I thought this was an Onion article. Unfortunately, these people are serious.

From Commondreams.org

Converting Climate Skeptics
Churches and environmentalists spread the word about global warming

WASHINGTON - October 18 - A coalition of over thirty-five religious and environmental groups will issue a united statement and call to action tomorrow as part of a national movement to make environmental stewardship and creation care a top policy priority, especially in response to global warming. Centered on the new film The Great Warming, this movement will reach people from all walks of life encouraging good environmental stewardship and immediate action to address climate change.

"Global warming affects everyone regardless of religion, political affiliation or income level" said Carl Pope, Executive Director of Sierra Club. "Heightened concern about global warming’s impact on the poor has united groups with concerns about poverty and justice, like the Sierra Club and leading religious institutions."

No, what impacts the poor are misguided efforts to curb "greenhouse gases" so that poorer nations who don't have the money for so-called "green" technologies can't develop.

The Great Warming Call to Action statement -- signed by high-profile religious leaders from across the faith and ideological spectrum, key policy-makers, celebrities, environmental groups, and many of the most respected scientists in the world -- calls on our country to take immediate action to address climate change.

List to follow. True Believers all.

As part of this alliance, the Sierra Club has joined with faith groups like Christian Coalition and the Religious Action Center of Reformed Judaism in seeking to engage a wide array of people, including those who are not yet global warming believers, around simple solutions that can help reduce the threat of global warming. The coalition is urging all Americans, especially those who are skeptical about climate change, to see the movie. In major cities across the country, practical efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are also being undertaken; letting decision makers at all levels know that global warming is an urgent priority.

See, it's a RELIGION. And as such, I think all further federal funding to any organization that believes in anthropogenic global warming should be stopped IMMEDIATELY. Separation of church and state, you know.

"The Great Warming provides an excellent opportunity for dialogue and action about global warming," said Lyndsay Moseley, Associate Washington Representative for Faith Partnerships at the Sierra Club. "Our goal is to help people care for one another and future generations by being part of the solution to global warming, not the problem."

Members of the movement are hoping that The Great Warming will play a major role in converting climate skeptics, just as Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth helped open eyes with its charts and predictions. Reflecting the emerging voice of the evangelical community, The Great Warming reveals how climate change is affecting the lives of people everywhere. While the film presents a moving picture of a world changed by global warming, it also makes a business case for taking action. With hard-hitting comments from scientists, religious leaders, and public-opinion leaders the film taps into the growing public interest and the growing concern within the faith community.

Al Gore's fantasy included the now universally discredited "hockey stick" temperature graph as one of the eye-opening charts. Plus, I hope you notice how evangelicals here are valued members of liberal society because they support global warming pseudo-science, but some of these same people accuse them of being ignorant troglodytes when they vote Republican.

The Great Warming will launch in Regal Cinemas across the U.S. November 3rd.

Here's the list of True Believers who signed the Call to Action statement:

