"scientists and organizations who have staked their credibility - and are willing that the rest of us should stake our economic well-being - on the concept of human-driven global warming will not back down"

Global Warming - the New Catechism « Conservative Commentary

The point I’m coming to is this: among most environmentalists, the concept of human-driven global warming has become an article of religious faith: part of a new catechism in which the argument is repeated so often and at such length that it becomes impervious to empirical observation. ‘Yes, we’ve been cooling off for nearly ten years now and yes, we expect at least another decade of cooling. But we still insist that global warming is real, that it’s being driven by human industry, and that we should all sign the economically-devastating ‘Kyoto Accords’.’ That sort of immunity to facts looks more like obsession than conviction.

Look, if the notion that human beings are bringing on a climatologic disaster is the primary concept that informs your world-view, then it will act as a self-blinding lens, filtering out all data to the contrary. If things continue as they have been and happen as predicted, in ten years we may very well be looking at an approximately 150 year low in global temperatures. The impact of that, in expanding polar ice sheets, lower ocean levels, and tremendous hardship for agriculture, is hard to predict. Go ahead and plug the information into your computers and see what they project. Ten years from now, we may be encouraging greenhouse gas production, for the mere sake of warmth.