The piece begins thus.

“It’s official: faith in science is a belief

• Posted by Sholto Byrnes
• 04 November 2009 15:43 New Statesman

New legal ruling places it in the same category as religion

A judge has just ruled that green beliefs should be safeguarded under employment law designed to protect religious and philosophical beliefs in the workplace. Tim Nicholson, a former executive with the property firm Grainger, claimed that he was made redundant last year because of his strong environmental concerns. Mr Justice Burton has now given him the go ahead to take Grainger to an industrial tribunal on these grounds, ruling that “a belief in man-made climate change … is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations”." … [It goes on.]

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-god-blog/2009/11/belief-religion-science-ruling

Unfortunately, the New Statesman is not always reliable in matters such as this. For example, not all philosophical beliefs are protected in the work place or anywhere else. While religions may be protected in general, it does not follow that all the precepts of a given religious belief system are protected. For instance, the Morman religion is protected in general but certain Morman marriage practices are legally prohibited.

I have not read the legislation, but this seems ridiculous.