To be clear: this is not a program where climate scientists advise the industry. It is the reverse. Feedlot operators and trade association directors are the mentors. Government climate researchers are the mentees.

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This is not corruption in the ordinary sense. No one is taking a bribe or falsifying a number. The researchers named here may be doing careful, honest work—that is actually the point. What’s at work is something subtler and more durable: a system that rewards researchers who frame their work in the industry’s terms, and quietly strands the ones who don’t.

For some good summary quotes about the scientific research portion