“I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt not have strange gods before Me.” – First Commandment
The Church of Global Warming (a.k.a. the Church of CO2 Emissions), which has converted many a true believer over the past few decades, is facing a Reformation of sorts. Its pews are beginning to empty as snow-bound and shivering skeptics increasingly question its once-unchallenged doctrines.
Still, many millions of worshipers remain faithful to the religion’s man-is-warming-the-earth theology – a belief system based on demonstrably fraudulent science and false prophecy.
In the face of overwhelming scientific evidence that the earth is now cooling – not warming – why do so many cling to their Greenhouse God while denouncing CO2 as the planetary Satan? Why do they continue to recite chapter and verse from necromancer Al Gore’s Bible of Inconvenient Truth?
Have the good disciples not read or seen the mountain of real-world evidence that belies the pronouncements of the High Priests of Mother Earth? Are they so in thrall to their environmental gospel that they have abandon reason?
The answer, regrettably, is yes. As Caroline May of BigGovernment.com notes, Warmist worship is rooted not in facts, but in “blind adherence to an unproven principle”:
“This unquestioned adherence to the theory of Global Warming bears all the markings of what traditionally would be recognized as a religion. Complete with sin (the emitting of carbon dioxide), scriptures (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment reports), commandments (drive a Prius, use Compact Florescent Light bulbs, do not eat meat etc.), indulgences (carbon offsets), proselytism, prophets (Al Gore), priests (scientists), prophecy and apocalypse (floods, hurricanes, dead polar bears), infidels (Warming skeptics), and salvation (the halting of carbon emitting industrial progress) . . . .”
Those who argue that the sun is largely responsible for climate change are branded as heretics, just as Galileo was condemned by church authorities for claiming the earth revolves around the sun. The sun’s impact on earth’s climate is huge compared to that of human beings – a fact well understood by most climate scientists and solar physicists. But green theologians and their flock of well-meaning, but misguided, believers ignore or downplay the sun’s dominant role. Instead, they blame humans in the most apocalyptic language.
As columnist Don Feder notes, the new Church of Mother Earth, is rooted in the secular doctrines of Marxism. It is a quasi-religion that promises to take adherents to the Promised Land of "rigid control, central planning, rationing, pre-industrial living standards and flagellation to purge us of our sins."
The late Michael Crichton, a celebrated author who penned Jurassic Park and several other best-selling novels, condemned the religious-like aspects of environmentalism as far back as 2003 in a speech to San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club:
“Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism,” Crichton observed. “Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists . . . a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths.
“There’s an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there’s a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions there is a judgment day coming for us all. We are all energy sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability.”
Some of the biggest critics of the church of eco-theology are scientific experts, many of whom are ostracized and treated by fellow researchers as apostates – “unbelievers” and “deniers.”
According to Dr. Richard Lindzen, professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “We are shifting away from science and into the realm of religious fanaticism, where the followers of the creed, brimming with self-righteous fury, believe that they are in possession of a higher truth.
“Like a religion, environmentalism is suffused with hatred for the material world and again, like religion, it requires devotion rather than intellectual rigor from its adherents.
“It is intolerant of dissent; those who question the message of doom are regarded as heretics, or 'climate change deniers', to use green parlance.
“And, just as in many religions, the route to personal salvation lies in the performance of superstitious rituals, such as changing a light bulb or arranging for a tree to be planted after every plane journey.”
Even Czech President Vaclav Klaus has taken a verbal swipe at the new eco-creed, calling the global warming movement a “new religion.”
“I'm convinced that after years of studying the phenomenon, global warming is not the real issue of temperature . . . This is a religion which tells us that the people are responsible for the current, very small increase in temperatures. And they should be punished,” Klaus said. “They [global warmists] will try to dictate to us how to live, what to do, how to behave.”
The rigid strictures of eco-worship don’t leave much room for fun. Virtually everything one does is sinful – traveling during holidays (especially if it involves plane travel), driving your car, having a comfortable temperature in your home, using incandescent light bulbs, leaving the phone charger plugged in, idling in the school parking lot, driving instead of walking or bicycling to the corner store, using the fireplace, and on and on. The new eco-doctrine demands that everyone – believers and unbelievers – must endure a living Purgatory on earth so Polar Bears can procreate in greater numbers and Greenlanders can remain comfortably frozen.
