But what might that agenda be? Helping build housing for the homeless? Selling Priuses? I don't see why this issue is a political one. Conservatives should be the ones leading this charge, not liberals.
Science gets politicized all the time in the real world. In this case there is a worldwide movement to limit energy use for political, not scientific, reasons. Global warming was an ideal scientific theory to hitch on to which is why there are so many european and UN types pushing the ideas of transferring wealth from rich, capitalist, energy using coutries to poor, mostly authoritarian ones.
In short, it's socialism dictated by world bureaucrats.
As other posters have pointed out, science has, unfortunately, become all about funding. Scientists have to eat, too, and most of them work for liberal universities with vested interests in seeing their "industries" -- like global warming -- continue raking in the bucks. It's similar to some charities: the last thing their big bucks executives and board members want is the problem to be solved. Then they have to look for real jobs.
Therefore, like the scientific alarmists, they have to stir up the rabble to keep the dollars in the pipeline.
Follow the money. It's a tried-and-true technique.
Conservatives, at least I, care about the environment because we have a responsibility for future generations and for the well-being of our planet, not because of some phantom fear of global warming.
Frankly, we are that the point that if man is impacting the planet, we have impacted it so much that it is soo late.
Our greenhouse emissions are on the decrease, one of the few areas of environmental improvement in the last decade. Radical changes will not stop the warming. What we are doing now will slow it down.