As has been said before, environmentalism is the religion of choice for secular liberals. And it appears they have chosen their prophet.

They came in their hundreds to hear him speak, and even those left standing outside the crowded hall would not be deterred from lingering in the proximity of the Baptist prophet from Tennessee.

It wasn’t any old-time religion that drew these believers to Convocation Hall at the University of Toronto, but a concept they feel is every bit as crucial to humanity — global warming — that made them want to get close to Al Gore, the impassioned former U.S. vice-president, as he delivered his now famous Inconvenient Truth about climate change.

Like many a bygone leader who happened along at a key moment in history, Mr. Gore — who has been sounding the environmental warning bell for years — has suddenly inspired the kind of faith and fervour in others that he insists will be needed to overcome such a monumental problem.

“From my perspective, it is a form of religion,” said Bruce Crofts, 69, as he held a banner aloft for the East Toronto Climate Action Group amid a lively prelecture crowd outside the old hall.

“The religion for this group is doing something for the environment.”

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Victor Storm, who owns a chain of Toronto-area bedding outlets, went online Feb. 7 and offered a $40 duvet in exchange for a ticket. He wound up surrendering a $150 duvet instead, after a fair bit of questioning over thread counts.

“Because it was so cold, it was something people warmed up to,” Mr. Storm said yesterday.[ed. Ironic, no?]

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There were vegans seeking new recruits, people calling for the closing of Ontario’s coal-fired power plants, a Greenpeace mascot dressed as a polar bear — even the UFO believers showed up.

“I know you won’t believe this,” one of them, a man named Victor Viggiani, said with a practised tongue, “but the extraterrestrial technology involved in this . . . it’s free energy, man. Absolute free energy, and it’ll be the end of fossil fuels.”[ed. I can’t decide which is crazier, beleif in global warming or in extra-terrestrials visiting earth. I guess they both appeal to the same gullible people.]

“Heed the Goracle.” Indeed.

I guess when you destroy God, you have to replace him with something. For these people it’s UFOs, Global Warming and Al Gore, the trinity of the deranged.

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