That’s worked until now because we’ve been in the warning stage for the past 30 years. We are actively moving into the consequences stage. They can put out bullshit studies and cry “fake news” but that’s not a winning strategy when the yearly heatwaves and longer, harder hurricane seasons are smacking their idiot constituents in the face.
These people aren’t elected officials (well, some of them are) its a think tank that doesn’t pay taxes and lobbies in favor of whatever ‘elected’ asshole will take their money to destroy the ecosystem and fuck poor people in the ass.