An intriguing analogy

Via Nostradamus of the North quoting one Robert Bryce

Will Happer, a professor of physics at Princeton and a skeptic about global climate change, recently wrote that the "contemporary 'climate crusade' has much in common with the medieval crusades." Indeed, politicians and pundits are hectored to adhere to the orthodoxy of the carbon-dioxide-is-the-only-climate-problem alarmists.

Meanwhile the GWPF highlights junior minister Greg Barker's comment that

I remain optimistic about the future of the green economy. But we need to be realistic about how it will generate wealth and not become a drag anchor on growth.

This has the look of a cautious political shuffle away from extreme greenery to gauge public reaction. Keep moving!

And Fraser Nelson picks apart the lack of economic and political logic behind the political establishment's green policy, which Osborne may be chipping away at. Worth reading in full.

Unlike the crusaders in medieval times, the modern crusaders do need the common people to keep believing in their quest for a green Jerusalem. In a cold winter, can they rely on us to sacrifice our comforts to a discredited doctrine?