Reply #54: What if the alleged scientists

[JonQ]

are engaged in disinformation and active campaigns to silence and marginalize legitimate questions?

Sorry but whenever any scientist says "we have a consensus" when asked for their methodology or raw data, and that scientist sees that as a legitimate defense, my blood begins to boil.

Science is not "settled" by consensus, nor is it "settled" by refusing to release information or discrediting your opponents. You shouldn't even have opponents in an ideal world, only other researchers with a different hypothesis they are testing. These emails, the ones I've seen, portray a frighteningly unscientific mindset. That and the recent events with NIWA show that a great many people are needing to be fired, if nothing else.