I know one electrical engineer who bought into it for quite awhile.
He was an avid reader of science magazines - and who was I to tell him those magazines can be “spin” too.
A book came along called Red Hot Lies. He had a complete turnabout after that.
I haven’t read that yet, must be good.
IEEE and ASME still officially talk about carbon pollution, but both societies are getting immense pressure from members to back off.