All research scientists are part of a vast conspiracy. It is a one that encompasses nearly every research scientists in the world. It is called the Conspiracy to Drum Up More Funding to Do More Research.
I don't doubt that wanting research grants plays a part in
''science as we know it today".
When I was in high school we were concerned about a coming ice age. Well, that apparantly never happened. Or it did and I didn't notice it. Or, the scientists all figured out it wasn't happening and the real thing was global warming.
I saw a report on the news the other night that oil rigs working in the arctic are not working because of unusually heavy ice -- too much to allow the safe operation of these rigs. That does not sound to me like a warming up of the earth's climate, to me.
I don't doubt that the climate changes. We know why "Greenland" was given that name and it wan't because it was covered by humongous ice & snow fields when the vikings were doing their thing.
I don't doubt some scientists legitimatly believe in man made global warming....and that others don't.
I also think it's become a religion to some people -- and thus we have this observation:
I have actually heard people talk about global warming "unbelievers".
And politicians glom into the theory as a means of both controlling us and sucking more $$$ out of our wallets.
And don't get me wrong; I am not for going back to how things were in 1962, when we were pumping sulfer dioxides out into the air and other gross & toxic stuff, and polluting rivers to the point they caught on fire (!).
We've done a good job of clean-up. But OTOH many libs want to go overboard and use it to kill off modern technology, the job market, and energy production. That is where I part company!