The left always talks about funding for skeptics. There is very little. Skeptics often have to do fund raising from citizens while those who toe the line get rich.
The left's continual harping about skeptics doing their thing for money from big oil is a lie. The real money is on the side with the majority. The skeptics are interested in truth.
Since about 1976 the areal extent of sea-ice in the Northern Hemisphere has varied about a constant climatological level but in 1972-1975, sea-ice extent was significantly less - IPCC 1990 assessment, Page 224.