The Climate Change belief system is built on the Anthropogenic principle that human society is responsible for all climate related disasters.
The mechanism invoked for this responsibilty is: 'burning fossil fuels leads to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and this causes an increase in the total Greenhouse effect that results in Global Warming and hence Climate Change.
Other anthropogenic emissions causing (allegedly) increases in the total Greenhouse effect include methane, nitrous oxide, ozone and trace pollutants. However, these are usually sidelined to ‘bit parts’ by the Climate Change zealotry's obsession with carbon dioxide.
The changes inferred by the use of the terrm 'Climate Change' are high temperature days anywhere in the world, regional or local heat waves, the occurrance of fires, droughts, floods, less snow and rain, more snow and rain, strong wind, storms & hurricanes as well as melting ice and dangerous sea-level rise.
The Climate Change belief is so strongly held by many leading intellectuals, politicians and educators that whole generations (from the 1980s) of young people have become so indoctrinated that they refuse to believe anything else is possible. They refer to unindoctrinated (and hence non-believer) commentators as 'Deniers' or 'Skeptics'.
Anyone under the age of 55 to 60 know no other climate education than the dogma of Climate Change. Their frequent use of terms like 'Denier' or 'Skeptic' show the degree to which this indoctrination has succeeded.
The Climate Change Anointed attitude has many parallels with another anthropocentric belief system – that the sun goes round the Earth. This was such a strongly held belief system in the sixteenth century that those who suggested alternative evidence-based alternatives were termed ‘heretics’ and persecuted.
The use of ‘Climate skeptics’ or ‘Climate deniers’ is the modern (or is it post-modern?) equivalent of 'heretic' and those individuals highlighted as such are sanctioned by being 'cancelled'.
Prominent Individuals who are branded ’Deniers and Skeptics’ by the Anointed include Anders Jonas Ångström, John Christy, John Francis Clauser, William Happer, Mike Hulme, Steve E, Koonin, Richard Lindzen, Bjørn Lomborg, Steve Rayner, Matt Ridley, Fred Seitz, Fred Singer, Roy Spencer, Patrick Michaels, Christopher Monckton, Roger A. Pielke Jr., Daniel Sarewitz and Donald Trump.
This list includes many eminent scientists who have the academic knowledge fundamental in understand the Greenhouse effect, the workings of the climate system and the modelling of these. Many are criticised by the Anointed for dabbling in pseudo-science.
The list does not include many leading intellectuals, lawyers or politicians as expressing skepticism is in most political systems (USA currently excluded) career ending.
Not going along with the so-called scientific consensus exemplified by President Obama’s May 2013 tweet "Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: Climate Change is real, man-made and dangerous" is enough to earn the ire of the Anointed.
President Obama's 97% consensus is a sham – as further discussed in volume two of ‘Natural and Anthropogenic Climate Variability’.
Also, to quote Professor Paul Reiter (Pasteur Institute in Paris) in a statement to the UK Parliament (March 2005) “Consensus is the stuff of politics, not of science”.
To call out serious scientists as ‘Climate Deniers', in any case, contains a falshood. Serious scientists accept that the Earth is in a period of warming – this has been clear since the Earth's surface temperature began its climb from the depths of the ‘Little Ice Age’ over two hundred years ago.
What these naturally skepical scintists deny, if that’s the right word, is blaming all the warming on anthropogenic emissions.
True scientists are naturally skeptical. The Royal Society (founded in 1660, is the UK's independent national academy of sciences and the oldest continuously existing scientific academy in the world). Its motto is ‘take no one’s word for it’. Unfortunately, the Climate Change belief system rests upon taking the words of the assertion ‘Anthropogenic emissions cause Climate Change’ without question or scientific challenge.
Their 'we're saving the planet!' faith in the absolute truth of the assertion provides them with typical (for Anointed) moral high-ground arrogance to call challengers of their belief system ‘Deniers’ and proceed to do their best to cancel them.
A very dangerous elements of the Climate Change belief system is that ‘Humans (in particular the populations of democratic ‘Global north’ countries) must take the blame for everything bad’.
While claiming that something is all your fault is as vain as claiming it’s to your credit, the energy policies emanating from the Anointed are hugely damaging to the economies of the ‘Global North’. They are based on the arrogant anthropocentric belief that only humans can ‘fix’ the so-called ‘Climate crisis’.
This ‘fix' lacks of evidence that any of these policies will make the Earth’s climate more benign for human society.
Their faith of the policies working appears to be based on the obverse of the assertion ‘Anthropogenic emissions cause Climate Change’
Somehow they mistakenly believe that: ‘the negative phenomena (for human society) caused by Climate Change will be mitigated by stopping the burning of fossil fuels’.
Many of the Anointed who have some slight inkling that their faith may be misplaced fall back of the ‘Precautionary Principle’ which, baldly stated, means they would rather see the certain destruction of the economies of the ‘Global North’ in the vague hope of staving off some alarmist’s dream of ‘Climate Apocalypse’.
Fe factors contributing to natural climate variability have been around for over 500 million years.
They have given the Earth, among other extrem climates, the long, over 100 million years, Karoo ice age and, 56 million years ago, very hot Palaeocene - Eocene thermal maximum.
In the last 3.6 million years natural climate variability has caused the Earth (particularly the Northern hemisphere, very many advances (and retreats) of ice.
Before humans began to industrialise there have been quite recent warm and cold periods – the Holocene Thermal Maximum (around eight thousand years ago), the Minoan Warm Period, the Roman Warm Period, the Medieval Warm period and (most recently) the Little Ice Age - were all the result of natural climate variability factors at play.
Despite this long history of these natural factors affecting the Earth’s climate – sometimes quite radically – a major tenet of Climate Change belief is that human’s and our industrialisation emissions have relegated these 500 million years factors of variability to a minor – almost negligible – role.
This relegation is an extreme demonstration of the arrogance of Climate Change believers.