"At this point it’s fair to ask: What is the difference, if any, between the climate alarmists and the religious cults that predict the end of the world"

"It was David Viner, a senior research scientist at the University of East Anglia’s climatic research unit, who told the Independent in 2000 that within just a few years, winter snow was going to become 'a very rare and exciting event.'
    “'Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,' he said, 22 years before snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere reached a record high....
    "Viner is of course only one of many climate doomsday prophets who have made forecasts that seemed more like the rantings of a mental hospital patient. Their miserable record has been covered by esteemed columnists, reputable think tanks, and occasionally the media. There’s even a Facebook page dedicated to climate change predictions.
    "At this point it’s fair to ask: What is the difference, if any, between the climate alarmists and the religious cults that predict the end of the world, and rather than humbly rethink their premises after their predictions fail, claim that they just got the day wrong and double down on the loco?
    "Our answer: The only real difference is that while the doomsday cults have no political power and are routinely skewered by the media, the climate alarmists have nearly unchallenged political clout, deep and wide institutional patronage, and the uncritical support of a press that is not merely sympathetic but actively promotes a deception agenda."

~ Issues + Insights Editorial Board, from their op-ed 'The Climate Alarmists Are Deeply Disturbed People'

Hat tip Gus Van Horn, who notes: 

"One of the most common mistakes is to allow a consensus, real or imagined, to cause oneself to assume that one's own thinking is incorrect or fruitless.
    "Just because a movement is large and powerful does not mean it is correct or that its size and power are a testimony to objectivity or virtue of any kind. Or that it is not, in fact, a cult."