‘Global Warming bears all the markings of what traditionally would be recognized as a religion. Complete with sin (the emitting of Co2), scriptures (IPCC assessment reports)’
'...commandments (drive a Prius, use Compact Florescent Light bulbs, do not eat meat etc.), indulgences (carbon offsets), proselytism, prophets (Al Gore), priests (scientists), prophecy and apocalypse (floods, hurricanes, dead polar bears), infidels (Warming skeptics), and salvation (the halting of carbon emitting industrial progress)'