Bob Ellis said ...
I have long said that belief in anthropogenic global warming is a religion for many people. But how can “science” be a religion, you might say? Consider some of the characteristics of what we know as “religion.”
Religion is a belief that may or may not have some foundation or agreement with objective scientific fact, but which at some point requires the exercise of faith in order to fully accept; in fact, it is the aspect of belief in something which cannot be verified by visible, demonstrable proof which a key element of a religion. Religion is also exemplified by the ardor and faith of its adherents. [Racism, The Holocaust, Global System of White Supremacy, Feminism]
The belief that human activity is causing the earth’s global temperature to significantly increase indeed meets the definition of a religion. There are some areas where the theory involves scientific principles, and some limited areas where it is even in harmony with those principles. But ultimately, it is not an establish scientific fact (despite the faith-claims of the high priest Al Gore). It has not been proven that human activity (e.g. the much-maligned use of SUVs, coal power plants, etc.) is causing an increase in global temperature. Computer models designed to predict temperature increases have been revealed as notoriously incapable of accurately predicting temperature variations.
What’s more, there is compelling evidence to the contrary, that any temperature changes on planet earth are natural and cyclic. Scientists repeatedly talk about great fluctuations in the CO2 content and global temperature going back thousands (some claim millions) of years–long before evil capitalism came along to produce SUVs and coal power plants. We know that Greenland–now covered in ice–was once warm enough for the Vikings to colonize and plant vineyards. We know that other planets–even farther out from the sun than Earth–such as Mars and Jupiter are warming (and there are no SUVs or power plants that we know of on those planets, built by capitalists or any other beings, for that matter).
So in light of the lack of serious proof for anthropogenic global warming, and in the face of serious evidence against a man-made cause for global warming, the ardent belief by Al Gore and his disciples seems to easily fall under the definition of “religion.”
6 comments:
look at you...,
ignored on the intrinsic silliness of your non-sequitorial squawking about AGW -
you go shuffling down the street scratching your head and digging in your itchy draws - mumbling on-and-on about that nonsense.
mayyen, PHUK AGW!!!
don't nobody give a rat's ass about that noise...,
and yet,
we still know beyond any shadow of a doubt that there's too gottdayyum many of you humans swarming over the face of earth -
proliferating like an insatiable plague of roaches in a lower east-side tenement apartment.....,
Butler Shaeffer said it even better than this guy Ellis -
The religious nature of the global warming cult also finds expression in the purchase of “carbon offsets,” with which to compensate for excessive CO2 production. This practice has been likened, by some, to the medieval church practice of selling “indulgences.” And like many other religions, this emerging sect has its own version of an apocalypse, with mankind facing a cosmic cataclysm unless we humans end our sinful ways and embrace the secular theology.
To understand the roots of this new religion, one need only go back to the earlier gospel from whence these true believers migrated. It is no coincidence, I believe, that the environmental cult arose at about the same time that the earlier faith in state economic planning was unable to withstand the pragmatic power of the marketplace as the generator of material well-being. Environmentalism provided an alternative vehicle for those whose principal ambition lay in controlling the lives and property of their fellow humans. There was some initial uncertainty expressed over whether we faced an incipient global “cooling” or “warming,” but there was no absence of faith in their underlying cause: to extend coercive control over all of humanity. If you doubt this assessment, consider the common interventionist mindset that has driven both socialist and environmental planners.
ok,
ok,
Mary "pink salt" Magdelen shuffling right along beside you DV,
itchin,
scratchin,
an shoutin..,
makes not a whit of difference with regard to that
vast,
smelly,
narshty,
insatiable,
teeming swarm...,
DV:
You better stop messing with KCNulan's girlfriend's man.
Naomi Wolfe is KCNulan's spiritual adviser.
I get the strange feeling that she don't believe that this is a "Fascist Nation" any longer. She CHANGED on January 20, 2009 win a tingle worked its way up her leg and no one even had to touch her.
Explain the leap of faith in racism.
Gravitation Force is the Ultimate Creator, this paper I presented at the 1st Int. Conf. on Revival of Traditional Yoga, held at The Lonavla Yoga Institute (India), Lonavla, Pune in 2006. The Abstract of this paper is given below:
The Universe includes everything that exists. In the Universe there are billions and billions of stars. These stars are distributed in the space in huge clusters. They are held together by gravitation and are known as galaxies. Sun is also a star. Various members of the solar system are bound to it by gravitation force. Gravitation force is the ultimate cause of birth and death of galaxy, star and planets etc. Gravitation can be considered as the cause of various forms of animate and inanimate existence. Human form is superior to all other forms. Withdrawal of gravitational wave from some plane of action is called the death of that form. It can be assumed that gravitation force is ultimate creator. Source of it is ‘God’. Gravitational Field is the supreme soul (consciousness) and its innumerable points of action may be called as individual soul (consciousness). It acts through body and mind. Body is physical entity. Mind can be defined as the function of autonomic nervous system. Electromagnetic waves are its agents through which it works. This can be realized through the practice of meditation and yoga under qualified meditation instruction. This can remove misunderstanding between science and religion and amongst various religions. This is the gist of all religious teachings – past, present and future.
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‘In Scientific Terminology Source of Gravitational Wave is God’ I have presented this paper at the 2nd World Congress on Vedic Sciences held at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi on February 9-11, 2007. The Abstract of this paper is given below:
For Centuries, antagonism remained between science and religion. Science and spirituality require to be fused. An integrated philisophy is to be developed. It is written in the scriptures that entire creation is being maintained only through love or force of attraction. In Persian it is known as quvat-i-jaziba. It is on account of this force that the entire creation, which come into existence through the combination of small particles and atoms, is being maintained and sustained. The creation or universe includes everything that exists. In the universe there are billions and billions of stars. They are held together by gravitation and are known as galaxies. Sun is also a star. Various members of the solar system are bound to it by gravitation force. Gravitation force is the ultimate cause of birth and death of a galaxy, star and planet etc. and various forms of animate and inanimate existence. Gravitation force is the ultimate creator, sustainer and destroyer of the universe. These are the three attributes of God. Providence has located within the human body a spiritual faculty. When this faculty is developed like physical and mental faculties we find that Truth-the goal of science and God-the goal of religion are one and the same thing.
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