I just met a guy whose career was drilling for oil; he’d been active all over North America and the Middle East for about 40 years until he retired ten years ago.

Naturally, I asked him for his thoughts on our civilization’s phasing out fossil fuels in favor of low-carbon sources of energy.  He responded, “If you’re asking me if I believe in global warming, the answer is that I don’t.  If it exists at all, it will take at least a million years to do any real damage to human beings, and by then, we will probably have disappeared through some other means.”

Now, this got me thinking.  It was clear that he honestly believed this; he isn’t getting paid by Big Oil to spread their propaganda.  It looks like the line from the Simon and Garfunkel song “The Boxer” that includes the line, “A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”

If you try hard enough, you can still, to this day, find a few scientists who do not buy the almost universally accepted theory of anthropogenic global warming. It takes diligence, but it can be done, with enough motivation.