Climate contrarians also recruited conservative evangelical Christian leaders, who distrusted government in general and had impressive political and communications clout. One by-product of this pact was an organization in the Washington suburbs called the Cornwall Alliance, which released a hit film in evangelical circles called Resisting the Green Dragon that equated environmentalism with worship of a false god. It described global warming as “one of the greatest deceptions of our day.” Climate change became such a hot-button issue for Christian fundamentalists that Richard Cizik, a vice
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