Is Stupidity Winning the Climate Change Argument?

Some recent  comments  by  Charles Krauthammer and  Ted Cruz got me thinking about stupidity and climate change.

Take this gem of a quote from Charles,

I’m not a global warming believer. I’m not a global warming denier. I’ve long believed that it cannot be good for humanity to be spewing tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. I also believe that those scientists who pretend to know exactly what this will cause in 20, 30 or 50 years are white-coated propagandists.

or this one from oracle Charles.  

A prediction:

In 20 years, when nobody thinks about "global warming" anymore, the leftist-published textbooks will blame "corporate conspiracies," especially "big oil" and "multi-nationals" for creating the global warming hoax to increase their own profits by getting the taxpayers to subsidize their non-functioning windmill projects and to dupe the public into buying their expensive boutique "green" products.

And then we have Ted's recent gems of wisdom he shared with Dana Bash on CNN.
Here is his thoughts when asked about the Arctic melting.

"Other parts are going up. It is not -- you know, you always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called scientific theory that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they have defined it, can never be disproved, because whether it gets hotter or whether it gets colder, whatever happens, they'll say, well, it's changing, so it proves our theory."

And his well-thought out comment on Kerry's recent speech he gave in Indonesia where he equated climate change to that of a terrorist threat.  

It is ironic that he sees a greater threat from your SUV in your driveway than he does from the nation of Iran, with their radical Islamic jihad and -- and their stated desire to obliterate, to annihilate Israel. He sees a greater threat from your SUV than he does to Iranian nuclear weapons.

These quotes are just a couple of the most recent examples of stupidity being uttered by our political leaders and media figures of late on climate change.  I could easily provide numerous other examples but that is not the point of this diary.  

A couple of days ago I read an article entitled What Americans Don't Know About Science appearing in the Atlantic.  Here is a headline from that article.

On a recent survey, just 74 percent of Americans said that the Earth revolves around the sun.

Being Poop John the First of the Church of the Holy Shitters I must admit when I read that my immediate reaction was to blurt out "Holy Shit"!

So the question I want to pose is this.   Do you think the scientific or the science denial argument is currently winning in the court of public opinion?  

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