I'm copying this comment by David from an earlier thread:
"In democracy, we tolerate MMR vaccine deniers, AGW deniers, GM deniers, fluoride deniers, water recycling deniers, abortion choice deniers, Inconvenient Truth deniers, Al Gore is an ecological scholar deniers, God deniers, synthetic chemical deniers, stem cell deniers, IVF deniers, convential medicine deniers, food crisis deniers, oil crisis deniers, biofuel deniers, windmill for electricity deniers, computer simulation of the real world deniers, Catholic Church infallibility deniers (who are protestant), Islam deniers (who are Catholic), Jesus deniers ( who are Jewish), Jewish deniers who are Jewish, Aussie deniers who are Islamic, Gaia deniers, chiroropractic and iridology deniers, Rupert Murdoch deniers, socialism deniers, free-market choice deniers, electric pylon magnetic radiation deniers (who still use mobile phones to complain about the pylons), DDT stops malaria deniers, DDT causes cancer deniers, DDT causes endocrine disruption deniers, natural lavender extracts cause endocrine disruption deniers, natural plant contain cancer causing chemical denier, microwave deniers, industrial agriculture and fertiliser to save the forrest and the atmosphere deniers, conservation tillage deniers, what you read in the newspapers is all true deniers, Fairfax press deniers, Andrew Bolt knows something about global warning deniers, and their all ok, except AGW deniers who are evil and immoral according to David Suzuki.
Thank goodness we are wealthy and can live with denial. But I know its hard sometimes, trust me on this."
dtribe has actually highlighted a new religious development in the West. Previously the call was "repent sinners, or you will be doomed!" Those who had seen the Light carried their "the end of the world is nigh" placard and made assorted attempts to convert agnostics and atheists. There was the Church and to deviate from its doctrinal purity was to sin. The New Church is closer to fundamentalist Islam than the old Church. The call is "repent sinners, or we will all be doomed!" Hence, there can be no place for agnostics or atheists for any such dissent from orthodoxy is causing the doom that the "saved" so fervently wish to avoid by their purity. If only there were no agnostics and atheists, the cool Promised Land would be realised here on earth. While science teaches its followers to be skeptical, the New Church teaches its followers the opposite. But while in the West the New Church can marshall comfortable devotees to march for the Cause, will they find many followers in the more hard nosed East?
The Birth of the Son of Climate change denial is Nigh: Climate Chaos and Catastrophe denial.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6115644.stm
"What are we going to fight about now that AGW is all over and cut and dried.. .."
Only a few days ago Luke you said that certainty was approaching?
Can I interpret your comment above to mean that it's now arrived?
And I thought Stern was just about the economics of it all.....
I'll have to read the entire report rather than the ES to find this evidence which puts paid to all doubt!
Is it really 700 odd pages long?
This will be probably get deleted, but its worth the effort to thank you guys for the ride.
Luke and Pinxi - you are friggin legends!