 Complete the following phrase:  Among the scientists whose emails were disclosed, the CRUs researchers said in a statement that the emails had been taken out of context and merely reflected an honest exchange of ideas. Michael Mann, director of Pennsylvania State Universitys Earth System Science Center, said that sceptics were taking these words totally out of context to make something trivial appear nefarious and called the entire incident a careful, high-level, orchestrated smear campaign to distract the public about the nature of the climate change problem. Kevin E. Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research said that he was appalled at the release of the emails but thought that it might backfire against climate sceptics, as the messages would show the integrity of scientists. He also said that climate change sceptics had selectively quoted words and phrases out of context and that the timing suggested an attempt to undermine talks at the December 2009 