Maybe the best place for you to start would be to study what are called "the divine attributes" of God.

Then you could consider the metaphysical concept known as "participation".

Humans are given by God the ability to participate in some of the divine life of God, and to a very limited sense we can also share in some of these attributes.

Two that you may want to consider on your own would be our will and our intellect. 

We are given our intellect in order to pursue truth (and Truth Himself), and 
We are given our free will in order to choose the good (and Goodness Himself). 

How """"climate change""""  plays a role in this seems a very distant concern in relation to the first part of your "response".     

I guess perhaps we could connect these ideas in one way: those scientists who have used their free will to fabricate temperature data are not pursuing truth, or choosing good.   They are clouding with their fraud reality for others.