The Anchoress and Colby Cosh on Al Gore and global warming

Some good posts on global warming today.

Check out this one by The Anchoress:

I note that Gore’s suggestion that journalists and editors stick to his version and forego telling any others is exactly what so many on the left have accused the Bush administration of doing on…oh, pick a subject.

Over and over we watch the left project their means and manner onto the opposition, and it seems to be effective.

I distrusted the “global warming is going to kill us all unless you do exactly what I say NOW” schtick before…now I’m starting to develop a real animus toward it.

And this one by Colby Cosh , (hat tip Relapsed Catholic.)

There are pretty much two main models of behaviour open to someone who wants to be the leader of a revolutionary social movement. One is the religious model of sainthood or messiahship: setting a personal example by being more straitlaced, holy and visibly committed than one's neighbours. And one is the vanguard model pioneered by Lenin: regarding oneself as part of a professional advocacy clique that cannot afford to be hindered by tight moral strictures, or to be too concerned with hypocrisy, until the New Jerusalem is achieved for everybody.

*emphasis is mine.