Reason for fake scientific “consensus” on global warming.

[Dr Richard Lindzen of MIT ] pointed out [at the March 8, 2009 Heartland-2 Conference] the professional difficulties that are raised for many skeptics when scientists whose research they respect nonetheless endorse global warming. In most such cases, however, the science that such persons do is not about global warming in the strict sense. It’s just that supporting global warming makes their life, and especially their funding life, easier.

Thus, it is a particular problem for young scientists to oppose the prevailing alarmist orthodoxy, because to do so is to cruel their chances of receiving research funding. For as long as it is the AGW spin that attracts the research funds, for so long will there be a strong disincentive for most scientists to question the hypothesis in public.

"Heartland-2: session one." By Bob Carter, Quadrant Online, 3/9/09.