A perfect match so far...
"Natural Selection started as an underdog and grew on its own scientific merits despite claims of heresy within a highly religious environment."
And the most ridiculous statement of the day, at the least! (fraud has scientific merit?)
Not even close to a match. There have been individual frauds in natural selection, and other evolutionary scientists have always been the ones to expose them. Given that fact, all of the proven frauds creationists trot out as disproving natural selection are in fact a testament to the good scientific review behind natural selection.
AGW itself being a fraud, it required the skeptics to uncover it. Other AGW scientists certainly weren't going to expose any instances fraud and thus lose their place on the AGW gravy train.
And the most ridiculous statement of the day, at the least!
Absolutely true. AGW had government backing pretty much from the beginning, a socialist agenda to leverage it into power and control. Darwin had no such backing. He was one man in a very religious era where his ideas constituted heresy. The evidence being behind him, his theory flourished even in that opposing environment.
The basic difference is that NS grew on its merits to become dominant in science, while AGW was pushed by governments to become dominant regardless of merits.