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31,000 Signatures Prove No 'Consensus' on Global Warming
Campus Report ^ | May 22, 2008 | Melinda Zosh

Posted on 05/22/2008 2:35:21 PM PDT by bs9021

31,000 Signatures Prove ‘No Consensus’ About Global Warming

BRIEFING | BY MELINDA ZOSH - INTERN | MAY 22, 2008

Presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Monday that “we have to get used to the idea that we can’t keep our houses at 72, drive our SUVs and eat all we want.” Arthur B. Robinson, president and professor of chemistry at the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, has a different response.

“I don’t want to give up eating all I want because of a failed hypothesis,” said Robinson at the National Press Club here on May 19. Robinson said global warming is not a threat to America. He said that the global temperature increased by just .5 degrees in the last century.

Robinson spoke about his petition signed by 31,000 U.S. scientists who reject the claims that “human release of greenhouse gases is damaging our climate.”

“World temperatures fluctuate all the time,” said Robinson. “The temperature of the Earth has risen many times, far more times than carbon dioxide could drive it. There is no experimental evidence that humans are changing the environment…”

Robinson said that in recent years the U.N. and a group of 600 scientists, representing less than one percent of the scientific population, reached a “consensus” that global warming is happening. This has never been done before, Robinson insists.

Dennis Avery, Director for the Center of Global Food Issues at the Hudson Institute, agrees with Robinson. “Nobody can do science by a committee. You do science by testing,” said Avery. “To me it is appalling that an international organization of the stature of the U.N. would ignore the evidence of past climate changing.”

The signers of Robinson’s petition, including 9,000 Ph.Ds, all have one thing in common. They believe that human rights are being taken away....

(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: climatechange; environment; foodshortage; globalwarming; kyoto; petition; science; scientists
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1 posted on 05/22/2008 2:35:22 PM PDT by bs9021
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2 posted on 05/22/2008 2:37:33 PM PDT by The_Republican (Ovaries of the World Unite! Rush, Laura, Ann, Greta - Time for the Ovulation!)
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To: bs9021

“To me it is appalling that an international organization of the stature of the U.N. would ignore the evidence of past climate changing.”

Yep, all driven by politics and a back door way into your wallet.


3 posted on 05/22/2008 2:37:34 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: bs9021

Finally, something that will be reported in the MSM! /sarc


4 posted on 05/22/2008 2:37:59 PM PDT by FortWorthPatriot (No better friend, no worse enemy)
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To: The_Republican

That picture is worth a thousand words for sure!


5 posted on 05/22/2008 2:39:42 PM PDT by AuntB (Vote Obama! ..........Because ya can't blame 'the man' when you are the 'man'.... Wanda Sikes)
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To: bs9021
"Yeah right! 31,000 of Bush's cronies all lying while stuffing their pockets full of war-for-oil money..."

/sarc

6 posted on 05/22/2008 2:41:35 PM PDT by avacado
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To: bs9021

Consensus is politics, not science.


7 posted on 05/22/2008 2:41:36 PM PDT by seowulf
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To: bs9021

You mean Al Gore lied?


8 posted on 05/22/2008 2:42:13 PM PDT by NoKoolAidforMe
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To: bs9021
Despite the scientific consensus of the day, Galileo remained a skeptic about the global falling bodies theory.


9 posted on 05/22/2008 2:44:07 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: bs9021
Obama says “we have to get used to the idea that we can’t keep our houses at 72, drive our SUVs and eat all we want.” .... That's the defining statement of this candidate's philosophy, never mind a really stupid thing to say.
10 posted on 05/22/2008 2:45:49 PM PDT by Melinda
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To: bs9021

bump for later read


11 posted on 05/22/2008 2:46:05 PM PDT by freeforall (Answers are a burden for oneself, questions are a burden for others.)
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To: The_Republican
"Robinson said that in recent years the U.N. and a group of 600 scientists, representing less than one percent of the scientific population, reached a “consensus” that global warming is happening. This has never been done before, Robinson insists.

Robinson spoke about his petition signed by 31,000 U.S. scientists who reject the claims that “human release of greenhouse gases is damaging our climate.”

In my world -- 31,000 U.S. scientists trump 600 U.N. kool-aid drinkers...

12 posted on 05/22/2008 2:48:22 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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Presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Monday that “we have to get used to the idea that we can’t keep our houses at 72, drive our SUVs and eat all we want.”

Wow, the Jimmy Carter of the 21st Century!

13 posted on 05/22/2008 2:53:49 PM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: Melinda
Right, it is a stupid thing to say by a man that would be president of the United States. It appears that he is quoting Jimmy Carter here. We have to suffer in order to be like other countries. Spare me the pain.
14 posted on 05/22/2008 2:54:26 PM PDT by ANGGAPO (LayteGulf BeachClub)
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To: bs9021
“To me it is appalling that an international organization of the stature of the U.N. would ignore the evidence of past climate changing.”

The UN has stature???? The UN puts Zimbabwe in charge of economic development and a bunch of Islamo-fascists over human rights.

15 posted on 05/22/2008 2:57:46 PM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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I don’t want to give up what I want to eat when there are Zimbabwe lands that have been stolen by the dictator leader of that country and turned over to people that can’t spell farming.
They caused their problems.
Obama thinks he can level the playing field all over the world?
He’s delusional. He is a Muslim. This takes everyone back into the 7th Century.


16 posted on 05/22/2008 3:14:27 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: bs9021
...the U.N. and a group of 600 scientists...

Both irrelevant.

17 posted on 05/22/2008 3:16:01 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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To: bs9021
According to this, the dead have risen and they are voting against Global Warming!
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1654/

People with just any old Bachelor of Science degree could add their name, too, as that was the sole qualifier.

Dentists, veterinarians, anyone with 4 years of college that resulted in a BS.

That is according to their own written criteria, by the way: http://www.petitionproject.org/gwdatabase/GWPP/Qualifications_Of_Signers.html

From their own web site: "Most of the MD and DVM signers also have underlying degrees in basic science".

Yippee, I guess.

Having 31,000 people sign something is not science. It is laughable.

Having 31,000 people sign something, when many are demonstrably unqualified to intelligently render an answer on the subject, is pitiful and does not help your cause.

18 posted on 05/22/2008 3:17:02 PM PDT by mountainbunny
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In 1980 Reagan’s message slamming Carter resonated. These days I fear that far more Americans embrace Obama’s awful ideas on limitations and curtailments of freedom.

And it is 31 THOUSAND is it not? On that George Noory radio show the other night I think I heard him say “31.” That show is pretty much like a 3 hour long Bush bash on the nights when I have insomnia and listen in.


19 posted on 05/22/2008 3:23:38 PM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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The signers of Robinson’s petition, including 9,000 Ph.Ds, all have one thing in common.

I guess you missed the part about the 9,000 Ph.D.s.
20 posted on 05/22/2008 3:29:27 PM PDT by aruanan
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