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We interrupt this election campaign to bring you the latest bit of common sense to be spoken on the issue of global warming and its zealots:

The Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has angered green campaigners by describing their view on climate change as a “hysterical psuedo-religion”.

In an article in the News Letter, Mr Wilson said he believed it occurred naturally and was not man-made.

“Resources should be used to adapt to the consequences of climate change, rather than King Canute-style vainly trying to stop it,” said the minister.

Peter Doran of the Green Party said it was a “deeply irresponsible message.”

Mr Wilson said he refused to “blindly accept” the need to make significant changes to the economy to stop climate change.

“The tactic used by the “green gang” is to label anyone who dares disagree with their view of climate change as some kind of nutcase who denies scientific fact,” he said.

The minister said he accepted climate change can occur, but does not believe the cause has been identified.

“Reasoned debate must replace the scaremongering of the green climate alarmists.”

John Woods of Friends of the Earth said Mr Wilson was “like a cigarette salesman denying that smoking causes cancer”.

Wilson is being a bit unrealistic here – I mean, to expect environmentalists to engage in “reasoned debate” is to set the bar too high…these are, after all, the people who told us we’d all die of famine and will suffer from a new ice age due to man-made global cooling in the 1970’s…people who can turn on a dime like that are not open to reason.

But it is good that some people are starting to have the courage to speak forcefully about the varied absurdities of environmentalism. If our enviro-whackos were only Luddites we’d be ok – Luddites just wanted to stop change…the whackos want to undo change and recreate what, in their view, the world must have been like before straight, white, Christian males wrecked it all because they are racist, sexist, homophobic, greedy imperialists (I know, very strange – work with me here, people; we’re dealing with what passes for thought on the left). While common sense dictates cleaning up messes and trying not to make new ones, only an idiot looks at stand of trees and says, “we must preserve this forever”…as if there is such a thing as a “forever” in this world. Pay attention, good people – whether you believe in God and the Last Judgement or believe in an entirely materialistic universe, the fact of the matter is that the death of our Earth is inevitible…preserving it “forever” is akin to putting water seal on the Titanic’s deck chairs.

We need to keep fighting these people off – for at least another 10 years or so they will continue to have the upper hand, but after the next decade has passed it will become increasingly difficult for them to hide the fact that “global warming” is just another in a long line of environmentalists scams designed to scare people into voluntary socialism.