[GMMAC]

We're taking the fight to the ecco-imperialist, social fascist vermin:
The above article, along with the illustration, ran on the front page of today's National Post which backed it up with the Editorial "The folly of Kyoto" & several opinion pieces including "Kyoto is economic suicide as is: Liberal adherence makes no sense unless all countries are signed on".

[GMMAC]

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[mtbopfuyn]

I can't decide if that's the most hilarious picture I've seen all day or the most disgusting.

[cripplecreek]

Actually I liken it to the people's temple and Al Gore is their Jim Jones.

[BenLurkin]

Algore invented sainthood.

[e_castillo]

I was thinking that it was the new inquisition!

[Aikonaa]

No, it's not a new religion but rather a reframing of the one established by Marx, Engels and Lenin.

[BuffaloJack]

Any time humans are confronted with situations that they cannot explain, they form religions from it.

[Parley Baer]

And a wacko religion at that.

[stboz]

What happens when Deep Environmentalism meets Islam?

[madison10]

Yes,Enviroism is a new religion and its taking intimidation lessons from Islam.

[narses]

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[Unmarked Package]

I’m so pleased that this type of analysis of the modern environmentalist movement is beginning to show up in the media. There is a great amount of truth and insight in this article. People need to wake up to the fact that environmentalism is morphing into an apocalyptic faith devoid of facts based on traditional scientific method. The secular Left is promoting the movement as a substitute for religion which they have abandoned.

[Convert]

By destroying pagan animism [the belief that natural objects have souls], Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects,” he wrote in a 1967 issue of . “Since the roots of our trouble are so largely religious, the remedy must also be essentially religious, whether we call it that or not.” It was a prescient claim. In a 2003 speech in San Francisco, best-selling author Michael Crichton was among the first to explicitly close the circle, calling modern environmentalism “the religion of choice for urban atheists ... a perfect 21st century re-mapping of traditional JudeoChristian beliefs andmyths.”

It is time to insist on a seperation of religion and state

have you noticed the media saying they are "praying to the (walmart, paint, tile, weather, etc.) gods?

[Vision Thing]

But he understands the unjustified faith that arises from the psychological need tomake predictions.

Back in the 1700s, David Hume claimed that cause and effect is merely a psychological phenomenon of learned expectation.

[steelyourfaith]

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[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Dr. Orrell is no climate-change denier.

Well, thank Gaia for that... they'd have to apply the thumb-screws until he recanted, otherwise.

( /sarc )

[ChessExpert]

Thanks for the post. It is thought provoking. I agree with most, but disagree with some. There are many contributors. I agree with many of the contributions.

Vancouver-based author and mathematician David Orrell set out to explain why the mathematical models scientists use to predict the weather, the climate and the economy are not getting any better, just more refined in their uncertainty.
...
The track record of any kind of long-distance prediction is really bad, but everyone’s still really interested in it. It’s sort of a way of picturing the future. But we can’t make long-term predictions of the economy, and we can’t make long-term predictions of the climate.
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When models about the future climate are in agreement, “it says more about the self-regulating group psychology of the modeling community than it does about global warming and the economy.”

Bravo! I came to the same conclusion. My academic background is economics, but I’ve followed the global warming debate. Economists learned a little humility in the 70’s and 80’s. I remember a statement about one economist. “It’s a good thing he won his Nobel prize when he did in Forecasting. A year later, and he would have had to apply under Mythology.” Have climatologists learned anything from their seesawing predictions of global cooling, global warming, global cooling, global warming?

Dr. Orrell sketched the rise of “the gospel of deterministic science,” a faith system that was born with Isaac Newton and died with Albert Einstein.

Unfortunately, the gospel of deterministic science still reigns in many sciences, and science discussions. It seems that neural science takes the view that all is brain. Little, if anything, is mind. All is determined with all significant causation flowing one way from brain to mind. Implication - no free will. Newton would not agree, but his contribution in finding an orderly, clockwork universe has been misapplied.

Princeton history professor named LynnWhite wrote “By destroying pagan animism [the belief that natural objects have souls], Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects,”

Noted.

Joseph Brean (Journalist?) - Environmentalism even has its persecutors, embodied in the Bush White House attack dogs who have conducted no less than an Inquisition against climate scientists.

I think this story is basically backwards. Far more pressure has been brought to bear against “global warming deniers” than on those who go with the flow.

Joseph Brean (Journalist?) - It is in the schism that has arisen over whether to renew or replace Kyoto

Kyoto remains on the map. It is my understanding that the protocol was never adopted.

Joseph Brean (Journalist?) - This is not to say that fearing for the future of the planet is irrational in the way supernatural belief arguably is

Let me help you out Joe. Change it to: This is not to say that fearing for your soul is irrational in the way that fearing for the future of the planet arguably is.

All in all, not a bad article.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

......in its myths of the Fall and the Apocalypse, its saints and heretics, its iconography and tithing, its reliance on prophecy, even its schisms — the green movement now exhibits the same psychology of compliance as religion.

[NYer]

How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true.

HOMILY OF HIS EMINENCE CARD. JOSEPH RATZINGER - Monday 18 April 2005

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