"Antipathy to Expanded Government Is Based Ultimately on Philosophical Opposition"

"The events leading up to and including Paris are completely consistent with the optimistic hypothesis, and deeply inconsistent with the negative one. The major emitters have implemented dramatic policy changes—a sweeping array of greenhouse-gas regulations in the United States, massive green-energy support in China and India. China appears to have already reached peak coal, and its energy intensity has fallen, allowing it to provide more energy to its people without polluting more. There is no plausible explanation for all of these policies and results except that these countries actually want to reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions and are at least willing to try concerted international action to accomplish that.
It is also certainly possible that global willpower to reduce emissions will weaken, or collapse entirely. Future events cannot be proven. Only rigid dogma like American conservatism (or, for that matter, Marxism) gives its adherents a mortal certainty about the fate of government policy that a liberal cannot match, and should not want to."

Jonathan Chait in New York describes why conservatives can't combat climate change.