as i've said, the insane jackup of rhetoric with regard to global warming, "the greatest crisis the species has ever faced," the death of the planet, etc, is the secular humanist liberal apocalypse. it's a sheer competition for who's most dire, most obsessed, and who's more unanimous than whom. it's the flood, complete with the reasons: our moral culpability. i predict this: when obama is elected, liberals will feel better about themselves and the probable verdict of cosmic judgment, and they'll tone down the eschatology, the ranting cant.