At worst they are an orchestrated system of lies and obfuscation to advance an agenda.

It goes way deeper than that. I had the pleasure of hearing one of these guys speak. His background is that he has been a part of this fellowship of climate folks for over 30 years. 30 YEARS! This is his life work. He is a professor in the field, he regularly attends these various world conferences, he participates as part of the IPCC. He publishes papers.

These is no way this guy can let himself accept any information that would make his life work a lie. At stake is his self-worth, his income and facing that he wasted 30 years of his life.

In any other field a scientist can make a mark for himself by proving everyone else wrong. There is fame and money for these scientists who can turn accepted truths on their heads. In this field, there is only total loss. Loss of self, loss of fame and loss of income.

Even religion does not have this strong a hold on most people. These people cannot ever be independent on this issue. They have too much at stake. These emails merely provide a glimpse into their very sad world.

From Tom Weller's classic 1986 Hugo Award winner, Science Made Stupid:

What is Science?

Put most simply, science is a way of dealing with the world around us. It is a way of baffling the uninitiated with incomprehensible jargon. It is a way of obtaining fat government grants. It is a way of achieving mastery over the physical world by threatening it with destruction.
Science represents mankind's deepest aspirations - aspirations to power, to wealth, to the satisfaction of sheer animal lusts.
The cornerstone of modern science is the scientific method. Scientists first formulate hypotheses, or predictions, about nature. Then they perform experiments to test their hypotheses.
There are two forms of scientific method, the inductive and the deductive.

Science for Everyone

Sound simple? It is.
Once, when the secrets of science were the jealously guarded property of a small priesthood, the common man had no hope of mastering their arcane complexities. Years of study in musty classrooms were prerequisite to obtaining even a dim, incoherent knowledge of science.
Today, all that has changed: a dim, incoherent knowledge of science is available to anyone. Popular science books, magazines and computer programs - with their simple, fatuous and misleading prose, their garish illustrations, their flimsy modern production values - have brought science within the reach of anyone who can afford their inflated prices or who can mooch off someone else.
Indeed, today a myriad of sources are available to explain science facts that science itself has never dreamed of.
This book site is one of them.

Cheers!