Today, the peer reviewed process of funding and validation of scientific research in climatology is equally controlled by the modern equivalent of the Collegium Romanum (the Vatican’s Institute of Research), the Inter-government Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) They in turn answer to the equivalent of the Inquisition, the Green ideologists, who, mercifully, can only torment through derision or denying the heretics research funding, and not the frightening instruments of torture. iting climate change denier David Whitehouse, Deepak Lal claimed that “the global temperature record shows that, when the sun was active the world warmed, and since it peaked in the late 1980s within a few years global warming stalled.