Griper Blade: The Real Religion of the Right

Scientific American's blog, Sciam Observations, had the best headline on the subject that I could find.

"Nobel committee to climate change deniers: 'Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries.'"

What follows is a clip from Monty Python and the Holy Grail and a bunch of "We told you so" -- Sciam points out that Al Gore was one of their 50 policy leaders of the year, that they'd written about the physical science behind climate change, and that global warming clearly had a human cause.

Case closed, right? Yeah, that's what everyone said after Gore's co-winner, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), came out with their consensus report on climate change. For climate change deniers, the case was far from closed. The problem is that climate change deniers are right wing kooks. Like creationists, no amount of evidence, no actual facts, will ever change their mind. That climate change can't possibly have a human cause is an article of firm, unshakable faith. They often accuse people who accept reality as having a religious attachment to human-caused climate change, but they're projecting. Being right wing kooks, climate change denial is just one facet of their deeply held religious belief that anything any liberal anywhere believes is wrong, wrong, wrong. Do a victory lap and wave your privates at their aunties, but it's not going to change a damned thing for them. Nothing will. Climate change deniers are biased to their very core and that bias is nurtured to the point of obsession. They are beyond irrational, call them anti-rational.

Last week wasn't a good one for conservatives. First, they had Rush Limbaugh trying to dig himself out of a hole over his "phony soldiers" comment. The attack campaigns just kept coming -- getting more and more shameless as the week wore on. They attacked a brain-injured 12-year old boy for daring to say that kids need health coverage, publishing his home address and phone number, so other nuts could harass his family. Meanwhile, Ann Coulter suggested that the world would be better without Jews -- not surprisingly, there hasn't been a lot of attacking from the right over that. Only liberals do and say bad things...

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