Those who worship the god of global warming are playing into the hands of CO2-emission profiteers.

Examiner Bio Climate-change movement pays homage to false god of global warming
January 4, 2:32 PMSeminole



Those who worship the god of global warming are playing into the hands of CO2-emission profiteers.


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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