I've worked a lot of different jobs, including private security officer (unarmed). One chilly winter's day, as I was sitting at my desk in a lobby, a man started to walk out the door and then turned his head to talk to someone inside. The frigid air rolled over my feet, turning my toes to ice as he jabbered on, until I finally said, "Sir, please close the door, you're letting in the cold."
To my dying day, I'll never forget what happened next. This thoughtless, self-centered man looked over his shoulder at me and said, "You're mean!" It was appalling and instructive, all at once. I believe that he was only unusual in how clearly he showed a fundamental aspect of human nature: people hate being asked to do something that they don't want to do, even to the extent of considering you a bad person for asking.
It recently occurred to me that this anecdote is a perfect metaphor for the "debate" over anthropogenic global warming.
Climate scientists: "Sirs and madams, please stop burning so much fossil fuel, you're trapping in the heat."
Fossil fuel stakeholders: "You're mean!"