600K Americans died from Covid, yet even now, it's not exactly hard to find people saying that the real danger was emergency government responses we met along the way.

The tricky thing about "Climate moment" is that it's impossible to prove that any single disaster was caused by climate change, because it's statistical in nature. A super-hurricane could ravage Florida or Texas, and you will always find someone saying "You can't prove it's global warming - freak weathers do happen all the time! Now is not the time to be carried away by knee-jerk emotions!"

Those people were mostly old and infirm, not exactly the groups with the most political say.

If it's millions then maybe. Say a major city wiped off the face of the earth or something like that. But chances are that two news cycles later people would just update their maps and talk about how great it was that they went holidaying in 'X' before it was wiped out.

The fires, here in Australia and the US.