Hi. I've been following the new global warming thread in the debate hall. I can't post there, but I was hoping you could relate some info on the whole climate gate thing for me. Please make the following points for me, if you don't mind:
1) Only a handful of the 1,000 stolen emails are being used to discredit the scientists. I could make anyone look bad if I got a chance to show 10 emails out of 1,000 to people.
2) At no point in the emails do the 2 scientists involved talk about working with anyone else or spreading so false message or even deliberately changing data. There is clearly no big conspiracy. It's just 2 somewhat arrogant scientists. If scientists were really trying to lie to everyone as one big evil plot, it would have come up at some point in 1,000 secret emails.
3) You CAN'T change the entire view of the scientific community all at once with false data. There is so much peer review that had they actually published false info, it would have been discovered and thrown out.
4) This whole thing is happening RIGHT before Copenhagen, which is basically the biggest climate change meeting in a decade. This is more than likely intentional.
Thanks!