Chris Mooney evidently thinks that comparing climate realists to "hillbillies" is more insulting and derogatory than comparing us to Holocaust deniers

Chris Mooney | The Weekly Standard on “Hillbilly” Climate Denial

So The Weekly Standard itself has fostered various forms of conservative science denial, albeit of a relatively genteel variety. It’s pretty dubious, then, that it is calling such views “hillbilly.”

But what to make of this "hillbilly" claim, then? Is it some kind of odd paraphrase of me?

I’ve never suggested that conservative science denial is “hillbilly” or anything of the kind. And it’s not just that I find the word insulting and derogatory.