Climategate

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The data is not hidden or suppressed or secret. Weather stations all over the world publish their results and have done for a century or more, and the results are collected in many places, and anyone who cares can collate the results and do the math. Nobody is hiding it or faking it. Unless you want to believe that all the meteorologists all over the world, not to mention all the geographers and oceanographers and climatologists and ecologists and NASA, are united in a vast conspiracy to lead us into the hands of communism... in which case, just keep your tinfoil hat on and wait for the UFOs to save us.

And finally (sigh) no, there is no possibility, zero, zilch, nada, that efforts to cut CO2 emissions might lower it to the point where plants grow less. Plants did just fine before humans started burning fossil fuels, and they will do just fine when we finally give up doing it, because humans and animals will still go on breathing. Well, most of them. There is a real possibility that a lot of humans will stop breathing if we screw up the climate badly enough, but that won't bother the plants.

No one claimed the data is hidden or suppressed. What many of us are saying is that many of the scientists who rely upon the government for grants and funding have "twisted" the reports on the results to allow the government to continue with their scare tactics.

And more to the point, not ALL scientists agree on this issue. There are many who refute the entire Global Warming/Climate Change issue.

We exhale CO2...since when is it considered a toxic gas? No one has claimed that reducing carbon emissions will cause less plant growth. (at least, I certainly don't think that) We simply pointed out that plants turn CO2 into oxygen. The scare tactics used are humorous, at best. It certainly doesn't help the "Climate Change" cause that the most vocal supporter is Al Gore, a veritable nut job. Not only is he loony as a jaybird, he also stands to make a LOT of money from the "climate change" scare as long as he can keep the train moving forward.