The State Department fires remaining employees who worked on climate change

[patphil]

1. The Republicans who run things think that if they don't acknowledge it, it doesn't exist.

Real world facts fly in the face of that belief.

https://usafacts.org/articles/are-the-number-of-major-natural-disasters-increasing/

The sad, and dangerous, part is that when politicians deny climate change, and convince people that there isn't a problem, we get disasters like the Texas flood, where there was no preparation for it.
Of course there's more to that particular problem than just willful ignorance, but it lays the foundation for not taking action to protect against these kind of disasters.