As John Brignell writes, “The eleventh commandment for the killjoys is ‘Thou shalt not have fun,’ and global warming provides a delightful playground for them.”
But don’t dare complain about or challenge the anti-carbon creed. Those who defy the religious order are branded apostates and eternally damned – or worse.
Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Canada received five death threats after publicly challenging the man-causes-global-warming doctrine.
"I can tolerate being called a skeptic because all scientists should be skeptics, but then they started calling us deniers, with all the connotations of the Holocaust. That is an obscenity. It has got really nasty and personal."
In recent years, the green religion has filtered into the ecclesiastical realm where it has found a sympathetic ear. Britain’s Archbishop of Canterbury is one of several godly potentates to cloak himself in the vestments of green and preach eco-sermons to his flock.
According to a story in London’s Daily Mail, the archbishop “urged people to recycle their rubbish and cut down on air travel . . . He also called for people to ‘go out of doors in the wet from time to time’ and take chances to watch the changing of the seasons in order to ‘restore a sense of association with the material place and time and climate we inhabit and are part of.’”
And in a Twilight Zone moment, a British judge recently ruled in favor of a worker who claimed he was unfairly dismissed from his job at a property management firm for expressing his concerns about man-made global warming to his fellow employees.
As Chuck Colson of Breakpoint.org reported, “The judge’s ruling opens the door to the possibility of employees suing their employers ‘for failing to account for their green lifestyles, such as providing recycling facilities or offering low-carbon travel.’”
Tragically, the environmental movement has become the gathering place for a growing assemblage of Gaia worshipers, neo-pagans, animists, wiccans and eco-magic believers – most of them neither interested in nor possessing an understanding of the complex scientific principles that drive climate change. The true mystics among them have turned from saving the polar bears to embracing a belief in fairies, pixies, gnomes, elves and other spirits of nature.
The groups pushing the global warming religion the hardest are those who stand to profit most from the evolving carbon-trading market. They are religious only in their worship of Almighty Wealth, and they plan to make a killing from the global warming scare through carbon trading.
Carbon-trading offsets are similar to the medieval indulgences of old – pardons granted by the church for sinful behavior. As Alexander Cockburn writes:
“The Roman Catholic Church was a bank whose capital was secured by the infinite mercy of Christ, Mary, and the Saints, and so the Pope could sell indulgences, like checks. The sinners established a line of credit against bad behavior and could go on sinning. Today a world market in ‘carbon credits’ is in formation. Those whose ‘carbon footprint’ is small can sell their surplus carbon credits to others, less virtuous than themselves.”
This carbon-trading scheme – and lots of investment money – is the driving force behind the global warming hysteria. Dirty, polluting humans must be convinced that global-government control of CO2 emissions is their salvation – even if destroys industry and reduces the world to peasantry.
A great effort is underway to avoid blaming climate change on the sun – and for good reason: It is impossible to enact an international treaty to control the sun’s magnetic activity. If the sun, not human-generated atmospheric CO2, is responsible for global warming (and cooling), carbon taxes and a world carbon-trading exchange are pointless. Ergo, there would be no carbon fortunes to made by the CO2 warriors at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citi, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of America-Merrill Lynch.
As Cockburn explains, the relentless demonizing of CO2 by the high priests of global warming is a sham – a deliberate deception. “There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world’s present warming trend," he says.
“The greenhouse fearmongers rely entirely on unverified, crudely oversimplified computer models to finger mankind’s sinful contribution. Devoid of any sustaining scientific basis, carbon trafficking is powered by guilt, credulity, cynicism, and greed, just like the old indulgences . . . .”
“The truth is there is no man-made global warming,” says Capitalism Magazine’s Tom DeWeese. “There's only the scam of an empty global religion designed to condemn human progress and sucker the feeble minded into worldwide human misery.”
Kirk Myers' Examiner column appears several times weekly. To receive alerts when a new article is published, click on the “subscribe” button at the top of the page. Upcoming topics: the carbon-credit game, melting ice caps/sea ice, and "disappearing" polar bears. For a comprehensive look at global warming, see the links to the right.
