[The Great RJ]

Unfortunately this voice of reason will be denounced as heresy by the global warming cultists and Coleman will be portrayed as a tool of big oil, the Bush Administration etc. The MSM will also ignore Coleman's letter except in denouncing it. The global warming cult is little different than the earth centered universe model embraced by the Catholic Church in the 15th & 16th centuries. Even in the face of proof by eminent scientists like Bruno, Galileo and others they doggedly held to their erroneous beliefs and sought to use the Inquisition to silence anyone who challenged their orthodoxy.

[Publius6961]

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Fortunately, I become increasingly aware of the large body of truly informed people everywhere who clearly see BS when they are exposed to it

The Religious Wars of the 16th and 17th centuries are a lot more complex than the throwing around emotionally-charged words like "Inquisition" and "Catholic Church". The political dimension of the period was overwhelmingly the driving force in the conflict of the time and the "Church" is a convenient excuse to remain ignorant.

As a tiny example, the fact that Bruno was a priest (as were most of the scientists of the age), and thus firmly in (by today's activists standards) in the homosexuals' enemy camp is not exactly widely known, or considered relevant.

So let's give that old straw man a rest...

[littlehouse36]

Even in the face of proof by eminent scientists like Bruno, Galileo and others they doggedly held to their erroneous beliefs and sought to use the Inquisition to silence anyone who challenged their orthodoxy.

 

Right players, wrong analogy.

 

The Catholic Church neither endorsed heliocentrism (earth orbiting sun) nor geocentrism (sun orbiting earth) because at the time there were only theories and not science. 

 

When Galileo discovered that Jupiter had four moons, he offered this as evidence of heliocentrism.  He was reprimanded not for his conclusion but for his unscientific method in supporting it.  (At the time, astromoner Tycho Brahe offered the more plausible theory of heliocentrism.)  Cardinal Bellarmine admonished Galileo to not teach that the earth moves around the sun unless he could prove it. 

 

So in today's world, it is Gore who is the modern day Galileo and ought to be reprimanded for teaching theory as science.  In fact, Pope Benedict did just that in December 2007.