There's a really interesting piece by Ron Brownstein in National Journal about how the US GOP is not only coalescing around climate denial--forcing out moderates who accepted the science--but also unique around the world in its uniform opposition to this robust body of research. Brownstein doesn't know much about the history of this, but his putting it in global context is novel:
Not only William Hague [a British Conservative and current Foreign Secretary] but such other prominent European conservatives as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have embraced that widespread scientific conviction and supported vigorous action.
Indeed, it is difficult to identify another major political party in any democracy as thoroughly dismissive of climate science as is the GOP here. Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, says that although other parties may contain pockets of climate skepticism, there is "no party-wide view ...
