Climate Change And The Ten Warning Signs For Cults
Reposted from Medium
Have you thought to yourself that the Climate Change movement seems more and more like a religious movement?
I have, so I researched how to identify a religious cult. Rick Ross, an expert on cults and intervention specialist, developed a list of ten warning signs for unsafe groups, which is published by the Cult Education Institute.
So let’s take a look at all ten signs and compare:
1. Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability.
The leading advocates of the Climate Change movement are politicians, entertainers, and even children.
Climate preachers such as Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio lack any formal scientific training whatsoever and live personal lives of unparalleled luxury while prescribing carbon austerity for the masses.
Yet no one is permitted to point out their scientific ignorance or call attention to their hypocritical lifestyles.
Child advocates such as Greta Thunberg and the crudely indoctrinated children of the “Sunrise movement” are essentially sock puppets for their shameless activist handlers.
Refuse to bend the knee to these tiny fascists, as Diane Feinstein most recently did, and the mainstream left will relentlessly attack you as an accessory to mass murder.
The authority of Climate Change leaders is entirely unmerited and absolute, yet no one is permitted to hold them accountable for their ignorance, inexperience, or brazen lies.
Thus, the Climate Change movement clearly meets the first warning sign for unsafe groups.
2. No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry.
The conclusions of the Climate Change movement may not be challenged or questioned under any circumstances.
Those who dare scrutinize the conclusions, methodology, or prescriptions of “climate scientists” are categorically dismissed as a “Climate Denier”, an excommunicated untouchable whose opinion is no longer valid on any subject.
Questions and critical inquiry aren’t merely dismissed or refuted.
The unfortunate heretic immediately experiences a relentless ad hominem onslaught of scorn and hatred from the political and media left and is often subjected to accusations of outright murder. Simply question the effectiveness of a “carbon tax” and you may find yourself tied to a stake.
There is no tolerance for questioning the Climate Change movement, and thus it clearly meets the second warning sign for unsafe groups.
3. No meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget, expenses such as an independently audited financial statement.
Hardly anyone knows just how much money is spent on “Climate research” every year.
The cost is spread out among laughably useless study grants, wind and solar farm subsidies, carbon offset credits, “green” building code evaluation and enforcement, salaries for bureaucrats solely dedicated to “climate concerns”—you get the idea, it’s a lot of hazy money.
The abhorrent practice of “sue and settle” was a flat out money laundering scheme that allowed sympathetic government officials to transfer millions of tax dollars to radical leftist environmental groups.
The practice only ended when the Trump administration used executive power to clamp down on it.
The total amount of yearly financial expenditure on the Climate Change movement is vague, difficult to track, and often carried out in unethical manners. Thus, the Climate Change movement exhibits the third warning sign for unsafe groups.
4. Unreasonable fear about the outside world, such as impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies, and persecutions.
This one is pretty obvious. The Climate Change movement always shouts out revised and updated apocalypse predictions, eerily reminiscent of the stereotypical bum on the sidewalk with that “The End Is Near” sign.
“The world will end in X years if we don’t do X” is the constant refrain.
The years always pass, and the apocalypse never happens.Interestingly, this is a characteristic of multiple religious cults (such as the Seekers of Chicago, and the Order of the Solar Temple).
At the moment, we apparently have 12 years to nationalize the entire economy and phase out fossil fuels before we all die a fiery death.
There’s also no shortage of conspiracy theories about who is the Earth’s greatest saboteurs. They have an enemies list.
The fossil fuel industry is at the top of it, with widespread tinfoil hat theories about oil companies burying patents for efficient renewable fuel recipes to keep us all guzzling gasoline.
The “repent or burn” doomsday preaching is the most well-known staple of the Climate Change movement, and quite clearly exemplifies the fourth warning sign for unsafe groups.
5. There is no legitimate reason to leave, former followers are always wrong in leaving, negative or even evil.
Climate alarmists who leave, step back from, or even lightly criticize the movement are immediately subjected to vicious smear campaigns.
Dutch professor Richard Tol experienced this phenomenon firsthand when he removed his name from an IPCC climate report and criticized the reports excessively apocalyptic predictions.
The smear campaign was led by Bob Ward, director of policy at the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change.
‘This has all the characteristics of a smear campaign,” Tol said. “It’s all about taking away my credibility as an expert.”
