Radio has Rush Limbaugh. FOX has O'Reilly. And CNN? All they could afford is Glenn Beck.
http://www.edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0807/24/gb.01.html GLENN BECK Obama Speaks in Germany; Will Russia Control Oil in the North Pole? Aired July 24, 2008 - 19:00:00 ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. BECK: Coming up, a professor at our beloved Columbia University has invented a device that actually sucks CO2 out of the atmosphere. It cleans the atmosphere of carbon dioxide. Well, you would think that Al Gore and the environmental crowd would be behind this thing 100 percent and be throwing a party. They`re not. Why? Answer, tonight`s "Real Story." (COMMERCIAL BREAK) BECK: We have a lot of authors on this program, but not all of them had sold over 150 million books on their own. Best-selling author, James Patterson`s new book called "The Dangerous Days of Daniel X;" he stops by to tell me about it, coming up in just a second. But, welcome to "The Real Story" first. One of my main points on the global warming crisis has simply been let`s not overreact and do stupid things. If you haven`t noticed we`re overreacting and that usually creates bubbles, and bubbles lead to bursting of bubbles. And let`s take a look to see what happened to the Internet stocks and the real estate market, if you need proof, that`s not a good idea. We don`t need to drop trillions of dollars on new cap in trade or dumb tax schemes. We don`t need short cited ideas like dumping iron ore or now it`s lime into the oceans. The real story is that climate change, just like almost every other problem, can be solved by getting the politicians and the special interest groups out of the way of the entrepreneurs. Politicians, shoo, shoo. People, people, the rich, they are the ones who understand virtually every millionaire in this country made money by solving a problem that seemed insurmountable to others. That`s how the rich got rich. That`s how America became America. We dream. I trust you, not the politicians. [What about the rich environmentalists? AG] Right now in Tucson, Arizona, a Colombia University physicist named Klaus Latner [Lackner. AG] is working on an amazing device. It`s a CO2 scrubber. It could remove one ton of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every single day. Now, you produce about 18 tons of carbon dioxide a year. Could you imagine what this could do? It doesn`t filter out new CO2 from factories, other technology exists to that. This scrubs out existing CO2, which means it has the potential to take us back to pre-industrial age carbon levels without giving up anything; without giving up cars; without turning off our air conditioners or paying some ridiculous amount of our incomes to some new government agency. [Hey Glenn, you financial genius. Who would pay for all the air capture systems? Hank Paulson? AG] The scrubber, which is still in development now, it means that removing one ton of carbon a day is likely just the beginning because it`s still in development. Remember, remember the first computers, we used to watch them, as kids on -- remember Willy Wonka, when he -- I`m now asking the machine where the last Wonka bar is. They`re as big as a house. Even Al Gore understands the technology always gets better, faster and cheaper. In fact, he used this argument himself on "Meet the Press" last weekend. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) AL GORE, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Think about what happened in the computer revolution. That -- we saw cost reductions for silicon computer chips of 50 percent every year and a half for the last 40 years. We`re now beginning to see the same kind of sharp cost reductions as the demand grows for solar cells. (END VIDEO CLIP) BECK: Ok, he`s half right, which is about half as right as he usually is. Gore`s Law doesn`t apply just to solar cells but to all technologies. They get better, and they get cheaper as they approach singularity and then, boom, you`re off to the races, including the CO2 scrubber. Yet, Al Gore is not happy about the CO2 scrubber. Environmental groups are opposed to the idea of a CO2 scrubber. Why is that? In fact, they oppose many of them, any technology that allows us to continue to live with fossil fuels. Hah. It`s almost like somebody on this program has been saying that for quite some time. [I really haven't seen any comments from Gore on air capture and very little from "environmental groups." AG] The truth is climate change is nothing but a smoke screen for what these people really want; and that is power. It`s -- their motivated by greed, money, controlling every single aspect of your life. That is their real agenda. Why don`t the rest of us work on the CO2 problem? Sterling Burnett is the senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis. Sterling, this scrubber, I heard about this, this morning. I can`t believe if the world is really concerned about CO2 that this isn`t on the front page of every single newspaper in America. We should be investing, investors. You want to solve the problem, go invest in this company. STERLING BURNETT, NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS: Well, it`s really out there for a month. It`s been out there for months, they have been talking about it but as you say, nowhere on the front page. The "New York Times" hasn`t covered it. "Washington Post" isn`t covering it. It`s a -- you have to find it on YouTube. I will say "60 Minutes" did a story on it last month. But -- because, as you`ve already rightly identified, Glenn, the environmentalists, and they`re the ones driving the global warming whip, they`re not really concerned about CO2. They`re concerned about people`s lifestyles. They want to control -- they have a vision of the world. And that vision, they continue to live in their pretty nicely appointed houses, and pay more for the cars that make them salve their conscience, and the poor people don`t do that well because their vision is a simpler lifestyle for everyone but them. In the `80s, there was a t-shirt, a group called "Earth First." Had a model called "Back to the Pleistocene" well, they don`t go quite that far, but they really -- it`s about, as you said, controlling how people live. I don`t think it`s not about money. It`s about control. BECK: Ok, you know what I have to tell you, I would invest in this company. I think there`s a lot of people who would invest in this company; or in new technologies. But you don`t -- you don`t trust the people who are fighting the global warming thing. The cleanest energy we can find is nuclear energy. [HAHAHAHAHAHA. AG] They don`t want it. CO2 scrubbers, they don`t want it. BURNETT: Control. BECK: Yes, you don`t trust them, so nobody will invest in this company, and then on the other side of that, you don`t trust government that government is not going to come in and stop that technology. So how do you get yourself out of it as an entrepreneur? [The government is going to stop Lackner from developing air capture? AG] BURNETT: It`s tough as an entrepreneur. I`m not even sure it`s part of a company yet. It`s really in the experimental stage. But the question is, how far will the experiment be allowed to go forward? Because environmentalists are trying actively to stop this; their argument is not that we should remove CO2, but that we should stop using fossil fuels. [Don't need government to stop air capture research. Environmentalists will do it. AG] BECK: Right, I will tell you that we called, and I think well, we hope that they`ll be on the air at some point. They do have a company; I think it`s with the new Wright Brothers, believe it or not. And I have to tell you, we`ll check this company out, and America, if this is true, this is one of the big, huge keys to the global warming problem. And it will open up every door; if that`s the real motivation. BURNETT: There`s a variety of technologies out there. You sort of didn`t like the idea of iron filings in the ocean. I actually think it`s not a bad idea because it does a lot of other things that are good. But Geo-engineering solutions -- proposed solutions have been out there for some time, but they`re always pooh-poohed, they`re always demeaned because they don`t get it what the environmentalists are really about. If you want to reduce CO2 emissions, there are ways to do it that don`t force Americans to sacrifice their lifestyles, that don`t make the poor poorer, that don`t raise energy. BECK: Right, thanks Sterling. By the way, just a note everybody always says that it`s big auto and oil that stopped all this technology. 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