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>>We're taking the fight to the ecco-imperialist, social fascist vermin:
The above article, along with the illustration, ran on the front page of today's National Post which backed it up with the Editorial "The folly of Kyoto" & several opinion pieces including "Kyoto is economic suicide as is: Liberal adherence makes no sense unless all countries are signed on". <<

The Kyoto agreement is foolish and its not nearly all the anti-industrialists seek - they want 80% reduction in CO2 emissions. They used to want 80% reduction in particulates and other pollutants as a way to cut back the modern economy but since the U.S. has shown we can clean the air and still grow they seek a new method to reduce the economy.

How should conservatives fight this? Calling extreme environmentalists worshipers in a new religion isn't very effective. Its much better to point out their ulterior motives.

Denying global warming and denying that it will be a real problem if global warming continues at the current trend is useless because the data from a dozen seperate scientific disciplines in 20 different countries all say the same thing - that global warming is real and has been increasing since 1976.

What conservatives need to do is change the focus to the causes of global warming and encourage more study of causes while reminding the public that the scale of the warming is one degree since 1900. We have time to study the causes.

"Calling extreme environmentalists worshipers in a new religion isn't very effective."

A - it's not a new tactic.
B - it's certainly not an inaccurate accusation.
C - I could hardly disagree more & would deem doing so highly effective:

"Its much better to point out their ulterior motives. "

Coulter has done so - in spades!

"How should conservatives fight this? "

If you haven't already, read Ann's book cited above.

Also, with respect to "Denying global warming and denying that it will be a real problem if global warming continues at the current trend is useless because the data from a dozen seperate scientific disciplines in 20 different countries all say the same thing - that global warming is real and has been increasing since 1976."
You seem to be missing the distinction that few are denying cyclical global warming - e.g. it obviously wasn't Hummers & Escalades which ended any of the planet's numerous earlier ice ages.
Rejecting the left's shameless political opportunism & campaign to promote related self-serving mass hysteria is another matter entirely ... especially when, barely 3 decades ago, these same folks & their msm fellow travelers were similarly obsessing about what they then alleged to be the onset of cataclysmic global cooling.