[SlowBoat407]

They've got to keep up the Global Warming end of things, right?

I'm convinced that funding for their work is contingent on their mentioning global warming in any of their reports.

[GOPJ]

I'm convinced that funding for their work is contingent on their mentioning global warming in any of their reports.

I think you're right.

[maryz]

I'm convinced that funding for their work is contingent on their mentioning global warming in any of their reports.

I can't find the post now, but I saw one on FR within the past couple of days in which (as best I can recall) the poster said that a grad student in some climate related field told him (her?) twenty years ago that funding depended on putting things "in a global warming framework".