It would explain much. Mark my words -- it will come out that these emails were tampered with somehow. The folks who want to discredit climate change have the financial resources and incentive to do such a hatchet job.
I guess those on the opposite side of the debate forget how the GOP and their allies influenced the 1972 elections by using the CRP (Committee to Reelect the President) to ruin the rep of stronger Democratic challengers like Edmund Muskie with the forged Canuck Letter -- tactics known as r*t-f***ing (fill in the asterisks). It wasn't an accident Nixon faced McGovern.
Also, the tobaccco industry used similar tactics in what's known as manufactured doubt today to cloud the obvious evidence that cigarettes cause cancer, esp. the infamous "seven dwarfs" appearance by the heads of the seven major tobacco companies before Congress where they flat-out denied the link. This was despite the fact much of their own research indicated the link.
Those who favor profits over people have and continue to engage in sophisticated, well-funded disinformation campaigns like this latest attack against the science of climate change. And given that in a recent Gallup poll, 18% of American respondents thought the sun revolved around the Earth, it's not surprising that the feeble-minded in the U.S. without a basic grasp of science can be fooled by these obfuscation tactics.
Well, when the human race drowns in its own crap and causes its own extinction, the Earth will continue and evolution will start over, probably with the bees.
RR
-- RR
