&#62; ...the consensus opinion... the boring truth is that there are numerous lines of evidence... a bunch of aggressively anti-climate-change folks, like yourself... engaging in international data theft to try and dig up dirt... extreme paucity of data for some kind of climate conspiracy... I really don't see how someone can rationally arrive at the conclusion that the IPCC is corrupt... Who is paying them? ... Do you imagine them in a futuristic control center with C.H.A.O.S. uniforms, with Vega and M.Bison giving orders before they beat up married men and raise their children as assassins?<p>Okay, see, this is it. People get completely and totally convinced and it becomes an identity issue.<p>I excerpted you from above - you state your conclusions as premises, and preemptively ridicule and strawman the other side. You don't need people with an agenda if there's true believers with their identity at stake - their identity as scientists or good people. The boring truth is what you happen to believe, the other side primarily consists of aggressive anti-climate people who also associate with international thieves, and how could the side you believe possibly be doing corrupt, despite clear evidence of scientific misconduct and numerous errors and fallacies pointed out? Ah, forget the misconduct, the whole thing is going to get get weirder before it gets warmer.<p>Also - I'm a conservationist, for the record. I just think the whole damn thing is shameful.