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Religion is the acceptance of authority beyond any testing.
Or, in other words, religion is based on the assumption that your hypothesis is correct, while science is based on the assumption that it is wrong.
Given that we, the human race, hold the future of the world in our hands (or is it footprint?), which methodology would you rely on?
As far as the economics of climate change and energy scarcity go, it's not the fact that it goes up or down that mattters, but how fast and how much warning there is.
That is why transparency is such an important measure of the health of any economic system. This article implies that the climate change deniers are reducing transparency by hiding the true costs of current energy consumption.
So, the question you need to ask yourselves is this: "What happens to us ten, twenty years down the road if we're wrong?"
