For decades, a collection of think tanks known as the Atlas Network has used its influence to shape views of climate protest as extreme, unreasonable, and dangerous. The Atlas Network has hundreds of member think tanks across the world, and their members produce white papers, meet with politicos, liaise with the media, write legislation, and much more. 

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/powerful-think-tanks-portraying-climate-protest-dangerous-on-the-media