RUSH: Mike in Hanover, New Hampshire. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.
CALLER: Thank you, Mr. Limbaugh.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: I was actually quoted by you yesterday. I was the person who asked Mr. Romney at the town hall meeting about his position on global warming. And you, unlike almost everybody else, actually did me the courtesy of quoting some of my questions before you gave the answer. Anyway, I read the transcript that you provided, I read the transcript of your show yesterday —
RUSH: Yes.
CALLER: — and just had a few comments on it.
CALLER: Well, sir, first of all —
RUSH: Let me first, by the way, here’s his question. This is the guy who asked Mitt Romney at his announcement meeting, the question was, “Nearly all other candidates suggest that there’s no scientific consensus on climate change. Some insist it’s not even occurring. We can’t have a meaningful discussion about solutions until there’s agreement about the problem. Will you, sir, state now that under a Romney administration, global warming will be accepted as reality, and this reality will form the foundation for all climate energy policies?” That’s the question and you’re the guy that asked it.
CALLER: Right. Right.
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: Prior to that question, however, I provided a bit of context. If you don’t mind I’d like to read that piece, too. First of all, I wanted to specify the difference between policy and science. I said that how to deal with climate change is a policy issue; science of climate change is not. Anyway, my question was not about policy, that is, how do we mitigate global warming, do we do cap and trade or carbon credits or whatever, but it was about the recognitions of science. And I specifically quoted from a 2010 National Academy of Sciences report, and two quotes here. The first is, they concluded — and, by the way, the National Academy of Sciences, as you know, is considered the Supreme Court of science in this country. It was founded in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln, and it’s charged with giving the Congress unbiased scientific information. Now, their conclusion was, quote, “A strong, credible body of scientific evidence shows that climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems.”
RUSH: Then they’ve lost all credibility. It’s a bogus claim.
CALLER: Let me go on. They then went on to say, “Some scientific conclusions or theories have been so thoroughly examined and tested and supported by so many independent observations and results, that their likelihood of subsequently being found wrong is vanishingly small. This is the case for the conclusions that the Earth system is warming and that much of this warming is very likely due to human activities. And then I asked my question, so that’s the context of the question. Your response was that there was evidence even in the last year that established this whole premise of manmade global warming is a hoax.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: I don’t know where you’re getting the hoax from, sir. I mean I’m looking at —
RUSH: It’s called the University of East Anglia in England and the Hadley Centre for Climate Change Research where they basically made it all up, pure and simple. It’s a hoax. There’s nothing true about it.
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