Ralph Nader: Limbaugh and Hannity Part of 'Huge Ignorance Movement' on Global Warming
Ralph Nader said Tuesday conservative talk radio hosts Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are part of a well-organized counter-scientific ignorance movement designed to prevent people from believing in the theory of manmade global warming.
Sadly, this was said to a bunch of impressionable students at the College of New Jersey (video follows with transcript and commentary):
STUDENT QUESTIONER AMANDA REDDINGTON: Over like a hundred countries recognize global warming and the negative effect people have on the environment. Do you, what’s your opinion on like America’s slow acceptance of this reality?
RALPH NADER: It’s partly because there’s been a well-organized counter-scientific movement, pseudo-scientific attack. Clinton never pushed it, and Bush opposed it withdrew from it, right? Obama’s not pushing it. So, most of the environmental groups when they hear every day Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, you know, this huge ignorance movement going on. Who’s to counteract Limbaugh, right? You don’t get on if you offend corporate advertising.
REDDINGTON: Okay, thank you.
NADER: But they’ll learn as soon as things start melting.
REDDINGTON: Yeah.
NADER: The beaches and all that. They’ll learn. Look at Alaska.
REDDINGTON: Yeah.
Amazing.
Al Gore and his green disciples have spent billions of dollars in recent years trying to convince the American people that this myth is real. They have as their minions virtually every media outlet in the nation with the exception of Fox News, conservative talk show hosts, right-wing bloggers, and a handful of publications.
Yet, the reason the citizenry aren't buying into the fable hook, line and sinker is because of people like Limbaugh and Hannity.
It really boggles the mind how people like this can be at all taken seriously.
(H/T The Blaze)
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Nader
Submitted by Blorg on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 12:37pm.
Nader has been wrong about everything since his Corvair fiasco.
Blorg, Maybe Nader is driving a smart car.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 2:18pm.
Smart yea smart.
Just kidding, I'm sure Ralfy takes a private jet everywhere he goes.
It's going to be a cold winter next year too.
How are the price of veggies in your warmist world?
You Didn't Build That.
"How are the price of veggies
Submitted by stratman on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 6:25pm.
"How are the price of veggies in your warmist world?"
The cold here in the US and Mexico are going to raise prices now.
Skyrocketing
Submitted by Denny Crane on Fri, 03/04/2011 - 5:21am.
Some of the vegies have tripled over the last 2 months over here.
We have had snowfall like never before. The mountain where I go snowboarding has over double the base that it has had in the last 30 years.
We Are The 53%
I Wouldn't Worry Much
Submitted by JustAl on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 12:48pm.
If any of the students were science students by the end of their sophmore year they already know man made global warming is bull sh**
Well.. a few surprises from Ralph Nader
Submitted by Gary Hall on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 12:49pm.
Nader: So, most of the environmental groups when they hear every day Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity ..
They do? I wonder if they serve popcorn, when these groups are watching.
NADER: But they’ll learn as soon as things start melting
Well, that's refreshing.. I thought "things" (such a scientific term) started melting a few hundred years ago.. and off and on during the little cold/warm cycles.
NADER: The beaches and all that. They’ll learn.
That reminds me.. could use a little time off looking at a beach... "and all that."
Nader: Look at Alaska.
Well, that will have to follow the first vacation on a beach; perhaps in the summer.
Ralph Nader - Travel guide extraordinaire.
(;~> gary
There're professors at my
Submitted by rbosque on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 12:49pm.
There're professors at my college that teach the same feces to impressionable kids too. I know because I've heard them and argued with them. If there is a "well-organized counter-scientific ignorance movement" effort to preach propagenda, Nader is involved.
Follow the money...
Submitted by changein2012 on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 1:04pm.
The alarmist frauds have spent hundreds of billions of dollars trying to sell a dangerous product the public does not need or want. Now the latest on the best paying jobs in the USA...
