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Dennis · Guest

TWO PITHY SHORTIES ON GLOBAL WARMING EXTREMISM FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

FIRST A SHORT COMMENTARY:

Theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson on global warming in
the New York Review of Books:

"Environmentalism has replaced socialism as the leading secular religion.
And the ethics of environmentalism are fundamentally sound. Scientists and
economists can agree with Buddhist monks and Christian activists that
ruthless destruction of natural habitats is evil and careful preservation of
birds and butterflies is good. The worldwide community of
environmentalists -- most of whom are not scientists -- holds the moral high
ground, and is guiding human societies toward a hopeful future. . . .

Unfortunately, some members of the environmental movement have also adopted
as an article of faith the belief that global warming is the greatest threat
to the ecology of our planet. That is one reason why the arguments about
global warming have become bitter and passionate. Much of the public has
come to believe that anyone who is skeptical about the dangers of global
warming is an enemy of the environment. The skeptics now have the difficult
task of convincing the public that the opposite is true. Many of the
skeptics are passionate environmentalists. They are horrified to see the
obsession with global warming distracting public attention from what they
see as more serious and more immediate dangers to the planet, including
problems of nuclear weaponry, environmental degradation, and social
injustice. Whether they turn out to be right or wrong, their arguments on
these issues deserve to be heard."

AND A LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL:

Here are the global warming movement's cultic parallels, many of whose
characteristics can be found in Walter Martin and Ravi Zacharias's famous
2003 book, "The Kingdom of the Cults":

(1) Leadership by a New Age prophet -- in this case, former Vice President
Al Gore.

(2) Assertion of an apocalyptic threat to all mankind.

(3) An absolutist definition of both the threat and the proposed
solution(s).

(4) Promise of a salvation from this pending apocalypse.

(5) Devotion to an inspired text which embodies all the answers -- in this
case Mr. Gore's pseudo-scientific book "Earth in the Balance" and his new
"An Inconvenient Truth" documentary.

(6) A specific list of "truths" which must be embraced and proselytized by
all cult members.

(7) An absolute intolerance of any deviation from any of these truths by any
cult member.

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A strident intolerance of any outside criticism of the cult's definition
of the problem or of its proposed solutions.

(9) A "heaven-on-earth" vision of the results of the mission's success or a
"hell-on-earth" result if the cultic mission should fail.

(10) An inordinate fear (and an outright rejection of the possibility) of
being proven wrong in either the apocalyptic vision or the proposed
salvation.

Finally, since this cultic juggernaut has persuaded (brainwashed?) a
majority of Americans into at least a temporary mindset of support for its
pseudo-religious scam, Mr. Stephens's label of "mass neurosis" seems
frighteningly accurate.

Jim Guirard
Alexandria, Va.
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Al "I am too the alpha male, aren't I, Tipper, huh, aren't I " Gore as a
"High Priest"!!!! Now that's funny.

Dionysus

FUBAR7 · Guest

Leadership by a New Age prophet -- in this case, former Vice
President Al Gore.

LOL!!!

I am from Tennessee. He lost the White House because the
people of his OWN HOME STATE know and HAVE KNOWN that AL
GORE is FULL OF SHIT

Too bad the idiots from the Land of Fruits and
Nuts(Mexifornia) and the other Blue State dip shits and tree
hugger's have not figured that out yet

Prophet? Try pompous wind bag snake oil salesman