James: A theory is produced to justify a large government program. The theory requires millions or billions of dollars in funding to test. This requires building a narrative to justify the funding, which involves talking as if the theory is true. By the time the money is allocated, and the tests are done, very large interests have been formed based on the theory being true. The theory being not true is no longer acceptable.

Lets take the first one: “Climate is influenced by CO2 production.” Assuming your hypothesis that large money interests form around the theory being true, why have 182 countries (some very poor) ratified the Kyoto Protocol, but not the United States, which rejected it in the Senate 95-0. That seems to imply that the Big Money Interests blew all their money buying the votes of countries that stand to get poorer if they implement the Kyoto Protocol, and there was no money left over to lobby even one member of our own Senate to vote “yea”.