John McLean is a climate data analyst and a member of the Australian Climate Science Coalition: "Vested interests now dominate climate science. Whether climatologists, their employers and other people believe the government-approved line has become irrelevant, because they all wish to retain an income stream and whatever reputations they've established. These people advise governments, which subsequently set policy and research funding regardless of any contradiction with observational data (emphasis mine). Climate science is no longer an impartial truth but a slave to the yoke of politics and opportunism. If this continues, society will be the inevitable loser."
I believe society has already suffered losses. We have a generation of children who have been indoctrinated with global warming propaganda in the schools. What astounds and appalls me about all of this is here we are in the 21st century arguing about scientific "beliefs". We might as well have learned nothing.