"THERE are holes in the sky where the CO2 gets out … and that's what climate scepticism is all about." No. Not Spike Milligan. Prince Charles.

Prince Charles says that sceptics don't understand the science. But the fact is that he's swallowed a simplistic, comic-book, Hollywood-disaster-movie version of the science, and he isn't prepared to listen to the sceptic case.

I once offered to arrange a briefing for him from a small number of world-renowned climatologists, but his office politely declined.

New Rumblings About Republicans and Science | Chris Mooney | Discover Magazine

America is hurting, massively, due to the downturn. For parts of right wing America, [But around the world, aren't there literally billions of non-believers who are not right-wing Americans?] also hurting massively, this requires the search for an enemy.

Well, the scientists got lots of cash from Obama’s stimulus plan, they’re favored by the government, and there has long been right wing resentment of academia anyway–the people who allegedly think they’re smarter than everyone else.

Maybe now it’s just magnified, due to the strain we’re all under.