Guardian: Many of the researchers caught up in the “climategate” saga have spent years in the firing line of sceptics. And they have felt the heat. In late 2006, I interviewed a number of them for an article in New Scientist magazine, which focused on how the propaganda war was shaping up prior to the publication of the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment the following year. Kevin Trenberth had suffered abuse for publicly linking global warming to the …