I have to agree, when money and interests like with the situation around climate change are involved its hard to do actual science, it just turns into a fucked up manipulation game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Earth was funded by the Charles A. Koch Foundation, which hoped to get a contrarian result backed by real science. The study lead was a climate science skeptic at the time. It reached the same conclusion as everyone else.
Decades earlier, ExxonMobil spent millions to do its own science and came to the same conclusion. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...
It's not hard to do the science. It's hard to be truthful about the results when they affect your bottom line.