I agree. The climate science community would have its funding cut off in a second if it admitted to Congress that human induced global warming is a farce.
Bigger potential disaster = More government grants
The unfunded (and thus independent) scientific community is in a position to provide an unbiased view of the subject.
Tell me this. How many people drive cars in the United States? (100 million? 150 million?)
How many of them would you trust would have the expertise to drive a NASCAR vehicle at about 200 mph in a NASCAR race?
The subset of experts who understand what they're doing is considerably smaller than the set of amateurs who don't -- even if the basic skills are similar.