Love or Hate him, millions of people listen to him. And to get an unsolicited endorsement, was not only a surprise, but it caused quite a traffic spike here yesterday.
During the last hour of his radio program yesterday, he was talking about Bernie Sanders view of climate. He said:
Anyway, Bernie Sanders, he vows to offset all carbon emissions from travel. “2020 presidential campaign plans to offset all carbon emissions from travel, it announced Thursday morning.
‘Bernie Sanders is a champion in the fight for climate justice and, like him, we know we need to address our emissions through action, not just rhetoric,’ campaign manager Faiz Shakir said in a statement. ‘We are proud to lead the way in the fight against climate change by acting boldly to move our energy system away from fossil fuels and towards sustainable energy sources.’”
Now, we shouldn’t let them get away with this. We’re not talking about offsets here. We’re not talking about offsetting carbon emissions. We’re talking about getting rid of air travel, Bernie. If you want to show allegiance to the Green New Deal, ground your airplane! This is about the elimination of fossil fuels, not offsetting your use of them.
And Bernie has endorsed the Green New Deal. This vow has nothing to do with a policy he would impose on everybody else. This business of trying to offset — we’re going to make sure that we offset all carbon. No, Bernie. No, Bernie, you ground that airplane. You ground everything that uses fossil fuels, and you get around, if you’re gonna be true to this.
But note they never do. They never actually live the stuff that they would make you and me live. But I’m now gonna violate one of my own rules. ‘Cause I’m gonna get into some science here. I found this at Watts Up With That? It’s a cool little website. It’s a long piece, but I can synthesize this with very little time.
“The effectiveness of CO2 as a greenhouse gas becomes ever more marginal with greater concentration. According to well understood physical parameters, the effectiveness of CO2 as a greenhouse gas diminishes logarithmically with increasing concentration,” in the atmosphere.
Meaning, you reach a point where the more CO2 you put up there, the less impact that it has, or greenhouse effect that it has.
“This inconvenient fact is well understood in the climate science community. It can be accurately modeled using the Modtran program maintained and supported at the University of Chicago.”
It’s like it has been discovered that, you know, when they were tearing up the Amazon rain forest, when they were clear cutting it down there, you know, when Juan Valdez needed more space for a house instead of coffee beans, they found that there was forestation in Europe as the earth itself was compensating!
Not that we had planted any new trees. They just were marveling at how we weren’t actually losing any net vegetation, despite Juan Valdez clear cutting in the Amazon rain forest. The Folger’s coffee guy. Juan Valdez, he was out there macheting. It was a disaster.
Rush also mentioned Dr. Susan Crockford by name on his show the other day.
I had a suspicion that Rush was reading WUWT just by the way he would characterize things. He just seemed too well-informed. 🙂
I should add that I think Rush Limbaugh probably reads WUWT regularly, because, as I said, he is very well-informed on the CAGW subject, and one would have to read WUWT in order to keep up with all the latest that is going on in the CAGW drama.
There are valuable nuggets in every WUWT post. If you want to know what is going on, you have to read them all.
Love this place!
A few days ago Rush was speaking with one of his guests about climate change. After which I decided to send him an email message and a link to this site. I heard him mention the site yesterday and just wondered…
Bernie should fly in a 1930’s Soviet airplane. That would match his policies.
While here in Australia I am not familiar with this particular person, must see if I can find him via the Internet, what he says is correct. All of thee real scientists can say that Global warming come climate change is a hoax, but the average person who comes home from work tired out does not see or hear about that.
All they hear and see is politicians and other talking heads telling us that we must do this or that and all will be well.
There is a lot t talked abut politically by Labour her re. our Federal politics, about a “Liveable wage”, the message being that the average person knows that the cost of living is far too high. But never a mention as to why.
Now we all know that its part far too many taxes, both Federal and State, but a lot has to be the high cost of energy, mostly electricity. But no politician of either party wants to talk about that.
Obviously its because of the massive increase in the use of renewable, their erratic supply and the massive subsides , but then if we complin we are told that we must make sacrifices to “Save the World” .
MJE VK5ELL
Could be awkward with the time difference, but:
https://tunein.com/radio/The-Rush-Limbaugh-Show-p20617/
Rushlimgaugh.com publishes the text of his show, in case you’d rather surf for topics of your interest.
Rush is the king of talk radio in the US.
I was listening when he said that, and thinking that there was a new article here that I could use in a certain online dispute I was in, came here to look for it.
I never found the article. He must be referring to something old from the archives.
Click on the link in the transcript:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/08/the-effectiveness-of-co2-as-a-greenhouse-gas-becomes-ever-more-marginal-with-greater-concentration/
It’s a good discussion. I have to wonder if a like quality of exchange is happening anywhere else.
