For most of my professional life, I was an ardent skeptic of the idea that Man had anything to do with climate change. While the meteorology department at Penn State provided me with all the basic tools to be a good operational forecaster/broadcast meteorologist, I chose to ignore those same tools when it came to AGW. I will share my story of how I made the transformation from ideologue to scientist, the ups and downs that came with that process, and the things I have learned about our society and why it has become so binary in nature.