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This is a good question. The reason is that global warming is the new fashionable religion of Western democracies. Christian church attendances have long been declining and belief in global warming has filled the gap as media propaganda about its supposed catastrophic environmental effects pervades the world and alarms the populace.

This new Green eco-religion is like a wolf in sheep's clothing and is as dangerous. Unchecked it could result in the downfall of Western civilization as we know it today, or should I say, of yesterday, for already some Governments have implemented very unwise climate change policies derived from unscientific Green beliefs.

Every religion, or belief system, has a "big stick" or propaganda to coerce the unsuspecting public to their cause. The Christian churches used to preach "hell fire and brimstone" to control their believers. The Communists promoted the idea of the "wickedness of Western capitalism", and now the Green Eco-religion has "catastrophic global warming" to scare the living daylights out of everyone.

All this is egged on by the media, by TV, radio and newspapers, largely, I suspect because they are always under pressure to fill up the news space with anything that remotely seems to be news, whether or not it has any verification of truth about it. In such a competitive business the media is stretched to filter out the wheat from the chaff and relies on the viewer to do so.

Intermingled with this fault is media bias which is non-reporting of "politically incorrect" viewpoints. Here the owners, or managers of the media outlets have taken a stand on some issue and restrict the reporting to favor and bolster their belief system. So, viewer and listener beware! Still, the present imperfect Western media system is better than having a wholly Government controlled one, Heaven forbid! More on this topic in References.

Global warming and climate change are the most misunderstood topics existing today. They seem deliberately made confusing by the media and the Green movement. Much of the Green philosophy of having a cleaner world and of conserving energy and reducing waste is sensible, even admirable, and I support many of their endeavors to do this, but where I draw the line is when nonscientific factors (= bull) and witchcraft are introduced to promote some idealistic theory that will lead us to economic disaster and/or a supposed "Green Utopia". Such activity is no different in principal from when in the past other fanatical groups

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