BINGO!
It's what I tell him all the time
It's why he and so many others fall for junk science, it's because they are working backwards. They don't like that energy may cost more for awhile, that it might effect their status quo, it might effect their portfolio, or sometimes it's just that they have to oppose the other side. So they first started just denying climate change, but then people started asking them why so they had to pretend to like science. So they're all throwing different junk science to see what sticks.
This person says the world is actually cooling, the other says more CO2 is actually good for humanity and the earth, and others just bury their head completely don't bother with science and say it's a hoax. But at the end of the day, their approach and the fact that they got where they are backwards is very transparent.