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Scientists sign petition denying man-made global warming
Telegraph - UK ^ | 05/30/08 | Graham Tibbetts

Posted on 05/30/2008 4:17:15 PM PDT by RouxStir

More than 31,000 scientists have signed a petition denying that man is responsible for global warming.

The academics, including 9,000 with PhDs, claim that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane are actually beneficial for the environment.

The petition was created in 1998 by an American physicist, the late Frederick Seitz, in response to the Kyoto Protocol a year earlier.

It urged the US government to reject the treaty and said: "The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind."

It added: "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of ... greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the forseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments."

The petition was reissued last year by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, an independent research group, partly in response to Al Gore’s film on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth.

Its president, Arthur Robinson, said: "If this many American scientists will sign this petition, you certainly can’t continue to contend that there is a consensus on this subject."

One of the signatories, Frank Nuttall, a professor of medicine, said he believed the Earth was becoming warmer, despite his signature.

"This issue is whether the major reason for this is from human activities. I consider that inconclusive at the present time," he said.

A spokesman for the Royal Society, Britain’s national academy of science, said: “The world’s leading climate experts at the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believe that it is greater than 90 per cent likely that human activity is responsible for most of the observed warming in recent decades. That is a pretty strong consensus.

“The science has come a long way since 1998 and it continues to point in one direction - the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avert dangerous climate change.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 31000; globalwarming; goreplayedonourfears

1 posted on 05/30/2008 4:17:17 PM PDT by RouxStir
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To: RouxStir
The world’s leading climate experts at the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believe that it is greater than 90 per cent likely that human activity is responsible for most of the observed warming in recent decades. That is a pretty strong consensus.

What kind of consensus is that!? The IPCC says 'X', so that's consensus - how ridiculous. Consensus is a canvas of thousands of scientists, as was done with this petition, not the whim of one CC panel.

2 posted on 05/30/2008 4:22:38 PM PDT by C210N (The television has mounted the most serious assault on Republicanism since Das Kapital.)
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To: RouxStir

heretics.


3 posted on 05/30/2008 4:22:38 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Obama's a front man. Who's behind him?)
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To: RouxStir

“The world’s leading climate experts at the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believe .....”

The heck with 30,000 scientists when you have a UN committee that got a feel-good prize with algore for promoting anti-capitalism .

Wikipedia: “The IPCC does not carry out research, nor does it monitor climate or related phenomena.” In other words, it does nothing but read what it wants from people who share their views.


4 posted on 05/30/2008 4:27:05 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: the invisib1e hand

Witches! Blasphemers! They must be immediately excommunicated from the scientific community! Who told them they were allowed to think for themselves?!

;)


5 posted on 05/30/2008 4:27:37 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Repeal 16-17

yeah...I wonder how the recoil will play itself out.


6 posted on 05/30/2008 4:29:35 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Obama's a front man. Who's behind him?)
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To: Proud2BeRight

Also the ones who actually write the IPCC report’s conclusions are UN politicians not scientists.


7 posted on 05/30/2008 4:37:15 PM PDT by joebuck (Finitum non capax infinitum!)
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To: RouxStir
"A spokesman for the Royal Society, Britain’s national academy of science, said: “The world’s leading climate experts at the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believe that it is greater than 90 per cent likely that human activity is responsible for most of the observed warming in recent decades. That is a pretty strong consensus."

I love science by consensus..... /sarc

8 posted on 05/30/2008 4:53:41 PM PDT by Hebrewbrother (Dissent - The Highest Form Of Patriotism.....source unknown...BTDMIAS!)
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To: RouxStir
A spokesman for the Royal Society, Britain’s national academy of science, said: “The world’s leading climate experts at the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believe that it is greater than 90 per cent likely that human activity is responsible for most of the observed warming in recent decades. That is a pretty strong consensus.

Serously, this is science??? You get a bunch of like-minded people together who believe who have been prejudice in favor of global warming, and them claim a consensus among this cult.

9 posted on 05/30/2008 4:59:51 PM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: RouxStir
According to this article by the National Post

Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), reluctantly admitted to Reuters in January (2008) that there has been no warming so far in the 21st Century.

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This 'spokesman' for the Royal academy must have not gotten the memo.....

Or maybe he's just a liar.

10 posted on 05/30/2008 5:07:51 PM PDT by MamaTexan (* I am not a political, administrative or legal 'entity', nor am I a *person* as created by law *)
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To: Always Right
It is neither good science nor good English. Consensus among a small group like scientists would seem to preclude 31,000 skeptics. It is one thing to have a few eccentric doubters, but 31,000 doubters does not a consensus make with such a small group. At least if one wants to use the English language correctly.
11 posted on 05/30/2008 5:08:30 PM PDT by JLS
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To: C210N
In addition, the prize was the Nobel "Peace" Prize -- not the prize for any scientific contribution, which they are attempting to infer.
12 posted on 05/30/2008 5:12:41 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Repeal 16-17; the invisib1e hand
heretics

Witches! Blasphemers!

Thank you.

I signed it.

13 posted on 05/30/2008 5:14:59 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (www.pinupsforvets.com)
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To: Professional Engineer
So did I. And I'm proud of that.
14 posted on 05/30/2008 5:39:11 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (My book is out. Read excerpts at http://www.thejusticecooperative.com)
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To: RouxStir

bump


15 posted on 05/30/2008 7:51:44 PM PDT by Freedom Dignity n Honor (There are permanent moral truths.)
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To: RouxStir

The MSM will be all over this story, right?


16 posted on 05/31/2008 12:06:13 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: RouxStir; Timeout; Entrepreneur; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Genesis defender; proud_yank; FrPR; ...
 




Beam me to Planet Gore !

17 posted on 06/01/2008 11:59:47 PM PDT by steelyourfaith
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