Brain Fertilizer

One thing the MSM has a hard time wrapping its mind around is that quite a number of conservatives do care about the environment as much or more than most liberals.

Sure, we don't set fire to SUVs or anything, but when you think about it, it makes sense:
Liberals tend to live in cities, and so are separated from nature; many are extremely wealthy (limousine liberals), fly jets (extremely wasteful on fossil fuels) and have big houses that they heat and cool at great expense, etc, etc.
Whereas many Conservatives tend to live in rural areas (the famed Red State/County distribution), the gun nuts love to go hunting, and conservatives just plain hate wasting money, especially on gas and heating/cooling.

Okay, that's admittedly not a very rigorous set of arguments. There are probably more exceptions than rules in that mess of garbage. So let me start again:

I like nature, hate waste, and want to make sure the world doesn't get ruined by pollution and man's interference.

The Kyoto Pact is ridiculous on so many levels. It doesn't even begin to do what it says it will do (reduce greenhouse emissions) because it puts no restrictions on developing nations. Its real goal is to hamstring the wealthy nations...that would actually result in the world being dirtier, because manufacturing would move even more rapidly into places like China, India, Malaysia, and Indonesia, where the emission standards would be lax. What motivation would the US then have to develop cleaner manufacturing processes?
The biggest source of man-made greenhouse gasses is already the developing nation, including places like China...have you ever visited any of their population centers? They all have horrible pollution. Most Chinese people never see a sunset, because pollution hides the sun before it can approach the horizon! Indonesia is covered with soot and smog most of the year because they are burning of acres and acres of forests, and their cooking fires are pretty bad, too, from what I hear. Ocean navigation near Indonesia has actually gotten hazardous at times, the smog drifting out over the littoral areas has gotten so bad.
That doesn't even begin to address that volcanoes pump so much "pollutive" and greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere that all man-made sources nearly merge in with the baseline in comparison.

And yet, because of my conservatism,this sort of thing disturbs me:

If it is true, and if it is a unique development, and if it is due to man's influence at all, and if there is anything we can do about it.

The most disturbing aspect to all the argument about global warming is that it has become a money-making industry for the people making noise about it. I fear it is no longer possible to research this subject and have any confidence in the accuracy/appropriateness of the information you assemble.

Thoughts?