Noah Berlatsky Noah BerlatskyAnd yet both, despite being centered on extreme weather events, avoid mentioning climate change directly.
In the mid-1990s the right was already moving toward climate change denial.
The characters’ silence is louder at a time when in real life many Republican leaders continue to deny climate change is a problem.
The current Republican platform doesn’t mention global warming at all, and GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has denied the scientific consensus on climate change.
In a 2022 survey, only 23% of Republicans thought climate change was a major threat.
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