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Climate change wasn't always such a political topic. Both sides would agree on climate changing over a period of time. Getting hotter, getting cooler. We knew we were in a time of it getting hotter. It's when scientists started pointing out that we were getting hotter faster than what is reflected in the historical record and the studies were showing that it was caused by man. This wasn't news that was taken well by the right. First, you have the religious people, which make up a huge portion of conservatives. They state that only a higher being can affect climate, man can't. Then you had the capitalists, as what was being said is that industry is causing a majority of the CO2 emissions, and we should do something about that with regulations. If there's one thing the right will not tolerate it's policing business. You see the same thing with illegal immigration. The right want to combat it, but if you say we should penalize and fine/jail the owners of businesses that use all the illegal immigrants for cheap labor, they'll say no. Instead we should build walls and have people patrolling the border, can't mess with business. So, we went from both sides knowing it was an issue to one side trying to do stuff about it, and the other side telling people it's a lie and spreading misinformation.