[AnthonyMouse]

Climate change is also tied up in politics, because the fossil fuel industry is worth more than a trillion dollars and employs millions of people.

Then the problem is not that people don't understand the science, it's that profit-seeking entities pay money to muddy the waters and people whose paycheck depends on the non-acceptance of the truth choose to believe the convenient lie.

Worse, because it then becomes a political issue, the side that was originally right starts to fight anyone who says anything at all convenient to the other tribe, even if it's correct.

So you lose the ability to do good science because both sides are polluted by politics and money.