Megan McArdle (a reporter for the Bloomberg news service) decided to write an article titled “Global-Warming Alarmists, You’re Doing It Wrong”. For suggesting that the climate change argument needs people to “talk about climate change like civilized adults”, she got a considerable amount of hate mail, from alarmists that objected to the notion that there was any need for any discourse on something they think is “settled”. My opinion is that the debate is hardly settled, and predictions 100 years into the future hardly qualifies as a reason to ruin our economy. In the discussion that followed, I wrote the following posting:

“You ruffled the feathers of people for whom ‘climate change’ is part of their world view (ie. religion). The reaction you got was a religious one. Its sort of like going into a Baptist church and arguing the case for sprinkling. You think climate science should be an intellectual discourse? So do I. But then, I am am one of those evil “deniers” that are skeptical of science being co-opted for political purposes. Finding logical inconsistencies in the conclusions drawn by journalists (and not scientists) I too, find myself under the same kind of religious condemnation that I have experienced in my own church over theological issues. This is why as a religious person, I think the best thing that can be done for climate science is to take the religion out of it. Religion belongs in churches, synagogues, and mosques, not in scientific research!”

For me, the response of the alarmists is proof positive that what we have going on in the US today amounts to nothing less than a religious war. By portraying themselves as atheists or agnostics, the alarmists think they are not being religious, but the reality is, they most certainly are! God tells us all throughout the Bible not to worship Idols, and Climate Science and Scientism in general have become Idols! By not thinking they are being religious, these alarmists can bypass the constitutional imperative not to establish a religion, and have found a way around it and are now establishing the Idol of Scientism.