"Evil, Bad-Intentioned Monsters Out to Destroy the Earth"

What bugged me about the "denouncements" (linked in the comments here) of the 10:10 video, although I couldn't phrase it....

Coyote has a post up on Forbes:

I have been a part of the public climate debate for several years, and unlike those helping to spin this video as a regrettable aberration, in many ways I think such a production was almost inevitable.  In particular, alarmists have worked hard to portray climate skeptics not as reasonable people who disagree with them, but as evil, bad-intentioned monsters out to destroy the Earth for their own narrow personal gain.

(his main blog is here)

This assumption is all over the place in global warming disagreements.  "You don't agree with me on what we should do, so you're deliberately out to do what I say we're preventing!"  It shows up elsewhere-- sometimes even on my side, which means I respond to it even faster-- but global warming is by far the biggest.

This post over at RIGHTNETWORK has some guesses on why this might be.
 (If you're not browsing them yet, you really should-- Lileks!  and LMA!  And more! are there!  Video isn't my style, but I've heard nice stuff about their videos.)