William Happer take notice.
Been following Anthony and Watts Up With That for years!!! Now we’re going to be mainstream!!
I’ve listened to Rush ever since i saw him on his TV show back in the 90s. I found Watts Up With That a few years later, and visit it every day. I also introduced it to my husband.
I imagine Rush’s mention will bring a number of people here. I’ve seen it happen before, when his fans accidentally crashed a website after he mentioned it on his show. I hope it has a similar (but not so drastic) effect here.
The part that sticks out to me most about the Rush Limbaugh tv show was the video clip he showed of President Bill Clinton joking and laughing as he was leaving Ron Brown’s funeral, and then Clinton noticed the cameras were on him, and in a split-second he transformed himself into a grieving man. The companion Clinton was laughing and joking with looked puzzled at the switch in Clinton’s demeanor (he didn’t see the cameras).
It was an amazing transformation. The real Bill Clinton. He can lie in a heartbeat.
Yet more telling when you consider that Clinton probably bumped Brown off.
Like the mafia don who sends his victim the biggest flower bouquet.
“Yet more telling when you consider that Clinton probably bumped Brown off.”
That may have been why Clinton was laughing! 🙂
Just kidding. I have no evidence that Clinton has ever murdered anyone or had anyone murdered. I wouldn’t put it past him, since he seems to have a proclivity for raping women, which is pretty much equivalent to murder in my book, but I have no evidence of any Bill Clinton murders.
Can you tell I don’t like the guy?
My question is why would the moral Bush family have this guy as a friend? A “brother from another mother” as G. W. put it in describing his relationship with Bill Clinton. Isn’t this kind of sick? What do these folks talk about around the dinner table? I can’t imagine thinking normalizing a sexual predator like this guy is a good thing. When Bill comes visiting, does George keep an extra-watchful eye out to protect the womenfolk?
George, I’m disappointed in you. What are you thinking?
Just the political class birds of a feather flocking together.
There are good circumstantial cases in the deaths of Ron Brown and Vince Foster for murder by the Clintons. Plus others in Arkansas.
Hillary’s staff thought she was kidding when she suggested “droning” Julian Assange, but then realized she was serious. After the story got out, she claimed to have been joking.
Thanks Anthony. I have learned more from this site including comments than any website I have ever visited.
When you call it “ a cool little website”, it makes it sound more mysterious and cutting edge.
Then they’re hooked 🙂
Super-cool, Anthony! Congrats. 😀
My brother and I dedicated our 1992 techno-thriller, “The Sixth Battle”, to Rush, risking damaging sales to show appreciation for his uphill struggle against the fake news media.
https://www.amazon.com/Sixth-Battle-Barrett-Tillman/dp/0553294628
He has staff, who clearly have been aware of WUWT for a long time. The Sanders panders “offset” bilge water just provided him with another golden opportunity to promote this excellent site.
CO2 bothers me is the passing on comments like – ” from fossil fuels and towards sustainable energy sources.’”
Since part of Sustainable is the ability to reproduce itself, and none of their “renewable” sources can mass produce steel, glass and or aluminum, they are Not Sustainable.
Also missed any comments on the travel methods used by Kim & Trump. Trump flew within 24 hours and over an ocean. Kim took a train for 1/4 the distance and took 4 days.
I remember Rush talking in the early 90’s how the ozone hole and depletion was causing global warming and that he didn’t know much actual science. But he did start talking about Environmental Wackos. I didn’t care much for his thoughts about science then and drifted away from listening to him, when I discovered Howard Stern talk radio.
Haven’t listened to Rush lately, but I rarely miss the Mark Levin radio show as he has written about global warming/climate change with a much better understanding of the science.
I got hooked on WUWT probably around the climate-gate time period, as I always referred to the CAGW people as “Global Warming Kooks”, and I have been here ever since.
But I did listen to Rush off and on through the 90’s and I’m really glad that he has learned a few things about global warming, and glad he has learned things from WUWT, as I have. He is a true constitutional conservative.
And I guess it would be appropriate in the “Rush Limbaugh” thread to announce that Special Prosecutor Mueller has turned his report over to the Justice Department and has said he recommends no further indictments. The Special Prosecutor Witch Hunt is over.
Trump was right: Russian collusion with Trump was a Hoax.
Trump has shown this Hoax for what it is. Up next: Show the CAGW Hoax for what it is.
That should be Special Counsel, not Special Prosecutor. They changed the name a while back.
