Mother Jones: Last Tuesday, as Americans across the country headed to the polls, a group of climate scientists gathered in Denver to discuss strategies for fighting back against right-wing attacks on global warming science. Their timing couldn’t have been better. With the ascent of the Republicans, climate science–and scientists–will be a major target for the new House majority. The ramifications of the vote didn’t go unnoticed among the scientists gathered at the annual meeting of the Geological Society…