31,000
Al Gore claims a scientific consensus affirming global warming. We, on the other hand, have a real number…
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.
“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.”
Forward this on to every young environmentalist reciting Al Gore’s line about “consensus”, the discussion being over, and how we haven’t much time to save the planet.
The question should be save the planet from who?
