[pepsionice]

I’ve done a fair amount of reading over cults, and recently....I sat down to blog an interesting aspect of cults. You basically need ten conditions to fall into place...there might be more....but those ten were always necessary for cult status. Without those ten, it’s not a cult.

From the ten, there’s only one single condition that Climate Believers lack, a mystic background/mystic rituals/mystic chants. The other nine all fall into place to one degree or another.

[Cincinatus]

there’s only one single condition that Climate Believers lack, a mystic background/mystic rituals/mystic chants

In the climate change community, that function is served by computer models. If the models predict it, it must be true. If observations don't agree, they are bogus and must be thrown out. Faith in the efficacy of computer modeling is a hallmark of climate scientists.

[caww]

...."Climate Believers lack, a mystic background/mystic rituals/mystic chants".....

Not so....the Eviro-Weenies are the mystic/spiritual side.....