Dear Enviromenazis:

If you want people, especially conservatives, to come over with the "green" revolution, you should stop with the fear-mongering about the potential cataclysmic events to come (ice caps will melt! seas will rise! dogs and cats will co-exist peaceably!) and instead focus on the simple fact that it would improve air quality. Over half the nation currently lives under a public smoking ban, once thought to just be a crazy California piece of frivolous legislation. People are always more open to clean air legislation, because the effects of bad air are more immediate and more widely accepted medically and scientifically. Bad air leads to bad water and thereby bad crops and therefore bad health. But this foolish "if we don't act global warming will kill us all" is not a strategy for success. Once you win them over then you can indoctrinate, but right now, they are more than content to call it natural climate swings and urban heat island phenomena, which may be ludicrous to your ears/eyes, but it's not about what makes sense to you and spurs you to action, it's a question of motivating the inert.