Marc Marano, ClimateDepot.com, enjoys himself while identifying the thin-skinned and prickly Michael Mann of Global Warming/Penn State as a ferocious fool who is now claiming to sue a YouTube satire of Michael Mann as a tree-killing greenie. The collapse of the cap and trade bill in the US Senate is entirely a result of the Climategate scandal. Entirely. Marano and others have done a superb job making the sour-puss characters of the Global Warm Team appear human-sized and winningly misguided, like the Snow White dwarf Grumpy. Mann and his colleague Phil Jones of East Anglia, along with the whole of the Climategate/James Hansen/IPCC posse, need sunny vacations and a seminar session on the art of the ridiculous.
Man-made ‘global warming’ has assumed the status of a state religion for many Americans. Michael Mann is one of its high priests; Al Gore is pope. It fills the need of some to identify some part of themselves with the eternal, which was dashed when TIME magazine announced that God was dead. The new religion comes complete with sins (littering); sacraments; (abortion); proselytizing; dietary rules; salvation and apocalypse. The key here is ‘man-made’. It links devotees directly with the godhead. As such, thousands of strictures are observed and rituals performed in the hope of mitigating the original sin of audacious existence. Non-believers are looked down on as heretics.
The rise of this religion has followed a well trodden path. Our educational system has been used to indoctrinate - much like the madrassahs of Pakistan and Yemen. There is a militant element that stems from the uncertainty arising from the fear of unmasking. For the moment, believers can take comfort in the knowledge that their president is one of them – as it should be. It is they who installed him to the highest office in the land.
Obama too is a disciple. He represents the religion’s political arm. As long as he holds on to political power they are safe. The fact that ‘global warming’ has been exposed as a hoax holds no sway. Many books have been written questioning the authenticity of the historical Jesus. Still, Christians believe and will continue to do so.
‘Global warming’ devotees do not necessarily delude themselves even if it were to come out that every scrap of science supporting it is proven false. They have put aside reason. For them it’s an article of faith; a shorthand for the human condition as they perceive it. They believe in the fallen man for whom there can be no redemption. They believe in the apocalypse in which all is destroyed – unless they can convince (or force) the others (those who were not chosen) to adopt what they deem as right.
The earth is their God. Their leaders are priests. Should any one of these be shamed or in any way diminished by infidels, they will run and sharpen their knives. Should one of their oracles be killed, it will be said he was martyred.
The rank and file is not the problem. They are delusional and weak. It is those who use them to fulfill their own tyrannical ambitions; those who send them out on crusades and suicide missions who must be closely watched.
‘Global warming’ is here to stay. So far, it has defied the separation of church and state. So far, its growth has been spurred without raising suspicion. The danger to the rest of us should have become apparent by the reluctance to let it pass; to give it up; to persist as if the University of East Anglia e-mails had never been made public. Even now, the U.S. government is pursuing cap and trade legislation. Something else is behind it. Too much has been invested in this hoax to stop it dead in its tracks. And yet, it’s only a part of a far greater hoax (that started with Marx), one more attuned to human greed and the lazy desire to control everything.
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I wish I could believe the collapse of the disasterous cap-and-destroy was due entirely and solely to Climategate. Hell, I wish I could believe it was a collapse, and permanent. Economist, New Scientist, Science, Nature, NPR - all continue to prop up the junk science with weekly if not daily stories on how the entire Western world must press on with economic suicide anyway. Today, a cheery little number from Science on how just because the earth's atmosphere is absorbing more energy than previously thought, and it doesn't seem to be doing much in combination with CO2, doesn't mean anything because the deep oceans are heating up! And as JoNova reminds, the AGW people got all the money any this struggle. Economically and politically, Climategate is still a fringe story.
It appears that Graham's tirade has put climate-induced economic suicide is back on the Senate agenda.
Is Graham laying the groundwork for a run in 2012?
I'm a Nittany Lion Alum.
Why, Mr. Mann? Why?
He's no Joe Paterno.
Fustian enviro-prigs at WH and EPA could barely conceal their joy at announcing the end to the Dims' version of "Drill! Drill! Drill!" at their full-court press conferences today. Meanwhile they are moving to shut down the coal mines in the name of some faux safety issues after a couple of accidents. Their plan to hoist the American economy on the petard of boutique energy is proceeding apace. Where's the Good Guys' plan? Lodged firmly in the vain hope that flimsy Climategate will save their agenda.