Exactly !
The pro-ACC/AGW hucksters lie out of both sides of their mouths and clearly most don't understand science. The rest just say what they are told to say.
Which is why I say they don't have a clue what is science or scientific.
And they love to use the phrase 'peer reviewed.' Well when the peers are all chosen because they already agree with the subject, 'peer review' is pretty worthless to establish credibility of a 'scientific' opinion. And those of us who have participated in peer reviewed studies know that the peers for the most part are not necessarily agreeing or disagreeing with the study or the conclusions reached but rather are giving their opinion that the study was scientifically conducted.
I am reminded of the Phlogiston Theory popular in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The scientists concluded there was an invisible component called phlogiston in combustible materials that made combustion possible.
Wiki's definition is pretty good so I'll use it for convenience here:
". . .In general, substances that burned in the air were said to be rich in phlogiston; the fact that combustion soon ceased in an enclosed space was taken as clear-cut evidence that air had the capacity to absorb only a finite amount of phlogiston. When the air had become completely phlogisticated it would no longer serve to support the combustion of any material, nor would a metal heated in it yield a
calx; nor could phlogisticated air support life. Breathing was thought to take phlogiston out of the body. . ."
By the mid to late 18th Century, other and far more accurate scientific theories had completely replaced that one. But while it was popular, any scientific studies conducted would almost certainly claim peer reviews by most or all scientists of that time.
I'm quite certain that a far smaller percentage of modern day scientists agree with the IPCC and/or leftist AGW religionists re climate change. But while scientists in the 17th and 18th centuries might have fudged opinions a bit to conform to religious demands, scientific opinion was not heavily influenced by who was doling out the grant money.