Here is asomething interesting
http://defendingcontending.com/2009/02/16/baal-worship-then-and-now/
Thanks for the link to the article. The author has quite an extensive discussion on this very thing, yet with much detail as he outlines that Baalism was a form of what we would call environmentalism BC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRzguofNq7I.