True Believers Hold Revival in Copenhagen

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The anthropogenic global warming “true believers” have gathered in Copenhagen to hold a revival, to shore up each other’s faith while trying to get disbelievers to repent of their sins and come back to the socialist fold.

Bret Stephens at the Wall Street Journal examines the GroupThink fantasy of AGW believers in his column this week, and the National Center for Policy Analysis gives us a breakdown of the highlights:

• There’s a distinct tendency among climate alarmists toward uncompromising radicalism, a hatred of “bourgeois” values, and disgust with democratic practices.
• So President Obama wants to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 83 percent from current levels by 2050, levels not seen since the 1870s — in effect, the Industrial Revolution in reverse.
• Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, insists that “our lifestyles are unsustainable.”
• Al Gore gets crowds going by insisting that “civil disobedience has a role to play” in strong-arming governments to do his bidding (this from the man who once sought to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution).

There is a healthy dose of socialist utopianism involved, too, along with some good old fashioned anti-humanism.

Read the entire piece for an insightful treatis.

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