Tear down this wall! And save the planet | Mikhail Gorbachev - Times Online

There are urgent parallels between the fall of Communism and the fight to stop climate change
Mikhail Gorbachev [But he's not even a climatologist!]
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Today another planetary threat has emerged. The climate crisis is the new wall that divides us from our future, and today’s leaders are vastly underestimating the urgency, and potentially catastrophic scale, of the emergency.

Global warming debate is too HOT to handle » Propeller

Like most people, I am not a scientist. If a man in a white coat with a lot of letters after his name shows me a graph and says it proves that the planet is getting warmer because of the effects of man-made carbon emissions, I tend to believe him.

The problem is that if another man with an equally dazzling coat and accumulation of letters says that no, actually, the Antarctic ice cap is 30 per cent thicker than it was 30 years ago and climate change is caused by sunspots, not CO2, then I'm swayed by him, too.

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If on the other hand, he goes and signs the treaty, as I believe he wants to, it will take a super-majority of 67 U.S. Senate votes to ratify it. Then before ratification could happen, this news will dominate the air waves and newspapers worldwide, and naturally, outrage will mount. The press will have to cover protests with pitchforks making the Tea Party protests look like child's play. Stay tuned.

Welcome to the age of the eco-martyr. God help us | Catherine Bennett | Comment is free | The Observer

In practice, it seems likely that his achievement in getting climate change classified with the supernatural will do more planetary damage even than a 6,000-mile trip in a 50-year-old Morris Oxford. Some wonder if St Tim has not been possessed by the spirit of Christopher Monckton. For short of the collective apostasy of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, it is hard to imagine a more rewarding episode for sceptics who have always said that environmentalism is a matter of faith, not facts. For them, the most effective way of discrediting the movement is to depict it as an alliance of gullible consumers and doomy, secular preachers, who rant about sin, self-scourging and the apocalypse because they can't produce any evidence. Disparaging analogies with religion, implying that it has no science worth challenging, have followed the movement almost since it began, finding their most elegant expression in a well-known speech made by the late Michael Crichton. "Environmentalism is the religion of choice for urban atheists," he said in 2003. "Increasingly it seems facts aren't necessary, because the tenets of environmentalism are all about belief."

Too many environmentalists have helped make his point.