I agree, there's a lot of solid science, confirmed by what we're measuring year after year. Climate change is happening and CO2 emissions are a major cause, or the only one.

But we should not underestimate the power of a decades-long daily stream of clickbaity headlines on the same topic, all skewed in the same direction- the catastrophic one, the one that spreads fear and incites indignation. Nobody is immune to it, not even scientists are.

Not the only one by a long shot. Methane (from cattle and melting permafrost) is a dramatically worse greenhouse gas than CO2.