I have often compared global warming alarmism to a religious faith, as in this blogpost noting that some GW alarmists were calling for executions of “global warming deniers.” But now I find, in this article by Irwin Stelzer in the Examiner’s sister publication The Weekly Standard, that a British court has ruled that global warming alarmism—not the judge’s term—qualifies for protection under the 2003 Religion and Beliefs Regulation. Here’s Stelzer’s account:
“. . . the British courts this month accorded believers in climate change all of the rights the law extends to practitioners of any religion. Ruling in a case in which a man alleges that he was dismissed as “head of sustainability” for a real estate firm because of his ecological beliefs; the court held, ‘A belief in man-made climate change and the alleged moral imperatives is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religious and Beliefs Regulation.’
Let us pray.
