Salon: The Democrats weren’t the only big loser in yesterday’s election. Science got clobbered, too. Fueled by disdain for government interference with business and tanker loads of cash from the energy industry and its allies, the Republican party has been moving steadily into the denial camp on global climate change, or at least deep skepticism. And it’s practically an article of faith amongthe tea-party activist crowd. A recent survey from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press showed…