George Will gets awfully close to the truth. Anthropogenic global warming is a science. It is a religion, from the Washington Post:
Last week, Todd Stern, America’s Special Envoy for Climate Change — yes, there is one; and people wonder where to begin cutting government — warned that those interested in “undermining action on climate change” will seize on “whatever tidbit they can find.” Tidbits like specious science, and the absence of warming?
It is tempting to say, only half in jest, that Stern’s portfolio violates the First Amendment, which forbids government from undertaking the establishment of religion.
Hell no, I will not by homage to Al Gore’s religion of the Earth. Will you”
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February 22nd, 2010 at 18:47
Not actually religion or pure science but actually science with a religious aspect.
Regarding AGW he issue is not so much the data but the fact that it mostly over interpreted.
February 23rd, 2010 at 21:57
Not a religion; actually a mass movement “liberal facsism”.
“When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors , shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the actions that follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
“People who see their lives as irremediably spoiled cannot find a worth-while purpose in self-advancement…Their innermost craving is for a new life – a rebirth – or failing this, a chance to acquire new elements of pride, confidence, hope, a sense of purpose and worth by an identification with a holy cause. An active mass movement offers them opportunities for both…†[ Is this Mr. Gore?]
“ It is true that in the early adherents of a mass movement there are also adventurers who join in the hope that that the movement will give a spin to their wheel of fortune and whirl them to fame and power.â€
Eric Hoffer, 1951 – “The True Believer – Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movementsâ€