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More evidence that global warming alarmism is a religious cult

By: Michael Barone
Senior Political Analyst
11/08/09 10:42 AM EST

Every so often a sentence you read in a news story catches your eye. Consider this sentence in a November 6 Washington Post story headlined, “Environmental groups at odds over new tack in climate fight.”

"It's a lack of faith in the American public," said Kieran Suckling of the Center for Biological Diversity, an Arizona nonprofit, talking about the light-on-climate ads used by bigger groups. "If the scientists, the environmentalists in our country do their jobs, and explain the test of climate change, the public will come along."
“A lack of faith.” Faith is what religion asks of us. We have confidence in the practical application of scientific theories (think of astronauts in launch phase) but faith in religious dogma (that there will be life after death). And what, by the way, is “the test of climate change.”

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Mike

Nov 8, 2009

"It's a lack of faith in the American public," said Kieran Suckling

couldn't possibly make this stuff up!, "Suckling" spokesperson of some freak enviro-group, life becomes and then surpasses the Onion, and they don't even understand how stupid they look!

profoundmen

Nov 8, 2009

Suckling is just what they are doing with our money.i often wonder about some of these myths.How do we undo all of the trillions of dollars,all of the laws,our schools,on and on.Why would these politicians and other wing nuts follow blindly?But when a scientist that has been studying this for years voices opposition,they call him a crackpot.Think about DDT,Breast implants,and others.

Nov 8, 2009

I have faith that the "mother" ship will come for KS.

publius

Nov 8, 2009

Thanks for today's biggest laugh. The Natl. Academy of Sciences and the academies of the G8 and BRIC nations have all agreed that global warming is real and is a big concern. The debunkers respond with: "What do those dumb scientists know!" I can't think of any instances when those "dumb scientists" have been wrong - they have been right about everything since it was discovered that the earth is not flat and that it is not the center of the universe. But there are still people who think they were wrong about those notions too.

Shanghaied

Nov 9, 2009

Good Shot!

RWinks

Nov 9, 2009

Publius puts out more of the religious dogma of the left. The only "scientists" who agree with this preposterous crap are government funded. There is not one shred of scientific backing for AGW. All of these government funded groups use "models" which give out exactly the results they are programed to yield. The fact they are contradicted by actual measurements, common sense and the laws of thermo dynamics is ignored. Only a rabid religious nut or a self-interested totalitarian would promote this hogwash.

Arne Saknusum

Nov 9, 2009

Al Gore IS Elmer Gantry!

depaz

Nov 9, 2009

I'm sorry, but I can't fathom how we can't get an accurate for TOMORROW's weather, but I'm supposed to believe that science can figure out what's going to happen in the next century.

And we can yell and scream all we want - look how well it worked out re: the health care plan.

torrin123

Nov 9, 2009

WHAT! People are being skeptical?! We cannot allow such thinking to go on! These skeptics must be instilled into internment camps and must be re-educated!

Seriously, the whole global-warming cult is just obnoxious. There's enough science to suggest otherwise, and thanks to a lack of falsifiablity from the cult, the real scientists aren't being listened to.

bobc

Nov 9, 2009

Scientists in the UK were called out a couple of weeks ago, by their papers, as scamming studies, tweaking reports...

It is all about $$$, like everything else....the UN cannot wait till Obama turns over our sovereignty to them and the stealing of more of our money.

IMO, Obama doesn't care one bit about the sovereignty of our Country!

Steve

Nov 9, 2009

Let's get our act together guy. This post confirms the stereotype of the global warming deniers being not especially bright.

Suckling clearly was not asking people to have "faith" in global warming, he was complaining about a lack of faith in people: "It's a lack of faith in the American public," said Kieran Suckling". Regarding global warming itself, he calls on scientists and environmentalists to focus less on jobs and economics and more on the facts of global warming. That is clearly a call for more science, not faith.

It is very frustrating to see valid skepticism about global warming keep getting swept under the rug my mainstream media. Really dumb posts like this are what convince the media that we are just cranks. Come on people, let's stop making fools of ourselves with blatant misinterpretations and start putting our best arguments forward.

Chris Bolts Sr.

Nov 9, 2009

Actually Steve, the operative word in the statement by Kieran, "It's a lack of faith in the American public", is the word "in". The word is used as a vernacular for the word "within", as in the American public has a lack of faith in global warming and climate change, as opposed to the word meaning the lack of faith by the global warming supporters in the American people. So Michael Barone is indeed correct in his assertion about global warming being more of a religion than an actual science.

I happen to agree that the global warming zealots are treating this entire debate more as a Rorschach's Test of pious following than in actual scientific debate. Case in point, publius' response that all of the governing bodies of the world accepted the conclusion that global warming is real. I wonder how he would respond if all the governing bodies concluded that Jehovah was real.

Chris Bolts Sr.

Nov 9, 2009

And just to add more fuel to Michael Barone's argument:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/5016185/Sacked-executive-can-sue-for-unfair-dismissal-over-his-green-beliefs.html

http://www.economist.com/daily/columns/greenview/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14838303&fsrc=nwl

Jared

Nov 9, 2009

Its a lack of faith by the public and a lack of brains in the global warming zombies

Logan

Nov 10, 2009

Just out of curiosity, does anyone here have this counter-proof, as it were?

Wondering

Nov 10, 2009

The only thing you need remember is there is such a thing as global warming and global cooling but not global same. (With or without SUVs and the people that drive them.)

De Vivar.

Nov 10, 2009

AGW is a flawed and now fast becoming a discredited hypothesis.
As the alarmistas grow ever more shrill in their totally over the top condemnation of the climate realists, they further damage their now debunked argument and argument was all it ever was. There never was a consensus of scientists nor was AGW ever a serious threat, cooling would be far more disastrous, a new ice-age is just around the corner, it is just a case of when, enjoy the warmth!

Nov 12, 2009

kieran suckling has long been an activist troublemaker in the southwest, agitating against the cattle industry and supporting the reintruduction of the Mexican grey wolf and trying to categorise it as either a "threatened" or "endangered" species. I fail to see how a species which was extinct for more than a century and is now reintruduced can really be designated as either category. It simply demonstrates the sorts of bogus causes the man thrives among.

Daniel

Nov 28, 2009

profoundmen, Publius, RWinks: Faith is belief without proof—Science is proof regardless of what you believe. A pastor I once had contact with used to say “Science changes but the Bible stays the same,” as if science changing is a bad thing (of course, conservatives are in process rewriting the Bible because it's “too liberal”—I guess all that stuff about feeding the poor and where your treasure is, so is your heart and sell all your possessions, give the money to charity and come follow me is not really what Jesus had in mind). If the standard of accepting science is how it is funded (be it by government grant or Tobacco Industry) then pretty much ALL science is not to be accepted since the vast majority of research is conducted either by government entities of one sort or private industries with financial interests in the outcome—and as far as climate is concerned the actual data is 100% collected by government entities.

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Dec 7, 2009

Well, Publius, who's laughing now that Climate-gate has shown the AGW "scientists" for what they are: propaganda machines? The high priest of AGW --CRU in England -- has been caught rewriting the AGW Bible...and their spokesmen (the news media) are trying to pretend it never happened! It truly is a cult!!!

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Jan 9, 2010

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More evidence that global warming alarmism is a religious cult

By: Michael Barone
Senior Political Analyst
11/08/09 10:42 AM EST