Rush is Mush: Limbaugh Denies Global Warming Impact on Polar Bears
Poor Rush. He's now reduced to calling weathermen liars and people who care about the plight of the polar bear wackos. Next he'll be stealing candy from babies.
Now, if the polar bears are disappearing and you're up there on their turf and you're drilling holes in their turf that they might fall into, and they come along and they don't like this -- and you're trying to protect them and the environment -- let them eat you! It's the least you can do.
Earth to Rush: Elvis is dead. Global warming is real. And you really need to take a vacation - to the Arctic.
While global warming deniers have clearly lost the battle on the scientific front, they have entered a new stage in their attempts to discredit the widely accepted belief among scientists that humans are causing global warming. This new strategy, largely of ad hominem attacks on scientists and other key figures in the environmental movement, is becoming a disturbing trend in the echo-chamber populated by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage. Rather than disputing the content of the message, they have been reduced to childish attacks and outright deception. While this trend is not entirely new, it appears to be more coordinated now than ever before.
Join us on the flipside for the latest nonsense out of Limbaugh's mouth, the facts that prove him wrong and a simple yet effective action you can take right now.
On his widely syndicated radio talk show Thursday, Rush referred to those who accept global warming as fact as, "environmentalist wackos." Sure Rush, the scientific community at large, as well as the Bush administration, are all environmentalist wackos. He then went on to address "some guy" aka John Kostyack of the National Wildlife Federation, as well as the environmental movement as a whole, with the following: "you are all wrong, and whether you know it or not, you are lying to your audiences." In a further attempt to somehow make himself look even more ridiculous than he already does, Rush also claimed that the habitat of polar bears is not shrinking.
Unfortunately for Rush, the facts are on our side:
1) NASA photos and documentation showing a steady decline in polar sea ice since at least the 1970s.
2) The scientific community, as evidenced by the IPCC (pdf), has reached a consensus that it is "very likely" that global warming is caused by human emissions.
3) The National Snow and Ice Data Center: "If current rates of decline in sea ice continue, the summertime Arctic could be completely ice-free well before the end of this century." Click here to see a graph depicting this decline between 1978 and 2005.
You can take action on this now by contacting U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dale Hall and informing him you are among the majority that supports the proposal to list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The Fish and Wildlife Service is only taking public comments on this until April 9th so it is essential that you make your voice heard immediately!
Please distribute this message broadly and freely. The best way to counteract the work of global warming deniers is to let the truth spread like wildfire.
Who is Lush Rimbaugh ????? Never heard off him. What a character ......
Posted by: Ursula | March 09, 2007 at 05:21 PM
Mr. Limbaugh can (without facts) deny the plight of the polar bear and global warming to his heart's content, it's just unfortunate that he spouts this "State of Fear" nonsense to anyone outside of his own personal shower stall. At the very least, please spare us any further uninformed opinions Mr. Limbaugh, before the last smidge of your credibility disappears along with the polar ice caps.
Posted by: David Enevoldsen | March 09, 2007 at 05:30 PM
I have to admit that for someone I thought was so intelligent, you really are stupid when it comes to all the autorcities happening within our world. Between Greed, Greed, GREED I can't say it any other way. They have even had special shows on this particular matter and it truly is serious.
Posted by: Mary Hansen | March 09, 2007 at 05:30 PM
he's a pill addled, misanthropic, reactionary bigot. Why does nayone listen to this clown?
Posted by: Pam Evans | March 09, 2007 at 05:32 PM
Rush, why don't you crawl back under the rock from which you came?
Posted by: Mary Ellen | March 09, 2007 at 05:35 PM
Rush must be over-medicated again.
Posted by: DRC | March 09, 2007 at 05:36 PM
Tell me, the gas bag lies every time he opens his mouth. What would make any reader/listener think he is telling the truth at this point?
Posted by: Paul Gagliano | March 09, 2007 at 05:40 PM
Mr. Linbaugh was on a lot of drugs. This may have affected his mind. I won't even listen to a drug addict. He has his head in an ice hole.
Posted by: Nelson Baker | March 09, 2007 at 05:46 PM
Rush Limbaugh is a real wacko, why would anyone listen to him is beyond human understanding.
Posted by: Wendy | March 09, 2007 at 05:50 PM
LOL! Hey Rush, you really need to lay off the pills.
Posted by: Fritz Foss | March 09, 2007 at 05:50 PM
Thank you for bringing this specific broadcast to light. We need to stand up against folks who tell lies in order to enhance their ratings - ALL AT THE EXPENSE OF THE INNOCENT. Sadly, this man is popular with a good-sized segment of the American public. How sad!
Posted by: Susan Marie | March 09, 2007 at 05:51 PM
Wow... How to people like this have an audience? Does he listen to what he is saying? Does he research his information? Guess he is too busy sounding smart to get off his lazy butt and find the facts.
Posted by: Jgan | March 09, 2007 at 05:53 PM
It is simple. Rush is now and always has been an idiot. The really scary thing is that a lot of people DO listen to him and believe him! When it comes to global warming and other enviromental concerns it is easier for those people to believe what he says and NOT do anything than to change it than to believe the truth of the situation. A sad commentary on their intelligence and care for the future, but they don't care beyond their own lives. Every creature on earth will suffer and that includes them!
