Do climate sceptics risk becoming politically popular?

Asking a climate sceptic whether they want to become politically popular is one of the truly bizarre questions – because if we cared at all about being popular we’d have never been climate sceptics (back in the dark days before climategate).
But obviously, we’d love the rest of the world to accept our views – there’s nothing we’d like better than people joining us – it’s just we’re not going to change our views to join them to become popular.
However “being popular” was not something we risk much – at least amongst the “political classes” of media and politicians. Indeed, there’s a lot to be said for being in a minority – because when you are, it’s pretty certain that whatever politician or journalist we annoyed – it was pretty certain they were some brainless alarmist. So, no worry or pussy footing about – we only had to remember the few dozen on our side and could clag off the rest.
But now, with the British conservatives becoming increasingly sceptics, Donald Trump look more and more electable compared to the tired out and email entangled Clinton and now Sarkozy coming out to support real science, real evidence and common sense, there’s now a real chance that we sceptics might become the “political consensus”.
Increasingly as we fire a “pot shot” at the media we risk “friendly fire” – hitting some journalist or politician who is increasingly hostile to climate alarmism.
However all is not lost! At least for us sceptics in Scotland – we still have our delusional politicians (notably the SNP) and there is no immediate prospect of us ever having to praise our politicians for finally adopting evidence based climate policy.