels of greenhouse gases, like CO2, in the atmosphere in order to retain more heat. Producing enough C02 to affect the global temperature even by a tiny fraction would be a big undertaking, one that would require massive funding and lots of CO2 producing machines. In fact, it would be a project of such a huge scale, you'd need to get almost every human being involved in the effort.
Now, if only the global economy came to be based on a hydrocarbon fuel that produces CO2 when burned, and if energy for everything from electrical grids to personal transportation used engines that burn that hydrocarbon, then we'd have a solution. That way, nearly every human being's mere existence would depend, to a greater or lesser degree, upon an energy economy that converted hydrocarbons into large amounts of CO2. But what are the odds of that happening, right?
And while we're at it, why don't we pray to ZEUS to cool off the atmosphere a little, and get rid of all that excess CO2 for us.
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And then Rush Limbaugh can kiss my @$$ and go to HADES.
Plus screw Zeus! Demeter will let things grow for her prescribed period each year.
Let's raise a glass and "give thanks" Pan, shall we?
Hopefully the Congress will be blessed with the Wisdom of Athena, and not be too concerned about the Sacntity of Hera's Ritual.
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“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
~ Stephen Roberts
For the record, I really doubt that Rush has set foot in a church for many, many years.
BTW, notice how Limbaugh pronounces "God".
Obviously there a few teachings he's never really taken to heart.
Personally I think you're just blowing smoke out of your rectum...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming?wwparam=1265137215
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html
http://www.ipcc-wg2.org/
http://www.ipcc-wg3.de/publications/assessment-reports/ar4
http://www.ipcc-wg3.de/publications/assessment-reports/ar4/working-group-iii-fourth-assessment-repo
http://www.ipcc-wg3.de/publications/assessment-reports/ar4
http://healthandenergy.com/global_warming.htm
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change
You sound like the creationists who whine "show us the transitional forms" when there are, of course, many transitionals easily available for anyone with the desire to type words into a search engine.
I got this bump behind my left knee. It's about the size of a dime, slightly red and puffy, has smaller bumps on it, and oozes this yellowy-brownish goo. It's fairly tender, to the point that wearing long pants irritates it, and I can't walk after about 10 minutes. I was going to go to the doctor and have him check it out, but I thought I'd run the symptoms by you first.
If you get the chance, could you forward this to Sen. Inhofe, Rush limpaugh, and Sean Hannity too please? Thx. I'll be anxiously awaiting your analysis before I go visit that quack with the degree on his wall.
You've saved me a lot of money, Seahawks, and it looks like I won't have to change my lifestyle. My hat is off to you.
Seahawks WeatherLab night interior illumination system blows out.
Tomorrow's forecast: Windy.
1) Liberals and progressives just HATE capitalism.
2) They hate companies and they hate rich people.
3) Al Gore and other liberals/progressives are trying to cash in on the phoney-baloney global warming.
4) With the right mix of alcohol and medications, all of these points make sense somehow!
There is a balance in life that evolution and natural selection has demonstrated throughout history.
When we man tries to change that balance, nature responds in strange and disastrous ways.
When we overfish the oceans, the amount of jellyfish suddenly rises to a point of inconvenience at best, regional environmental disaster at worst.
So, Rush thinks that all the man made CO2 that is being emitted in the air is actually good for the environment?
How about increasing CO2 output and decreasing the natural wildlife, how does that work for us?
Rush is a moron... to turn a phrase...
Does anyone actually believe Rush?
There was a famous neurologist who once wrote that science should never be used in an attempt to prove the existence of God and science should never be used in an attempt to disprove the existence of God.
Rush can keep sticking his head up his butt - I'll stick with Sigmund Freud.
He did inadvertently sum up his 20 year career with this bit, which is, essentially;
" I'd like to preface my scientific theories by making it clear that they are based entirely on the supernatural, and a mythology that runs entirely counter to all science".
At least he's not even trying to pretend the Denial Cult is anything but faith-based. Those Deniers who attempt to appear reasonable have to work so hard, compulsively posting links to every tired and debunked GW Denial talking point. So much simpler, and no less convincing, to just go with "God said it, I believe it, that settles it !"
*FACEPALM*
Are you really also a creationist, Seahawks? We'll have to remember that the next time you hold forth on anything scientific.
Technically, evolutionary theory maintains that human beings didn't descend from apes, but rather that apes and human beings share a common ancestor from which... oh, never mind.
What exactly is anthropological global warming?
QwertyPoiu (look carefully at your keyboard to see how it got its name) was just mentioning that new theory that's being pushed by the denialists. The current level of global warming was caused by our ancestors.
This is how it works:
Our ancestors ate a lot of fiber. It made them gassy. They passed a lot of methane. Methane is worse than CO2 as a green house gas.
So, global warming is "Anthropological"!
Q.E.D (Quite Easily Disturbed) {:-b
You're right. I just couldn't resist. ;-)
Well, at least it's not anthropomorphic global warming!
How could we ever explain that one?
Perhaps Galileoleotardo has an theory?
Quite possibly in the top five dumbest things I've ever seen posted on a website. Even if you take out the word "literally".
QwertyPoiu was literally speaking figuratively. ;-)
I still find it adorable that the wingnuts thiink the same technique that hypnotizes them is going to work on rational adults ; Say something completely ridiculous, but with absolute certainty and authority, and it becomes a fact.
I believe I said something a long time ago about their Jedi mind tricks.
They don't work on us. ;-)
Hey. He did once say the sea will eat all the oil that was spilled in Alaska 22 years ago. Well?? He failed in that belief, so this one is not really surprising.