Belief in Global Warming is a Religion: UK Court Rules

Belief in man-made global warming deserves the same protection from discrimination as any religion.  From The Economist:

“A BELIEF in man-made climate change and the alleged resulting moral imperatives is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations.”

Those were the words of an English High Court judge, Mr Justice Burton, on November 3rd as he ruled that green beliefs deserve the same protection in the workplace as religious convictions. A person’s right to believe in anthropogenic climate change, and not be hounded out of his job because of it, is now enshrined in law.

So, at least in the UK, believe in global warming is a religion officially.  That, as opposed to being a religion among greens (you know, full of dogma, banishing of heretics, etc.).