Countryboy, it is obvious from your posts that you have absolutely no idea how science funding works. . .
Let us pretend for a brief moment that there were a paradigm shift in the understanding of global warming. It would start with a few papers, and as more scientists checked the data they would run their own experiments and write their own papers. The grant-funding would be insane if all your applicants wanted to bust out this new idea, and science funding would probably (at least for awhile) go up to accommodate all this new research. This, in turn would mean more and higher paying jobs for scientists whether they work for private industry or the government. So, right there, your premise is completely false.
Now, about who funds what. Have you looked at congress lately? They couldn't agree that water was good if their heads were on fire. But you say they've already agreed not only that there is global warming and it is anthropogenic, but also that the science funding (quite literally a drop in the federal budget bucket) must be so heavy handedly controlled that they will only fund science that agrees with their opinion? As for the Koch brothers, caliboy already pointed out that their own study showed that climate change was happening. If anything, the fact that the scientific community is wary of tainted money in their science means that the papers written with that money will receive more than the average amount of peer-review scrutiny. If the science is politically/economically biased and the conclusions are proven wrong than the Theory is stronger for having disproven some opposition. If the conclusions are shown to be correct by peer-review the Theory is stronger because even those in conflict with the results still came up with the same results. (and just to be clear, what you call "theory" a scientist calls a Hypothesis, and what a scientist calls a "Theory" the rest of the world calls a fact. . .)
Science, in general is a self-correcting system that cannot long be duped be even the most industrious of usurpers.
