I’m not surprised. The majority of any public is easily swayed by ecstatic, emotional idolatry. The modern obsession with global warming is little different, functionally, from the pagan inhabitants of Easter Island erecting giant statutes in order to control the weather.
You see, human beings like to feel important. We like to feel as if our every action, our every thought, our slightest whim or fancy, can shape mountains out of the mist and bring great monoliths crashing down. Any fantasy that speaks to the unintentional omnipotence of the human condition is a heady drug, a near siren’s call to today’s narcissistic and self-absorbed human being.
This is how shamans and cult-priests controlled civilizations historically - a gullible peasant population was easily swayed by the false rituals and the magician’s tricks of false prophets and idolaters. Bow down before the Golden Calf, peasant, lest ye be smote.
The modern liberal is little different than the medieval peasant he or she heaps self-righteous scorn upon. They both partake of talismanic logic - trusting unerringly and wholeheartedly to their symbols of faith, never bothering to look for any truth or any divine light behind the robes of the anointed priesthood and never understanding the rituals or symbols prominently displayed by their idols. Only, today their idol is “science” - though they spout heresies like ‘the science is settled’, and you’d be a lucky man indeed if you could find a global warming cultist that could define off the top of his or her head what scientific method actually entails.
I sincerely doubt that many of those global warming supporters have actually read the International Panel on Climate Change reports, and of the handful that may have I doubt you’d find more than a couple that actually understood the methodology or verbiage used in the reports. The first IPCC report predicted a significant rise in temperature in the upper reaches of the atmosphere, where CO2 concentrates and where it is likely to perform any minuscule role it has as a greenhouse gas. However, unfortunately for the cultists, in the predicted time period there was no observed temperature increases in the upper reaches of the atmosphere, where one would expect, yet a temperature increase of twice the predicted rate at surface level - where CO2 would have little if any effect.
Faulty predictions aside, and a willful ignorance of solar output notwithstanding, the most recent IPCC report manages to skirt faulty science and predictive models incapable of prediction with a bit off good old-fashioned prestidigitation: merely find some factor that you KNOW will increase by a set amount over a given time, and then claim that your miraculous new scientific snake oil predicts that the factor will increase by said amount.
In this case, the researchers took established sea-level trends that describe what we’d expect the sea-level to do over the next century based off of existing trends that are almost entirely independent of human industrial activity, lowball said estimates, and then claim that a perfectly normal sea-level rise as predicted by centuries of existing trend must somehow, magically, be the result of man-made climate change. ABRACADABRA! If you can’t create a mathematical model that predicts reality and confirms your theory, just make up a few numbers and hope that no one notices!
So, can I get my multi-million dollar climate research grant now?
Well said, and pick-up your grant check at the last office door on the right, and the end of the hall.
This may interest you. I can imagine that when Christ Jesus raptures His Church the remaining population comfort themselves with the continuing delusion that Climate Change is responsible.
I’m not surprised. The majority of any public is easily swayed by ecstatic, emotional idolatry.