http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2VNxmn0lNA
The term I've heard is "scientism." That is fake science dressed up as irrefutable truth. Something like forty years ago when we were supposed to panic over global freezing. If you were a dissenter at the time, you would have been accused of being (gasp) A DENIER!!!!
And then there was Paul Erhlich and number of others predicting imminent starvation for many millions.
All of that was shrieked at us from scientists and other so-called "experts."
So what are we to make of global warming, or anthropogenic global warming?
Is it possible? I guess....I'm no scientist.
But when they start predicting awful things unless we radically change our free-market economies and power industries, red flags go up for me. Nothing good can come from global warming? Wasn't the earth a lot warmer in its history? Yes. Then how did it survive much warmer weather if increases in temp. were supposed to kill everything? Twenty years ago they were predicting global disasters by this time that haven't happened.
If they would have said the climate is rising due to man-made global warming, but we don't know the ramifications, I would have been less alarmed.