Climate Alarmists: Understandable Motivations, Unknowable Results
- We nevertheless feel an urgent need to do something, if only to assuage our guilty consciences or to achieve political goals.
For a dangerously large number of morally adolescent individuals, these two things go hand-in-hand.
Guilt is a huge factor in religion, thus it’s no surprise that global warming hysteria has taken on almost all of the trappings of institutionalized religion – right down to the hypocritical ‘clergy’ who preach one behavior while practicing a different one that is far less orthodox.
When – in some people’s minds – observable, verifiable reality can be demoted to the status of “anecdotal evidence” and thus deemed insufficient to discredit theories whose “proof” exists only in computer models (models which have failed, utterly, to model the last ten years of global cooling in response to increased CO2), we’re dealing with hysterical religious fanaticism, not science. No rational recommendation can be expected to emerge from such an irrational mindset.
