Even Huffington Post is starting to figure it out.
G.K. Chesterton said that “when people stop believing in orthodox religion, rather than believe in nothing, they will believe in anything”. One of the ersatz religions which fills the void in recent years is belief in Catastrophic Man-Made Global Warming. It claims to be based on science. But it has all the characteristics of an eschatological cult.
It has its own priesthood and ecclesiastical establishment – the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; they alone can interpret its sacred scriptures – the Assessment Reports; it anathematises as ‘deniers’ anyone who casts doubt on its certainties; above all it predicts imminent doom if we do not follow its precepts and make the sacrifices it prescribes.
What most clearly distinguishes the Catastrophic Global Warming cult from science is that it is not refutable by facts. As Parliament enacted the Climate Change Bill, on the presumption that the world was getting warmer, it snowed in London in October – the first time in 74 years. Supporters explained “extreme cold is a symptom of global warming”!
The Met Office – whose climate model is the cult’s crystal ball to forecast centuries ahead – has made a series of spectacularly unreliable short term forecasts: “Our children will not experience snow” (that was 2000, before the recent run of cold winters), a barbecue summer (before the dismal 2011 summer), the drought will continue (last spring before the wettest summer on record). Now they say that rain and floods are the new normal. But – hot or cold, wet or dry – global warming is always to blame.
The Catholic Church can spot a competitor when it sees one. Hence their revised sin list. 😉
““You offend God not only by stealing, blaspheming or coveting your neighbor’s wife, but also by ruining the environment, carrying out morally debatable scientific experiments, or allowing genetic manipulations which alter DNA or compromise embryos,” he said.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/03/11/vatican-adds-seven-new-deadly-sins-including-damaging-environment-and-drug/#ixzz2Wu2J3XiH
“The missionary history of the [Catholic] Church clearly shows her adaptability to all races, all continents, all nations. In her liturgy and her art, in her tradition and the forming of her doctrine, naturally enough she includes Jewish elements, but also elements that are of pagan origin. In certain respects, she has copied her organization from that of the Roman Empire, has preserved and made fruitful the philosophical intuitions of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, borrowed from both Barbarians and the Byzantine Roman Empire—but always remains herself, thoroughly digesting all elements drawn from external sources…In her laws, her ceremonies, her festivals and her devotions, she makes use of local customs after purifying them and “baptizing” them.”
-Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism
The signs of Great Global Warming Religion have been around us all the time.
LOL. A great comment over at HuffPo reposted below:
Holy Mackerel! That’s a notable departure from what the Huffing and Puffington Post normally publishes. I’m not altogether sure that the decision to publish the piece by a conservative isn’t a ‘false flag’ act: reinforce the target audiences prejudices by showing how unreasonable the ‘deniers’ are. But if they did publish in good faith, then mule, meet 2 x 4.
The EU natives are restless. The Pus has begun to leak from Al Goracle, and the Brits are still in their woolens in June. The Kult needs a new crisis.
Like most in the UK, Puffington Host hasn’t realized that Peter Lilly understands a lot of science and can spot a scam a mile away.
An old UK Puffington Host said this about him –
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/10/25/environment-peter-lilly-climate-change-committee_n_2014908.html
So he is a politician of some merit.
What some of our commenters need to realise is that Peter Lilley is not only a member of the UK parliament he studied Physics and Economics in Cambridge. In his early career he was an energy analyst and has held the position of Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. If anyone can see through the CAGW scam it’s Peter Lilley. He knows his science, energy and economics. The fact that this appeared in HuffPo is a sign that things are slowly but surely turning.
I live in hope that it is so.