Data that is collected by publicly-paid researchers or officials should NOT require a gatekeeper.
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agreed! and why do they fight FOIA so hard, like Mann is doing, if their “science” is so “settled” ?
...and along with gatekeepers, they are consolidating of data into fewer and fewer places. like measuring atmospheric CO2 can be done anywhere. yet the ONLY place in the world ever mentioned now, is Mauna Loa. (and before that, they only use dubious ice cores).
and there is NO backup site, for confirming.
if even ONE CO2 reading from last century is higher than now, the entire Hoax is revealed. yet there are, and some were made by Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry:
page 5 and 9, show overall CO2:
180 Years accurate CO2 - Gasanalysis of Air
by Chemical Methods (Short version)
http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/180_years_accurate_Co2_Chemical_Methods.pdf
and this one is a good sample of the fraud,
that the gatekeepers you mention, hide:
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/hiding-the-decline-in-washington-dc/
Like I said on the other thread, CO2 readings will vary greatly by time of day and location. This paper http://www.agu.org/journals/jd/jd0319/2002JD003085/2002JD003085.pdf has a graph with CO2 measurement outliers as much as +/- 30 ppm and they were taking pains to measure consistently (same time of day, etc). Here are readings taken at different stations
showing a lot of similarity in the rise and some similarity in the seasonal wiggle (depends somewhat on local conditions, Mauna Loa gets a pretty well mixed reading high up in the atmosphere most days)