Doctoral student Jeremy Jacquot: Preparing for the Coming Global Warming Skeptic Onslaught

The steady drip of skeptic commentary has turned into a veritable deluge of late. There was no doubting that an Obama victory would spark a rightwing backlash, similar to the one seen during the first months of the Clinton administration, but even I have been slightly taken aback (and that's saying a lot) by its volume and ferocity. Aside from the president-elect's economic agenda, few issues have aroused more ire than his proposed climate and energy policies.
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Despite their fall from grace, conservatives still wield a lot of influence -- and, more important, cash -- and are expert strategists; you can bet they're already hard at work plotting their next ten moves. (If you think things are already bad now, just wait until January.)