“1.) Nobody who understands the issue will deny that there is indeed global warming going on. That is undeniable and it is provable.”
Although I would tentatively agree, we have warmed since the 1970s for example, we now have the possibility, based on multiple cases of suspicious massaging of data, that the temperature ‘warming trends’ have been overstated via biases in temperature adjustments.
That is exactly what this FOI request is about - to get to the bottom of what adjustments have been made and why they were made.
In the wake of Climategate, the best we can say is that published temperature trends show warming from 1850 to the present. How much of this is AGW vs natural variability is an open question. For some of us, how much of that trend is real and how much is the product of phony adjustments is ALSO an open question.
I don’t think we disagree. Read my post at #105...