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The trap was set in the late 1970s or thereabouts when the
environmental
movement first realised that doing something about global
warming would
play to quite a number of its social agendas. ...
The scientists in environmental research laboratories ...
were forced to
seek funds from other government departments. In turn this
forced them
to accept the need for advocacy and for the manipulation of public
opinion. ...
The trap was partially sprung in climate research when a
number of the
relevant scientists began to enjoy the advocacy business. The
enjoyment
was based on a considerable increase in funding and employment
opportunity. ...
The trap was fully sprung when many of the world's major national
academies of science ... persuaded themselves to issue reports giving
support to the conclusions of the IPCC. The reports were touted as
national assessments that were supposedly independent of the
IPCC and of
each other, but of necessity were compiled with the
assistance of, and
in some cases at the behest of, many of the scientists
involved in the
IPCC international machinations. ...