That's one thing that has always been a curiosity for me about the entire global warming crowd in the government, and that is that SURELY our military has always been aware that the whole global warming imminent catastrophe was a total hoax --- so I have sometimes wondered if military intel was actually the originator behind the initial formation of this meme.
To what end? I'm not sure, but something obviously to do with longterm national security.
And as other freepers have pointed out, that although there exist many millions of True Believers, the scientists & politicians leading the charge on this ALL know that it's a LIE.
Is it ... possible... that there ARE large numbers of reputable meteorologists who DO believe that we are on the cusp of a massive ice age, and wanted to somehow prevent this from becoming common knowledge?
Do not think it is meteorologists holding back. The few that do believe we are cooling are very vocal right now, as they should be. We now know that the CIA investigated the affects of global cooling back when a cold year caused 1/2 of the Soviet Unions grain to fail. Because of the CIA study, the 1970's State Run Media began to run all the Ice Age is Coming stories. Then the climate mellowed, the Soviet Union fell apart and then the very unusual and abnormal 1998 warming occurred. Perhaps the governments agendas changed, but the problem then became Global Warming. Perhaps they are just hitching rides on any statist trains that happen to come by ? At any rate, since then the cooling trend has returned with a vengeance.
The conspiracy to push the global warming nonsense is entirely on the left, and it hasn’t been particularly anonymous — although it’s obvious that the stuff they exchange privately in email and whatnot is even more blatant than the things that have been public for some years.