Except if you cared about money, it is far easier to sell out and take the money from the industry groups who want to fund research to throw the science into doubt.
[0] https://www.gao.gov/key_issues/climate_change_funding_manage...
> According to market research by IBISWorld, a leading business intelligence firm, the total revenues for the oil and gas drilling sector came to $2 trillion in 2017.
[0] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/030915/what-percent...
And all that money was immediately given to dirty evil fake scientists, right?
There is a LOT of documentation on scientists making a lot more money in private industry than in government sponsored research.
Accusing climate researchers of skewing their results for funding makes no sense when they are ALL on the same side of the argument and that you could make hay in the current adminstration by being on the other side.
Occams razor would lead us to the conclusing that the evidence really is super overwhelming ...
> A summary of their paper, which has not been published in a mainstream science journal, was submitted to EPA during the public comment period on a plan to roll back regulations for methane leaked during the production, processing, transmission and storage of oil and natural gas.
> "As far as from a global effect on climate, [methane] is immeasurably small," van Wijngaarden told E&E News. So "some of these people have said, you know, that could you please just write something up that we can use as ammunition," he said.