Liberty Minute April 2 2014

 Climate change ideology is a dogma masquerading as science. Proponents of the theory of human-generated global warming insist that their views are rooted in objective data ? yet they also insist that subjecting their conclusions to scrutiny constitutes ?denial,? rather than the application of skeptical intelligence that the scientific method requires.

 Rather than defending their views, the guardians of global warming orthodoxy assail the motives of those who don't share their perspective. This is why people who are unpersuaded by the climate change movement's claims ? a group that includes thousands of well-qualified scientists in the appropriate fields ? are routinely denigrated as ?Climate Deniers,? an epithet calculated to associate them with Holocaust Deniers and other unsavory figures.

 Predictably, the high priests of the global warming cult have decreed that disagreement with them should be treated as a crime. One of their spokesmen, Adam Weinstein, insists that so-called ?climate change deniers? should be arrested and prosecuted as purported accomplices in what he insists are 150,000 climate-related deaths each year.

 ?First Amendment rights were never intended to be absolute,? proclaims Weinstein, invoking the familiar defense offered by totalitarian-minded people seeking to criminalize disagreement with them.

 Environmentalism has always been a religion, and its adherents are preparing their own Inquisition. 

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.