The treatment of Professor Tol is not uncommon and clearly demonstrates that the Climate Change movement exhibits the fifth warning sign for unsafe groups.
6. Former members often relate the same stories of abuse and reflect a similar pattern of grievances.
Professor Tol is not an anomaly. Dr. Richard Lindzen of MIT, Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner, and countless other former IPCC in-crowd climate experts were subjected to smear campaigns from their colleagues and the news media for the crime of throwing cold water on the outlandish predictions of the Climate Change movement.
This pattern is all too familiar to anyone who has studied what happens to individuals who leave the Church of Scientology and clearly meets the sixth warning sign for unsafe groups.
7. There are records, books, news articles, or television programs that document the abuses of the group/leader.
The abuses of the Climate Change movement are loud and proud. They vociferously attack their perceived enemies for public consumption and are cheered on by fellow travelers in the journalism class.
Most recently they brainwashed a bunch of kids and marched them into an octogenarian Democrat Senator’s office to beg not to be murdered by a ‘No’ vote on impossible legislation.
Have you seen those kids in Diane Feinstein’s office? You should, it’s creepy, here they are:
These tantrums and protests aren’t only meant to rally supporters of the Climate Change movement. They are a form of intimidation, a tactic used to silence those who question the gospel.
There is ample evidence that the Climate Change movement meets the seventh warning sign of an unsafe group.
8. Followers feel they can never be “good enough”.
The atonement process for Climate warriors always demands more. It started with using a recycling bin and grocery bags.
Now, in 2019, being a good follower means imposing veganism on the masses and issuing fatwahs against innocuous objects such as plastic straws and grocery bags.
Despite all the efforts of the faithful, Climate minions maintain a constant state of dread and despair, knowing they can never truly do enough to stop the coming doom.
Clearly, the eighth warning sign for unsafe groups applies to the Climate Change movement.
9. The group/leader is always right.
When have the climate leaders been called wrong for their failed predictions? Regardless of the weather, they are always intrinsically correct.
Floods? Climate Change. Droughts? Climate Change.
No Snow? Climate Change. Too much snow? Climate Change.
Tornados? Climate Change. Hurricanes? Climate Change. Lack of hurricanes? Climate Change.
See how this works?
One of the best aspects of the movement is “weather is climate until it isn’t.” The acolytes of Climate Change will point out the window in a heat wave and say, “See? We’re right!”
If a skeptic points out the window during a blizzard, the same acolytes will simply cry “Weather isn’t climate!” It’s a game they can never lose, one in which they are never wrong and always right.
SEE ALSO: The Climate Alarmist’s Difference Between Climate And Weather
Thus, the ninth warning sign for unsafe groups clearly applies.
10. The group/leader is the exclusive means of knowing “truth” or receiving validation, no other process of discovery is really acceptable or credible.
The path to discovery for the Climate Change movement is an intentionally vague discipline referred to as “climate science”.
Did you carry out a study on gender and glaciers? Climate Science.
Did you think up the worst possible scenarios that have no actual chance of happening (an actual portion of the latest National Climate Assessment)? Climate Science.
Any “science” that confirms the tenets of the Climate Change movement is deemed “climate science”, while actual scientific research that disputes their conclusions is derided as “denialism”.
The tenth warning sign for unsafe groups is clearly met.
The Verdict: It’s a cult
According to the established, scientific guidelines developed by cult experts, the Climate Change movement fits the bill for a potentially unsafe group.
When I looked up these established warning signs, I honestly expected Climate Change-ists to meet two or three of them, NOT TEN!
The disturbingly religious nature of this supposedly “scientific” movement should alarm any thinking human being, especially since the movement now openly seeks to nationalize the entire economy.
It’s time for conservatives to realize what they are dealing with, and act accordingly. Rather than debating Climate Change activists, it may be time to start staging interventions.
If someone you know is a member of the Climate Change Movement, and you are interested in intervention strategies, please visit https://culteducation.com/prep_faq.html.
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This climate histeria not about science. It has never been about science, but about Malthusianism.
Malthusianism is an idiotic nonsense, where causes – favorable conditions and abundant resources – and consequences – thriving life (and among this, humans) – are inverted (and the conclusion is negated).
Its decades if not centuries since Malthusians try to impose their foolish agenda.
