What is the purpose of the focus on man made global warming?

1. It puts man at the center of the universe, positing god-like powers to affect the planet. It is thus anti-Copernican in its stealth way.

2. It bends the moral compass of those who are in denial about the threat of Islamo-terrorism and those who were formerly in denial about Soviet communism, by giving them something to fight.

3. It creates a “war” whose casualties will exempt the elite. (See the carbon footprint of Al Gore as an example.)

4. It is congruent with those who desire to rid the world of the scourge of Western Civilization and its technological superiority.

5. It will reduce economic and eventually political freedom for individuals and return us to a modern variation of feudalism.

Unfortunately, since the combination of deconstructionism and relativism have now contaminated two generations, facts have become unpersuasive and data has morphed into just a matter of opinion. Welcome back to the Dark Ages.