Classy.
Roger Pielke Sr. (center, wearing white cap) is not amused.
But I haven't heard about it other than within rather specialised and focused communities, so I seriously doubt this will have any kind of impact on the outside world, either way.
In any case, there will be no meaningful climate change policy changes until the Upper East Side is under water, so all these debates are a complete waste of time. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Yet what the email correspondence does show, and it does so in painful detail, is the pettiness and competition existing between academics, a pettiness universal in science, no matter what field you seem to muddle in.