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• Monday, June 30, 2008 04:32 PM

  Ideology

  Never have I read a more hysterical outburst on global warming than this article.

  I am not a conservative, nor am I anti-science, quite the opposite, in fact. I do not accept the theory of human caused global warming. My position is firmly rooted in science.

  Those people who embrace the theory of human caused global warming think that those who oppose the theory do so because of ideology, without recognizing that they TOO are driven by ideology. They believe that human beings are not part of nature but merely the destroyers of it, and they believe that governments can "fix" the weather. It is like a religion. Notice the "end of the world" rhetoric.

  A hundred years from now, people will consider it "quaint" that we actually believed that the level of carbon is driving the temperature up. (Kind of like people who believed the sun revolved around the earth.) In the meantime, the rest of us have to sit around and listen to the environmentalist preachers, like this author, masquerading as scientists.

  People who are hysterical over global warming never want to debate the science. They only want to call people names and accuse us of not caring about the environment. It's a lot easier to have a kneejerk reaction than to actually have a calm discussion of scientific theories. They CAN'T do it, and the reason is they believe in it the same way people believe in God. They just DO and that's that.

  —melianthus Read melianthus's other letters
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