Limbaugh protested the heavy cable TV news coverage of Irma was some sort of propaganda for the reality of global warming and its adverse effects, including on the frequency and intensity of hurricanes.
But Irma is the biggest and strongest Atlantic hurricane in history and on the edge of being the most destructive in history.
Florida is about to get stomped from bottom to top.
Limbaugh Leaves Palm Beach Home After Downplaying Hurricane Irma
On Tuesday, Limbaugh said that he wasn’t a meteorologist, but rather the “go-to-guy” in his circles for hurricane advice.
He painted the storm’s early forecasts as a grand conspiracy between local retailers and media, meteorologists and public officials hungry to sell the public on the reality of climate change.
“Because you have people in all of these government areas who believe man is causing climate change, and they’re hell-bent on proving it, they’re hell-bent on demonstrating it, they’re hell-bent on persuading people of it,” he said of the latter group.
He added later: “Another thing I’ve found, folks, these storms, once they actually hit, are never as strong as they’re reported.”
As for me, even on MSNBC and CNN, I have heard at most one or two brief references to climate change, and I have had the tube on cable news for many long hours every day.
But three days later, the shock jock changed his tune.
Limbaugh announced Thursday that he would be off-air the following day.
“I’m not going to get into details, because of the security nature of things, but it turns out that we will not be able to do the program here tomorrow,” he said.
“We’ll be on the air next week, folks, from parts unknown.”
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