climate politics

There are a number of political groups dealing with climate change in the US, including a couple Republican groups (!), but they don't seem to have enough influence. Why is this? Maybe there needs to be some overarching coalition of these groups to be more effective. And, of course, in the US there is active political opposition to doing anything about climate change and a powerful  disinformation campaign. In addition, the mainstream media doesn't want to talk about it. It's not sexy enough, too long-term, etc. They'd rather talk about Stormy Daniels or these juicy allegations about Brett Kavanaugh. The fact that the US is a large (the largest?) energy producer as well as the largest energy consumer explains in large part why this issue is so much more contentious here than in other countries-- where it's just treated as, you know, science.