UK Court: Man Made Climate Change is a religion

You can't make this sort of thing up:

So what's happened? Basically, a former employee has had his right to sue the employer affirmed by an appeals judge, on the grounds that his environmentalist views are a philosophical belief (and not a political view). No such Tribunal has yet been held, but may now take place.

Seems this "Sustainability Officer" guy was sacked. He went to Her Britannic Majesty's court and sued, claiming that his belief was not scientific, but rather philosophical. The court agreed:

In his judgement, Justice Burton wrote,

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. The belief must be of a similar cogency or status to a religious belief, the ECHR jurisprudence is directly material and the limitations on the concept and extent of a philosophical belief can be derived from that, without the need to place any additional limitation on the nature or source of the belief.

A religion? Close enough for the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations. So there you have it - all settled now. In a real and legally binding sense.

From the place that formerly used to be called "Great" Britain.