...a few posts back I commented on an article by Mick Hume in the UK New Scientist. Hume was presenting climate change as an esoteric entity rather than an explainable and rational scientific phenomenon. Here's a quote......The world's climates will keep on changing, with human influences now inextricably entangled with those of nature. So too will the idea of climate change keep changing as we find new ways of using it to meet our needs. We will continue to create and tell new stories about climate change and mobilise these stories in support of our projects. Whereas a modernist reading of climate may once have regarded it as merely a physical condition for human action, we must now come to terms with climate change operating simultaneously as an overlying, but more fluid, imaginative condition of human existence...
Hume is postulating a spiritual approach to climate change, an approach that would allow the climate to be used as its devotees interpreted and wished. In so doing though, Hume is signalling and acknowledging the defeat of the green/left science based approach he once championed. Coincidentally, in support of Hume's argument a UK judge has ruled that an employee with extreme green views is acting out of a deeply held belief and that his (political) belief is a spiritual matter...The decision, (favourable to the loopy green employee) which is being challenged by the company, comes two years after the law on religious discrimination was changed so that beliefs no longer had to be "similar" to religious faith to receive protection in the workplace...more here...
...as Counting Cats observes...It shows we are winning. It shows on the subject of AGW that they no longer have scientific powder in their pouches and are having to fight on the grounds of mysticism. The grounds of mysticism is a battlefield where science has slain mystics unnumbered...
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