backwoods
All the lobbying and celebrity endorsements make me skeptical.
I have a friend in the MIT math department who says it is bollocks too. Just the statistical methodology is dodgy. He says it is a racket.
Perhaps you have an academic citation for this?
When I searched for papers questioning the statistical methodology of climate change on scholar.google.com nothing jumped out at me suggesting that it is a racket, but it is of course entirely possible I missed it.