Professional bullshit peddlers can still peddle bullshit without any help from misinterpretable facts. However, if you lie/censor and are discovered, the facts will be on their side. Tiny upside, large downside -- I plug those numbers into my calculator and it makes a frowny face.
Next step is we turn world population into slaves to build a Mars rocket, and kill everyone who's not actively working on the Mars rocket.
Not sure if Global Warming will be enough to enslave world population, but we could also come up with new things like "Global Cooling" or maybe even engineer a new virus to keep the idiots scared.
As it is right now, if they're upfront with their research, they can preemptively address a lot of the potential BS that would follow.