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Here's Rush using blather to promote his personal hatred towards science.

from Rush's book -The Way Things Ought to Be ( 155-157): "Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines spewed forth more than a thousand times the amount of ozone-depleting chemicals in one eruption than all the fluorocarbons manufactured by wicked, diabolical and insensitive corporations in history.... Mankind can't possibly equal the output of even one eruption from Pinatubo, much less 4 billion years' worth of them, so how can we destroy ozone?"

The Truth: "Chlorine from natural sources is soluble, and so it gets rained out of the lower atmosphere," the journal Science explained (6/11/93). "CFCs, in contrast, are insoluble and inert and thus make it to the stratosphere to release their chlorine."

Science also noted that chlorine found in the stratosphere-- where it can eat away at Earth's protective ozone layer--is always found with other byproducts of CFCs, and not with the byproducts of natural chlorine sources.

"Ozone depletion is real, as certain as Neil Armstrong's landing on the moon," Dr. Sherwood Rowland, an atmospheric chemist at the University of California at Irvine, told Extra!. "Natural causes of ozone depletion are not significant."

Can scientists file a lawsuit against Rush for lying about science?

I don't know, but I do know this ... if anyone tried to ... my fellow Christian Conservatives would surely rise up and say "WE DEMAND THE RIGHT TO BE LIED TO ... AND RUSH LIMBAUGH (among others) SERVES OUR PURPSE!"

LOL!!!

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