What It Is To Be a Scientist

Scientists worth their salt must neither contradict themselves nor fail to substantiate any theory they propose or reject. From all I have read it would appear that there are any number of people masquerading as scientists who aren't, particularly those who refuse to reveal how the models on which they have built their theories have been constructed. I am not a scientist but I read a bit about climate  change theories and there seems a resistance amongst many convinced that man is behind global warming and on which huge sums of money must be spent to address this horror that the make up of their models are not open for scrutiny. A cynic might say, no doubt has already said, that there must be funding involved somewhere and that warmists who have managed to attract financial support by their alarm stories have one concern above all others and that is to ensure the funding keeps on flowing. Of course the funding would stop if it were found that warmists have no scientific proof to back up their claims and that their models were based on unsubstantiated conjecture. Manipulating the Libor rate is one thing and if fraud can be proved against any of those involved there will be convictions. Will there be convictions against warmists who have persuaded governments all over the world to put costly systems in place to replace carbon fuels if found unnecessary? I doubt it. Governments may be embarrassed by revelations that they have been duped but they will not want to prosecute for fear of having more than one egg all over their faces.  How will Sir Mark Walport, the new government chief scientific adviser, deal with the global warming argument? Will he take an independent line or at least insist that proponents of one side of the argument or the other reveal all data used in and the details/make up of a model used in arriving at a particular conclusion? If not then the new government chief scientific adviser will be as useless as the previous one and will not merit the title 'scientist', assuming he is so titled and not an administrator.