I guess this will have the scientists in more trouble than the centuries old Christian fight between strict bible believers, and Darwin evolvers.
This issue has become the modern day equivalent to what Darwin faced in the 1860’s!
No, this is EVER so much more serious and potentially damaging than the old 19th Century Science vs. Faith argument you are comparing it to. If anything, THIS time around WE’VE got the science and THEY’VE got the faith.
I see Al Gore as a new breed of apocalyptic messianic pseudo-science demagogue who have bequeathed large parts of the rest of the world, all those who’d like to do us in, or take us down a peg or two, a whole new set of political tools, a new, and totally bogus rhetorical argument, and added an ever changing and more precarious global dynamic
to our dealings with all our antagonists in this issue.
Think of Al Gore and all is followers as the true “End of the World” prophets, which is a job description that previously only fit the MOST extreme and desperate sects of the the major religions, yet constituted some of the Ground Zero foundations for ‘made-up’ religions.
I sense the steam is going out of the entire Global Warming Scare/Scam, but it’s offshoots may have a life of their own, and keep popping up like Whack-a-Mole targets, asking us to consider THEM, even while what we used to think of as Global Warming gets sheepishly put aside, and forgotten about. The entire Global Warming Scam may yet manage to get ancillary or related laws passed, even more costly, even more ludicrous, even more damaging.
Piss-poor analogy, for a number of reasons:
1) In this case, the people currently in power are the ones who are claiming the mantle of science.
2) In this case, the people with the evidence, who are against the dominant paradigm, are not being reviled as "atheists" : they are instead being reviled as in the back pocket of corporate interests.
3) In this case, the people in power are being backed by banking and financial interests, and corporations (who hope to profit directly from the machinations to be put in place -- can you say "Ecomagination at work"?) and Third Worlders and Globalists (who hope to execute a neat takedown of the West, i.e. the United States).
4) In this case, the people with the dominant paradigm started by collecting the actual scientific data and then hiding and suppressing it and twisting it in scientific journals and institutions; not passing on what they claimed to be "revealed truth" from a higher power.
Cheers!