Here's the link to the 2009 survey. Here are the highest paid occupations, along with a few others that we normally think of as high paid: 1. Airline pilots...$112.97 2. Law Teachers, public sector, postsecondary (ie law school professors)...$100.24 per hour 3. Chief Executives (private sector)...$91.18 4. Physicians and surgeons...$89.51 5. Law school professors, private sector...$82.36 6. Private sector engineering professors...$76.11 7. Psychiatrists, public sector...$73.37 per hour 8. Dentists...$73.19 9. Health specialty professors, private sector...$71.45 10. Atmospheric, earth, marine, and space science teachers,postsecondary, public sector...$70.61 per hour Public sector CEOs...$58.13 per hour, Judges...$56.77, Private sector Lawyers...$59.53, Public sector Business school teachers...$63.55, Public sector Health specialty teachers...$66.12, Financial sales agents...$54.61, Marketing managers...$50.19, Petroleum engineers...$52.91, Accountants and auditors...$29.77 These are all mean earnings, which accounts for the very high earnings of some CEOs and so on. If median earnings are used instead, our global warming professors are almost equal with private sector CEOs - $75.29 per hour compared with $75.48 - and better paid than General Practitioners - $73.48 an hour. So global warming professors are the tenth highest paid profession in the nation and the third highest paid profession in the public sector. In terms of median earnings, they are paid as much as the average private sector CEO. Mothers, have your daughter marry a global warming professor! Now keep in mind, after spending all those hundreds of billions of dollars, they still have nothing scientifically to show for it. They have not even been able to rule out natural variability (the most likely cause) as the reason for climate change in the last 150 years. And they want more....AOLWebSuite .AOLPicturesFullSizeLink { height: 1px; width: 1px; overflow: hidden; } .AOLWebSuite a {color:blue; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer} .AOLWebSuite a.hsSig {cursor: default}
Ralph, you ignorant slut. If
Submitted by MikeB on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 1:04pm.
Ralph, you ignorant slut. If the hypothesis of AGW were scientific in nature, it would be falsifiable. Instead, any short term or long term weather event is touted as "proof" of global warming. So, global warming is the cause of less rain, more rain, less snow, more snow, more violent storms, fewer violent storms, a more active hurricane season, a less active hurricane season, a more active tornado season, a less active tornado season, colder winters, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and revolutions in the middle east.
There is nothing scientific about the hypothesis of Anthropogenic Global Warming. None of the predictions based on the hypothosis have come to pass... NONE! The upper atmosphere is not warming, the sea levels are not rising beyond the millimeter per year that it's been rising since we've been able to measure sea level.
Couple the non-falsifiability and the prediction failure with the ignoring and concealing of data that disproves the hypothesis, and you have, not science, but fraud ... just like you Ralph.
He is right
Submitted by wingnut55 on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 1:04pm.
Yes, there is a "huge ignorance movement going on". He should know he is part of it. If we can effect the weather so much, why not do more and make the weather in the north just like Hawaii and enjoy the warm weather year round. The growing season would be larger and we could grow more food and feed the world's hungry.
Ralph Nader... The Gift that keeps on Giving.....
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 1:14pm.
Everytime this NUT BAG opens his yap, he convinces those on the left that they are right... With all the "Counter Evidence" to refute AGW many of those that would be swayed are not being swayed as much. I hear students all the time at the college I prof at say taht AGW is a load of crap and that drives our leftie profs NUTS. My point is that he drives the lefties farther to the left which is a GOOD THING for those of us that are more center right.
Kinda like....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 1:36pm.
...herpes.
YOU WANT PROOF?
Submitted by almostacowboy on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 1:36pm.
(That was my best Jack Nickolson impression)
NADER: But they’ll learn as soon as things start melting.
REDDINGTON: Yeah.
NADER: The beaches and all that. They’ll learn. Look at Alaska.
Now, I ask you. How can you argue with that?
All too well
Submitted by mustango on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 1:52pm.
No, Mr. Nader, we understand global warming all too well.
Too hot? Global warming.
Too cold? Global warming.
Drought? Global warming.
Floods? Global warming.
Or to generalize: (Subjectively) "bad" weather? Global warming.
To put another way: "Don't like the weather? We can make it perfect, if you will only forsake capitalism."
And don't forget... All of
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 2:18pm.
And don't forget...
