[Stealth Hunter]

What people are ignoring the most is that, even if the claims about the planet's climate changing due to man are false, that doesn't change the fact that these emissions from factories and cars and the like still dump large levels of pollution and poisonous gases into the atmosphere (like arsenic, radon, oxygen difluoride, phosphine, dinitrogen tetroxide, etc.). So if we do start cutting down on these emissions, we'll also be significantly reducing the number of these hostile gases to life here on Earth in general. Granted the whole thing about climate change by man will be false, but the effects of cutting emissions would nevertheless be great.

Furthermore, we're passing conclusions when we still don't know much about these emails... or the hackers who stole them for that matter. We don't know who's hands they've passed through, we don't know if they've been changed or not, we don't know if it's all some kind of huge hoax, we don't know what the scientists (if they are real) meant by their wording (we can guess and claim to know, but the fact is it's all a matter of interpretation of the "documents"). . . there's hardly any answers coming in on this. The only people eating up the claim that this proves it's all a fabrication are ones who've been skeptical from the beginning, and even then they're only doing so because it supports their position. And then you've got the big businesses and industries going along with this lot because it's good for their business; if they don't have limits on emissions and their pollution levels they can continue dumping out as much crap as they want and take in huge profits while producing more at the cost of the environment.

Now I'm not on board with people like Al Gore, but plain logic and common sense dictate that you can't have tens of thousands of these factories in places like China, India, Mexico, etc. dumping out tons of pollutants into the atmosphere (or into/onto the terrain) and not have any nasty consequences on nature as a result. And that's exactly what we're seeing. Look at China: the air is sometimes so toxic they have to issue alerts to their people to stay inside their houses until it clears off (I don't think anyone here has forgotten the Olympics and what happened then...). Mexico is no different. And don't even get me started on India's air and water. What they're proposing at Copenhagen is simple: cut emissions, tax anyone who pours out too much crap, save the planet. Again, even IF man-made climate change is a hoax, it's very plain to see that we need to cut emissions and pollution because of it's negative effects it has on a whole. Tax penalties offer up one solution, especially when it comes to big businesses and industries; money is something that they hold very dear. I already mentioned the poisonous gases we get from factories and cars, the degrading quality of water as a result, but what about other things like a more acidic and deadly soil quality? What about the harmful mutations caused to organisms the world over (extra legs, tails, multiple heads, etc.; ever wonder why India gets so many of those cases?)? And while some governments would abuse this tax idea to profit, the cutting of emissions is still what matters the most in the end. And that's still what we'd see overall.