Environment Chairman: ‘Global Warming Alarmism Has Evolved Into a Religion’
(CNSNews.com) - Pointing approvingly to an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal by House Science Chairman Lamar Smith (R.-Texas), Senate Environment Chairman Jim Inhofe (R.-Okla.) said on the Senate floor yesterday that global warming alarmists are advancing a new religious sect.
“Global warming alarmism has evolved into a religion where one is either an alarmist or a skeptic,” Inhofe said.
“The modern-day religion of climate change has been very artful in establishing and controlling carefully scripted talking points intended to scare the American people under the guise of environmental protectionism,” said Inhofe.
Rep. Smith published his op-ed—“The Climate-Change Religion”—in the Wall Street Journal on April 23.
Here is an excerpt from Inhofe’s speech:
The other day a good friend of mine, Lamar Smith from the House ... published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that was entitled, ‘The Climate-Change Religion.’ Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that this article be printed in the Record at the conclusion of my remarks.
I thank Lamar Smith for his continued leadership and support on this issue. As Lamar highlights in the oped, the debate about global warming is predicated more on ‘scare tactics than on fact based determinations.’
Global warming alarmism has evolved into a religion where one is either an alarmist or a skeptic. Some people are not aware of those two terms. Someone who has bought into this ‘the world is coming to an end’— they are the alarmists. People who do not believe that, as myself, are skeptics. And being a skeptic is akin to heresy of the highest order. Good policy has to be based on good science, not on religion, and that requires science free from bias, whatever its conclusions may be.
The modern-day religion of climate change has been very artful in establishing and controlling carefully scripted talking points intended to scare the American people under the guise of environmental protectionism.
There are three main tenets of climate change alarmism that can be found in any related speech, which we heard the President recite during his recent Earth Day speech. Those three tenets are: No. 1, climate change is human caused. No. 2, climate change is already wreaking havoc across the globe. And No. 3, we must act today— now—before terrible things happen—the world coming to an end.
These three main tenets of climate change can be found on just about every administrative agency page, and they are creeping into every Federal policy determination.
Both Chairman Inhofe's speech and Chairman Smith's op-ed were printed in the Congressional Record.
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