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Jewish World Review
January 13, 2010 / 27 Teves 5770
Global Warming Is a Religion
By
Walter Williams
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Manmade global warming, for many, is an Earth-worshipping religion. The
essential feature of any religion is that its pronouncements are to be
accepted on the basis of faith as opposed to hard evidence. Questioning
those pronouncements makes one a sinner. No one denies that the Earth's
temperature changes. Millions of years ago, much of our planet was
covered by ice, at some places up to a mile thick, a period some
scientists call "Snowball Earth." Today, the Earth is not covered by a
mile of ice; a safe conclusion is that there must have been a bit of
global warming. I don't know the cause of that warming, but I'd wager
everything I own that it was not caused by coal-fired electric
generation plants, incandescent light bulbs and SUVs tooling up and down
the highways.
The very idea that mankind can make significant parametric changes to
the Earth has to be the height of arrogance. How about a few questions
because temperature is just one characteristic of the Earth. The Earth's
orbit is another. If all 6.5 billion of us, all at once, started jumping
up and down for a little while, do you think we'd change the Earth's
orbit or rotation? Do you think mankind could change the direction and
timing of the ocean's tides? Is there anything that mankind can do to
stop or start a tsunami or hurricane? You say, "Williams, it's stupid to
suggest that mankind could change the Earth's orbit or rotation, ocean
tides or cause or stop a tsunami or hurricane!" You're right and it's
also stupid to think that mankind's activities can make globalized
changes in the Earth's temperature.
Nonetheless, there is much at stake in getting people to subscribe to
the global warming religion. There is so much at stake that some
scientists, using government grants, are fraudulently manipulating
climate data and engaging in criminal activity, as revealed in what has
been called "Climate gate." One of the most dangerous features of the
global warming religion is its level of intimidation of heretics or
would-be heretics.
A few years back, Dr. Heidi Cullen, the Weather Channel's climatologist,
advocated that the American Meteorological Society (AMS) strip their
seal of approval from any TV weatherman expressing skepticism about the
predictions of manmade global warming. Scott Pelley, CBS News "60
Minutes" correspondent, compared skeptics of global warming to
"Holocaust deniers." Former Vice President Al Gore called skeptics
"global warming deniers." But it gets worse. On one of her shows, Dr.
Cullen featured columnist Dave Roberts, who, in his Sept. 19, 2006,
online publication, said, "When we've finally gotten serious about
global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a
full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war
crimes trials for these bastards — some sort of climate Nuremberg."
As a result, many climatologists have been intimidated into silence.
That means the public is not informed about counter-alarmists facts such
as: Over long periods of time, there is absolutely no close relationship
between C02 levels and temperature. Humans contribute approximately 3.4
percent of annual C02 levels compared to 96.6 percent by nature. There
was an explosion of life forms 550 million years ago (Cambrian Period)
when CO2 levels were 18 times higher than today. During the Jurassic
Period, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, CO2 levels were as much as nine
times higher than today. Contrary to what educators are brainwashing our
children with, polar bear numbers increased dramatically from around
5,000 in 1950 to as many as 25,000 today, higher than any time in the
20th century.
Political commentator Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) warned that "The
whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and
hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." That's the political goal
of the global warmers.
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