Growing Enviroment Awareness following World War II, conspired with eco-socialism in the 1960s and 1970s to pre-form a philosophy-in-waiting that was kick started to centre stage by the hot Northern hemisphere summer of 1976.
The United Nations sponsored conferences and spawned a series of quangos that took up the running such that when the IPCC was formed and the Conference of the Parties (COPs) took control in the 1990s proper reasoned scientific debate was dead. Since the 1990s unelected quangos have driven the energy policies of Western Nations with the recent exception of the USA.
A leading light in the IPCC ccould not have put it bettwer when he said:
‘One must clearly say: that we re-distribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy’.
Chapter 11 (pp 330-393) covers the rise of Climate Change dogma in detail