Global Warming / Climate Change - The New Religion
Firstly, let me apologise to my friends who are environmentalists. I'm not trying to offend you, just wanna get this off my chest. Environmentalists get really upset with me when I say that Climate Change (a.k.a. Global Warming) is a religion, complete with: selling indulgences and tithing (Carbon Credits and taxes); Prophets (scientists, politicians, media executives and just plain old devotees) who lambaste the nay-sayers and critics; sermons (usually lavishly catered gatherings by invitation only so that there are no nay-sayers there, and paid for by the uninvited masses); Bibles ("An Inconvenient Truth", UN Agenda 21, blogs, websites, not to mention Government, UN, and NGO handbooks); the religious fervor that believers exhibit when their worldview comes into question; Miracles are a little different, they aren't 'good things' they're the 'bad signs' that affirm their belief i.e. Hurricane (actually it was a storm) Sandy, Katrina, etc,...