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I work for a big oil company (as big as they come). In the early to mid-1990's, there were a lot of my colleagues (physicists, chemists, and chemical engineers with doctorates, though not climatologists) who exhibited disbelief in the concept of global warming and of a human cause of it. Certainly, that can't be a surprise. Accepting it is against our personal financial benefit and that's on top of it being downright scary. Now, I personally neither know or know of anyone here who has looked at the problem at any depth who does not now fully accept the idea. The only questions are how bad will it be and what can we do about it. I find that pretty amazing. I realize, again, that this is not popularity contest. But the number of people who have looked at the data and the science and who have consented is overwhelming. I find it unfortunate that there are political pundits and those with strong vested financial interests who continue to be successful in confounding resolution of the issue by claiming that it is untested science or tenuous in some manner. In the meantime, the situation becomes more difficult, perhaps irreversibly.
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