31,000 Who Have Not Bowed the Knee to Global Warming

The Oregon Petition is getting some fresh press…not that it ever got much to begin with. It is covered in Saturday’s National Post from Canada, and Michelle Malkin calls attention to the National Press Club release of these names today. 

In case you haven’t heard about it, the Oregon Petition was started by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine in 2001.

According to the National Post, this is the contention of those who have signed the petition:

Not only did they dispute that there was convincing evidence of harm from carbon dioxide emissions, they asserted that Kyoto itself would harm the global environment because “increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.” 

As the National Post article examines, the apostles of global warming have tried to cast doubt on the veracity of the petition, but the only instance of genuine fakery was planted by Greenpeace. Claims of duplicate names have been proven to be different scientists with the same name (do you know how many Bob Ellis’ there are out there? and not all as famous as me), and some scientists who had the same name as famous movie stars have been verified to be the same name as real scientists.

So how many signatures are there to the Oregon Petition? 50? 100? 1000? Keep climbing.

Using a subset of the mailing list of American Men and Women of Science, a who’s who of Science, Robinson mailed out his solicitations through the postal service, requesting signed petitions of those who agreed that Kyoto was a danger to humanity. The response rate was extraordinary, “much, much higher than anyone expected, much higher than you’d ordinarily expect,” he explained. He’s processed more than 31,000 at this point, more than 9,000 of them with PhDs, and has another 1,000 or so to go — most of them are already posted on a Web site at petitionproject.org. 

Does this look like Al Gore’s “consensus?” Not even close.

Are we really willing to mortgage our livelihood today and our future tomorrow on some liberal anti-capitalist fantasy? I’m not. Not even close.

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