The Green Bubble, by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger

Why environmentalism keeps imploding.

East Bay Republican Examiner: The climate change religion: Separating church and state

Just like the “Pet Rock” fad of the 1970’s, “man-made global warming” is now officially part of pop culture past. It rode off into the warm sunset along with Al Gore’s relevance and Rosy O’Donnell’s television career. I look forward to a future episode of “VH1’s I love the New Millennium” where they gather a bunch of comedians to time warp back to 2008 and cleverly lampoon all the environmental religious left folks who scared school children into thinking the world was going to end in the name of man-made global warming.
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My problem with the church of climate change began when the religious left started blurring the lines between personal conservation and public policy. When climate change suddenly transitioned from a personal religious belief to a full-blown bureaucratic state controlled tool to create new taxes and increase the size of government. A “big brother” that wants to monitor your home thermostat and mandate how you run your business.

The environmental religious left in this country has become everything they detest about the Christian religious right. And more.