It is more a quasi religious belief than a religion. AGW Deniers adhere to an ideology based on a combination of right-wing religion and politics that developed during the last quarter of the 20th century in the US. It seamlessly combines the worst of Old Testament Christianity and Old Time Politics. I have several names for them, the least offensive being TheoCons.

Tea Partiers, Birthers, Creationists, AGW Deniers, conspiracy freaks, and millions of other faithfully stupid knuckleheads share an epistemology where all knowledge comes from some subjective “higher truth” and where objective human knowledge (science) is inherently false. As a result, they see no conflict or hypocrisy in their being simultaneously scientifically illiterate and intellectually arrogant and they feel no guilt when they lie shamelessly and judge hatefully.

The greatest fear that America’s founders had for the survival of the nation they had created was that, eventually, an ill-informed and intellectually lazy public would elect politicians even more selfish and worthless than themselves; that the nation would commit Suicide-by-Stupidity – and no one embraces stupidity with more devotion or wears it with more pride than Deniers.

I don't see the extreme temperature difference that AGW proponents talk about. There is no direct correlation to CO2 and temperature increases in recent years. From 1940 to 1980 temperatures were considered too low and Global Cooling was the main concern even though CO2 levels were constantly rising. A 1 degree Celsius spike in global temperatures during 1997-1998 was deemed to be a natural event according to climate scientists. This natural event is where I get skeptical about AGW. If the planet can change its own temperature by one whole degree in 1 year, then how is it that a 0.75 Celsius increase since 1870 is caused by humans? CO2 didn't drive the temperatures up so fast in 1997-1998.

I don't think its a religion or even resembles it. Just questions about the conclusions by climate science as science should be treated. The last measurable "ice age" ended around 1670 and the planet has been oscillating up and down with its temperature with a trend upward as it should be expected to after a cooling period.

What's wrong with questioning the science on its own merits?

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Additionally, there was a cooling period from 1870 to the early 1900s. During that time CO2 levels were considered to be rising also.

Denialists worship their gods; oil, coal and SUVs. They attach undue importance to these things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGIgXP9Sv...

No offense intended against those religious leaders or adherents (however prevalent or otherwise) who are honest, rational, intelligent, well-informed, conscientious, consistent, farsighted, etc.

Dishonest dupes of fossil fuel industry anti-science disinformation need not answer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/09/inhofe-and-crichton-together-at-last/

http://www.newsweek.com/2007/08/13/the-truth-about-denial.html

http://video.pbs.org/video/2295533310/

http://jcmooreonline.com/2013/01/31/engineering-climate-denial/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Inhofe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_family

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heartland_Institute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Marshall_Institute