The way this Global Warming issue has been politicized is just as much fun as the origins of the "Patriot Act" the "Mushroom Cloud," and the "Death Tax". The way to get uninformed folks to carry your intellectually bankrupt argument is to cover the issue with a bumper sticker or sound bite and then just keep repeating the lies. Let the linguistics obscure the truth, such as stripping patient's abilities to get proper coverage from their HMO's by calling the law the "Patient's Rights Act".
The very unsettling way thie climate issue has been controlled shows that Orwell's 1984 was not far off ("...the Ministry of Peace is concerned with War, the Ministry of Truth is concerned with Lies..."), the lazy press can be manipulated by officials who have no integrity, as long as they simply believe there are always "two sides" to every issue.
Read this article, it is one of several that show what a political campaign can look like when well done:
http://environment.newscientist.com/...te-change.html
We in the helicopter industry can and will work out how to do our very important jobs and meet the coming new environmental laws.
Either that, or we must buy tropical beachfront in Alaska.