Medieval Warm Period Denialist

Global warming is here to stay I fear...as a religion. Ellen Goodman now compares skeptics to crazy lunatics who deny the history in front of their faces:

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.

That might come as quite a surprise to this impressive list of climate experts. But Goodman's faith is strong. So strong in fact, one might refer to her as medieval warm period denialist.

In other warming news: Robert Fisk disproves global warming once and for all, with a little help from the Gore Effect. Speaking of which, if you click on the "effect" link, you will notice that heavy breathers are trying to counteract the true meaning of the Gore Effect with one of their own.

No points for originality, but points galore for desparate and pathetic mimicry.

UPDATE: Goodman will be displeased that the basis of her faith, the recently released IPCC report, is in doubt. The summary, which everyone has now placed in the Holy Tabernacle of Gaia, is drastically different from what the actual scientific report will say when it is released in a few months. Melanie Phillips quoting Christopher Monckton:

Figures in the final draft of the UN’s fourth five-year report on climate change show that the previous report, in 2001, had overestimated the human influence on the climate since the Industrial Revolution by at least one-third. Also, the UN, in its 2007 report, has more than halved its high-end best estimate of the rise in sea level by 2100 from 3 feet to just 17 inches. It suggests that the rate of sea-level rise is up from 2mm/yr to 3mm/year – no more than one foot in a century. UN scientists faced several problems their computer models had not predicted. Globally, temperature is not rising at all, and sea level is not rising anything like as fast as had been forecast. Concentrations of methane in the air are actually falling…

Monckton's report is here in full (pdf).

It is now being hinted at that the scientific report may be doctored to reflect the summary. That makes a kind of perverted sense though, if you think about it.

Science should never intrude on faith.