Is Global Warming a new religion or is it something else?

Question

Is it a cult or is it a modern example of "cold terrorism"?

Is Al Gore its high priest or a mere cold terrorist?

Answer 1

It is a religion. Just like other religions, you can be a good human being, help and be charitable to your fellow man, but if you aren't a believer then you don't go to Heaven.

Be a good citizen, do your share to protect the environment, but don't believe that man can control the climate, and you're doomed to spend eternity being called a sinner, er denier. Sorry for the typo.

Answer 2

Every generation has its doomsday cult and those that feel this is going to destroy the world are cultists. Al Gore is the chief Priest of the Global Warming Doomsday Cult. What is really sick is that they claim science as theirs alone and are anti-religion except for theirs of course which they label as the only true science.

Answer 3

I see what you mean by is it a "religion". It really is no different than believing in God I guess. The earth takes its natural course, we know this because of the ice age and dinosaurs becoming extinct, the continents forming, and other changes, the earth warming is just another change it is making. If humans want to believe they are causing this or can stop it, let them believe. It is inevitable that the earth will replenish itself and start the course of living beings all over again from scratch. This is what I think.

Answer 4

None of these. It's scientific fact, and Al Gore has nothing to do with that. MIKIRA - I'm not being paid to do this.

This is science and what counts is the data.

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)
Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut and the first Commander of the Naval Space Command

Here are two summaries of the mountain of peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly and the vast majority of the scientific community, short and long.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html
summarized at:
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-spm.pdf

It's (mostly) not the sun:

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/FAQ2.html

And the first graph above shows that the sun is responsible for about 10% of it. When someone says it's the sun they're saying that thousands of climatologists are stupid and don't look at the solar data. That's ridiculous.

Science is quite good about exposing bad science or hoaxes:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/ATG/polywater.html

There's a large number of people who agree that it is real and mostly caused by us, who are not liberals, environmentalists, stupid, or conceivably part of a "conspiracy". Just three examples of many:

"Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich challenged fellow conservatives to stop resisting scientific evidence of global warming"

"Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming."

Senator John McCain, Republican, Arizona

“DuPont believes that action is warranted, not further debate."

Charles O. Holliday, Jr., CEO, DuPont

There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/412.php?lb=hmpg1&pnt=412&nid=&id=

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know... Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point. You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away."

Dr. Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

Good websites for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/
http://www.realclimate.org
"climate science from climate scientists"

Answer 5

From what I see by the blindly devoted, it would appear to be a new religion. Some people are smarter than that and those are the ones I feel are being paid by someone, who? I haven't figured it out. But the ones who give completely unscientific answers and just seem to be going along like sheep are definitely cultists.

Answer 6

Something else... it's science.

Al Gore is a private citizen, irrelevant in both the science and in current politics. Talking about hmi is a clear sign that there's nothing to be said about the actual science or even the politics involved.

Bush administration scientists are deeply involved in exploring the relationship between mankind's carbon emissions and current warming trends:

http://co2conference.org/agenda.asp
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap2-2/final-report/default.htm
http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/activities/AcceleratingAtmosphericCO2.htm

Are you saying that the GW Bush administration is trying to promote a new religion? That's quite a conspiracy theory.

Answer 7

A new religion and pass the plate so they can build a new building. The log cathedral built from giant red woods.

Answer 8

Global Warning: The earth isn't flat!

Answer 9

That is pretty funny.

If science and evidence are a "religion", what do you call the nuts who disagree with science and evidence and facts because some quack who was paid by the oil and coal industry told them to?

Answer 10

its a problem, thats gonna effect all of us and laytur genrations, its not a relgion or a colt, but there are defianlty causes to help prevent it from getting worse