Frolicking around the golden calf we dance our way towards an ECONOMIC & SOCIAL Apocalypse that is much more certain than the constantly hyped 'warming' apocolypse:
The man who did as much as anyone to exaggerate the threat of global warming, Michael Mann, has published a new book, on cue, The Hockey Stick And The Climate Wars. As director of the Earth System Science Centre at Pennsylvania State University, Mann is famous for the now discredited “hockey stick” graph which inspired Al Gore’s influential movie An Inconvenient Truth.
On ABC’s Lateline last week, he portrayed himself and fellow alarmists as martyrs besieged by agents of the fossil fuel industries. His book entreats other scientists to join him “the front lines of the climate wars”. “Scientific truth alone is not enough to carry the day in the court of public opinion.”
Disturbing as that statement is, it can be understood as a product of religious fervour. Historian Geoffrey Blainey, speaking at a Sydney Institute dinner last week, suggested science had become an “alternative religion”.
Research into his new book, A Short History of Christianity, leads him to think our attitude towards science in an era of technological advances is akin to religious faith, with gods to worship, vehemence of belief, good and evil, heretics and saints. He says alternative religions have taken the place of Christianity, including communism, and nature worship.
Welcome to the sceptical era where we scoff at notions of religious faith only to believe in fairytales!
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