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You don't have to be religious to qualify as a fundamentalist. You
can be Al Gore, the messiah figure for the global warming cult, whose
followers truly believe their gospel of imminent extermination in a
Noah-like flood, if we don't immediately change our carbon-polluting
ways.
One of the traits of a cult is its refusal to consider
any evidence that might disprove the faith. So it is doubtful the
global warming cultists will be moved by 400 scientists, many of whom,
says The Washington Times, "are current or former members of the U.N.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that shares the 2007
Nobel Peace Prize with Mr. Gore for publicizing a climate crisis." In a
report by Republican staff of the Senate Environment and Public Works
Committee, these scientists cast doubt on a "scientific consensus" that
human-caused global warming endangers the planet.
Like most
cultists, the true believers struck back, not by debating science, but
by charging that a small number of the scientists mentioned in the
report have taken money from the oil industry. A spokeswoman for Al
Gore said 25 or 30 of the scientists may have received funding from
Exxon Mobile Corp. Exxon Mobile spokesman Gantt H. Walton dismissed the
claim, saying, "The company is concerned about climate-change issues
and does not pay scientists to bash global-warming theories." [cont]
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