I'm not a Republican, and don't pretend to know how most Republicans think about climate change.
But I would like to offer an opinion on why so many Republicans are skeptical of predictions of a coming climate crisis:
Logical people with common sense might be skeptical for a simple reason:
-- We have all been living in a period of global warming for roughly 45 years, and the climate change has been pleasant.
In every one of those 45 years, we have been hearing predictions of a coming climate crisis.
As every decade passes, we get more experience living WITH global warming, find it to be pleasant, and notice the predictions were wrong.
But the predictions of a coming climate crisis never stop -- in fact, they get louder, and more hysterical.
Eventually, people with common sense realize the climate predictions have been wrong for many decades, so there is no logical reason to continue believing the predictions.
Their actual experience LIVING with pleasant global warming, is nothing like the awful future global warming described in the scary climate predictions.
I'd like to think people had enough common sense so they would never trust predictions, in general, especially climate predictions, and especially climate predictions for 100 years in the future.
Leftists, however, rarely have enough common sense -- they have too much trust in government and authority -- they are very gullible to the appeal to authority logical fallacy ... but only from leftists in authority.
If a leftist government bureaucrat or politician tells them the planet is doomed from climate change, especially one with a science Ph.D., they will believe their fellow leftist without any doubt.
No independent thinking required.
No skepticism required.
They act like the borg on Star Trek.