The problem as I see it is multifaceted. Its not just one party, or even one political side of the aisle, people seem to have been conditioned by the 24 hour, minute, by painstaking minute, news cycle, to read, react emotionally, and respond because upsetting headlines rise higher. So this happens with everything from hard sciences like chemistry, physics, and social sciences as well. I don't know what the solution is here, but I realized after Trump was elected, just how badly emotional gas lighting in headlines and news tickers was causing an overreaction at times in my own life. Since then I'm more careful what I read, what I choose to accept, and I'm more critical about everything, especially if it claims science and expertise. It has to be more than just initials after the name, I need to see evidence that the person speaking actually is able to communicate what they know, and that has to convince me of their expertise.
The other problem is a lot of statistics are just thrown out without context, no comparison to previous years, to per capita or regional trends, and because of that people are becoming desensitized to big numbers in science. There is no subject where there is much more to learn, grow and improve, than the Climate Science debate that suffers from this. But what also hurts, is the political system in the states creates an us vs them culture that is programed to make us react negatively to all kinds of things just because someone who doesn't sound like our 'party' narrative. It makes it difficult to have actual scientific or reasoned discourse of any kind.