31,072 scientists have signed the Global Warming Petition
Dr. Art Robinson’s Petition Project (Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine) lists over 31,000 scientists that have signed, rejecting claims of human-caused global warming. 9,021 of the scientists hold PhDs. Covered on May 16, 2008 in the National Post, “32,000 deniers“, by Lawrence Solomon features the history of the Kyoto Protocol and the Petition Project’s objective:
“E-mails started coming in every day,” he explained. “And they kept coming. “ The writers were outraged at the way Al Gore and company were abusing the science to their own ends. “We decided to do the survey again.”
Using a subset of the mailing list of American Men and Women of Science, a who’s who of Science, Robinson mailed out his solicitations through the postal service, requesting signed petitions of those who agreed that Kyoto was a danger to humanity. The response rate was extraordinary, “much, much higher than anyone expected, much higher than you’d ordinarily expect,” he explained. He’s processed more than 31,000 at this point, more than 9,000 of them with PhDs, and has another 1,000 or so to go — most of them are already posted on a Web site at petitionproject.org.
Why go to this immense effort all over again, when the press might well ignore the tens of thousands of scientists who are standing up against global warming alarmism?
“I hope the general public will become aware that there is no consensus on global warming,” he says, “and I hope that scientists who have been reluctant to speak up will now do so, knowing that they aren’t alone.”
At one level, Robinson, a PhD scientist himself, recoils at his petition. Science shouldn’t be done by poll, he explains. “The numbers shouldn’t matter. But if they want warm bodies, we have them.”
To read the full text of the petition and more about the project, please visit the Petition Project website. The site also includes the list of signers.
You’re an idiot. First of all, if they don’t have PhD’s then they aren’t real scientists to start with. They probably teach chemistry in middle school or something. Then if you look at the fields these people come from — most of them are dentists or aerospace engineers and the like. There are practically NO credentialed climate scientists on this moronic petition.
It is a fraud, pure and simple.
Mark C
17 Aug 08 at 9:44 pm
Mark C. You are the real idiot. Climate Science has now proven false or phony at least twice, http://www.informath.org/WCWF07a.pdfthat. Professor Wang even went so far as to fabricate data which was used to make claims that the Urban Heat Island has no effect. Once with the change in NOAA temperature data.http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=1885. My hope is that all the fraudsters in and out of the IPCC will be tried and serve jail time for wasting public time with this so-called science. If these people, who feel they are gods, are brought to justice for their unprovable assertions and fabrications, then maybe the world can get some real verifiable climate science that will actually help us.
Barry
23 Sep 08 at 10:16 pm
I for one applaud the petition. Many “Global warming” scientists have actually admitted themselves that the science behind man-made global warming is phony and full of falsehoods and misconceptions. In fact, Gore’s prediction of water levels in An Inconvinient Truth were 5 TIMES higher than the worse-case scenario predicted by the IPCC. They shouldn’t get away with stretching facts to create a climate of fear.
Anonymous
23 Oct 08 at 12:59 pm