I doesn't read as a particularly reasonable article to me.
Follow the money.
I think it defies reason that Melanie Philips claims that it is the academic research grant awarding bodies that have created and skewed the climate change research by only giving grants to support an AGW agenda. Why would they? What is in it for them? How were they coordinated worldwide? Why no whistle blowers?
Obviously forgetting climategate etc
Even were that true, there is nothing to stop the the Fossil Fuel industry from funding peer reviewed climate research which counters it.
Very evident that socialist funding panels fund what narrative they need to.
The disparity of resources between the trillions involved in the industry that underpins every other industry of the world; and the relative pittance available for independent academic research shows her contention to be risible.
Nahh the billions given to a small number of questionable researchers into climate would be 'risable'.
If there were any scientists who could show that Climate Change was not being influenced by man, there would certainly not be any difficulty in accessing funding for their research from the oil industry.
That is total bollox most real scientists have spoken out against the wasrmistas, what THEY see is funding cut and loss of tenure as a result of trying to show the truth.
Instead we get the smear campaigners like Melanie Philips.
Or this amateur hit job by alantoo
She misrepresents the BBC briefing memo
"The BBC has decided there can be no challenge to “climate change” theory" but fails to say that the advice to staff was given after OFCOM had ruled that the BBC were in breach of broadcasting rules by not challenging sufficiently the false claims made by Climate Change denier Nigel Lawson.
bbc are seriously the last to rely upon for any evidence - they are charlatans - see 28gate Full List of Participants to the BBC CMEP Seminar on 26 January 2006
It doesn't take much reasoning to see in whose interests denial of Climate Change would be.
Some cannot see what a tax scam globull warming is, they have their eyes closed to the impending socialism which, true to form, will kill millions again.
Alan