Posted on 06/03/2002 5:08:19 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
Ladies and gentleman, on the front page of Monday's New York Times there's a story that has the Bush administration essentially saying, "Yes, the phenomenon known as global warming exists, and guess who's causing it? You! American humanity with our highly technologically advanced lifestyle - our automobiles, air conditioners and whatever else, we're the ones causing it."
The Times story begins, "In a stark shift for the Bush administration, the United States has sent a climate report to the United Nations detailing specific and far-reaching effects that it says global warming will inflict on the American environment. In the report, the administration for the first time mostly blames human actions for recent global warming. It says the main culprit is the burning of fossil fuels that send heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere." George W. Algore, anyone?
So what are we going to do about this? Nothing. According to the administration, it's too late to do anything about it in terms of reversing or changing it. It's here baby, it's a fact of life. Global warming is with us. It's with us as the sun is with us. All we can do is adapt and live with it. If you have a chance, drive your car a little less. Well folks, Im just not buying it.
When I first became aware of this story Sunday night, I thought about what I would say on Monday's program: "Well folks, guess what? I have been wrong about global warming. The president says it is happening and that human beings are causing it, so I've been wrong." I couldn't say that because I don't think I am wrong. There are too many scientists out there whom I implicitly trust that have proven to me these predictions are basically apocalyptic doom and gloom based on raw emotion. Even the global warming advocates, to this day, will not tell you it is definitively happening.
Global warming has always been a hot topic, no pun intended, which we have discussed extensively over the years here at EIB. If you're a Rush 24/7 subscriber, you have access to a plethora of information on the subject in the EIB Essential Stack of Stuff. Just last Friday, I went through some of the most common enviro-myths that many folks fall for hook, line and sinker. If you're one of those individuals with question marks, especially in light of this New York Times story, check out Friday's Limbaugh Institute: Rush Smashes Environmentalist Myths.
We also learned last week that there may not even be a finite supply of oil. It may be infinite because mother earth is still making the stuff at this very moment. We also talked about this last week during class at the Limbaugh Institute: Maha, Where Does Oil Come From? Folks, it's just going to be a question of when will it become affordable, economic and profitable to get oil in some of these places like underneath the ocean floor. But only when we learn what the limits of our supply are, will these alternative fuels really get going with gusto.
Now folks, I don't want anyone to misunderstand. I'm not etched in stone or opposed to the possibility of global warming. But what I will not admit is that human beings are causing it. We do not have that kind of power, which is what the environmentalist wacko coalition maintains. This is a political, not scientific, issue for them. The leftists who use this issue are using it to advance a political agenda, which is anti-capitalism, anti-Western culture, anti-America, and pro-big government.
To say that we can outdo what the sun does is absolute folly. But there are so many people with apocalyptic outlooks that they want to believe we're capable of this kind of destruction by living our lives in ways that are based on improving the quality of life. And folks, I'm just not going to join that chorus.
Now friends, all of this takes Algore's number one issue away from him. Daschle and Gephardt are probably banging their heads against the wall. Here's another issue they thought they owned that has been taken away. But actually, it may not have been, because the report has also alienated environmentalist wackos, too.
You can hear me read excerpts from the Times piece and explain in further detail in the links below - as well as read the rest of the coverage of this story in articles throughout the website. The administration appears to have abandoned another core conservative principle, leaving us all to grapple with the question, "Why?"
George W
or
Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson and Hillary Clinton combined?
It's a simple question, even you should be able to answer it.
This report is not a policy document, but is bureaucratic exercise required by the Rio treaty where our bureaucracy reports to the UN bureaucracy on global warming. This report supports Bush's present policy, rejects the Kyoto Protocal and reiterates that the science has not been able to tell us if the warming is due primarily to man-made versus natural causes, if the warming is a problem at all or what the magnitude of that problem might be. There is no flip-flop.
The Times piece is a hit-piece spinning the report as some kind of admission the left has been correct on global warming, which it is not, in the hopes of changing policy.
I think Rush spent Sunday on the golf course and relied completely on the Times story for his prep. But it makes good radio - spawned one column today already and who knows how many FR threads.
There will always be enough voters that will take this approach. Remember the "Reagan Revolution?" Open up an Almanac and check out the "Budget." Look at where it was when Reagan was elected and look where it is now.
How many more "victories" can conservatives afford?
How absurd. The man is defending conservatism, nothing more nothing kless (he did it when Daddy Bush was there too didn't he? Or did you forget?
O'reilly hasn't got squat to do with it. Your silly red herrings only make you look foolish.
When the Democrats were in power, the Republicans were very effective obstuctionists for a while. Unfortunately asn stupidly they boasted about how weak-willed Bill the Waffler was. Then he grew some stones and whipped the Congress over the next few years.
Now we have a Republican in the White House who is advancing the Democratic agenda faster than the Dems did and those of us tha tdon't like it get yelled at for being disloyal!
I think I like it better the other way, the Democrats taking credit for the Republican's accomplishments instead of the Republicans enacting the Democratic agenda.
Me vote Republican? Why?
Huh? No he hasn't. Bush's base is solid and behind him. Many, many of us are truly grateful he's our president.
As for Rush...I caught his show today for the first time in a long while...and he was so flat, boring and self serving I could only bear the first hour.
TLB's right on target insight: The rat plan is to depress turnout by rightist voters, by inducing apathy through disillusion. Don't get hooked by their net. The rat plan is to depress turnout by rightist voters, by inducing apathy through disillusion. Don't get hooked by their net. SEND THE DEMOCRATS PACKING IN NOVEMBER!
It is obvious this is the Rat goal and the KKKKKK Klassless Klowns are doing their job to depress conservatives.
Ignore them and SEND THE DEMOCRATS PACKING IN NOVEMBER!
Sorry, but it is Drudge's irresponsible headlines and his obvious trumping of Rush to support his own lack of reporting skills that makes them both look foolish. Funny, seems Bush supports are called bots. Seems like we have a new bot in town. Rushbots.
Sorry to say but I am dissapointed (again) with GWB. If the story is wrong he could have sent someone out to contradict it. He has not done that.
"We shall make no distinction between the terrorists and those who harbor them"--who said that????
"Greenhouse gases are accumulating in the Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing global mean surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise," the administration said in its report.
"The changes observed over the last several decades are likely mostly due to human activities, but we cannot rule out that some significant part of these changes is also a reflection of natural variability," the report says.
"Human-induced warming and associated sea level rises are expected to continue through the 21st century," it says. "Secondary effects...include increases in rainfall rates and increased susceptibility of semi-arid regions to drought."
GOOD one ;)
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