Quote# 82845
They’re playing games with us on this heat wave, again. Even Drudge. Drudge getting sucked in here. Going to be 116 in Washington. No, it’s not. It’s gonna be like 100, maybe 99. A heat index, manufactured by the government to tell you what it feels like when you add the humidity in there.
116. When’s the last time the heat index was reported as an actual temperature? It hasn’t been, but it looks like they’re trying to get away with doing that now. 116. Drudge is just linking to other people reporting. He’s not saying it, I don’t want to misunderstand, but he’s linking to stories which say 116 degrees in Washington. No!
It’s going to top out as 102, 103. It does this every year. We have this every year. There’s a heat dome over half the country, midwest is moving east. And it happens every summer. Every summer.
If we want to cool things off, please, Al Gore, schedule a global warming conference, wherever, in Washington! Go there. You want that 103, 116 to get normal? It will, within an hour of Gore announcing that he’s going! Another ten degrees off when he shows up. Plus hail, and rain, and maybe some high winds to really cool people off! That’s all that has to happen.
Rush Limbaugh,
Think Progress 55 Comments [7/27/2011 3:27:07 AM]
Fundie Index: 69
Submitted By: Kevin Klawitter
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#1315193
nutbunny
How about you die and stop contributing to the greenhouse effect.
7/27/2011 3:40:11 AM
#1315205
Kulgur
I don't speak Crazy. Could someone translate? What's he saying? That thermometers lie?
7/27/2011 3:57:08 AM
#1315211
Percy Q. Shunn
7/27/2011 4:09:10 AM
#1315223
Prager
Rush is just pontificating from his air-conditioned bunker!
7/27/2011 4:24:58 AM
#1315226
TGRwulf
It's Rush Limbaugh. That's all that needs to be said.
7/27/2011 4:27:16 AM
#1315238
Bollox
Appears blithering.
7/27/2011 4:38:02 AM
#1315248
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
I understand the meaning of the individual words but assembled in this manner it's a non collative dribble fest.
Wharrgarbl to you too Rush.
7/27/2011 4:52:18 AM
#1315255
Jorma
If I got this right Rush is blaming Al Gore for inflating the Heat Index so people would buy into the whole global warming scam.
or something
7/27/2011 4:56:39 AM
#1315256
Mister Spak
Just because your brain dead audience can't process the concept of heat index, that doesn't mean someone is trying to deceive you. Your target audience is pre-deceived.
7/27/2011 4:57:00 AM
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7/27/2011 5:13:08 AM
#1315280
DC Intern
As someone living in the area for the summer, Limbaugh's of shit. (But you guys already know that.)
The temperatures here are at the hottest they've been in quite a while and even the long-term residents who brush off the heat can't take it.
But it's just like this dried up conservative ex-speaker of the house I saw: "Just another day in July in DC!" Asshole.
7/27/2011 5:18:27 AM
#1315286
Yeah, people use the heat index instead of just the flat temperature. You know why? Because the heat index as a whole lets them know whether or not it will just be Uncle Bob making them uncomfortable at the family get together this weekend. That is to say: The Heat Index is far more useful than temperature alone.
7/27/2011 5:34:34 AM
#1315290
When’s the last time the heat index was reported as an actual temperature?
Never. If it is/was being reported as such then it's sloppy meteorology. But everytime I hear it mentioned on the evening news, it's always referred to as the "heat index." Much like the wind chill is frequently reported during the winter months.
It appears this is nothing more than sloppy "journalism" on Rush's part. Why does that not surprise me?
7/27/2011 5:49:32 AM
#1315295
Xotan
Might melt some lard, eh?
Meanwhile, we are freezing here in the south of France. I had the heating on two evenings this week. We should be 40 C +.
BTW, when is the US going to adopt Celsius, Kilometres etc?
7/27/2011 5:54:46 AM
#1315303
dionysus
A heat index, manufactured by the government to tell you what it feels like when you add the humidity in there.
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When’s the last time the heat index was reported as an actual temperature?
How the hell do you answer your own question and then ask it afterwards? Of course it's not an actual temperature reading because it accounts for humidity and other factors which, last I checked, most thermometers don't do.
7/27/2011 6:02:30 AM
#1315309
Agahnim
Pretending something doesn't exist doesn't make it go away, dumbass.
7/27/2011 6:10:42 AM
#1315329
Horsefeathers
Dear Rush,
Shut the fuck up.
If you'd stop opening that big yap of yours every chance you get there wouldn't be so much hot air blowing around.
At the very least you could put your foot back in your mouth where it usually is to plug up your gaping maw and prevent at least a little bit of the hot air from escaping.
7/27/2011 6:34:59 AM
#1315332
aaa
Rush is being a shithead again for some cash.
7/27/2011 6:36:55 AM
#1315336
JohnTheAtheist
Lets all be careful not to confuse weather for climate. That is what the anti climate change crowd does every time it gets cold in winter.
7/27/2011 6:41:47 AM
#1315339
Huckster Sam
Al Gore: Weather Wizard?
7/27/2011 6:43:54 AM
#1315344
Doubting Thomas
Yes, it does get hot every summer. However, this summer has had more days over 100 degrees than in previous years. While this in itself is not evidence of global warming, it certainly supports it. If you don't understand the heat index, then STFU about it until you learn.
And while I'm no fan of Al Gore, it's funny how he becomes the conservatives' whipping boy whenever global warming comes up.
7/27/2011 6:50:55 AM
#1315345
Anon-e-moose
Moan, whinge, whine, BAWWWWWWWWW! Change the track on the CD, Limburger, that one's getting old extremely fast.
Complain about global warming when it is, say there's no such thing when you get a really bad winter.
Show a little consistency, you fat blubberbag right-wing hypocrite. Or better still, get skin cancer - the malignamt kind - and put yourself out of our misery, you subhuman.
7/27/2011 6:52:03 AM
#1315378
Veras_the_Brujah
The heat index was developed by George Winterling, who worked for WJXT, a private television station in Jacksonville, FL. It was adopted by the National Weather Service a year later.
Heat Index: not a government conspiracy.
7/27/2011 7:41:33 AM
#1315388
Scientists = the government.
Thanks for clearing that up, Rush.
7/27/2011 7:59:14 AM
#1315406
Papabear
"When’s the last time the heat index was reported as an actual temperature?"
It hasn't, as you even admit, because IT'S NOT THE ACTUAL TEMPERATURE, IT'S THE HEAT INDEX.
7/27/2011 8:30:59 AM
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