The money is being spent to advance the politics, which has to do with controlling energy use and users, towards some non-existent Utopian end.
Climate scientists are paid up front with grants to prove or pretend global warming exists. There is no option for disproving anthropogenic global warming. That makes climate scientists, including the ones who work for private employers who get grants, welfare recipients, another leftist demographic that has to be kept on the plantation.
Practically every university science department, and every alternative energy scheme, every government agency related to science, is dependent upon global warming funds, and required to perpetrate the mass hysteria. It would be total chaos should the funding get turned off.
The only question never asked of the scientists is the simplest one.
What constitutes the climate being fixed and what happens if our “theories” overcompensate and we go into a period of global cooling? I would go one step further and ask if perhaps the reason for this cooling trend is because we already fixed the problem and continuing on this path would make the earth go into a freeze, killing millions.
They have no answer. And that is why this is our best line of attack.