Andrea Peyser: "[T]he Scientific And Political Left ... Treat Global Warming As A Cult." In a November 30, 2009, column titled "Climate-cult con is hard to 'bear,'" Andrea Peyser wrote: "The international 'Climategate' scandal is now moving into its third week. And reaction from folks on the scientific and political left -- or is that redundant? -- who treat global warming as a cult in which naysayers must be crushed has been depressing: Total denial." [Media Matters, 12/9/09]
Lowry: "Church Of Warmism" Is A "Doomsday Cult." In a December 8, 2009, New York Post column, "Global warming's doomsday prophets," Rich Lowry wrote:
The phrase "doomsday cult" entered our collective vocabulary after John Lofland published his 1966 study, "Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith." Lofland wrote about the Unification Church. His subject could almost as easily have been the Church of Warmism.
Its college of cardinals has gathered in Copenhagen amid professions of an imminent global apocalypse that allow no room for doubt or deviation. "The clock has ticked down to zero," declared UN climate chief Yvo de Boer. Yes, the end is nigh -- just as surely as when the Millerites gathered on Oct. 22, 1844, to witness the Second Coming, only to comfort themselves at the end of the night, "Well, maybe next year." [Media Matters, 12/9/09]
James Hirsen: "[T]he Cult Leader Of Global Warming Theory Is Al Gore." Appearing on the December 6, 2009, edition of Fox News' America's News HQ, Newsmax's James Hirsen stated: "[W]e have to say the cult leader of global warming theory is Al Gore. He's become a Hollywood celebrity by virtue of the fact that he is -- his film won an Oscar. He's won a Grammy. He's won -- you know, he lives in a 20-room mansion outside of Nashville. He has an indoor swimming pool. He jets around preaching this global warming." [Media Matters, 12/9/09]
Michael Ledeen: CRU Emails Prove Global Warming "Was A Cult And Not Science." During the December 4, 2009, edition of Fox News' Hannity, frequent Fox News guest Michael Ledeen referred to "the religious dimension to this so-called scientific theory," asserting that "[i]t was never more than a hypothesis but it became an article of faith." He later stated of CRU emails cited in the debunked "Climategate" smear: "[W]hat it proves is that it was a cult and not science. Because science has to deal with all the evidence, whether you like it or whether you don't. Cults lock out evidence that they don't like. And they locked it out." [Media Matters, 12/9/09]
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