If AGW had anything to do with the weather or the Earths temperature, there would be little harm in co-opting the democrats/socialists argument. But considering that this entire religious cult is about social overhaul and destroying capitalism, if we agree to their premise we essentially can only argue about how much of capitalism we want to destroy and how much new regulation we want.
Instead of taking a real conservative approach to this problem, we’ve opted to find the public relations war against an enemy that owns every television network, academia, Madison Avenue and one entire political party (plus about 25% of ours). We aren’t being conservative and arguing for increased EFFICIENCY, decreased DEPENDENCY on our enemies and neighbors and technological solutions to REPLACE existing industries instead of just declaring them enemies of the state and destroying them along with their jobs.
And considering that all the new scientific data is heading AGAINST the idea that the world is getting warmer, we should never, never, never cede the argument that these zealots invented.