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If this whole thing wasn't so serious, it would be funny.
Bloody wars have started for religious reasons and I would hate for one to start over unproven manipulated climate change data.
From the people I have talked to there seems to be two camps. Those who have time to do their own research and realise that climate change is not a settled science, and those that don't have time to do the research and believe the authority figures are telling the truth. The biggest enemy as I see it is ignorance coupled with ambivalence. If the majority of the population is like this then who knows what crap the politicians will implement with legislation.
Who do you trust?
My hierarchy of trust goes like this: (1) the least deriving are journalists (TV or print), particularly those without scientific credentials who make appeals based on emotional hot buttons (e.g, references to religion); (2) then most politicians since most work for the benefit of mega/multinational corporations not the American people- but at least we can fire them; (3) information from think/non-think tanks funded by the same people that fund the politicians and many journalists; (4) scientists who get their funding by a highly competitive grant process since they would benefit most by revealing flaws in each other's data and/or data analyses; (5) most of my trust goes to the long-term wisdom of the American people but I am well aware that all of the people can be fooled some of the time, usually by the efforts of first three groups on my list.
All well and good to condeem the "other side" for the way they are condeeming you, but what I can't see in your article is any evidence of the sun being the casue. You state that "a great effort is underway to avoid blaming climate change on the sun...". It would be great if you could provide links to the science that supports that the sun is the cause - I at this time have read a lot of well respected scientific material which says it's not the cause but still have an open mind.
Are you completely stupid, Kirk? The reason those Green bastards are trying to curtail CO2 emissions is not because they want to stop fun but in order to enable it for future generations. The rise in temperature will not only threaten polar bears and unfreeze Greenland, as you wrote about, but will this will in turn cause a rise in sea levels that will wipe certain Small Island States and and other parts of the world - including Amsterdam - off the map. You have to be less biased in your writing if you want intelligent people to listen to you. I could go on but I don't think anyone who actually gives a sh1t reads your awful blog.
Well someone here may completely stupid. I am sure the Puritans had their greater good justifications, as the did the armies of Cromwell and the Prophet (peace be upon him) etc. Your point is dimwitted and you have said nothing to negate the author's claims.
All well and good to condeem the "other side" for the way they are condeeming you, but what I can't see in your article is any evidence of the sun being the casue. You state that "a great effort is underway to avoid blaming climate change on the sun...". It would be great if you could provide links to the science that supports that the sun is the cause - I at this time have read a lot of well respected scientific material which says it's not the cause but still have an open mind.
I do wonder, when I read something like this, exactly what the agenda of such an author really is. There are so many foolish old commentators currently misdirecting their readers who would clearly rather allow unnecessary gambles to be made with our great nation in the vain and selfish hope that they will be able to continue their greedy consumption of natural resources without admitting the fact that this causes genuine degradation to the air, land and water which is connected to it. Forget the politics of the "global warming" debate, anyone who has had more than a precursory glance at the reality of the power generation system should easily be able to see that it is ugly, unfair and unsustainable. With all due respect, Mr Myers, some of the arguments you present above are so primitive as to be laughable and only serve to hold back the needed progress which is called for across the board that will stimulate the economy and provide us energy security for many more generations to come.
Boring! Who listens to this BS nowadays anyway? Do your own research and stop wasting your time with tripe like this!
Boring! Who listens to this BS nowadays anyway? Do your own research and stop wasting your time with tripe like this!
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1. a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
2. a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects: the Christian religion; the Buddhist religion.
3. the body of persons adhering to a particular set of beliefs and practices: a world council of religions.
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This just shows the poor judgment of people who equate religion with science. Yeah, swallow the Bible hook, line, and sinker, but doubt the scientific method and it's product. Frankly, this is why America is in decline. I know, let's be a theocracy like Iran! Let's consult the Bible on global warming!! Let's pray to God for a good job, while voting large tax cuts for the rich (just what Jesus would do, right?).
It has to be said, and you're saying it!!
RIGHT ON!!
Al Gore has made 100 MILLION DOLLARS from this BLATANT FRAUD.
