Recommended reading: "
What's the liberal equivalent of climate denial?," by Ezra Klein. A lot of material there for anyone who found interesting my writings on science attitudes across the political spectrum, such as
here and
here. It seems to me that some of the
quick answers that have been given to that question actually confirm the point that there
isn't an important policy issue on which the Democratic Party has been beholden to an ideological position that's clearly at odds with the
scientific mainstream. That may happen in the future, though, when
geoengineering is at issue.