I think you doth protest too much.
You can judge for yourself about who is the better scientist -- watch the videos; unless you don't want to be challenged.
Why would Don Blankenship call global climate change a "hoax", do you think?
Why would he have clean water piped into his mansion while his neighbors were slowly killed with kidney failure, due to contaminated water from his mountaintop removal mines?
Why do the Koch brothers fund the start up of the Cato Institute?
The billionaire Koch brothers’ war against Obama : The New Yorker
And the Tea Party, and they have been trying to discredit global climate change, too -- hmmm, big oil and big coal money funding the deniers? Why is that, I wonder?