Truly inconvenient truths about climate change being ignored ...

Central ... is the importance of government funding to science. Much of that funding since World War II has occurred because scientists build up public fears (examples include fear of the USSR's superiority in weapons or space travel, of health problems, of environmental degradation) and offer themselves as the solution to those fears. The administrators who work with the scientists join in with enthusiasm: much of their own funding is attached to the scientific grants.

See - Sydney Morning Herald - Truly inconvenient truths about climate change being ignored.