from MercatorNet:
As others have observed, belief in cataclysmic climate change has all the earmarks of a world religion -- except a name. Environmentalism? Too vague, too 1980’s. After encountering a certain term repeatedly in my reading, I have decided to call the institutional expression of this faith The Climate Change Church of Settled-Science.
Consider the climate creed. It has rigid dogma and sacred writ, the latter including even “long lost” and missing texts in the form of destroyed and suppressed emails, data, and/or doctored computer codes and models. It has prophets and predictions. It attracts the unwavering faith of true believers, provoking them to asceticism (fasting, sacrifice, even unto martyrdom—at least in theory) and filling them with joy and euphoria in the belief that they are “doing the right thing”. It inspires a fervent desire to spread the word and make others see the light; it condemns sin and calls for conversion to a strict lifestyle code -- or punishment for those who do not believe, do not obey, do not comply. And, of course, it is an established religion, or aspires to be one, with the state as the enforcer of its doctrines and codes.
The creed has its heretics: scientists who question the dogma are ostracized, vilified, silenced, excommunicated. It has its atheists, although the label “deniers” is currently more popular. Some CCC of SS true believers feel that deniers ought to be treated with the same scorn and censure as Holocaust deniers; others have suggested that climate-change dissenters ought to be charged with treason. (Against what or whom? The world? Mother Earth?)
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