Here and elsewhere in cyberspace, discussion of climate change has often been likened to a religion rather than a science. I recently came across a simple comparison between religion and science:

Religion	Science
Book of truth	Method of truth
Revelation of truth	Search for truth
Dogma	Means for understanding
Destination	Journey
Central authority	Shared responsibility

Climate change, or global warming, as it is fed to the public, day in and day out, fits more into the religion column than the science. There are books of truth, consider Earth in The Balance and An Inconvenient Truth to be the old and new testaments. In these and other supporting tomes, truth is revealed, not explained. The public discourse on climate change, involves faith-based dogma rather than providing a means for making rational decisions. Like the evangelical pastor warning us to prepare for the End of Days, the priests of GW/CC tells us that we have 10 years or 100 months or some other finite time to act. In either case, we must repent and submit or dire results will befall us. Religion involves destination, be it an afterlife or nirvana. The destination in the GW/CC discourse is eternal happiness on a planet with an idyllic climate. The discourse on GW/CC centres on central authority, the high priests rather than a shared responsibility for seeking truth.

Climate Change and Global Warming, as presented, demands obeisance to the truths revealed to us by activists, the media, and politicians. They are the oracles, Pharisees, and high priests of the faith. Selected literature forms the Book of Truths that, like the Bible, the Torah, and the Qur’an, cannot be questioned lest we fall from grace. Like major religions, adherents chant the litany of CC/GW without question. Opposing views are dismissed as unholy missives, those who do not believe are damned. The high priests of CC/GW offer us salvation if we only believe and submit, usually involving some form of offering to the church, akin to buying indulgences.

All of this is antithetical to science. Science is a continual journey, a search for truth building on previous knowledge. Observation and experimental method are its prime characteristics. Science demands that we overturn old theories when new information overturns old assumptions. Science explains the world around us, it does not demand belief.