[mountainbunny]

I guess you missed the part about the 9,000 Ph.D.s.

No. I simply missed the part where that was relevant since the PhDs did not have to be in a related field. They could have PhDs in anything at all as long as the signer has a BS. I guess you missed that part.

Just because they repeat the 9,000 figure over and over, it does not suddenly become relevant if those 9,000 were not all qualified to give an opinion in the first place.

What does 9,000 PhDs mean to you?

It should mean nothing without further information on how they were qualified.

Go back here: http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1654/73/

Look at some of the people they dug up who signed it. Dentists. Mathematicians. Medical Doctors. Veterinarians.

The White House didn't even think it was worthy of comment: http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=64866

[Polybius]

What does 9,000 PhDs mean to you?

That they are not "real" doctors. ;-)

Look at some of the people they dug up who signed it. Dentists. Mathematicians. Medical Doctors.

The sad fact is that many of the people who ARE PhDs in the relevant field and are active in research are afraid to voice Politically Incorrect opinions as that would dry up their grant funding.

Climate of Fear: Global-warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence. ..... Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science that supposedly is their basis.

An MD may not be specifically trained in the field but he/she is not muzzled and he/she does have a hell of a lot more of a scientific education to evaluate the available scientific evidence than, say, ......

..... somebody that flunked out of Divinity School.

In 1971, Gore enrolled in Vanderbilt Divinity School where, according to Bill Turque, author of "Inventing Al Gore," he received F's in five of the eight classes he took over the course of three semesters. Not surprisingly, Gore did not receive a degree from the divinity school.

[Polybius]

The White House didn't even think it was worthy of comment:

The White House didn't even think that these were worthy of comment:

The Bush Presidency has failed because George W. Bush simply can't or won't communicate and has allowed the Democrats and the liberal news media to define him and the issues.

[aruanan]

No. I simply missed the part where that was relevant since the PhDs did not have to be in a related field. They could have PhDs in anything at all as long as the signer has a BS. I guess you missed that part.

People who have an earned doctorate in virtually any field (except, perhaps, education) have had training in collecting and interpreting data, in developing, supporting, and defending a hypothesis before a panel of experts in that field. These skills are transferable to other areas of knowledge. They especially are sufficient to be able to spot the hoaxes of the anthropogenic global warming movement. It's not an arcane matter like string theory making predictions about results that are open only to a very few people with access to extremely expensive equipment. Folks like Hansen claim that there was no Medieval Climate Optimum. But there are hundreds of studies by hundreds of researchers demonstrating independently the existence of worldwide warming phenomena that extend back throughout thousands of years. Against many thousands of real world studies, we have a handful of folks making claims and predictions based on computer simulations that themselves are not validated by the real world. Upon this base a cadre of bureaucrats have erected a mechanism by which they can exert economic and political control over every nation on earth--at this point, over every economically important nation on earth. It's also not difficult to see this as but another incarnation of the same attempt that was made through the anti-chemical movement of the 1970's to take over government and shape it toward socialist, centrist ends.

[TXnMA]

"...Mathematicians..."

And just who creates the Gorebal Warnming "climate models" for the "We're all gonna burn up -- if we don't drown first!!! hand-wringers?