Well, there unfortunately seems to be a very large percentage of Americans who like their imaginary friends a little too much which had ruined the public discourse about climate change (and many other discussions). I have honestly given up on convincing any of these people. I'd like to just ignore them but that doesn't work in a democracy and see what we got now. So if spending some money on insane research just so that we can properly disprove it gives us even a chance to convince them then maybe that's worth it?

I'm pessimistic though and expect the "research" to be picked up by very right wing media while the evidence that disproves it will be ignored just like it's now.