Today, Forbes Magazine publishes the article of the week by Paul Johnson [pictured receiving the Presidential Medal, December 15, 2006], the eminent British historian and author [‘The Nonsense of Global Warming’, Forbes Magazine, October 6 - on your first visit you may have to click ‘Skip This Welcome Screen’]. This is seminal in its excoriating criticism of the ‘global warming’ Grand Narrative. Here are some selected quotations, but please take time to read the whole piece:

“The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels - the essence of the Greens’ theory of global warming - has about as much basis in science as Marxism and Freudianism. Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.”

“Those who buy in to global warming wish to drastically curb human economic and industrial activities, regardless of the consequences for people, especially the poor. If the theory’s conclusions are accepted and agreed upon, the destructive results will be felt most severely in those states that adhere to the rule of law and will observe restrictions most faithfully.”

“Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science. If people are in need of religion, why don’t they just turn to the genuine article?”

Just so.