As a Christian that accepts climate change as fact, I will add that much of the resistance from the Bible belt comes from the misconception that climate change

As a Christian that accepts climate change as fact, I will add that much of the resistance from the Bible belt comes from the misconception that climate change is necessarily a doomsday, end of the world event. Christians obviously have their own distinct end times view. So if climate changers couch their arguments as "Pay attention or the human species will go extinct!" it's really a non-starter. If you really care to start a discussion, try instead: "Pay attention or the entire Eastern seaboard will be flooded in 2020!", or, better yet, what I say (as a Christian myself), "We are commanded to be good stewards of God's creation, which means not polluting/raping/short-term-thinking." To be very specific, I think one major obstacle is that many Christians consider God's promise to never flood the Earth again (Genesis flood, Noah) as a guarantee that God will not allow a sea-level rise to wipe out a "significant" percentage of humankind. That's a misconception that's significant to the debate but rarely addressed by either side.