The new-age faith of the hysterics (By Wes Pruden--debunking "global warming")

The Washington Times ^ | Feb. 20, 2007 | Wes Pruden

[seanmerc]

The good news is that we were supposed to all be dead by now, done in by SARS, AIDS or bird flu. The bad news is, now we can be cooked medium-rare by global warming. Or not. The jury on global warming is still out -- the jurors are snowbound -- and this seriously frustrates the folks who imagined they had the jury well rigged. (Al Gore comes to mind.) Global warming has become the catechism of a new-age religion, with Mr. Gore as its topmost prelate, entitled to cassock, miter, incense and hot holy water. Anyone who dissents risks a session on the rack, as we have lately seen in calls for punishing "deniers." President Chirac of France, eager to poke a finger in the eye of an American, even proposes a Europewide "carbon tax" on anything imported into Europe from nations that have not signed the Kyoto treaty, i.e., the United States. So intense has the zealotry become, in fact, that a holy man from a long-established rival faith issued a warning over the weekend from Australia, where he observed that a NASA satellite reckons that the bottom half of the globe is not warming at all. Thickening ice caps at the South Pole suggests it might even be cooling. "We have been subjected to a lot of nonsense about climate disasters as some zealots have been painting extreme scenarios to frighten us," says Cardinal George Pell, the archbishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Sydney. "They claim ocean levels are about to rise spectacularly, that there could be the occasional tsunami as high as an eight-story building, the Amazon basin could be destroyed as the ice cap in the Arctic melts.

[kellynch]

I look forward to Wes Pruden's columns.

[lormand]

Thanks.

This article hits the nail on the head.

[NRA1995]

I still remember the Newsweek article about global cooling in the 70's. Solutions were to either nuke the polar ice caps or to cover them in soot or black paint so they'd melt more quickly and stop global cooling.

[Tolik]

Another good one on Global Warming Religion.

[xcamel]

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[bcsco]

I still remember the Newsweek article about global cooling in the 70's.

Check it out here...http://denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm

There's also a link to a PDF file of the original article.

[olezip]

Global warming has become the catechism of a new-age religion, with Mr. Gore as its topmost prelate, entitled to cassock, miter, incense and hot holy water.

Yes, but did not Al Gore flunk out of divinity school?

[Excellence]

bfl

[Caleb1411]

Global warming has become the catechism of a new-age religion, with Mr. Gore as its topmost prelate, entitled to cassock, miter, incense and hot holy water.

Yes, but did not Al Gore flunk out of divinity school?

The First Church of Global Warming's Seminary accommodates its seminarians with mail-order divinity degrees. Cut-rate "deity," cut-rate priests.

[Publius6961]

"Deniers" BUMP!

[JZelle]

" ...Weather, after all, is a story of averages, and averages can mislead. A man with one foot in a bucket of ice and the other in the fire is, on average, warm."

LOL!