Re: Nuclear Power Des NOT Need Gobal Warming Hoax!

["John Fleck" <jfleck@abqjournal.com>]

I think one should be cautious before citing the OISM petition.



It was based on what might charitably be called an act of academic sleight

of hand: a "review paper" set in the typographic style of the PNAS in a

transparent attempt to led credibility to it, sent to an apparently enormous

number of scientists - in all fields, not only climate - along with a

petition for them to sign. The "review paper" might best be described as a

brief for the plaintiffs, not a genuine review of the evidence. How many

scientists was it sent to? That would seem a relevant fact that would allow

one to better judge how many scientists declined to sign it. Alas, Arthur

Robinson, its author, won't say. "We're not willing to have our opponents

attack us with that number, and say that the rest of the recipients are

against us," he told a reporter for Nature in 1998.



Tim Lambert recently wrote an excellent review of the situation[1]:



"Unfortunately, the "research review" they were sent is not a research

review of global warming evidence, but just a review of the evidence against

global warming..... As a researcher, when I see a "research review" I expect

that it will cover all the relevant research. I can certainly understand how

a scientist who was under the impression that it was a genuine review might

be persuaded that there was no good evidence for global warming, especially

because the vast majority of scientists who signed were not climate

scientists...."



Cheers,

John



[1]

http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/cgi-bin/blog/science/oregonpetition.html

see also http://www.johnquiggin.com/archives/000212.html



----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Howard Long" <hflong@pacbell.net>

To: "John Jacobus" <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>; "Riely, Brian P."

<brian.riely@ngc.com>; <John_Sukosky@DOM.COM>; <radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu>

Cc: "Jane Orient" <jorient@MINDSPRING.COM>; <rcihak@verizon.net>;

<delmeyer@delmeyer.com>; <info@co2science.org>

Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 10:23 AM

Subject: Nuclear Power Des NOT Need Gobal Warming Hoax!





> Data at www.oism.org/pp  and www.co2science.org lists a 17,000 scientist

> petition proclaiming the non-threat of global warming and the benefit from

> MORE CO2.

>

>



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