It’s ironic that when you come across someone who says “rivers don’t get growlers, therefore the painting of Washing crossing the Delaware is baloney” (Mann’s statement in 2005) and this is in the middle of a bodacious flood event in the Dakotas that rivers full of ice chunks (GROWLERS, Mann, you numbskull!), you realize that everything this dude says is meant to feed his ego and put money in his pocket. This bad attitude of mine toward him is also because of videos posted online of the Kankakee River during more than one spring ice dam breakup which producers GROWLERS – BIG CHUNKS!!!! – and even more GROWLERS on the Des Plaines River, floating past someone’s house. Then you start looking for something more reasonable and less lopsided, and you find all sorts of resources.
You also wonder how on earth someone can ignore historical records in his quest to be at the top of some heap he invented as Mann did and has done repeatedly, but you know it’s always about CASH. Keep that in mind.
Then, after much searching, you do find sites like WUWT, where things are archived and there seems to be a bit of common sense involved, and you find that because someone like Mann has resolved to ignore natural cycles in his quest for glory, you can find a way to get back to some common sense.
I spent a (for me) bodacious piece of cash for a single-volume collection of papers from a climate meet-up in the early 2000s, all of which showed that climate changes are cyclical and beyond our reach and/or control. This was long before any of this hysterics about climate change began.
I found article after article published online and in magazines that indicated clearly that climate changes occur constantly and that we have no control over them at all. Some of them were written by people recovering ancient tree remains above the current treeline in the Alps. Bingo! There are recorded observations as well as physical evidence to tell us that the Alps have been completely snowless in the past, and that Greenland was once upon a time covered in forest.
So then I asked that obvious question: what is this really all about?
The answer was obvious: Cash in the cash drawer, plus some attention, and nothing else.
It has never been about anything else. The people who object, sometimes violently, to being told they are wrong and it’s all cyclical and we CANNOT control it, have a problem, politely referred to as ‘afraid of losing all that cash (and maybe attention, too)’.
I went to a popular fishing spot yesterday morning. The DNR has its “No fishing yet” sign posted, which is a good thing because the three mated pairs of geese who have arrived were not happy about the ice/slushy surface of that little lake. But it will melt soon and they’ll be nesting and brooding and then swimming with a trail of fluffy feather flockers behind them. There is still an iceberg in my yard, which is slowly melting away. The trees are about to burst with buds. We’re having a regular Spring.
Despite the hysterics from the Warmunistas, the Greenbeaners, and the ecohippies everywhere, the planet will move on and do her thing, whether we’re here or not. I feel a little sorry for them, because they have no idea what a miracle this planet really is. They want “save” it but they constantly trash it and blame others for that. That is so SAD.
You all have a nice weekend. I know I will.
So Rush Limbaugh mentions Modtran. Cool.
Here is a screenshot of a simple exercise in Excel using the University of Chicago’s Modtran website. I wanted to see for myself how the numbers work out. The “greenhouse effect” of a doubling of CO2 concentrations from 280 ppm to 560 ppm is tabulated here for the specific case of the temperature profile of the 1976 U.S. Standard Atmosphere, no clouds. The net input of IR energy from above and below at each altitude is tabulated, and the difference is taken.
What is illustrated here is that thunderstorms reaching up to 20 km or higher solve the warming problem. For this doubling of CO2, the net heat surplus at the surface and the deficit at higher altitudes simply means that thunderstorms can form a bit more easily and perform a bit better as a heat engine, moving heat to higher altitudes thousands of times more powerfully than the “greenhouse effect” can trap it down low.
(The 16,000 W/m^2 number is simply the latent heat released as water vapor condenses into rain at a rate of 1 inch per hour.)
“Climate Justice”?
Oh lord. But I did see a funny one the other day. Trump is guilty of obstruction of social justice.
I read somewhere a while back that anything like social justice or climate justice, or whatever ______ justice is “no justice at all” compared to “equal justice”.
Anything other than equal justice is secretly spelled “just us”. They’re demands for special treatment, not fair treatment.
It was great that Rush mentioned this website. If it does nothing more than bring on additional climate skeptics to routinely use the site to enlarge their knowledge, that is great. One can hope that a few climate change endorsers will come here to check it out and change their minds, but that might be asking for too much. Anyway, Rush and Anthony make a great team. Keep up the great job Anthony.
It does not surprise me that Rush would be supportive of this site. Been listening to him since the early 90s … and reading this site since the Climate Audit Mann wars back whenever that was.
Guess what, Anthony. WUWT is becoming mainstream. Status quo will be next.
I have been feeding Mr Limbow links to WUWT for several years, and have directly quoted quite a few articles from here. He is a voracious and wide casting reader and no one should be surprised by the depth of his understanding on a very wide range of topics. He also takes care when mentioning blogs and websites, he has caused a few to be totally swamped just by mentioning them on-air.
Rush Limbaugh is way smarter than any Democrat and better person as well.
Heard about this site many years ago on Steve McIntyre’s site Climateaudit