Global Warning Sophistry

This is great. I was reading in the Corner and found a link to this, a Dartmouth student's blog who says the "intellectual" global warming debate goes something like this:

— Listen, we’ve got global warming.
— Mmm.
— So will you sign on to this protocol?
— Nah. Gutting American industry doesn’t seem like a good idea to me.
— But the world is going to end in ten years.
— So how will not opening a few new car factories help? And wouldn’t this protocol encourage our chief competitors to open their own new factories while we’re hamstrung here?
— Because it will. Sign here, please.
— I don’t think that’s good policy.
— Listen. Why do you hate science?
— I don’t hate s—
— You’re a crazy Christian, aren’t you?
— What? Yes, Earth is getting warmer but this cycle’s been happening f—
— What we need to do then is sign this protocol here. Ready to sign?
— …
— Here’s a pen.
— …
— Sign.
— Look, the problem is that even if you can throw off a million years’ worth of evidence and demonstrate that human industry, in the plink of time we’ve had here, has caused a planet-killing shift in atmosphere, your ideas about fixing it are absolutely unworkable. I mean, it’s a gnat compared to the leviathan weight of human history you claim led us here.
— Stop it. OK? Just stop. Look at this picture. It shows a mountain with snow. Now, that was fifty years ago. Here’s another picture. What do you see?
— No snow.
— No snow! How can you not believe in global warming now, you planet-hating bastard? Don’t you understand that there is a scientific consensus? A consensus!
— Right, I know it’s getting warmer.
— Then sign on to my policy slate. Don’t read it. Just sign.
— No.
— When will we ever convince you Global Warming skeptics?

That sounds about right. I haven't really paid much attention to the Global Warming nonsense, but recently it seems like it has possessed some people on the Left. It's not surprising that empty-headed Hollywood types have signed on, it gives them the appearance of *thinking*, I guess. However, there are certainly major divisions in the scientific community regarding this phenomenon, but the lefties refuse to talk about THAT. No, they see a chance to damage big corporations and perhaps if they're lucky strike a blow to capitalism and free enterprise. I really don't think they give a damn about the environment.

JASmius adds: I thought lefties laughed at blind faith. Maybe we should start calling them protocol-thumping environmentalist fundies who should be forced to include other points of view to counter their fear talk in their own broadcasts watched by tens of millions of Americans, denied the right to demonize whole segments of American society, saying they are manipulated by Big Business and Christians and worthy only of conversion or eradication, and made to treat their opponents with respect and acknowledge the right of a fair hearing even as they exercise their own freedom to disagree with their opponents.

Or we could just shove petition boys like the above example down the nearest flight of stairs, and blame it on muscle-twitching brought about by global warming's erosion of the ozone layer.
That way it'd be all Al Gore's fault.

At least by his brand of "logic"....