Can we be honest here?

The Global Warming crisis is nothing more than the latest in a long line of false religions. (Write it down, you heard it here first—or second.)

In fact, everything you need to know about the climate change clamor is found in two sayings. The first is found in the Bible and goes like this: “What is man that you are mindful of him?” And the second is from the ancient Greek philosopher Protagoras who said, “Man is the measure of all things”.

The biblical quote is interpreted to mean that the importance of man pales into insignificance when compared to God whereas the Greek saying means that the individual human being, rather than God or an unchanging moral law, is the ultimate source of value.

Which of these sayings you accept as being truer than the other will determine which side of the climate change debate you fall on—more or less.

Put another way, do you believe that man is responsible for global warming and has the solutions for averting the catastrophe or do you believe that global temperature changes are natural cyclic phenomena due largely to the activity of the sun? (It’s the clouds, stupid!)

The claims made about the coming apocalypse have reached epic proportions of the fantastic and the bizarre. It applies to anything and has become the updated equivalent of, “The dog ate my homework!” Just today I read that the annual census of birdwatchers has turned up Whooping Cranes as far north as Nova Scotia. GW is to blame. Is this a bad thing? And does it positively mean that we are reaching the “tipping point” of irreversible climate change? The true believers of Global Warming are certain about the meaning of such anecdotes. Someone named Russell Wardlow has made this observation:

“Most impressive about the whole thing is the certainty with which the predictions of imminent catastrophe are made, coupled hilariously with apparently sincere assertions that all we need to do is start acting more like consciousness-raised hippies to solve this massive global problem which apparently will otherwise end our civilization and kill us all. It's a little like saying that the Earth is going to spin into the sun, but if we all just lean to one side really hard, we can change our orbit and make everything better again. Though that's really not the best analogy, as it doesn't involve enough confiscation of other people's money.”

Speaking of money, can anyone seriously deny that this looming environmental Armageddon has been a cash cow for earth advocacy groups and scientists feeding at the public trough? I almost hope (watch for the rhetorical statement here) that global warming is true because if it’s a fraud it will be the end of science, as we know it. If this happens we will all see the lowly used car salesman become a paragon of virtue and respectability compared to the climate scientist.

Speaking of respectability can anyone doubt that Global Warming has been a godsend to politicians desperate for the public’s affection? The solutions to this global emergency will take boatloads of cash and I’m thinking pols like Chuck Schumer and Henry Waxman can deliver.

Then there are the lemmings. I steadfastly refuse to join them in their headlong rush to the sea. (I have yet to hear that this suicidal ritual is caused by GW but I am keeping an open ear.)

But getting back to my hypothesis about the new Eco-religion: There is a story told that Teddy Roosevelt was fond of playing a game with his friend and frequent houseguest, William Beebe the biologist, explorer and author. After dinner and an evening of stimulating conversation they would go outside onto the lawn of the great house at Sagamore Hill and search the sky until they found a faint spot of light beyond the lower left corner of the constellation Pegasus. One of them would then recite: “That is the Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as the Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns, each larger than our sun.” Then Roosevelt would grin at Beebe and say, “Now we are small enough! Let’s go to bed.”

Indeed.