[SC DOC]

While I am not a believer in anthropomorphic global warming, this petition was circulated and was open to any person with a college degree at the bachelor of science level or higher, whether or not they had any interest, experience, or abilities in climate science or anything remotely related to global warming.

I reviewed the list from my state, and found the name of an orthodontist that I know, who has political aspirations of running for the U.S. Senate. He has no credible background in climatology.

When the list is pared down, there are only 154 signators who have backgrounds in atmospheric science or climatology out of the 31,000 total. Just because you have an advanced degree doesn't necessarily make you an expert in global warming. Conversely, I am sure there are some without any college degrees who have read everything written on the subject and have become, in essence, self-made experts in climatology and global warming.

[Thermalseeker]

Just because you have an advanced degree doesn't necessarily make you an expert in global warming.

No, but there are many areas of science that have been brought into the global warming debate. One need not be a meteorologist or climatologist to comment, for incidence, on the effects of cosmic radiation on the upper atmosphere. Similarly, it wouldn't be appropriate for a meteorologist to comment on certain aspects of said cosmic radiation.

The subject of the atmosphere, and all the variables within it, are much too complex for any one scientific specialty to be able to accurately comment on the entire scope. Thus, it is broken down into specialties.

[CharacterCounts]

When the list is pared down, there are only 154 signators who have backgrounds in atmospheric science or climatology out of the 31,000 total.

Please provide a link to the source.

[jdsteel]

While I am not a believer in anthropomorphic global warming, this petition was circulated and was open to any person with a college degree at the bachelor of science level or higher, whether or not they had any interest, experience, or abilities in climate science or anything remotely related to global warming.

And all of the Global Warming moonbat supporter "scientists" ARE climatologists?!?!?!

[pjd]

are only 154 signators who have backgrounds in atmospheric science or climatology...

At the risk of beating a dead horse - Many other fields such as Physics, Chemistry, geology, hydrodynamics, computer science, economics, anthropology,...all have something relevant to contribute.