Alanis Morissette
Narrator, “The Great Warming” So she MUST know a lot about climate.
Edward O. Wilson
Professor Emeritus, Harvard University Whose work, though important, is in Etymology, not climate
Brent Blackwelder
President, Friends of the Earth no comment needed
Andrew Young
Civil-rights Leader, Former UN Ambassador suffering from publicity deprivation
Rev. Jim Wallis
President, Sojourners/Call to Renewal I'm religious but I can also be cool
Dr. Sayyid Syeed
Islamic Society of North America found a new way to get the US to destroy its own economy
Carl Pope
Executive Director, Sierra Club no comment needed
Larry Schweiger
President & CEO, National Wildlife Federation ditto
Rev. Dr. Bob Edgar
Genl. Secretary, National Council of Churches that nobody goes to anymore
Paul R. Epstein, MD
Center for Health & Global Env., Harvard give me more funding! (GMMF)
Robert Correll PhD
Chair, Arctic Climate Impacts Assessment ditto
Marlee Matlin
Actress, Academy Award Winner therefore an Everything Expert (EE)
John Topping
President, The Climate Institute GMMF
Dr. Mohamed El-Ashry
Senior Fellow, UN Foundation who knows why?
Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick
President, Alliance of Reformed Churches now people outside my church will know who I am
Paul de Vries PhD
President, New York Divinity School ditto
Peter Vander Meulen
Co-chair, Micah Challenge USA ditto
Prof. Paul Mayewski
Director, Climate Institute, University of Maine GMMF
The Rev. David G. Mullen
Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church which one is that?
Helen Hunt
Actress, Academy Award Winner EE
Greg Nickels
Founder, US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement we need to divert attention from REAL urban problems
Chevy Chase and Jayni Chase
Actor / Activists EEs
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Conference GMMF
Rabbi Frederick Reeves
The Temple, Atlanta Georgia free publicity
Nikita Lopoukhine
Chair, IUCN Comm. World Protected Areas GMMF
James Gustave Speth
Dean, Sch. Forestry & Environment, Yale GMMF
Anjelica Huston
Actress, Producer, Director EE
Ross C. Anderson
Mayor, Salt Lake City They didn't ask ME to sign the US Mayors CLimate Protection
Agreement
Dr. Kevin Trenberth
Head of Climate Analysis, NCAR GMMF
The Rev. Dean W. Nelson
Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church Another one!
Matthew Sleeth, MD
Author and Religious Educator Buy my books!
Barbara Lerman-Golomb
Coal. on the Environment and Jewish Life ??????????????
Peter Borgdorff
Exec. Dir. Emeritus, Christian Reformed Church We with it, we're hip
David Coss
Mayor of Santa Fe See Ross C. Anderson
Keanu Reeves
Narrator, “The Great Warming” Super EE
Ted Turner
Philanthropist and feeling deprived since he sold his networks
Rev. Dr. Joel C. Hunter
President, Christian Coalition of America I'm COOL, I tell you, COOL
John Podesta
President, Center for American Progress ex-Clinton appointee
Kevin Knobloch
President, Union of Concerned Scientists who hate science
Dr. Warren Washington
Head of Climate Change Research, NCAR GMMF
Christopher Flavin
President, Worldwatch Institute GMMF
Ed Begley Jr.
Environmental Activist and Actor EE
James Hansen
Adjunct Professor, Columbia Earth Institute GMMF (and PLEASE don't cut NASA's Earth
Sciences program)
Rev. William Sinkford
Pres, Unitarian Universalist Congregations We need something to believe in
Rabbi David Saperstein
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism who knows?
Dr. Gerald Durley
Providence Missionary Baptist Church, Atlanta See, we Baptists are NOT all knucke-dragging Neanderthals!
Lester R. Brown
President, Earth Policy Institute GMMF!
Calvin B. DeWitt
Pres., Acad. of Evangelical Scientists & Ethicists GMMF
John L. Petersen
President, The Arlington Institute GMMF! We think about the future, you know. Unlike the
rest of you slobs.
Sister Patricia Daly
Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment Give us your money!
Kathleen Rogers
President, Earth Day Network GMMF
Mike MacCracken, PhD
Chief Scientist, The Climate Institute GMMF
Shirley Franklin
Mayor of Atlanta Stop looking at those sinkholes!
Wes Bannister
Chairman, Metropolitan Water District of S. California We can't keep stealing Colorado's
water indefinitely. Let's blame someone else.
Christopher Guest
Actor, Writer, Director therefore, EE
Monique Tilford
Center for a New American Dream I think she just likes causes
Michael Eckhart
President, American Council on Renewable Energy GMMF
The Rev. Murray D. Finck
Bishop, Evanglical Lutheran Church another one!
Lucy Liu
Actress EE
Russell Dickerson
Chair, Dept of Atmospheric Science, U. Maryland GMMF
Bill McKibben
Author “The End of Nature” Buy my book
Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes Jr.
The Riverside Church, New York Eventually, they'll just drop the "church" part.
Eric Chivian, MD
Center for Health and the Global Env., Harvard GMMF
Rev. Peter Illyn
Executive Director, Restoring Eden GMMF
Jesse Lava
Executive Director, FaithfulDemocrats.com no comment needed
Dr. Tony Campolo
Evangelical Assoc. for Promotion of Education But not science, I guess. Do I detect a sneaky plot to discredit science so completely that evolution will be out of the public schools?
Martin J. Chavez
Mayor of Albuquerque, NM What, me worry about important things?
David Neff
Editor & VP, Christianity Today Yes, we are COOL!