Let's just face the fact that 'climate change' has become a political topic more than it's a rational and/or scientific one.
"Climate change denial" has become secret code for, "I'm a neo-conservative and I really want it stick it to Those Damn Liberals(tm) because not only do they want to take away my Hummer and my hamburgers, they want to take away my guns too!"
There are plenty of journalists and talk-show pundits on the conservative side of the spectrum that see this as some sort of vindication that they were, "right all along," or just as a chance to get all sorts of coverage/attention/viewership/advertising money.
Similarly, AGW has become secret code for, well, you can fill in the blanks.
However, there are some differences. For example, the skeptics haven't been suggesting that their opponents be thrown into jail for their beliefs. And, they aren't proposing restrictions or taxes.
No, we simply have "skeptics" that've decried climatologists as anti-industrial communists that ought to be tarred and feathered if not outright lynched for their views.
Comparing crazies doesn't make for great discourse.
"Climate change denial" has become secret code for, "I'm a neo-conservative and I really want it stick it to Those Damn Liberals(tm) because not only do they want to take away my Hummer and my hamburgers, they want to take away my guns too!"
There are plenty of journalists and talk-show pundits on the conservative side of the spectrum that see this as some sort of vindication that they were, "right all along," or just as a chance to get all sorts of coverage/attention/viewership/advertising money.