Global warming "denialism" is becoming a tribal marker for Republicanism

The writer makes it clear the physics is incontrovertible...
We're clearly living amidst a deadly combination — looming death of our species; a billionaire-financed ad and PR campaign to let the damage continue; and a tribal group of angry Teabags, led by their anti-environmental noses.
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In this case it's "hippies can't stop us" from Wile E. Coyote Teabags, as they angrily saw at the planetary tree limb supporting their grand kids' lives.

William S. Becker: Playing Chicken on Climate Change

The people trying to wake us up to the realities of global warming have taken to calling themselves "climate hawks." In the field of Republican presidential candidates, we are seeing a new breed emerge: climate chickens.

Once upon a time, America elected heroes to be President of the United States, some of them veterans of war, others who earned the title in office when they refused to run from tough issues.
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On climate change, for example -- the most dangerous long-term threat in the world today -- the viable candidates in the GOP presidential field, with the exception of Jon Huntsman, are showing a reckless disrespect for science and a callous insensitivity to the victims of weather-related disasters, present and future.

Colbert: 'I Know Global Warming Is Real'

On Monday night, Stephen Colbert spoke for many Americans when he said we have "stood with one voice and boldly proclaimed, 'Eh.'"