Marco Rubio also wants to drill for more oil and says the climate is always changing: “We’re not going to destroy our economy the way the left-wing government we are under now wants to do.”

Donald Trump, who will say anything, says, “I don’t believe in climate change.”

Why on earth, so to speak, is there such impassioned denial among Republicans of what 95 percent of all scientists say is an incontrovertible fact?

The answer is business. If climate change is denied, then businesses and industry don’t have to change the way they operate. They don’t have to spend money to reduce emissions polluting the atmosphere. It is easier to make a case for cutting taxes for the wealthy and for corporations if government isn’t expected to take action to save the planet.

Also, if there is something we don’t understand, let’s just deny it.

Secretly, a lot of those who insist they don’t believe in the science of climate change believe in science fiction. They think technology will come up with some super duper answer that will restore the ozone, erase the plague of greenhouse gases and restore our planet to the halcyon days of non-pollution.