Warming's True Believers

We are now hearing from human-generated global warming’s journalistic true believers that recent blizzards are caused by global warming. Indeed for these people, whatever happens is caused by global warming, and nothing that happens or may happen can shake their faith. This is nothing new. One could substitute “angels” for “global warming” and have the same sort of all purpose explanation. After all, if angels by hypothesis can do anything, then anything that happens can be caused by them, and nothing that happens can cast doubt on the explanation. Similarly if every change in weather or climate is by hypothesis caused by global warming, then no observed facts or set of observed facts can cast doubt on that explanation.

This sort of thinking is commonplace and has been throughout history. It is not, however, scientific. There is a good reason that critics call this stuff a religion.