In 1 Samuel 23, David consults the Lord with the help of a device called an "Ephod," through which the Lord answers David’s questions about what he should do regarding battle plans.  The Ephod is apparently in the safekeeping of a priest named Abiathar at the time.

In "An Inconvenient Truth" former Vice President Al Gore consults his own "Ephod" of sorts, in the guise of Global Climate Models, in order to spread the Gospel of Global Warming.  This "Ephod" is kept by Al Gore’s own version of a "high priest," James Hansen, who runs the Goddard Institute for Space Studies over at NASA.

Sound familiar?

When Al Gore goes on tour, telling us all how we have to change the way we’re living or disaster will befall us, he sounds more and more like a prophet of doom from the Bible.  We must repent of our Carbon sins, lest the great Climate Change God strike us down with flood, famine, drought, and all manner of disaster.  And by repent, Al means pay for indulgences in the form of "Carbon Credits."

Al is also training disciples to spread this belief - just as Jesus did before him by sending out 70 of his followers, Al is sending out thousands to spread the word about Carbon, and how only by following his teachings (not his example, of course - he needs his private jet, his stretch SUVs, his 20 room mansion,  to spread the word, don’t you know) can we avoid disaster.

And every time some "tipping point" is passed, but doom does not follow - every season hurricanes do not increase, sea levels do not rise, temperatures remain flat - we are told that it is coming.  Really!  Ignore those who say otherwise - those heretics, agents of Carbon (Satan?) who are only working for their own enrichment.  It will be a disaster in fifty or a hundred years (long after Al and his cohorts have made billions in Cap and Trade and Alternative Energy subsidies).  Trust them, it IS coming!

Changing their story at every turn, assuring us that Universal (or at least Worldwide) Armageddon will be upon us, and using mystical means to "prove" it (every one-off is treated as a harbinger of doom, even if the one-off is a record cold snap or a drop in the rate of sea-level rise), they continue to scare young children into proper "behavior" and "reverence" for "Scientific Consensus."

Don’t think for a moment that they are doing it for the money, though.  Only evil agents of Carbon do it for the money.  Ignore the  $32 billion spent for climate research since 1989 - research that has, purely coincidentally, mostly come to the conclusion that Global Warming is real, is man made, and needs MORE research.  And that $36 billion spent on "climate related technologies?"  That could never, ever taint "the science."  The $20 million spent by Evil Oil for researching possible alternative theories, however, places every "denier" on the payroll of Satan!

Again, think about religions - we all know that we have to pay the preacher!   Of course, Al Gore preaches for "speaking fees."  You’d think if he truly believed, he’d be more like Paul, who preached for room and board.  Al seems to be more like Jim Baker….

"All praise to the prophet, death to the non-believing heretic, obedience or disaster, doubt is not allowed, and don’t confuse the argument with the facts!"

Sounds like a religion to me!