"the oregon petition raises its irrelevant, discredited head yet again. round and round we go. it says nothing and proves nothing about climate change"
Good point...
The ongoing cycles of climate change that are always happening, have always happened and will always happen have nothing to do with the debunked AGW hoax and associated carbon-dioxide taxes and trading pushed by a few charlatans, despite their attempts to mix,conflate and confuse their AGW hoax with the cycles of climate change...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2053842/Scientists-sign-petition-denying-man-made-global-warming.html " Scientists sign petition denying man-made global warming More than 31,000 scientists have signed a petition denying that man is responsible for global warming.
By Graham Tibbetts
12:46PM BST 30 May 2008
The academics, including 9,000 with PhDs, claim that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane are actually beneficial for the environment.
The petition was created in 1998 by an American physicist, the late Frederick Seitz, in response to the Kyoto Protocol a year earlier.
It urged the US government to reject the treaty and said: "The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind."
It added: "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of ... greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the forseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments."
The petition was reissued last year by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, an independent research group, partly in response to Al Gore’s film on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth. Related Articles
Its president, Arthur Robinson, said: "If this many American scientists will sign this petition, you certainly can’t continue to contend that there is a consensus on this subject."
One of the signatories, Frank Nuttall, a professor of medicine, said he believed the Earth was becoming warmer, despite his signature.
"This issue is whether the major reason for this is from human activities. I consider that inconclusive at the present time," he said. "