All of the following have been blamed on global warming (link to the article which links to each individual claim):
The deaths of Aspen trees in the West
Incredible shrinking sheep
Caribbean coral deaths
Eskimos forced to leave their village
Disappearing lake in Chile
Early heat wave in Vietnam
Malaria and water-borne diseases in Africa
Invasion of jellyfish in the Mediterranean
Break in the Arctic Ice Shelf
Monsoons in India
Birds laying their eggs early
160,000 deaths a year
315,000 deaths a year
300,000 deaths a year
Decline in snowpack in the West
Deaths of walruses in Alaska
Hunger in Nepal
The appearance of oxygen-starved dead zones in the oceans
Surge in fatal shark attacks
Increasing number of typhoid cases in the Philippines
Boy Scout tornado deaths
Rise in asthma and hayfever
Duller fall foliage in 2007
Floods in Jakarta
Radical ecological shift in the North Sea
Snowfall in Baghdad
Western tree deaths
Diminishing desert resources
Pine beetles
Swedish beetles
Severe acne
Global conflict
Crash of Air France 447
Black Hawk Down incident
Amphibians breeding earlier
Flesh-eating disease
Global cooling
Bird strikes on US Airways 1549
Beer tastes different
Cougar attacks in Alberta
Suicide of farmers in Australia
Squirrels reproduce earlier
Monkeys moving to Great Rift Valley in Kenya
Confusion of migrating birds
Bigger tuna fish
Water shortages in Las Vegas
Worldwide hunger
Longer days
Earth spinning faster
Gender balance of crocodiles
Skin cancer deaths in UK
Increase in kidney stones in India
Penguin chicks frozen by global warming
Deaths of Minnesota moose
Increased threat of HIV/AIDS in developing countries
Increase of wasps in Alaska
Killer stingrays off British coasts
All societal collapses since the beginning of time
Bigger spiders
Increase in size of giant squid
Increase of orchids in UK
Collapse of gingerbread houses in Sweden
Cow infertility
Conflict in Darfur
Bluetongue outbreak in UK cows
Worldwide wars
Insomnia of children worried about global warming
Anxiety problems for people worried about climate change
Migration of cockroaches
Taller mountains due to melting glaciers
Drowning of four polar bears
UFO sightings in the UK
Hurricane Katrina
Greener mountains in Sweden
Decreased maple in maple trees
Cold wave in India
Worse traffic in LA because immigrants moving north
Increase in heart attacks and strokes
Rise in insurance premiums
Invasion of European species of earthworm in UK
Cold spells in Australia
Increase in crime
Boiling oceans
Grizzly deaths
Dengue fever
Lack of monsoons
Caterpillars devouring 45 towns in Liberia
Acid rain recovery
Global wheat shortage; food price hikes
Extinction of 13 species in Bangladesh
Changes in swan migration patterns in Siberia
The early arrival of Turkey’s endangered caretta carettas
Radical North Sea shift
Heroin addiction
Plant species climbing up mountains
Deadly fires in Australia
Droughts in Australia
The demise of California’s agriculture by the end of the century
Tsunami in South East Asia
Fashion victim: the death of the winter wardrobe
Now since this list originally was published in 2009, I imagine other things have been added:
Steelers lose the Super Bowl? Global warming
Packers win the Super Bowl? Global warming
Charlie Sheen? Global warming
Oscars show was terrible? Global warming
A car crash along I-10 westbound? Global warming
Oxygen? Global warming
Stupidity? Global warming
MSNBC? Global warming
Late on your taxes? Global warming
You forgot the disappearance
Submitted by winston smith on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 5:13pm.
You forgot the disappearance of frogs and Lindsey Lohan's second coke bust.
Nice list Beuk
Submitted by Denny Crane on Fri, 03/04/2011 - 5:28am.
The UK has an even bigger list.
Including 3 headed frogs
We Are The 53%
Ralph Nader is ignorant. Film
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 2:08pm.
Ralph Nader is ignorant. Film at 11.
Who stays up that late?
Submitted by Red Jeep on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 2:27pm.
Johnny Carson is not on anymore.
I haven't watched the 11:00 news (waiting for Johnny) since Carson's show ended.
Ralph-saying its so-does not make it real-
Submitted by JIMMY1660 on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 2:41pm.
Polar Bears-from 5,000 to over 25,000-Global warming??
man made CO2-represents 0.038% of all CO2 in the world-CO2 is an element-
the plants love it-the Oceans in the many dynamic of its processes-makes up the largest % of CO2.
Global Warming/Climate Change-just another boogeyman to generate panic and cash from
lemmings
one minor correction
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 2:51pm.
Just one minor correction, CO2 is a molecule, not an element(and can be made in nature, not just by man). Other than that, bang on right.
I don't mean to be nitpicky, but we do have to make sure we know what we are talking about versus those AGW wackos.
-Jon
I have missed Ralphy
Submitted by Bob K on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 3:09pm.
PLEASE tell me he is going to run in 2012. LOL!
Yeh boy!!
Submitted by Patriot II on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 3:17pm.
Spoken like the true buffoon you are ralphy boy! You have accomplished absolutely nothing in a wasted lifetime......managed to get convertibles outlawed.............for a short time, even that went over like a terd in the punchbowl.....you gullible idiot...buying into gore's glob all wurming bullshyt!
"Nader and Gore", Co-founders
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 3:58pm.
"Nader and Gore", Co-founders of global ignorance movement.
I had a dream....
Submitted by adamsmith on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 8:53pm.
I had a dream once that I bought an old Corvair and I ran over this limosine liberal. I then backed over him, and did it again.....I wonder what Freud would have said about this.....
He would had said
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 9:06pm.
To use a 4wheel drive. It will "do" more libs
They've been telling us
Submitted by talkradio55 on Fri, 03/04/2011 - 5:32pm.
They've been telling us things were going to melt for the last 30 years, but Ralph Nader is still here. Ralph Nader is a fraud 6 ways from Sunday who like the Boy Blunder has never had a real job. That's probably why he's not President. He's barely qualified to shine my shoes.