Say Anything Blog

I enjoyed this article:

The former VP preaches his new-age theology, telling us “the debate is over.” That’s only because he refuses to debate his feelings and concerns about global warming with eminent scientists armed with facts.

A fact such as water vapor, the most significant greenhouse gas, is responsible for 95 percent of the greenhouse effect, but humans produce less than 0.001 percent of it. This is common knowledge among climatologists; however, Hollywood elites, editorialists and special interest and certain governmental groups normally ignore this fact altogether.

Gore intones there is consensus, which is defined as “general agreement: unanimity,” and there may indeed be consensus among true believers like Alicia Silverstone and Leonardo DiCaprio, and now Pastor Evans. However, a majority of climate scientists have never endorsed the notion that human activity is causing global warming or that it is a crisis that requires immediate urgent action.

Evans calls Gore a prophet—“someone with spiritual insight who evaluates present circumstances and then speaks the truth to power about future consequences.”

Actually, he is more akin to a seer—“one that practices divination especially by concentrating on a glass or crystal globe.”

The problem is, Gore only sees himself in that globe, holding his Nobel Peace Prize and his Oscar. Thus the rationale for Gore’s zealotry - self-aggrandizement. He wasn’t elected president, so he set out to save us from ourselves. Hallelujah.
Dale Hill
Montgomery

And as much as I enjoyed that, I enjoyed one of the reader comments to the article even more:

I’d call setting up companies that “sell” carbon offsets taking care of himself and his cronies ... but that’s just me.

In the old days, you could pay for a pardon for your sins ... with the religion of global warming you can do the same.

Interesting, no?  Get into a discussion with a group about global warming and mention any real facts, and people will look at you like you just committed blasphemy by questioning global warming. It really is becoming a religion, with blind devotion in spite of facts, an extreme emotional response to people who disagree, and with a “pay your way out” carbon credit and everything.  I wonder how long until they start a “Global Warming Inquisition?”