Should We All be Forced to Worship at the Church of Global Warming?

News Item: Weather Channel maven favors pulling certification from any TV meteorologist who doesn’t adhere to the "approved" global warming dogma.

No doubt about it. The “global warming” true believers have begun to take draconian steps to enforce their notion of climate orthodoxy: If you don’t adhere strictly to their rigid set of dicta sanctorum, you risk excommunication. Weather reporters of America – take note!

They long have been successful in fostering their “we will brook no disagreement” attitude in academia, and in the judicial system. They have owned both for many years and you will find precious few in those arenas who dare to be contrary to the favored “global catastrophe” doctrine. In spite of virtually no real evidence, and almost entirely as a result of extreme political coercion and peer pressure, the majority of scientists today seem ready to check their objectivity at the door, put on their green robes, stand in a nice orderly, straight line and parrot the approved canonical verses: “Global warming is bad. Global warming is caused by evil humans. Humans are bad. Global warming is caused by America. America is bad. Global warming is caused by evil, greedy big oil corporations. Corporations are bad. Global warming is caused by George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Haliburton, Scooter Libby and all other evil neocons. Neocons are bad. We must destroy them… destroy them… destroy them”.

The global warming zealots are now taking their crusade deeper and deeper into all institutions we hold dear in America. They have invaded to a degree unprecedented the halls of congress including seemingly forcing President Bush to at least pay lip service homage to them in his state of the union address. They have long since had the left-leaning foundations on their side. These are the source of most of the grants the scientists are groveling to get. Naturally, many of them are eager to bend over, grab their ankles, and just go along with all of the "Chicken Little" alarmist fiction . Follow the money. The "global warming" vickars are now moving in to strong-arm some major corporations who must have sensed that, in the face of such irrational fanaticism, resistance is futile – resistance is futile – resistance is futile – resistance is futile!

To be sure, there are a still a few intrepid skeptics in the scientific and business community who dare to raise their hands and ask inconvenient questions, such as what about the warming and cooling cycles that have taken place for millennia before human activity became a factor? What caused them? They are usually just ignored or dismissed by the global warming pontiffs as pawns of big oil: “Pity them. Their faith is not strong enough to accept the gospel we know to be correct. They have been corrupted by the evil demon Exxon! They shouldn’t worry about the facts. We have told them that man is the cause of all global warming. That is sufficient.”

The fact is, according to these brave few, nobody knows if the current small global average temperature increase, if it is happening at all, is a good thing or a bad thing for humans. It seems logical that warmer winters in Minnesota is preferable to a mile thick glacier covering most of North America. The fact is, if warming is happening, nobody knows exactly what may be the cause, or the result, or how, or if, there is anything humans can do to enhance or stop it, of if, indeed, they should do anything to stop it. The weather is cyclical. Always has been. We will get warming, then cooling, and then warming again – over and over again. We just need to deal with it like we always have. This irrational fear and trembling about the weather serves no purpose – other than to enhance the political power and standing of the elders of The Church of Global Warming.

Climate science is poorly understood and in continual dispute. What is not in dispute, however, is that this fervent, wild-eyed religious anti-civilization movement already has much of the power they seek to destroy us. The laws and sanctions they advocate will have a real impact on our nation’s economy and future viability. We could wind up on the ash heap of history as the only civilization that chose to commit massive economic suicide for no other reason than an irrational devotion to the false religion of the Great Green Church of Global Warming. And that would be a pity.