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That's a human nature thing. We are really much happier as people when there's a "logical" course of real events that lead to any disaster. We can understand "evil group did evil thing" better than "the collective actions of humanity over the last 200 years caused a fundamental change to our world that we cannot reverse in our lifetime."
We aren't good at nuance.
Some random wacko deciding to kill Kennedy because of mental illness and a general hostility towards his world view is harder for us to accept than a secret plot to seal power. Bad guys make sense to us. Chaotic elements just don't.
Even with quotation marks you're really stretching the meaning of logical. It's less about "logical" and more about "believable course of events". There's nothing logical about weather weapons, but people who already believe democrats are evil and deep state exists etc. have no problem throwing another make-believe ontop of their layered make-believe cake. And why wouldn't they? They already believe all the other nonsense that's necessary to believe this nonsense, they're just getting a bigger cake.
And just to throw it out there, they could've believed "Gods did this" as that's what we've historically believed. Weather weapons isn't the only option to believe in, it's just the one they choose to believe in.
"Scapegoat" is the term. Humanity has always loved a good scapegoat to blame all their problems on. Whether it's true or not doesn't matter. Has never mattered.