Like Galileo, Climatologist Gets Death Threats For Refusing To Bow To Global Warming Altar
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Galileo was Indicted for not accepting the widely held "scientific fact" that the Earth was the center of the Universe
Global Warming: A noted Canadian climatologist gets death threats for refusing to embrace climate-change orthodoxy — what Czech President Vaclav Klaus calls a 'religion.' Will skeptics suffer the fate of Galileo?
In 1633, Galileo Galilei was indicted by the church 'for holding as true a false doctrine taught by many,' and for 'following the hypothesis of Copernicus' — namely that Earth was not the immovable center of the universe and moved around the sun.
In terms used in the current global warming debate, Galileo was a 'denier' of the accepted 'consensus.'
Speaking at the Cato Institute recently, President Klaus said that 'environmentalism is a religion' that accepts global warming on faith and seeks to exploit it to reshape the world and economic social order.
'Environmentalism only pretends to deal with environmental protection,' he told the libertarian think tank. 'Behind the terminology is really an ambitious attempt to radically reorganize the world.'
For many, global warming has literally become a matter of religious doctrine. Last year, a group of prominent evangelical leaders announced the formation of an 'Evangelical Climate Initiative' and released a statement, 'Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action.'
The Rev. Jim Ball, head of the Evangelical Environment Network, said, 'The debate is essentially over for us. We are no longer going to be denying the reality of the problem.' Al Gore couldn't have said it better.
Earlier this month Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor, appeared in 'The Great Global Warming Swindle,' a true documentary broadcast in Britain on Channel 4. In it, several scientists claimed that the theory of global warming had indeed become a religion with contrary opinions considered heresy.
Ball isn't likely to receive an Oscar bid, as Gore's full-length cartoon, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' did. Since the show aired, he has received at least five death threats by e-mail, including one that warned that if he continued to speak out, he would not live long enough to see the prophecy of global warmers come to pass.
Ball, who has a doctorate in climatology from the University of London and taught at the University of Winnipeg for 28 years, said the belief that disastrous climate change is imminent and that humans are the cause is the 'greatest deception in the history of science.' To the greenies, this is sacrilege.
Ball lives on Victoria Island, British Columbia, which he likes to remind people was connected to mainland Canada about 8,000 years ago when the sea level was 500 feet lower.
In an interview with Bill Steigerwald in Human Events, Ball noted the current warming trend actually 'began in 1680, in the middle of what's called 'The Little Ice Age,' when there was 3 feet of ice on the Thames River in London.' That's a bit before the first SUV hit the road. Blame the Industrial Revolution.
As Ball noted, 'The world has warmed up until recently, and that warming trend doesn't fit with the CO2 record at all; it fits with the sunspot data. Of course, they are ignoring the sun because they want to focus on CO2.'
'They' are the high priests of global warming, who have indeed had a chilling effect, so to speak, on free scientific inquiry. Nigel Calder, a former editor of New Scientist, said: 'Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the current system.'
Richard Lindzen, a professor of atmospheric science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also appeared in the 'Great Global Warming Swindle.' 'Scientists who dissent from the alarmism,' he noted, 'have seen their funds disappear, their work derided and themselves labeled as industry stooges.'
Now they get death threats. Repent, the end is near.
