California Gov. Jerry Brown told those at the University of California’s Summit on Carbon and Climate Neutrality Tuesday the “existential threat” of climate change is like Nazi Germany and fixing it is like the race to build the atomic bomb.

“That’s a good predicate to how to deal with the existential threat of climate change,” Brown said, according to the Times of San Diego. “I can’t emphasize enough how important the University of California is in meeting this existential threat.”

The two-day Summit brought together climate scientists focused on finding 10 way to counter climate change. Brown recently signed a bill requiring the state to shift half of its power to renewable resources by 2030, and told scientists at the gathering he expects the state to lead developments in solar, electric cars and other technologies, the news site reports.

“All the things skeptics say are bad, California is doing,” Brown declared. “And the results show they’re good.”

He also made sure those in attendance understand who the enemies of the environment really are – mostly those who don’t support him politically.

“We are up against very powerful opposition,” Brown warned, “partisan, industrial and media.”

Essentially, Brown’s suggesting climate change scientists, progressive liberals and those who agree with them are the modern day equivalent of the allied forces in World War II, while skeptics of climate change, Republicans, and American businesses are the Nazis.

The irony is that Nazis were among the pioneering theorists of “global warming.”

American Thinker pointed out in 2011 that Guenther Schwab, an Austrian Nazi who died in 2006, was among the first to promote the idea of global warming.

“In 1958, Schwab wrote a fictional novel built off of Goethe’s (1749-1832) Faustian religious play entitled “Dance with the Devil.”  While a few scientists since the late 1800’s had contemplated the possibility of minor global warming coming from industrial pollution, Schwab used Goethe’s dramatic approach to convert the theory into an apocalyptic crisis,” according to the site.

“The book outlines many looming environmental emergencies, including anthropogenic global warming.  Guenther Schwab’s very popular novel was an apocalyptic game changer.  By the early 1970’s, it had been translated into several languages and had sold over a million copies.

“At one point in his novel, Schwab opines on the fragile relationship between oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.   Assuming the planet has only about 100 years remaining, Schwab frets over the continuing rise of carbon dioxide that “will absorb and hold fast the warmth given out by the earth.  This will cause the climate to become milder and the Polar ice will begin to thaw.  As a result, there will be a rise in the level of the ocean and whole continents will be flooded.”

And Schwab was apparently only one of many environmental Nazis in World War II Germany.

“While this may sound odd to many who have bought into the Marxian propaganda over the years that the Nazis were right wing capitalistic extremists, greens who signed up for the Nazi Party were actually very typical of the day.  The most widely represented group of people in the Nazi Party was the greens, and Guenther Schwab was just one of among many,” according to the American Thinker.

Brown’s use of the Nazi analogy isn’t a first, however, as former NASA scientist Roy Spencer – a global warming skeptic – pointed out in a blog last year.

Spencer apparently beat Brown to the punch, and bestowed the label of “global warming Nazis” on politicians and scientists who are grandstanding in the name of saving the planet.

Spencer wrote:

Yeah, somebody pushed my button.

When politicians and scientists started calling people like me “deniers”, they crossed the line. They are still doing it.

They indirectly equate (1) the skeptics’ view that global warming is not necessarily all manmade nor a serious problem, with (2) the denial that the Nazi’s extermination of millions of Jews ever happened.

Too many of us for too long have ignored the repulsive, extremist nature of the comparison. It’s time to push back.

I’m now going to start calling these people “global warming Nazis”.