"I'm gonna guess those shenanigans were fake news though, like "climategate" which was a whole lot of nothing."

Hmm, remember Al Gore's graph that he rode a scissor lift to elaborate on? Well turns out he was lying. Straight out lying. He separated the graph of CO2 emission and temperature increase in such a gross fashion to hide the fact that the graph actually shows that the heat PRECEDES the CO2 emissions. NOT the other way around.

Pure deception, and he got nailed for it.