THE WORD religion is often used, rather effectively, to demonise a category of people who hold a strong conviction about something and propose to translate that belief into action. Global warming is a new religion and blasphemy against that religion is not a laughing matter, Lord Lawson has said, adding that there is a great gap in Europe with the decline of any real belief in Marxism and any real belief in Christianity. This has filled the vacuum.
Fallacy: false equivalence