Heresy - Global warming denial

When ever you talk to an atheist, you always end up with a discussion of the evils organized religion have imposed on society. Whenever, you ask them to give you an example you inevitably get.

The Crusades!
The Crusades!
The Crusades!

Something that happened well over 500 years ago and much of which was a response to attacks from Muslims into western Europe.

But regardless, you will almost always get some kind of jab about how the Church persecuted Galileo and Copernicus for their science of the solar system.

But many of these sames atheist liberals are the first to shut out and downright persecute anyone who has a contrary opinion on the issue of global warming.

Jeff Jacoby has a good piece about the persecution of "global warming deniers". And we're not just talking about a few loons shouting down a rally on a college campus. We're talking about people who should know better.

Excerpt

Anthropogenic global warming is a scientific hypothesis, not an article of religious or ideological dogma. Skepticism and doubt are entirely appropriate in the realm of science, in which truth is determined by evidence, experimentation, and observation, not by consensus or revelation. Yet when it comes to global warming, dissent is treated as heresy -- as a pernicious belief whose exponents must be shamed, shunned, or silenced.

Newsweek is hardly the only offender. At the Live Earth concert in New Jersey last month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denounced climate-change skeptics as "corporate toadies" for "villainous" enemies of America and the human race. "This is treason," he shouted, "and we need to start treating them now as traitors."

Some environmentalists and commentators have suggested that global-warming "denial" be made a crime, much as Holocaust denial is in some countries. Others have proposed that climate-change dissidents be prosecuted in Nuremberg-style trials. The Weather Channel's Heidi Cullen has suggested that television meteorologists be stripped of their American Meteorological Society certification if they dare to question predictions of catastrophic global warming.

A few weeks ago, the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Marlo Lewis published an article opposing mandatory limits on carbon-dioxide emissions, arguing that Congress should not impose caps until the technology exists to produce energy that doesn't depend on carbon dioxide. In response to Lewis's reasonable piece, the president of the American Council on Renewable Energy, Michael Eckhart, issued a threat:

"Take this warning from me, Marlo. It is my intention to destroy your career as a liar. If you produce one more editorial against climate change, I will launch a campaign against your professional integrity. I will call you a liar and charlatan to the Harvard community of which you and I are members. I will call you out as a man who has been bought by Corporate America."

Projection...... It's not just for 15th century Christians anymore.