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[The Doctor.]

Limbaugh: The Killer 116° Heat Index Is ‘Manufactured By The Government’

By Brad Johnson on Jul 21, 2011 at 12:20 pm

Spinning a conspiracy theory that puts his listeners’ lives at risk, hate radio merchant Rush Limbaugh argued that government warnings of life-threatening heat are “playing games”:

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.

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“We have this every year,” Rush claimed, after arguing that former vice president Al Gore could cancel the heat wave by scheduling a “global warming conference.”

Limbaugh is dangerously wrong.
This record-shattering heat wave is part of a year of extremes, with a winter and spring of record precipitation in the northern half of the country, and record drought and heat in the southern half. The record warmth baked the Great Plains, and is now expanding over the flood-soaked ground of the Midwest and Northeast, drenched by record precipitation over the winter and spring. That added moisture is creating the uniquely dangerous heat wave hitting the East Coast.

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/07/21/274859/limbaugh-the-killer-116-heat-index-is-manufactured-by-the-government/

So what happens when his mindless listeners take him seriously and fail to heed the warnings?

[provis99]

1. I guess he should tell them to turn off their air conditioners.

I'm sure plenty of them would do it if Rush said so. that would have the happy coincidence of reducing the number of brain-dead dittoheads in America after they die of heat exhaustion.

[The Doctor.]

8. Well, he's already helping to eradicate many species...

Losing the Homo-Cranialintroanus won't be a big loss. Unfortunately, we really should advocate for saving the species. Not that they should be preserved, just given the chance to evolve.

[yankeeswin]

22. Even better

Rush could tell his listeners that Obama said to turn on their air conditioners.
We'd be done with the teabaggers in about 24 hours.

[Cool Logic]

2. ‘Manufactured By The Government..?’ It's the middle of the summer, it's supposed to be hot.

[The Doctor.]

6. This is different.

Do you understand the point of the heat index?

[Cool Logic]

12. Sure, it is something that was concocted by TV weathermen to make the news of the weather

more dramatic.

Stay tuned for more exciting news.

[The Doctor.]

13. Wow. You actually have no idea, do you?

The 'Heat Index' was not 'concocted by TV weathermen.'

Mere temperature readings do not factor in the human body, which reacts to more than just temperature. The Heat Index takes humidity into account due to it's effect on our cooling system. As the temperature rises, humidity becomes more serious due to the air's diminished ability to absorb evaporated perspiration. The body doesn't cool by sweating, it cools by having the sweat evaporate, thereby taking the excess heat with it. The warmer it gets, the more a body needs perspiration to evaporate into the air. The higher the humidity, the less a body is able to shed excess heat.

Unfortunately, there are plenty of people who can't or won't understand basic physiology and physics. That is why a simple 'Heat Index' was designed to convey the danger of hot and humid weather.

Would I be hoping for too much for you to have now learned what it actually is?

[Cool Logic]

15. Now I know why they have that sarcasm thingy...

Some people take things waaaaay too seriously.

[The Doctor.]

20. You very much came across without a hint of sarcasm.

I take it you understand what a massive piece of shit Limbaugh is for telling his listeners to ignore the warnings.

[EOTE]

14. "Yield" and "Stop" signs are also just a conspiracy created by the liberal media.

You can safely ignore them, they're just for the chicken littles out there. They're not meant for rugged individualists like you and me.

[Cool Logic]

17. See #15...

:hi:

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. You do realize this goes back a LONG time, like seventy

Years long time, right?

[Cool Logic]

18. Yes I do...

But it is funny to me the way TV weathermen use it.:)

[The Doctor.]

21. What 'way' is that?

Seriously, how do they improperly employ it?

[Cool Logic]

23. I would tell you a story about the rooftop weatherman in my area...

but you don't appear to have much of sense of humor.

[The Doctor.]

24. Hahaha! That was hilarious!

Now by all means... indulge.

[The Doctor.]

3. Seriously DU... would anyone here feel badly

If any of his listeners died because of his negligence and ignorance?

I'd really have a hard time having sympathy, but I'd still blame that fat asshole.

[SteveG]

10. I was thinking much the same

thoughts. Let his listener's follow his advice, fewer listeners......

[OwnedByFerrets]

4. I'm biting my tongue to not be nasty concerning the lemmings

[The Doctor.]

5. I don't want any of the idiots to die....

But if any of them did, their families could and should sue the living fat fuck out of that piece of human garbage.

[unkachuck]

7. "So...

...what happens when his mindless listeners take him seriously and fail to heed the warnings?"

....maybe the naturally-selected fittest survivors will load their shotguns, hunt him down and eat him....

[MadMaddie]

9. Stupid drival....

He says this while he sits his ass in air conditioned mansion.

[The Doctor.]

11. He's of the sort that believes

that his money will keep him insulated from all the damage he helps to expedite.

For a while, he will be, drivel and all.

[reformist2]

19. He wouldn't last 15 minutes in Miami without AC.