MDK, Religion is part of the human psyche. You quash it where it is, it will pop up somewhere else. 

Global Warming is more popular than other, more credible threats because it reads like a religion. 

Original, uncorrupted paradise earth.
The Devil (big oil)
Man's corrupting influence.
Apocalyptic eschatology.
 We must repent and respect Mother Earth! We have made her angry! (People blame everything from earthquakes to autism on Global Waeming)
Messiah (Obama. Remember the deafening applause when he said that his election was the day the oceans stop rising)