I haven't read the emails. I haven't even read about them.... just the snippet I heard on NPR on the scandal. It seems from what little I've read .... and it ain't much .... that the majority of scientists in the field believe that the by products of human habitation on the earth have contributed to global warming. I don't find that difficult to believe.

I recall when scientists and medical professionals said that cigarette smoking was a major cause of lung disease. The tobacco companies found many scientists and medical professionals to dispute the claims. The devil can quote the scriptures to his own uses.

My grandfather was in his late 70s when he told me to believe half of what you see and nothing that you read. Coming from Czarist Russia to the USA in '08 he had seen a lot. I'm as skeptical as the next guy but I think there is something to humans being a major cause of global warming and just because some 'true believers' become over zealous and 'salt the mine' that doesn't mean it isn't so.