Originally Posted by
jcaplins
Perhaps I missed something, Is the data really being withheld?
All reputable scientific papers and journals will be complete with all sources for their data. Follow the trail of sources and you should have your data. I'm not going to look for it, I have better things to do. If some joe smo asked me to provide all the data, I'd tell 'em to go pound sand, and follow the trail of references themselves.
Hacking the e-mail will not in itself make anything more or less true, but it was obvious in this case that the info was quote mined and taken out of context to "prove" an already held opinion. It also speaks volumes about the credibility of those that would steal the info or those that willingly use the stolen info without regard to the law.
An illegal search of my house for a murder weapon will guarantee that that murder weapon will be inadmissible in court.
Kinda went astray of the original question, ehh? To answer: I havn't changed my mind.
Hacking the emails was completely the wrong thing moraly and leagaly to do... However, this shows just what guys like myself have thought all along. Climate Change is just another ploy to make money.
Throughout the years since "Global Warming" was thought up, Scientists who supported the THEORY ( i do want to point out its a theory) have always been asked simple questions that to my knowledge have yet to be answered.
Like:
Why are the other planets heating at the same rate?
How can you pin the ammount of C02 In the air to humans when a single erruption from Mt. Vesuvious releases enough CO2 and other gasses into the atmosphere that is equal to the last 100 years of "man's" pollution?
Our plantet thrives off of CO2...since when is CO2 a bad thing? The plants use this to create oxygen....
Hasnt records indicated a "warming trend" on earth every so many years?..
Most of these questions all have the same answer... A warming trend.
Which is convieniantly backed up by some of NASA's best climate
scientists as well as the NOAA. Im sorry but you will have to excuse me if i take the side that makes more sense and makes less money on the subject... Global warming is a fraud and even if it wasnt they are crazy to think we could fix it.
Edit:
I almost forgot to mention that it does not help when global warming's poster boy Al Gore drives SUVs and his house uses more energy than about 8 average family homes... This doesnt help his cause or his credibility.