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They believe whatever sounds more exciting to them. It’s a fantasy world all the way down. Climate change doesn’t sound interesting, so they instead say that it’s part of a weather manipulation scheme spearheaded by the Democrats.
IMO it has nothing to do with being interesting, it's about not admitting they've been wrong this entire time.
To be fair, it is difficult to rebuild one's understanding of the world after finding out that your previous understanding was built on fundamentally wrong ideas. Not that I'm excusing people who respond to cognitive dissonance by digging deeper into willful ignorance — after all, the reason why I know it's hard is because I've done that work myself (a couple of times). I do have some sympathy though.