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Originally Posted by Loryn-Adult.com
Global Warming is a religion. It has guilt, it has a God (earth) it has fear and they are closed minded to any other scientific facts that prove anything different than what they believe. They have sin. The sin is not recycling. The sin is not following your dog with a Ziploc bag. The sin is any number of acts that you engage in to pollute. The sin is secondhand smoke. The sin is any clear cutting, development that people don't like, destroying wetlands, those are the sins. They have something to keep everyone in line, and that is the apocalypse, the last days, the day when hellfire and damnation will fall upon all of us who have sinned. They are always saying we have 10 years, everyone is doomed!!!
There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there's a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions there is a judgment day coming for us all. We are all energy sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability. Sustainability is salvation in the church of the environment. Just as organic food is its communion, that pesticide-free wafer that the right people with the right beliefs, imbibe. Eden, the fall of man, the loss of grace, the coming doomsday---these are deeply held mythic structures.
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Calling global warming a religion is pretty silly. Unlike "God", the Earth is almost completely tangible. You can pick up it's dirt with your hands, you can let it run through your fingers. You can breathe in its air. You can see its beauty -- flowers that blossom, trees that grow. You can smell the fragrances (both the good and the bad) that come from the Earth. You can't do any of that with "God".
Global warming, from all the evidence presented, is most certainly real and no real scientist is going to sit there and try to debate otherwise. There is a consensus -- the earth *IS* getting hotter. Even neocon zealots such as Rupert Murdoch acknowledge global warming. Now as to WHY it is happening, that is where the debate is. Is it being influenced to such a large degree by human interaction, or is it a natural cyclical event, or is it celestial in nature (the Sun) causing it?
There isn't enough solid evidence to go on to support man-made climate change, we just can't simply account for several factors. What we humans do *does* have an impact, sure, but I do not believe that we could have caused 1/25th of the 'damage'. I personally believe the majority of the fault has to do with the Sun combined with a natural cyclical event on Earth.