I can go along with that to a point - however, you have to put this in the context of Hansen saying the AGW alarmists need to be overhyping the threat to get attention and that AGW is a means to implement wealth redistribution. And Heidi Cullen demanding the AMS kick out AGW skeptics. This goes beyond being true believers who become over-zealous. AGW is about vastly more than climate change - it is meant as a neo-Stalinist vector to implement parts of the liberal agenda, complete with purges and witch-hunts. I don’t think we show any kind of understanding here. Instead, we need to kick these bastards in the teeth again and again with this story, and then start kicking them in the ribs when all their teeth are gone. The AGW crowd is not going to back down just because of this, the AP just ran a story yesterday that the effects of global warming are even worse than anticipated. We need to completely wreck any credibility they might have once had, and they just gave us the hammer to hit them with. Our very economy depends upon it.
There are some people who have been pushing AGW for personal political ends. I suspect most of the academics involved with fudging the numbers, however, truly believe that if they can fudge the numbers so that AGW is real, it will be because AGW exists. It does little good to lump such people with the evil socialists for whom the destruction of civilization isn't just an unfortunate side effect of "saving the planet"--it's the real goal.