You nailed it very well. The secular progressives/ liberals/ envirofreaks have taken every scientific concern, no matter how remotely sensible or non-sensical to use as a baseball bat on everyone else as a control-freak thing, as well as a reason to tax everybody to pay for more government with more of their liberal employees running everything- as in the school systems for example. Many possibly valid concerns are probably being resisted just because the general public instinctually knows the tree-huggers want to use all issues for control reasons.
I think people are getting a sense that Global Warming is the vehicle that the Elite want to use to take them for a ride. If it wasnt global warming it would be something else.
I think they see the handwriting on the wall and that is why we are seeing the rise in stories about their next public hobby: atheism. It’s not Bush’s fault. It’s not global warming’s fault. Now it will be organized religion’s fault.