California Gov. Brown called skeptics of global warming a well-funded "cult"

Governor vows to prepare Calif. for climate change - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

SAN FRANCISCO -- The United Nations' top climate change official is in San Francisco to join California Gov. Jerry Brown at a conference addressing the costs associated with preparing for the effects of a warming world.

Brown organized Thursday's conference at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park.

The event includes Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and billionaire Sir Richard Branson. Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger also is expected to attend this afternoon.

...Brown opened the conference by calling for people to wake up to these threats and called skeptics of global warming a well-funded "cult."