U.S. corporations have a long history of intimidating scientists when the corporations don't like the scientists' findings, going back to the tobacco industry's fight over the ill effects of smoking cigarettes, by pretending to be part of the legitimate skepticism of fellow, independent scientists. The fact that scientists "work for" BP instantly disqualifies them from any role in reviewing the findings of an independent scientific entity such as Woods Hole. In this case, BP's questions should be submitted to peer review by qualified scientists with no ties to the fossil-fuel industry. Woods Hole gave in too easily and failed to avail itself of support available in the scientific community. See "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches From the Front Lines" by Michael E. Mann, a climate scientist and recipient of the Nobel Prize.