“I’ve been [in] helicopters in the West, in the Southwest and Northwest, flown over more land burned to the ground, all the vegetation gone, than the entire state of Maryland,” Biden told his audience, partly referring to the wildfires now raging in Texas. “The idea there’s no such thing as climate change, I love that, man," the president added with evident sarcasm. "I love some of my Neanderthal friends who still think there’s no climate change.”

The root cause is well known - greenhouse gases, largely from extracting and burning fossil fuels:

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    President Biden described climate change deniers as “Neanderthals” during a speech on Thursday in Brownsville, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border. Fox News and other conservative media appear to be depicting this as an unacceptable insult

    Fox News gets offended by Dijon mustard. Their hissy fits aren’t worth acknowledging.