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Originally posted by marg6043
Now we know that in earth history a warming period is the warning of an ice age.
Originally posted by AndyMayhew
If anything, I would say that refusal to accept that human activities are affecting the climate to the detriment of man (and other life) is akin to religious belief.
Religion accords as supernatural explanation for observed phenomena, without need for proof. AGW is the opposite - an explanation based on scientific analysis, without preconception (whatever some may want you to think). And open always to falsification (indeed, science is all about trying to falsify what we current think to be true: the very opposite of religion).
And it's perhaps no coincidence that many of the most vocal 'deniers' - and their financial supporters - hold strong Christian religious views (I'm not aware it's the same with followers of other religions, though I may be wrong).
Another interesting fact is that all my fellow employees (but one) litter to an extreme, and they all over-use the objects around them (small things like too much dish soap, keeping the water running, wasting material at work, using far too much paper towel to clean up a small mess, and so on).
Another incident would be in the documentary Jesus Camp, where a parent was quizzing their child on Global Warming and asked "why is global warming not real" and the child responded "because they say that it's only changing by half a degree, or one degree, and it's so small that it wouldn't make any difference".
Personally, I believe the 'religion' of man made global warming is the epitome of Hubris with a capital H
Originally posted by CB328
Personally, I believe the 'religion' of man made global warming is the epitome of Hubris with a capital H
Global warming is not a religion and it's ridiculous to say so. Furthermore there's nothing arrogant at all about believing it, but it is extremely annoying to hear this retarded argument repeated again and again by people who believe everything they hear on talk radio (Rush invented this about 20 years ago) and aren't smart enough to think of their own argument against it.