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Subject: I received a petition from Seitz the last month

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Stephen

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Date Posted: 14:55:59 01/01/08 Tue
In reply to: billvon 's message, "Re: More fuel for the fire" on 11:44:20 12/24/07 Mon

He sent the petition and plea to every faculty member at the university I am with.

So do expect that some of the people will sign the petition even though they have no knowledge whatsoever regarding the science of global change. They will sign it because they were asked in a convincing manor, or because they want to be famous, or because they simply want to stir up some trouble.

That's human nature and it has little to do with science.

>>U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists
>>Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007
>
>Is this going to end up like the Oregon Petition? In
>that one, 19,000 "prominent scientists" signed it,
>including the entire cast of M*A*S*H and the Spice
>Girls. When Scientific American checked the
>signatures, they found barely 1% were valid signatures
>of scientists that had anything to do with climate
>research whatsoever.
>
>It was the brainchild of Frederick Seitz, one of the
>most prominent and well-funded deniers out there.
>Worked well; people fell for it. Oddly, even though
>all 19,000 people signed it, and the petition said
>there was no evidence the planet was warming, it kept
>on warming anyway. I guess the climate doesn't read
>petitions. Who'd a thunk it?
>
>So if this one is as valid as the Oregon Petition was,
>it means that 4 climate scientists just signed a
>letter saying they disagreed with global warming.

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