Posted by: Linda Schlemmer | March 09, 2007 at 06:05 PM
RL does not care about the facts or the truth - he simply doesn't care about any other life than his own. He has an extreme indifference to the existance of the polar bears and probably all wild life. In my opinion he shows all signs of having NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder).
--I'm so thankful I am not like him!
Posted by: Geniene | March 09, 2007 at 06:08 PM
what worries me the most is that there are people out there that actually listen to him - unfortunately this country is infested with ignorance - how could this fool have any ratings... chances are he doesn't believe any of the *#*%@ he says - but he is motivated by the fact that there are people who actually follow him..
Posted by: Christopher | March 09, 2007 at 06:10 PM
It is Mr. Limbaugh's job to report truthful and factual information. What Mr. Limbaugh has reported is incorrect because of the following three pieces of scientific evidence:
1) NASA photos and documentation showing a steady decline in polar sea ice since at least the 1970s.
2) The scientific community, as evidenced by the IPCC (pdf), has reached a consensus that it is "very likely" that global warming is caused by human emissions.
3) The National Snow and Ice Data Center: "If current rates of decline in sea ice continue, the summertime Arctic could be completely ice-free well before the end of this century." Click here to see a graph depicting this decline between 1978 and 2005.
Posted by: Sarah | March 09, 2007 at 06:15 PM
Once again Mr. Linbaugh has shown his true intelligence (lack there of). When did he get his doctorate degree in environmental science? Or wildlife biology? This man is SO against anything that Mr. Gore does that he will say anything to counter attack him. If Mr. Gore said that grass was green, Linbaugh would paint his lawn pink and call him a liar. Now he is also calling some of the best scientific minds in the WORLD liars?? This is the same man that said that parents of ADHD children were lazy parents feeding their children pills (+10 yrs ago) but we all know who the pill eater really is!!! I swore this man would never again get one second of my time, but these comments are just over the top!!!
Posted by: Rikki | March 09, 2007 at 06:19 PM
Rush is beating on the charismatic polar bear for good reason. When it is listed, life will be different. Carbon diets will be started in earnest.
Why? Because Americans are making the connection between our wasteful energy and carbon pollution and extinction.
We hope art will bring the message home that people can take direct action to prevent climate crisis.
Good Nature Publishing in Seattle is designing a poster featuring "Snowy the Bear" -- our polar bear sow who says: "We need your help! Only You Can Prevent Climate Crisis."
We want to put 5 or 6 action items underneath the final illustration. Please email me with suggestions. Go to http://www.goodnaturepublishing.com to see the photograph of a polar bear sow and cub we licensed for reference material to illustrate and activate.
Best fishes,
Timothy
Posted by: Tim Colman | March 09, 2007 at 06:36 PM
He is just an endangered species himself. He's fighting for the little bit of turf (read followers) he has left...the remaining few in denial about anything that might make them rethink their gas guzzling, selfish, polluting lives.
Posted by: MB | March 09, 2007 at 06:40 PM
He is a moron anyway. He is just showing his intelligence. NONE!! Don't give him any more attention.
Posted by: DG | March 09, 2007 at 07:04 PM
Rush has publicly stated that his business has evolved solely to enhance his own financial situation. He has very little to complain about at the present time, because his beloved party is the one causing the majority of our current problems. We all know that his reliance on facts is, in itself, fictitious. Unfortunately for the under informed or just plan "ditto-heads" reason and research have no value.
Posted by: T. Wagner | March 09, 2007 at 07:12 PM
The man is not a moron. Nixon wasn't a moron, but he was a crook. I don't know if Rush is a crook, legally, but he does not have the best interest of the US or its people in mind. All he cares about -- ALL HE CARES ABOUT -- are his ratings and his bank account. I firmly believe that he knows full well that Global Warming -- whatever the exact cause or mechanism -- is real and deadly. But he also knows that many morons listen to him, and they want global warming to not be real. So to kick up his ratings and income, he tells them what they want to hear. And he doesn't worry about the true effects of global warming because he knows that he will be able to afford whatever adjustments are necessary if it gets too bad in his life. But I suspect that he thinks it won't get bad until he has passed (which is something he may not have done in sixth grade science). And who cares if it doesn't affect him? At least he will have his fame and fortune and the future be damned.
Poor Rush. It must be hell being the devil. But I guess he likes it hot.
Posted by: Larry Sessions | March 09, 2007 at 07:19 PM
I have to take advantage of this opportunity to share one of my favorite Rush jokes: Q. What's the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg? A. One's a Nazi windbag.....and the other one's a dirigible.
Posted by: Ted | March 09, 2007 at 07:20 PM
Rush is a nobody, who would listen to him anyway. What degree does he have in Earth Science or Ocean Science. And why would anyone with common sense listen to him anyway.
Posted by: KT | March 09, 2007 at 07:23 PM
What continues to bother me about the Bush Administration and its supporters, as well as Rush, is that these minds exist. Remind me of those Germans who sucked up Hitler's rants and marched off to destroy others--without anything too cerebral to stop them. A blight on the German nation forever after. We seem poised to self-destruct with these present tendencies. If Rush was all by himself, he woulnd't have an audience; instead he is a quite famous man leading fools around who remain vastly uneducated about anything. Dangerous
Posted by: Dave Eastman/Country Ecology | March 09, 2007 at 07:40 PM