Actually, as members and adminstrators of research departments who rely almost completely on government funding...they absolutely share the common agenda of securing funding from political bodies, most of whom refuse to fund anything that could be politically incorrect.

That's kind of the whole point of what came out last month. Then they fall back on Bill Murray's line from Ghostbusters, "Back off man, I'm a scientist."

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Looks like an organized buch of scientists with a common agenda to me.