Provide details!  Otherwise this is just a smear.  What cabal?  What proof of wrong-doing?  What proof of politicization?
I recall how the fossil fuel industry had to create journals to publish denial research because peer-reviewed journals wouldn't.   So now you are going to say that the journals are biased. Let's see--scientists with at most a small economic incentive or huge and massively rich industries that might face distinction?  For honest arguments and credible research, I'll put my money on the scientists any day.