Global Warming Is a Religion

Townhall.com ^ | January 13, 2010 | Walter E. Williams

[Kaslin]

Manmade global warming, for many, is an Earth-worshipping religion. The essential feature of any religion is that its pronouncements are to be accepted on the basis of faith as opposed to hard evidence. Questioning those pronouncements makes one a sinner. No one denies that the Earth's temperature changes. Millions of years ago, much of our planet was covered by ice, at some places up to a mile thick, a period some scientists call "Snowball Earth." Today, the Earth is not covered by a mile of ice; a safe conclusion is that there must have been a bit of global warming. I don't know the cause of that warming, but I'd wager everything I own that it was not caused by coal-fired electric generation plants, incandescent light bulbs and SUVs tooling up and down the highways.

The very idea that mankind can make significant parametric changes to the Earth has to be the height of arrogance. How about a few questions because temperature is just one characteristic of the Earth. The Earth's orbit is another. If all 6.5 billion of us, all at once, started jumping up and down for a little while, do you think we'd change the Earth's orbit or rotation? Do you think mankind could change the direction and timing of the ocean's tides? Is there anything that mankind can do to stop or start a tsunami or hurricane? You say, "Williams, it's stupid to suggest that mankind could change the Earth's orbit or rotation, ocean tides or cause or stop a tsunami or hurricane!" You're right and it's also stupid to think that mankind's activities can make globalized changes in the Earth's temperature.

Nonetheless, there is much at stake in getting people to subscribe to the global warming religion. There is so much at stake that some scientists, using government grants, are fraudulently manipulating climate data and engaging in criminal activity, as revealed in what has been called "Climate gate." One of the most dangerous features of the global warming religion is its level of intimidation of heretics or would-be heretics.

A few years back, Dr. Heidi Cullen, the Weather Channel's climatologist, advocated that the American Meteorological Society (AMS) strip their seal of approval from any TV weatherman expressing skepticism about the predictions of manmade global warming. Scott Pelley, CBS News "60 Minutes" correspondent, compared skeptics of global warming to "Holocaust deniers." Former Vice President Al Gore called skeptics "global warming deniers." But it gets worse. On one of her shows, Dr. Cullen featured columnist Dave Roberts, who, in his Sept. 19, 2006, online publication, said, "When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards -- some sort of climate Nuremberg."

As a result, many climatologists have been intimidated into silence. That means the public is not informed about counter-alarmists facts such as: Over long periods of time, there is absolutely no close relationship between C02 levels and temperature. Humans contribute approximately 3.4 percent of annual C02 levels compared to 96.6 percent by nature. There was an explosion of life forms 550 million years ago (Cambrian Period) when CO2 levels were 18 times higher than today. During the Jurassic Period, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, CO2 levels were as much as nine times higher than today. Contrary to what educators are brainwashing our children with, polar bear numbers increased dramatically from around 5,000 in 1950 to as many as 25,000 today, higher than any time in the 20th century.

Political commentator Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) warned that "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." That's the political goal of the global warmers.

[SkyPilot]

Did your read about how the liberal earth worshiping pagans are suicidal and depressed after viewing the movie Avatar?

(CNN) -- James Cameron's completely immersive spectacle "Avatar" may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.

There is a point in the movie where it asks the audience to "experience" the pagan goddess who is their mother earth.

Without a firm foundation in God, people's souls can be subjected to all kinds of deception. Satan works in clever ways.

There is no doubt in my mind the liberal "Global Warming" crowd is enslaved in a pagan cult. But we need to think beyond that fact: what does it mean when you are enslaved by demonic powers? What affect does that have on your life and behavior?

The analysis of that is truly eye opening and frightening.

[poetknowit]

AL GORE, THE 5TH HORSEMAN

[Dan(9698)]

AL GORE, THE 5TH HORSEMAN

The back third.

[Kaslin]

Just reading this sends a chill down my spine

[Bobalu]

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Thanks for the heads up on this article, I had missed it. Walter Williams has a very CLEAR way of stating his position. This has always been my personal position on GW ... he says it so well.

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The Patriot's Flag

[Chode]

church of the poisoned mind...

[G Larry]

“When we’ve finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we’re in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards — some sort of climate Nuremberg.”

So, when do we start the trials for these frauds, given the global cooling we’re experiencing?

[steelyourfaith]

Global Warming as Religion:

• Global Warming Ruled a Religion by British Judge
• Climate change belief given same legal status as religion
• Global Warming Affords Same Legal Status as Religion in UK
• British Judge Rules Global Warming Belief is Like a Religion That Can be Discriminated Against
• Judge rules activist's beliefs on climate change akin to religion
• Political Corruption Equivalent to Religion, according to British Judge
• It's Getting Cold Out There (global warming religion)
• Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites
• Global warming is the new religion for idiots
• Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites...
• 60 German Scientists Dissent Over Global Warming Claims! Call Climate Fears 'Pseudo 'Religion'
• "Environmentalism Is the New Religion" - Ian Plimer
• Losing Their Religion: 2009 officially declared year media lost their faith in global warming fears
• Its Official: A New Religion Is Born. Environmetalism
• Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites
• United Nations Green Religion squeezing Jesus out of the House of God
• Crucifix out, warming in (EU adopts Global Warming as new religion)
• Are Socialism/Statism and Global Warming Religion Forms of Sado-Masochism?
• "They Don't Care, but We Do" and "Global Warming: The Quasi Religion"
• Czech President Klaus: Global Warming Not Science, but a 'New Religion'
• Czech President Klaus: Global Warming Not Science, but a 'New Religion'
• Environmentalism - Today's New Religion
• Global Warming: The Religion that Failed
• I Will Definitely Call It A Religion
• Global Warming Is a Religion
• OpiniPundit: The Religion of Global Warming Takes Another Hit

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Ecotard kooks from a denomination of the Church of the Warming Globe want you to become "very happy" by sending them a donation (I'm not making this reality-reflecting-parody up):

 

The Regeneration Project
and the Interfaith Power and Light campaign
"A religious response to global warming"
Donate and feel "very happy" about your life.

[BearArms]

Like any religion, the AGW church has its high priests (the UN climatologists), it's sin (carbon footprints), and it's indulgences (carbon credits). It's also got its own doomsday prophecy (the Earth will heat dramatically over the next 100 years, causing disaster), which is issued by its high priests to instill fear and guilt in the populace, which, in turn, is then fleeced through taxation and regulation in order to be absolved of its transgressions.

The fantastic claims made by the church's priests are offered with little or no actual evidence, just an assurance that we should "trust" in them because they have authority. If this isn't a religion, then I don't know what is.