More Global Warming Controversy

Recently, hundreds of e-mails were hacked from a server at a British University, leading to quite a stir among global warming skeptics. The e-mails contain discussions of using "tricks" to make temperature warming look more drastic, and derisive comments made about skeptics. Some climate experts, such as Dr. Kevin Trenberth, a climatologist for the National Center for Atmospheric Research, believes that the messages will show the "integrity of scientists". Dr. Michael Mann also responded that “Scientists often use the term ‘trick’ to refer to ‘a good way to deal with a problem,’ rather than something that is ‘secret.”

However, the e-mails also refer to global warming skeptics. A few of the e-mails written about Dr. Patrick Michaels muse about discrediting him by challenging his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin. "This shows these people are willing to bend rules and go after other people's reputations in serious ways," Michaels said. Do statements like Dr. Trenberth's, who said at one point that "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't," make you believe that global warming scientists are truly trying to doctor the information they have collected before presenting it, or are the they simply showing "the integrity of scientists," as insisted by Dr. Trenberth?