He stands to make BILLIONS with David Blood on the Carbon Exchange they HAVE ALREADY PREPARED FOR LAUNCH.
HE ALREADY BUYS CARBON OFFSETS FROM HIMSELF!!
His is an attempt to fraudulently abrogate the US Constitution and TRANSFER POWER OUTSIDE OF AMERICA'S BORDERS.
If this happens there will NO LONGER BE AN AMERICA TO SPEAK OF. IF THAT HAPPENS, YOU MIGHT AS WELL START A FIRE WITH THE CONSTITUTION, YOU'LL CERTAINLY NEED SOMETHING TO BURN.
Al Gore and all these scientists should be IMMEDIATELY arrested and charged with TREASON.
When you see it like this, you see it all clearly.
I think it is quite possible the people behind this know quite well how temperature fluctuates - that there have been three peaks and valleys in the past century, andit's a regular 30 year cycle.
Though not as predictable as an eclipse, it is still possible to intentionally ride one of these upwards fluctuations with a big environmental scare - just as Inca and Mayan priests used their knowledge of the Sun's ecliptic orbital patterns to pretend a connection to the Gods of their time.
It's a fraud, wholly and completely. Unfortunately for these backward priests of the new religion, God doesn't seem to want to usher in an effective enactment of the Book of Revelations - seeing us all 'chipped' because real cash has been abolished, probably with the excuse that it is spreading flesh eating disease or some such head game.
Sherlock Holmes said it best - "Eliminate the impossible, and what is left, however implausible, MUST be
"Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Canada" ... an outright lie that has been propagated by deniers for the past ten years. The rest of this list are equally dated talking points. Nice to see the USofA catching up on the discussion, tho.
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Kirk -
Very good article. It states what most of us "deniers" have known for a long time . Global warming is the new world religion . I am surprised you did not include Al Gores gushing quotes about the Mother Earth Goddess, in his environ preaching before he became VP . The man is not only lost , but gladly so , happy to worship demons and glad in those that will follow him to .. well, eternal seperation from the God who created climate .
Few seem to see the STRONG aspect of religion in man made global warming apostasy . If ones eyes are opened your article did its job . Thanx - Bill
LOL,the globe is not cooling. The northern hemisphere is because it's winter.
Morons.
Not only does it "seem" like a religion, based on gullible followers faith in false Gods (ie, govt. funded scientists, Bumbling IPCC head with corporations that'll profit, corporations that'll make billions off the "Save the planet" marketing campaign, propagandists in the media. corporate funded activist groups) rather than facts. Al Gore, along with churches and universities is pushing this climate-hysteria quite literally as a religion, complete with prayer.
Go to my website (Apparently I cant post url links) Aprilbaby's California Life or aprilbaby dot typepad dot com and scroll down to my post Prayer and Propaganda and click on the links I have. Creepy!
It appears we still have some GoreBots who got brainwashed by the green zombie dust. Poles melting? Have you checked the latest polar news at http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/. It shows ice levels above the 2007 min. Gore's and Hansen's predictions have fallen flat. They ignore the 500 year lag of the CO2 behind historical temperature increases from the ice cores. AGWers concentrate on areas with extreme heat while ignoring those areas with record cold:
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Selective_Memory.pdf
Islands nations disappearing-not: http://joannenova.com.au/2010/08/south-pacific-sea-levels-no-rise-since-...
People who can't accept the truth from smart people like Kirk can't see the forest for the trees, they soil their green pants over transient, short term climate cycles while ignoring the overall climate picture. They bow before their climate holy men oblivious to reality around them. "Repent oh climate sinner fro thy carbon ways." is the holy green mantra repeated in so many green hymns. They cling to their climate jihads and blow themselves up when confronting the non believers. It's all about the global warming, not the weather or climate change.
Allya Stupidare!
The futility of Mankind trying to control climate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy0_SNSM8kg
On average world temperature is +15⁰C. This is sustained by the atmospheric Greenhouse Effect 33⁰C. Without the Greenhouse Effect the planet would be un-inhabitable at -18⁰C. The Biosphere and Mankind need the Greenhouse Effect.
