Dec 26 2007
Secular Fundamentalists
Tim, who desperately needs his own blog, passes along this excerpt from Cal Thomas’ piece at Townhall.com. It captures the essence of the man-induced global warmening business and advises us to follow the old axiom ‘follow the money.’ The piece also cuts to the essential point that climate change has clearly become it’s own evangelical/fundamentalist religion, albeit one that is desperate for a savior.
You don’t have to be religious to qualify as a fundamentalist. You can be Al Gore, the messiah figure for the global warming cult, whose followers truly believe their gospel of imminent extermination in a Noah-like flood, if we don’t immediately change our carbon polluting ways.
One of the traits of a cult is its refusal to consider any evidence that might disprove the faith. And so it is doubtful the global warming cultists will be moved by 400 scientists, many of whom, according to the Washington Times, “are current or former members of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Mr. Gore for publicizing a climate crisis.” In a report by Republican staff of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, these scientists cast doubt on a “scientific consensus” that global warming caused by humans endangers the planet.
The pro-global warming cultists enjoy a huge money advantage. Paleoclimate scientist Bob Carter, who has testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, noted in an EPW report how much money has been spent researching and promoting climate fears and so-called solutions: “In one of the more expensive ironies of history, the expenditure of more than $50 billion (US) on research into global warming since 1990 has failed to demonstrate any human-caused climate trend, let alone a dangerous one,” he wrote on June 18, 2007. The $19 million spent on research that debunks the global warming faith pales in comparison.
Like most cultists, the true believers struck back, not by debating science, but by charging that a small number of the scientists mentioned in the report have taken money from the petroleum industry. A spokeswoman for Al Gore said 25 or 30 of the scientists may have received funding from Exxon Mobile Corp. Exxon Mobile spokesman Gantt H. Walton dismissed the accusation, saying, “the company is concerned about climate-change issues and does not pay scientists to bash global-warming theories.”
December 28th, 2007 at 13:40 pm
Even the French are getting on the side of sanity:
French scientist calls Gore a ‘crook’ and his followers ‘religious zealots’…
From Drudge
January 4th, 2008 at 17:28 pm
Yeah. It’s funny that the Religious Left has adopted Global Warming as sacred engine for social activism. They tend to be just as dogmatic and intolerant of those that disagree with their diagnosis and prescription for global salvation (which happen to conincide with Gore and the U.N.) as the Religious Right is when it comes to their agendas.
January 4th, 2008 at 19:37 pm
Christian,
Does that validate the notion that there is a God-shaped void inside everyone? People tend to fill that void with whatever comes to hand.