There are intelligent people in the GOP, they know that global warming is not a myth or an invention, they just haven’t found a way to make a profit from it yet. And they most certainly know how to cynically take advantage of those who refuse to accept it.

Part of it has to do with Al Gore: he made a mistake in thinking that he could retire from politics and then embrace the cause of global warming while putting it above politics.

But he prompted a knee-jerk reaction from anyone who still sees him as Clinton’s right-hand man, and that is a key reason that so many people react so strongly against it.

And if attacking the scientists doesn’t work then they will attack science itself.