Just running the numbers by translating the agents causing the Greenhouse Effect into degrees centigrade:
• Greenhouse Effect = 33.00⁰C
• Water Vapour accounts for about 95% of the Greenhouse Effect = + 31.35⁰C
• Other Greenhouse Gasses GHGs account for 5% = ~1.65⁰C
• CO2 is 75% of the effect of all accounting fort the enhanced effects of Methane and Nitrous Oxide GHGs = ~1.24⁰C
• Most CO2 in the atmosphere is natural, more than 93%:
• Man-made CO2 is less than 7% of total atmospheric CO2 = 0.087⁰C:
So closing carbon economies of the Whole World could only ever achieve a virtually undetectable <1/10 ⁰C. How can the Green movement and their supporting politicians think that their remedial actions can limit warming to only + 2.00 ⁰C?
So the probability is that any current global warming is not man-made and in any case such warming could be not be influenced by any remedial action taken by mankind however drastic.
As this is so, the prospect should be greeted with Unmitigated Joy:
• concern over CO2 as a man-made pollutant can be discounted.
• it is not necessary to damage the world’s economy to no purpose.
• if warming were happening, it would lead to a more benign and healthy climate for all mankind.
• any extra CO2 is already increasing the fertility of all plant life and thus enhancing world food production.
• a warmer climate, within natural variation, would provide a future of greater opportunity and prosperity for human development. This has been well proven in the past and would now especially benefit the third world.
Nonetheless, this is not to say that the world should not be seeking more efficient ways of generating its energy, conserving its energy use and stopping damaging its environments. And there is a real need to wean the world off the continued use of fossil fuels simply on the grounds of:
• security of supply
• increasing scarcity
• rising costs
• their use as the feedstock for industry rather than simply burning them.
The French long-term energy strategy with its massive commitment to nuclear power is impressive, (85% of electricity generation). Even if one is concerned about CO2, Nuclear Energy pays off, French CO2 emissions / head are the lowest in the developed world.
However in the light of the state of the current solar cycle, it seems that there is a real prospect of damaging cooling occurring in the near future for several decades.
And now Man-made Global Warming has become a state sponsored religion.
This article is the best article ever written on the whole sordid global warming affair. Well done Mr Myres. Without question Warmism is the new religion of some atheists. Funny how no matter the strength of disbelief in God, the Warmist scientist takes from all other religions the desire to be in "the correct group", a superior group, that has all these religious and god-like features associated with being correct and right all the time.
There is very little difference between superiority complex and religion. Warmism, may be the first collective to bring the two together,
This is an excellent compendium of quotes and facts highlighting the parallels between the AGW movement and conventional religious behaviors.
It has occurred to me that the archaeologically reconstructed behavior of insistence upon sacrafice to the high priests in the ancient Mayan culture to ward off the rath of their gods is also very similar to the behavior we are witnessing in modern politics, which would require extreme individual financial and behavioral offerings to the AGW boogeyman.
I have credentials and experience as an environmental scientist, and I am appalled at the abandonment of scientific objectivity and intellectual honesty seen among the purveyors of the AGW scam. Scientists are like any other human being - they can be tempted to derive the desired results for research sponsors in exchange for the opportunity to pursue their personal scientific goals.
I have adapted the above article to look like this.
Man-made global Warming belief bears the hallmarks of what traditionally would be recognised as a religion.
Ark of the Covenant - (climate computer models)
Commandments - (drive a Prius, use CFL bulbs, do not eat meat etc.)
Heaven - (off-grid, wattle & daub housing)
Hell - (runaway greenhouse warming)
Indulgences - (carbon offsets)
Infidels - (Warming skeptics)
Priests - (climate scientists)
Prophets - (Al Gore, R. Pachauri, James Hansen)
Prophecy - (floods, hurricanes, pestilence)
Salvation - (the halting of carbon emitting industrial progress)
Self-flagellation - (walk to work)
Sin - (Co2 emissions)
Scriptures - (IPCC reports)
Worship - (Monbiot about Pachauri)
or the Guardian and Londborg
Man-made Global warming? No, it's Mann-made Global warming.
So once this farce collapses completely, what are we supposed to do with all the traumatized "useful idiots"?
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