There have been discussions and publications for decades and decades on the confluence of politics and science.
Global warming as a political campaign issue is nothing new. What is different about it is the scale of its political support at its peak, spanning the world and its political societies and bodies with an ultimate push inside the dysfunctional United Nations and the leftist media outlets.
And of course a now thoroughly devalued Nobel Peace Prize for a very disturbed person by the name of Al Gore.
And as if that didn't devalue the Nobel enough, they gave one to obama too.