2010 ties 2005 as warmest year on record, according to meteorologist

Global climate change (including temperature extremes) is a fact, as evidenced by measurements that 2010 and 2005 are the warmest overall years on record.  Conservatives (political and religious) don't believe in climate change because they do not accept the premise that warming or cooling is human caused, are concerned that laws to combat climate change will result in limitations of business practices or personal freedoms (driving, energy use, etc.), or that nature is controlled by a higher being and that whatever is going to happen is going to happen anyway.

But what conservatives and environmentalists can agree on, perhaps, is that something is going on.  And not doing anything is going to have continued repercussions for the environment (see this article on extinction of species that can't adapt to intense temperature change from the New York Times:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/science/earth/22kenya.html?_r=1&ref=global-home)

I believe that climate change doubters have effectively won the argument for now by blocking most major steps towards mitigation of climate change (Kyoto Protocol, etc.).  It is really up to those of us who do believe that climate change is real to do something about it.  And guess what I think are the two main things we can do?  Cut down on driving and eating meat. The United Nations and others seem to agree with me (sources:  http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2011/01/eating-meat and http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/02/un-report-meat-free-diet).  Do you?