Personally, I don't think there is an explicit conspiracy. But I do think there is a bit of group think in climate science due to the fact that many people who

Personally, I don't think there is an explicit conspiracy. But I do think there is a bit of group think in climate science due to the fact that many people who choose to study Environmental Science are also environmentalists. It's a conflict of interest when your primary researchers are also passionate green activists. So, when one scientist says to another "here's my research and data, don't let any of those knuckle-dragging skeptics get a hand on it, I'm going to see if we can deny their FOI requests", the other scientist goes along with it. Summed over hundreds of such acts, an us-versus-them true-believer culture can produce the same effects as an explicit conspiracy.