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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (7698)	10/17/2006 1:59:23 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

"Global warming is a religion, not science. That's why acolytes in the media attack global-warming critics not with scientific arguments, but for their apostasy," San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra Saunders writes. "Then they laud global-warming believers not for reducing greenhouse gases, but simply for believing global warming is a coming catastrophe caused by man. The important thing is to have faith in those who warn: The end is near," the columnist said. "So a New York Times editorial Thursday took after Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., not for being a Doubting Thomas, but as the headline read, a 'Doubting Inhofe.' The brunt of the editorial was not a scientific refutation of Inhofe's arguments against the global-warming craze -- other than to cite a National Academy of Sciences report that warned that the Earth is approaching the warmest temperatures in 12,000 years -- a short blip in time to your average geologist. "The Times' focus was on Inhofe's refusal to bow to 'the consensus among mainstream scientists and the governments of nearly every industrialized nation concerning manmade climate change.' That is, Inhofe has had the effrontery to challenge elite orthodoxy. Or, as the editorial put it, Inhofe 'has really buttressed himself with the will to disbelieve.' "Get thee away, Satan. "?'I see a sense of desperation that I haven't seen before,' Inhofe told me by phone Thursday, 'and frankly I'm enjoying it.' "