the consensus has spoken

[caspian_x]

[31,000] Scientists sign petition denying man-made 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

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[randybamf]

Just a reminder that of the 33,000 signatories of this, only 9,000ish are actual Ph.D.s and of those, only a small fraction have degrees in Climatology or a closely related field

[clayfoot]

I wondered about the qualifying credentials of the 27,000 non-PhD signatories. What kind of scientist doesn't have a PhD? I hadn't even gotten to the question of how many of the 9,000 PhDs were, say, political or computer scientists, rather than subject matter experts.

[caspian_x]

Yes, I wondered the same thing, but you can ask the same thing about the IPCC, and get similar results if I'm not very much mistaken.

[clayfoot]

Ah, here we go; the petition project does tell us.

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Atmosphere, Earth, & Environment (3,697

[clayfoot]

They have a kind of heat map for signatories by state, too. I wonder if there's any significance to the number of signatories per state.

http://www.petitionproject.org/gwdatabase/Signers_BY_State.html

[clayfoot]

Apparently, Vermont is the least supportive, with just 54 signatories. Of those, the project assures us that the following signatories are, in fact, verified to be different people:

Paul A. Bailly, PhD
Paul A. Bailly, PhD

Lawrence Bilodeau
Larry Bilodeau

Daniel P. Foty, PhD
Daniel Foty

F. H. Raab, PhD
Frederick H. Raab, PhD

Alvert L. Robitaille
Albert L. Robitaille