[ RadSafe ] Global Warming

[George Stanford]

Jess:

      I too read the petition (<www.petitionproject.org >), and did 
not feel I had the competence to evaluate it.  And like your 
Ph.D.  friends, 90% of mine would not sign it either.  But there's 
another side to that coin: probably 90%  of my Ph.D. friends would 
not sign a statement supporting AGW either -- in fact, most of them 
(not all) are highly dubious of the AGW position.

      The petition, of course, is not an attempt to settle a 
scientific matter by straw poll.  It's an attempt to show that the 
claims of a scientific consensus are overblown -- and I would say it 
has succeeded.  How far would a counter-petition in support of AGW 
get, to show that there is indeed an overwhelming consensus?  Since 
nobody is circulating one, to my knowledge, we don't know.  But I do 
know that there is no such consensus in  my limited circle.

      Best,

      --  George

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At 02:05 PM 12/6/2009, Jess Addis wrote:
I read the petition.  It impressive that 28% of the 
"scientist"  signers hold PhDs.   All of my scientist friends with 
whom I meet and imbibe every day after work are PhDs and 90% of them 
wouldn't put a pen to that petition.