I remember as a child reading about the dark ages, and being glad I was born in an age of reason. Sad to see mankind reverting to mindless superstition.
They know a couple of things. One, that 350 is the most important number in the world — as NASA scientists put it two years ago, if carbon in the atmosphere exceeds 350 parts per million we can’t have a planet “similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted.” And the bad news is we’re already too high — the air holds 390 parts per million CO2. That’s why the Arctic is melting and the sea rising.
– Bill McKibben
350 ppm is a number which Hansen pulled out of his nether regions. There is no scientific basis for it.
Is that a drawing of Giordano Bruno?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno#Imprisonment.2C_trial_and_execution.2C_1592.E2.80.931600
“There is no scientific basis for it.”
But there is a religious basis for it. Warmism, is a close knit pseudo-scientific group of individuals with god complexes. Unlike ordinary individuals, these people seek each other out and group very quickly to block dissent. Global warming was only successful on a first mover basis, later, when the doctrine was examined did the science fall apart. There will be several more reincarnations of these same pseudo scientists in various environmental guises in years to come. Being heard is far more important than being right. Hansen has to be heard, Mann needs recognition, Gore needs to swindle.
Hansen = The False Prophet; Mann = The Beast, Gore = The Money Changer, perhaps?