Global Warming is to Science What Scientology is to Religion

First, these headlines from the growing ClimateGate scandal:

UK: Pretending the climate email leak isn't a crisis won't make it go away...
US: Impression left by emails is that global warming game has been rigged from start...
AUSTRALIA: Five MPs lead the way by resigning in disgust over carbon tax...
NEW ZEALAND: Climate Science Coalition caught lying about temp trends...

As I was making the long drive home from Las Vegas yesterday I was thinking about the unraveling of the global warming scam that's currently underway. Of course, the term "global warming" went out of favor a couple of years ago when the promoters of the scam could not longer hide the fact that the globe stopped warming in 1998. Consequently, the preferred term became "climate change" because that can cover a host of situations and is much harder to define.

I've long compared global warming to a religion of its own, and the comparison to Scientology is not that far off. Scientology is the religion for the cool kids, the popular and famous people like Tom Cruise and John Travolta. In Scientology the individual is god, and by using his intellect and a lot of money to buy their courses he can raise himself to a higher spiritual plane and save himself and the poor ignorant people that rely on the cool kids to know how to act.

Global warming has been science for the cool kids, the popular and famous people like Al Gore, various actors and Hollywood types, and liberal politicians. In global warming man is god, and by using his intellect and lots of other people's money man can "save the planet". The cool kids thought they were doing us a favor by leading the way, showing the rest of us the sacrifices we must make to ensure the survival of the species. They were going to save us.

Of course, it's always been the height of arrogance for man to assume that he has that kind of power over the planet, and that even with the very best intellect and lots of money he could noticeably change Mother Gaia's temperature. However, thanks to a compliant media that was unwilling to apply the kind of scrutiny to global warming claims that they've applied to Sarah Palin's new book, the notion of "consensus" when it came to global warming was unchallenged. Add to that the power of two individuals - Michael Mann in the U.S. and Phil Jones in the UK - not to mention James Hansen at NASA, scientists who disagreed with global warming theology were mocked and derided as heretics. Pretty much the same thing goes on in Scientology.

Now we have evidence that the books have been cooked (not to mention the global temperatures) and yet the mainstream media still refuses to cover the story. They orthodoxy that requires compliance with global warming theology is so ingrained in the media that evidence of a scandal, which would normally cause reporters to fall all over each trying to get the scoop, is now dismissed without comment. We no longer have a free press - we have a press that's become a slave to liberal politics.

Scientology is a cult, but no more of one than global warming.