https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cook_(Australian_scientist)
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/hig...e-research/story-e6frgcjx-1226920713818#

"(...) The university has told climate skeptic blogger Brandon Schollenberger that the data on the study he possesses was illegally obtained and they would take legal action against him if he published it. (...)"
http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/16/where-did-97-percent-global-warming-consensus-figure-come-from/

"(...) But Cook’s 97 percent consensus claim was rebutted in subsequent analyses of his study. A paper ( http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11191-013-9647-9 ) by five leading climatologists published in the journal Science and Education last year found that Cook’s study misrepresented the views of most consensus scientists. (...)"
http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/16/where-did-97-percent-global-warming-consensus-figure-come-from/

" 'The problem we now have in the climate community is that some scientists are mixing up their scientific role with that of a climate activist,' Lennart Bengtsson, a research fellow at the University of Reading, told the Times."
http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/16/where-did-97-percent-global-warming-consensus-figure-come-from/