Mashable: For years now, climate science has suffered from a monumental public relations problem. The issue of manmade climate change has become so politicized that it's easy to forget that those who are conducting research into Earth's past, present and future climate are ordinary people -- not some elite cabal of brainiacs walled off in a lab somewhere.
Climate activists have often lamented the ease with which climate change contrarians have painted global warming researchers as being part of some sort...