Monday, November 15, 2010

The Greenhouse Effect is not all bad

As you can see from the transcript below, Rush mixes up carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.

Also, he doesn't really understand the greenhouse effect. We need the greenhouse effect, it's what makes life on earth possible. I can't explain it properly, I'll need to find some writing by Isaac Asimov that explains it all. Anyway, I share about half of what he had to say about it. [And then I have to go watch the rest of the football game!
RUSH: AP story: "Invoking the spirit of 'Star Trek' in a scholarly article entitled 'To Boldly Go,' two scientists contend human travel to Mars could happen much more quickly and cheaply if the missions are made one-way. They argue that it would be little different from early settlers to North America, who left Europe with little expectation of return. 'The main point is to get Mars exploration moving,' said Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Washington State University, who wrote the article in the latest 'Journal of Cosmology' with Paul Davies of Arizona State University. The colleagues state -- in one of 55 articles in the issue devoted to exploring Mars -- that humans must begin colonizing another planet as a hedge against a catastrophe on Earth."

Now we start thinking who to send, right? If it's one way? (laughing) It's one way, who do we send? At the top of the list, George Soros, 'cause they say later in the story we are gonna need a billionaire to fund this because the private sector is probably gonna have the best opportunity to fund it. So send Soros, send every environmentalist wacko. Get hold of Stephen Hawking and let him lead the way because he thinks that this has to happen. Now, get this: "Mars is a six-month flight away, possesses surface gravity, an atmosphere, abundant water, carbon dioxide and essential minerals." Now, wait just a second. Carbon monoxide, we thought that was the most dangerous substance on earth. Carbon monoxide trapped greenhouse gas is leading to the destruction of planet Earth. Now these guys are happy that there's carbon dioxide on Mars.

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