The theory of global warming, for which there is little evidence, has come to dominate the world's environmental agenda to such an extent that an international treaty is based on it. This remarkable feat came about through the well-orchestrated efforts of an inner circle of science-policy makers within the IPCC, who dominated discussion in order to achieve the necessary 'scientific consensus' for politicians to take action. This paper explains how all this was achieved, and traces the global warming campaign from its inception in the 1980s to the Berlin conference of 1995.
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