"By Bryan Walsh Tuesday, Oct. 07, 2008
Environmentalists are often accused — not always unfairly — of overplaying the fear card. With apocalyptic references to melting polar ice caps, rising sea levels and widespread species extinction, the driving message of environmentalism is that the future is doomed, unless we act now to save it.

But what happens when another more alarming, more immediate catastrophe co-opts people's fear? That's the predicament greens find themselves in now, with what is potentially the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression scaring Americans out of their wits."
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1847409,00.html

Linked from Junkscience: http://www.junkscience.com/
And Steven Milloy comments: "No matter, these guys still don't get it, even when they make an accurate statement. Yes, a falling economy is bad for "the environment" -- the bit they don't ever seem able to grasp is that a booming economy is by definition good for the environment and yet the so-called environmentalists' raison d'être is to kill economies (so you can't consume any of Gaia's goodies). "

Steven Milloy is complete correct- on a number of different levels.

For one thing the media will have other things they will report about- because "global warming" will concern them even less than at the moment. And significant downturns generally have more excitement involved- wars, large number people unemployed, etc. This assuming we actually get the negative growth rates that some greens actually see as desirable- that we actually get something similar or worse than the great depression.
If we had some something which was actually equal to the Great Depession our chances of having another world war [which could make WWI & II look as provincial and cute as a bar fight] increases significantly.

And another article about how depression could good for green's interest:

Economic woes may give planet a breather

NICOSIA (Reuters) - A slowdown in the world economy may give the planet a breather from the excessively high carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions responsible for climate change, a Nobel Prize winning scientist said on Tuesday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/GlobalEnvironment08/idUSTRE4966A220081007