Idiotic LA Times piece paints climate realists as Bible-banging Tea Party ideologues; fails to mention that only 32% of *independents* believe in AGW

Global warming as a partisan issue - latimes.com

Skepticism about human technology's role in accelerating climate change, and doubt concerning the phenomenon's very existence, have become, at least on the Republican side, a matter of lock-step partisan orthodoxy.
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In part, public opinion researchers agree, the rise of the "tea party" movement accounts for both the growing skepticism and the demand, which we now can recognize as characteristic, for ideological conformity.
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The New York Times also has documented among some tea party adherents a strong streak of religious objection to the reality of climate change. As Norman Dennison, one of the group's Indiana founders, told the paper, global warming "is a flat-out lie.... I read my Bible. He made this Earth for us to utilize." Another Indiana tea party member asserted that "being a strong Christian, I cannot help but believe the Lord placed a lot of minerals in our country, and it's not there to destroy us."

The fundamentalist delusion, whether about the Constitution or theology, and demands for a purified orthodoxy are defining characteristics of this campaign.
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Think back to the billions Big Tobacco spent on the long guerrilla war to stave off regulation of its death-dealing products and you've pretty much got the picture here, though this time around, the corporate manipulators are hoping that they've co-opted the climate skeptics in order to fill the oil and coal companies' coffers for years to come.

Flashback: Wide Partisan Divide Over Global Warming - Pew Research Center

More than half of independents (56%) say there is solid evidence of warming, but just 32% think it can mostly be attributed to human actions.