Obligatory global warming article

Global warming, or as a new Pope takes on a saint's name, "Climate Change," has gone from credible scientific enquiry beginning in 1824 to a small cottage industry hoax in the mid twentieth century created by a few members of the wild-eyed intellectual classes (What, nobody believes our "coming ice age" warnings? Let's try global warming instead) to a full-blown international hoax today.

With the current Copenhagen Climate Conference in full swing it's almost obligatory for every hack writer, pundit, blogger, opinionizer and blathermonger with a keyboard to write something about it. So here goes:

The Copenhagen Climate Conference is sort of like a modern Council of Trent, attempting to determine which sciency-sounding assertions are divinely inspired and therefore worthy of being canonized and which email hackers can be excommunicated as grievous heretics.

By now it ought to be obvious to everyone, although it never is, that the actual science of global warming is entirely irrelevant to the current discussion of global warming. Here's why:

1. The world warms and the world cools and it's been doing so for millennia, without human cause, since almost all of the thermometer's ups and downs (i.e., the well-documented Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age) occurred before humans began burning fossil fuels in more than relatively miniscule amounts.

2. Global warming (rebranded "climate change" so as to cover all temperature fluctuations) has been fully politicized, religionized and ideologued. Politicians and the politically connected who stand to gain vast power, vast wealth, and/or vast ego expansion simply don't care about science, other than using "science" (i.e., tax grant-purchased sciency-sounding pronouncements) as a means to their ends.

3. No mere human science, nor any amount of massive worldwide redistribution of other people's wealth, will change what natural planetary phenomenon is going to do anyway. Furthermore, the political classes and their connected sycophants are perfectly aware of this. Global warming, like all religions, is simply a device imposed on the masses by the ruling classes in order to control and manipulate the masses for the benefit of the rulers.

Some hoaxes perpetrated on populations, such as the divine right of kings, the Medieval Inquisition, and various forms of socialism, fulfill this purpose. Some don't.

For comparison, here are some actual scientificy domains that don't lend themselves to hoaxery very well.

Evolution is a scientific theory of how living organisms change through time but nobody is trying to politicize it in order to "Stop Evolution NOW!" (Creationists deny evolution, so they can't very well "stop" what they claim doesn't exist.)

Plate Tectonics is a scientific theory that explains such geological phenomena as earthquakes, volcanism, continental drift, and mountain building, but nobody is trying to politicize it in an effort to "Stop the Earth's Crust from Moving NOW!"

The Big Bang is a scientific theory about the origin of the universe, but nobody is trying to politicize it in an effort to "Stop the Universe from Expanding NOW!"

Again, global warming is not about science. It's about politics and ideology and religion. Discussions of the science at this point are interesting but irrelevant.

Remember, being called an Anthropogenic Global Warming Denier is like being called a Flat Earth Denier or a Martian Canal Denier or a Tooth Fairy Denier so take it as a compliment.