When future historians write about the 21st century, the greatest enigma of these times will be how and why so many people believed Donald Trump and denied the science of climate change.
An attempt to answer this question now is documented in https://routledge.com/Climate-Denial-in-American-Politics-ClimateBrawl/Kutney/p/book/9781032592794

Climate Denial in American Politics: #ClimateBrawl
Climate Denial in American Politics is a detailed examination of the rise within American politics of climate denialism, the counter movement which challenges the accepted science of climate change. Organized around the administrations of American presidents from Roosevelt to Biden, this book provides an unprecedented account of climate denial within both the White House and Congress, and the ‘climate brawls’ that followed. This volume is a rebuke to discredit the climate denier, their propa