Courts declare Global Warming a protected religion, while crucifixes are banned in Italian schools

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Sanity will prevail. One day. Perhaps.

It’s been obvious for a very long time that the fervent “belief” some people have in human-induced climate change is closer to religion than science. Now a court has ruled that climate change is indeed a religion with its believers able to claim legal protection for their faith.

In a landmark decision in London, Justice Sir Michael Burton has declared that redundant worker Tim Nicholson’s views on global warming are so deeply held that they are worthy of the same protection as religious beliefs.

“A belief in man-made climate change, and the alleged resulting moral imperatives, is capable if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations,” His Honour said in a written decision.

Nicholson claimed he was sacked by Grainger, the UK’s largest listed residential property company, because of his views on the company’s attitude to climate change. The company said he was made redundant because of the economic downturn.

Justice Burton’s decision will enable Nicholson to take Grainger to an employment tribunal to claim he was sacked because of his religious beliefs.

The case comes as the proponents of global warming are mounting a hysterical propaganda war around the world in the countdown to the UN’s climate change summit in Copenhagen next month.

Hysterical, because the “scientific” basis for their economy-wrecking cause collapses further by the week, leaving them to demand everyone “believe” their mantras.

The most-read post on this blog was the April 2008 revelation that average world temperatures had not increased since 1998 despite continued growth in carbon dioxide emissions. This post continues to get dozens of hits every day and has now been read twice as many times as the next most popular post.

The post was about a BBC news story that quoted temperature data from the UN’s very own World Meteorological Organisation. Both the BBC and the WMO are ardent believers in global warming. Until their revelation, I had actually believed the propaganda that temperatures were going constantly up. The BBC story was such dynamite that the Global Warming Thought Police put heavy pressure on the BBC to recant it.

It is becoming ever clearer that the inconvenient scientific truth is somewhat different from the shrill propaganda. The world’s climate is always changing. A thousand years ago, temperatures were warmer than now as the world basked in the Medieval Warm Period, during which the Vikings settled Greenland and grapes were grown in the north of England. But temperatures gradually fell again, until the Little Ice Age of the mid-1700s, in which the Thames froze, glaciers advanced across Europe and Greenland had become so covered in snow and ice that the Viking settlements lay long abandoned.

There were no SUVs in the Medieval Warm Period, nor for 200 years after the Little Ice Age, but after the latter, the world gradually began warming again, with ebbs and flows about every 40 or 50 years that led to the same alarmists who today claim we are going to cook claiming in 1975 that we were entering a new ice age, because of global cooling from 1940 and then.

Of course, once that claim was made, another warming cycle began.

The BBC recently updated last year’s story, again having to concede that average world temperatures have still not risen since 1998, in complete contravention of the computer climate models the warmists use to push their religious beliefs.

After 11 years now without global warming, and with temperatures actually falling in many places, it seems about time for the Warmers to confront the fact we just may be entering another cyclical cooling phase. That might allow time to conduct some actual rather than computerised work on the human effect on the climate before rushing in to Copenhagen’s religious indulgences, pardon, emissions trading scams, sorry, schemes, that will greatly enrich the same money merchants who wrecked the global economy last year, while doing nothing actually to reduce the supposedly dangerous emissions.

There are two delicious ironies to Justice Burton’s declaration that climate change is a religious belief.

First, Justice Burton is the very same High Court judge who ruled in 2007 that warmist cardinal Al Gore’s propaganda film An Inconvenient Truth included nine serious scientific errors, one of them that the South Pacific ocean was rising and island-dwellers had been forced to evacuate to New Zealand. The judge ruled this arch-work of mass deception could only be shown in schools if accompanied by a countering viewpoint.

The second irony is that it comes at the same time as the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Italian schools must remove the crucifixes that have adorned their walls for decades, as crucifixes represent an ancient religion, Christianity, which is apparently now frowned upon by the courts in Europe just as the new religion, Climate Change, is welcomed.

Jesus wept.

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