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31,000 scientists (some dead) refute global warming

Cross-posted from Envirowonk

In keeping with the amount of virtual ink this item deserves, we're going to try and keep this short. The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine held a press conference recently to announce that 31,000 "scientists" have signed a petition rejecting claims of human-caused global warming.

According to OISM officials, the purpose of the Petition Project is to demonstrate that "the claim of 'settled science' and an overwhelming 'consensus' in favor of the hypothesis of human-caused global warming and consequent climate damage is wrong."

So what does it take to be included among the 31,000 "experts" on the petition? Well, according to the OISM criteria, any undergraduate science degree will do just fine. Bet you never thought that BS you earned 20 years ago made you a qualified climatologist. Congratulations!

OISM also wants to let you know that 9,021 of the signers hold PhDs. They don't specify what the doctorates are in, but they repeat that figure quite a bit, as if it means something.

Since the group was nice enough to list all 31,000 signers, including the dead people, let's take a look at the qualifications of three randomly-selected "climate experts."

  • W. Kline Bolton, M.D., is a professor of medicine and Nephrology Division Chief at the University of Virginia. Nephrology deals with the study of the function and diseases of the kidney.
  • Zhonggang Zeng is one of the 9,000 with a PhD. He is a professor of mathematics at Northeastern Illinois University. His most recent publication is entitled "Computing multiple roots of inexact polynomials."
  • Hub Hougland is a dentist in Muncie, Indiana. He was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame last year.
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  • Posted by Lulu bby =] Fri May 15, 2009 1:02pm PDT
    i believe global warming is a real threat if not treated. we need to reduce, reuse, recycle, and try and figure out a better way to live on planet Earth without harming it. Ex. hybrid cars, carpooling, recycling, all these will help our planet and not cause global warming. since the greenhouse effect is already a natural process we are making it worse by emitting more gases into our atmosphere by deforestation, burning of fossil fuels, etc. if we all help our planet and become environmentally friendly then global warming wouldn't be such a threat.
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  • Posted by Jim Mon May 25, 2009 9:06pm PDT
    Ok, so I have a BA with a minor in biology, and I say it's real. End of debate.
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  • Posted by tstedel Sun Nov 22, 2009 2:32am PST
    This is ridiculous, and for some reason it's the first link in google when you type "31000 scientists against global warming". The fact that you dismiss Zhonggang Zeng probably as his PhD doesn't seem to someone who is uneducated as related to Climate study is ridiculous, and instantly makes you lose all credibility. The computer models they use are based on math, besides the data and code, almost entirely. Monckton has with mathematics replicated the results in the 2001 and 2007 IPCC reports consistently in publicly available reports and reported huge exaggerations based on feedback variables that are to this day uncertain. In addition, an economist, Ross McKitrck and Stephen McIntyre are actively and intelligently refuting the graph that was featured in the 2001 IPC Report based on Mike E. Mann et al. Regardless, these people don't have a climate specific PhD, but are still intelligent enough to provide compelling arguments for their cause. Your method of dismissing scientists based on PhD field are ridiculous, and uninformed.
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