Moonbattery and Elitism

Planet Gore on National Review Online

It might be called the tree worshipping tradition. Modern global warming alarmism is a variation, and can be seen most clearly when proponents let slip the fact that it doesn’t matter whether it’s true because it will make us do the right thing: de-industrialize, adopt simple rural lifestyles, save the forests or re-forest, etc. What has happened is that Monbiot was earlier seen as a perfect caricature, but now is seen as an exemplar, even though he hasn’t changed at all. As O’Neill correctly notes, by once again claiming to be scientific the movement is becoming mainstream among the chattering class.