Rush Limbaugh is a conservative talk radio host in the United States with over 20,000,000 listeners a week, making his program the single most watched or listened to source of news in the USA. Not surprisingly, Rush Limbaugh is demonized by the mainstream media as a right-wing extremist. For his listeners, however, he is a breath of fresh air. One constant desire on the part of the Left in America is to come up with a counterpart, the liberal Rush Limbaugh. Attempts have been made on the Left to do this, but no one has succeeded. Yet on the Right, numerous radio talk show hosts have repeated Rush’s success (e.g., Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham). Why is this?
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Month: February 2009
Anthropogenic Global Warming: Is there a consensus?
The mainstream media has pushed a certain agenda about global warming. The reasons they have done this are worth discussing, but here I wish only to say that they have been dishonest with us. Let me explain first what is meant by anthropogenic global warming, and then I will show explain why there is no consensus.
First, anthropogenic global warming is the theory that humankind, through the emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, has contributed to the warming of the planet. It is believed that these gases trap heat from the sun on the planet, much as a greenhouse traps heat from the sun. Humans have indeed increased their emissions into the atmosphere of these greenhouse gases through the use of power plants, cars, factories and so forth, anything that uses carbon fuels such as petroleum, coal and natural gas. They believe further that the eating of meat contributes to the problem, because cattle increases the amount of gases like methane and carbon dioxide too. To people living in cities where fumes from cars and factories choke out their opportunity to breath fresh air, these conclusions may seem evident enough.
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The Righteous Investor 