Conservatives: God fearing people, yet not important for weather

I was recently going through forum exchanges about the latest Al Gore presentation on climate changes and global warming "An Inconvenient Truth" when I came across a few things I considered interesting. Reading through the counter thesis and public expositions opponents of the film have is quite interesting. Many members of the republican party has opposed the ideas that Gore presents forward and has counter argued the scientific data presented forward by Gore.

It isn't a surprise that Gore's film isn't all that well received amongst certain government parties who have refused the terms brought forward during the Kyoto conference. Wikipedia specifically states Australian government as a skeptic and unwilling to change its mind. I remember reading headlines in the newspapers here about Harper criticizing Kyoto as well and rejecting certain policies.

What intrigued me the most actually were responses from republican suporters. A lot of them believed that human beings were too insignificant to have such a big impact on the weather. The idea that humans were so important as to have a negative effect, and not only that, but the ultimate negative effect was an absurd idea to them. These are the same people who believe we are so important that we had to be created by a higher being. Something isn't right here!

I guess the counter argument would be that if we were to be so great as to change the weather, we'd be competing with God. And God doesn't like competition. So that's why so many other rights should be revoked: Abortions, cloning, euthanasia, etc... Any slow process cannot be understood because of a lack of immediate responce or action from the opposition: Surely my car hasn't melted any snow as I drove it, can't possibly be that dangerous.

This reminds me of people who are either visual or auditory. A visual person could understand the concept of molecular structures only if he is to see it through a microscope, where somebody strickly auditory could understand the concept through words and explanations. But this still puts me in a dilemma, the same people who don't believe in global warming believe in the invisible Great Being!

I've yet to see the documentary, it's sitting on the pile of "to-watch" but I'm interested in giving the global warming issue a sit-down and the intellectual attention it deserves.