Climategate -the scandal- started with scientists aligning with activists, like this Leila Conners. Back in 2006 she interviewed climate prophet Stephen Schneider († 2010). In 2018 I wrote a long text about this amazing interview in Dutch. In 2022 I translated it into English and only then the horror really sunk in: a scientist who knowingly chose populism and then managed to become world famous.
Link to the (not very) long EnglishTEXT itself (you find link to the 2006 interview there).
Link to the 2021 Vanity Fair article.