Why would emails be more important than the data? The data should speak for itself, only a politician is looking for &quot;gotcha&quot; phrases they can print in huge letters for a poster board that they put up while making speeches denying global warming. It&#x27;s not that these politicians don&#x27;t understand how science works, they understand how to manipulate people to favor legislation that is actually against their interests.<p>Edit: For those that are suggesting that you need the emails to verify that scientists aren&#x27;t making up the data, the data itself includes information on its providence. All the information you need to trust the data come from independent verification of the data and from information in the data itself. You don&#x27;t need emails to verify research, but if you did then there&#x27;s a problem with how research is published.