They found that the AG warming (in the 1930s) then cooling (in the 1970s) then warming again (in the 1980s) climate scam was a perfect means to do this, and they were right since most people are frightened by bad weather vents, are gullible and have neither memory nor historic knowledge.
Leftists, green activists, climate zombies protesting in the streets, main stream propagandist media, green business snake oil salesmen etc. are just corrupted and/or useful idiots, nothing more.
The fact is that most of the politicians has been converted (by idiocy, ignorance, corruption) to Malthusianism cult.
Official warning to banks: Get real about climate change or risk going bust
Central bankers and finance regulators have warned banks to act urgently to fight climate change or risk going bust.
The policymakers argue in a new report that banks must lend to responsible partners and invest sustainably or face severe economic disruption and a collapse in asset prices.
The Network for Greening the Financial System, which produced the report, includes 34 central banks and regulators from countries including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, China and Japan.
The group argues that financial companies face major risks from climate change
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Another major risk from climate change is a sharp decline in the value of assets owned and traded by financial institutions. Potential examples include stock in oil companies or stakes in coal-burning power plants.
The group warned that climate risks are not being properly reflected in asset prices, and they pledged to take steps that will make banking more responsible and “green.”
“The enormous human and financial costs of climate change are having a devastating effect on our collective well-being,” members of the group, including Bank of England boss Mark Carney, said in an open letter.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/17/business/banks-climate-change-warning/index.html
Looks like downright Marxism to me. Believe as you’re told, do as you’re told or be ridiculed and put down…or worse. No questions asked. You know the climate change movement is totally fake because there can be no debate, questions or deep research into the methods used to come to these conclusions. This is true for everything leftist…you must accept our word and there can be no debate about it. It is pure 100% unadulterated propaganda.
The Church of Warming is just a sect of the post modernist religion of Secular Socialism, whose deity is the government. Religions are man made constructs that first reenforce and then usurp an individual’s spirituality for their leaders enrichment and power. There is very little difference between Joel Osteen and Al Gore.
There are infinite permutations of stupidity.
Constant discussion of stupidity produces a droning echo of the offending stupid.
Stupid can not be cured, so what’s the point?
The only way to get rid of it is to immunize a person before exposure.
Do you mean Rick Ross, the human rights violating kidnapper? https://www.standleague.org/bigotry-and-hate/exposed/rick-ross.html
High Tech doomsday Cult – love it. Send me $5 or you will die from climate change.
Man, I wish I could express my views on this as well as you have. Well done, sir! A big, fat, juicy steak for you!
The climate change hysteria is but the latest iteration of Marxism, picked up, dusted off, and given a new baggy suit. Gotta keep those peasants marching in lockstep to their betters’ cadence!
I live in California. I couldn’t even watch that clip of Feinstein and the ‘children’ all the way to the end. Those kids were just trained parrots, repeating lines they had previously learned to say. Pathetic!
And they say conservatives are mind-numbed robots. They should look in the mirror.
In reality, all of us a prone to repeat things we have heard; we investigate almost nothing for ourselves. It is a rare individual that does not take anybody’s word for anything and checks it our for themselves. It’s time-consuming, but it’s the only way to get close to the truth.
This post conveniently ignores scientists and scientific evidence. Sure, there is BS out there from some journalists, entertainers and Facebook groups. However, the scientific evidence has been very strong for over 50 years and new scientific evidence that greenhouse gases are causing dangerous climate change now appears in scientific publications on a weekly basis. No, there is no vast conspiracy among scientists. Anyone with a scientific background should try reading peer-reviewed scientific articles. While many journals require access to a university library, enough good quality science is open access to keep anyone busy reading.
I have been following this subject for many years and I have yet to see even a single piece of evidence that supports your contention. Repeating claims regardless of how often or by so many people in so many “respected” sources has no standing in science. Show me one, just one, set of data that demonstrates the connection between human-generated CO2 and any important climate variable. I challenge you. You can’t do it! I am waiting.
Of course it’s a cult. A stupid cult, but be careful how you say that….
Kudos to the author for this well-argued piece. Climate hysterics seem to illustrate a human need for self-flagellation, which of course is especially attractive when the person’s own comfortable life is not under any immediate threat.
It became clear to me when here in the Netherlands the churches proposed to ring their bells on the day of the Kopenhagen Climate Conference.