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Everyone has an agenda. Believing that there is no agenda in any movement of people is the same as believing that humans are inherently perfectible by government fiat. If you really believe that there is no agenda at all when a scientists hammers on about the worst possible consequences of human-induced global warming, then you also believe utopia is possible. And I cannot talk to you, because our beliefs are not reconcilable.
All humans have an agenda. Most of them, the AGW-proponents in climate science included, have a simple agenda, not a conspiratorial one. They want to MAKE MONEY. They want power in their university - security - long term stability for their families. And they'll do whatever research the government is willing to pay for to get that power and security. That. Is. A. Fact. That's not my opinion. That is just straight up common sense drawn from my experience watching them in the halls of Stony Brook...watching the AGW movement draw them all up in the hot pursuit of money.
They may also earnestly believe, thanks to studying the problem, that humans have created a significant global warming (most of them probably do), but there's a reason they don't spend any real time asking skeptical questions and pursuing other lines of research that might challenge the status quo arguments. They all know...and it was dramatically revealed in the climategate email exchanges and in my personal communications with climate scientists I deeply respected, despite our disagreement on the issue of climate change, that global climate models are *******TERRIBLE******** science. I cannot emphasize that word enough. The climate models we are using to form economic policies that prevent America from becoming energy independent and more secure against terrorism and recession are absolute GARBAGE. And everyone in climate science is at least dimly aware of it. I attended a talk each week for five years...and I still remember one such talk given by a scientist from NASA Goddard's climate modeling unit. She was trying to show the possible feedback impact of black carbon dust accumulating on Arctic ice. She developed the usual tuning methods and ran a series of 100 year climate simulations that were half reconstruction of known climate from the last several decades and half a projection. She got the usual warming trend and semi-accurate trend replication from the known data. Then she added black carbon feedbacks. The forecast PLUMMETED by 15 degrees in the space of three years (!) of the simulation. As though adding black carbon to the arctic ice were the same as Yellowstone blowing up. LOL These climate models we're all relying on...they...know...NOTHING...about climate. Not one gosh darned thing that can help us make a climate projection accurately.
We can't even agree as to whether the models are right that increasing CO2 will lead to increasing water vapor in the atmosphere. The models say this feedback should already have been happening but the satellite data says it has not been...not for 40 years of global warming. And if increasing C)2 does not increase water vapor...human induced global warming cannot be worth more than a degree C per doubling of CO2 and is therefore not a problem worth worrying about! Thisw is fundamental, foundational stuff that climate scientists, despite their blustering publicly about the consensus and the certainty and the need for action, all dimly know has not been settled
I'll close this rant by stating one more time - everyone has an agenda, and it's usually money. Willie Soon gets paid millions by Exxon and friends...(he's a prominent skeptic)...but what skeptics get paid is absolutely DWARFD by what alarmists get paid by governments. I don't believe the scientists are conspiring for a political outcome...but I believe GOVERNMENTS are...by handing out money to scientists desperately seeking it (and power and influence) to research only those lines that empower government to further regulate our lives in the name of saving the planet. And if you don't see the possible danger of government funded science drifting into policy-making...you have too much faith in your government.