This gets second prize for the most obvious headline of the week. (I'd already awarded first prize to a story about a Canadian man who admitted he needed help because he thought he was being stalked by elves. Really.) The rest of the article isn't much more surprising, though it does supply a lot of good facts. And the quote at the end about climate-change-deniers insisting the world is flat is a good zinger--even though Graves didn't write it, but just picked it up.

The big corporate money being used to finance anti-science republicans is the big story here.

This opinion piece has little journalistic merit. It is evident that the author is against science already in the title, where the word "deniers" is used. The author is unfamiliar with climate science and therefore does not know that the science is far from settled, with great uncertainties in all projections of future climate and many major factors, such as the role of the sun and of clouds and of the oceans, poorly understood. Thus the politicians she accuses are simply taking the position supported by the current state of the science.