Environmentalists cause global warming

Apparently the Right's new line of attack on climate change is this: Yes, we need to do something about it, and we could if environmentalists would just stop being such liberal pricks. Michael Gerson writes:

[Policies to combat climate change] will require a broad political and social consensus...Yet many environmental leaders seem unpracticed at coalition-building. They tend to be conventionally, if not radically, liberal. They sometimes express a deep distrust for capitalism and hostility to the extractive industries. Their political strategy consists mainly of the election of Democrats...If the movement to confront climate change is perceived as partisan, anti-capitalist and hostile to human life, it is likely to fail...And so the question arises: Will the environment survive the environmentalists?

So, let me get this straight. After Republicans spend over two decades denying the existence of climate change, environmentalists are a bunch of partisan jerks for supporting Democrats? And after oil companies spend billions arguing that climate change isn't happening, environmentalists are socialists for being hostile to those companies?

The truth, I'd say, is pretty much the other way around. It is conservatives who, against their better judgment, have yoked themselves to the climate-change-doesn't-exist wagon, mainly because they dislike environmentalists. Michael Gerson's argument is essentially "I know you are but what am I," and just about as convincing.