In one of the fora I frequent, the meme that "AGW is a religion" has come up. All of the deniers who post there (I call them "denialists" to their face - it upsets them a little more) identify as conservatives. I made a guess that these conservatives are really Christian conservatives, and possibly creationist, and I have suspected that the "AGW religion" meme is a religious reaction on their part. I read recently that Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, had opposed the science of global warming because it detracted from the message of Jesus. The need to reduce the global population especially conflicts with the church's opposition to birth control. With these thoughts in mind, I suggested on this forum that the denialist opposition to AGW was itself religiously motivated, and that the denialists were like the creationists in their opposition to evolution. I hit the head on the head. The creationists came out of the woodwork to defend themselves aggressively, confirming my suspicions. There are a few denialists on this forum who have yet to out themselves as creationists. They present themselves as libertarians, who are supposedly agnostic, but I await in ambush for them to make some kind of religious declaration, but so far they have been very careful. In any case I have found it useful to attack the denialist movement generally on religious grounds.
Denialists
In one of the fora I frequent, the meme that "AGW is a religion" has come up. All of the deniers who post there (I call them "denialists" to their face - it upsets them a little more) identify as conservatives. I made a guess that these conservatives are really Christian conservatives, and possibly creationist, and I have suspected that the "AGW religion" meme is a religious reaction on their part. I read recently that Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, had opposed the science of global warming because it detracted from the message of Jesus. The need to reduce the global population especially conflicts with the church's opposition to birth control. With these thoughts in mind, I suggested on this forum that the denialist opposition to AGW was itself religiously motivated, and that the denialists were like the creationists in their opposition to evolution. I hit the head on the head. The creationists came out of the woodwork to defend themselves aggressively, confirming my suspicions. There are a few denialists on this forum who have yet to out themselves as creationists. They present themselves as libertarians, who are supposedly agnostic, but I await in ambush for them to make some kind of religious declaration, but so far they have been very careful. In any case I have found it useful to attack the denialist movement generally on religious grounds.