"Scientific American took a random sample of 30 of the 1,400 signatories claiming to hold a Ph.D. in a climate-related science. Of the 26 we were able to identify in various databases, 11 said they still agreed with the petition ?- one was an active climate researcher, two others had relevant expertise, and eight signed based on an informal evaluation. Six said they would not sign the petition today, three did not remember any such petition, one had died, and five did not answer repeated messages. Crudely extrapolating, the petition supporters include a core of about 200 climate researchers ? a respectable number, though rather a small fraction of the climatological community"
i gather from your posts in general that stopping the proliferation of fear mongering and misinformation must certainly be important to you, and that sort of perspective is sound in my books.
