The following opinion piece I submitted to the National Post deserves some qualification, but I’m pretty certain that anybody who has had the frustrating experience of dealing with a climate change preacher can sympathize. I wrote the article only because I made a comment, a joke really, on twitter about global warming going on vacation in Vancouver. You see, it’s been recently bitterly cold and snowing on the wet coast and that’s fairly unusual weather for us.

Of course to a climate change zealot, not unlike other religious fanatics, jokes about their faith are unwarranted and unacceptable and generally precipitate lectures about our ignorance. This is, of course, what happened to me yesterday. As I tried, uselessly, to explain to my critic, it isn’t that I don’t accept your argument. It’s that I’ve heard it before, thousands of times, once from the pulpit of a scissor lift, and I really don’t want to hear it anymore.

Shouldn’t citizens have that right? To be free from religious persecution?

Here’s the article:

There are three kinds of people on the internet you can’t have a conversation with: abortion activists, religious zealots and global warming activists.

Abortion activists, on both sides, are as polemical as polar bears and penguins. It doesn’t matter what side you might lean toward, the other side doesn’t want to hear. They believe so fervently in their cause they will judge you largely on how closely your own views align with theirs.

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