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As with religion, it is presided over by a caste of spectacularly unattractive people [you mean, like, Al Gore?] pretending to an obscure form of knowledge that promises to make the seas retreat and the winds abate. As with religion, it comes with an elaborate list of virtues, vices and indulgences. As with religion, its claims are often non-falsifiable, hence the convenience of the term "climate change" when thermometers don't oblige the expected trend lines. As with religion, it is harsh toward skeptics, heretics and other "deniers." And as with religion, it is susceptible to the earthly temptations of money, power, politics, arrogance and deceit.
The terminological shift is what really kicked my skepticism into high gear. Global climate change is a genus of which global warming is but a species, global cooling being another species. And of course none of this much matters practically speaking if it is not anthropogenic. Are we now being asked to believe that burning fossil fuels causes climate change whether or not the change is a warming? That would be curious: contrary effects having the same cause.
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