Re: The Global Warming Petition Project. How many eligible people haven't signed it?

Question

If I lived in America I would be able to sign it as a result of my degree in engineering! Yet I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole!

There must be tens of millions of Americans who are qualified to sign this, yet so few (31000) have done so!

Surely, given the ammount of publicity it has had and the ease of supporting it, if this view was widely held among qualifying people the numbers would be much higher!

Doesn't this petition reflect the truth that the skeptics are a very small minority among "qualified" people?

Answer 1

its because it wasnt widely publicised that there was a petition... im quilified and i havent ever heard of this petition

Answer 2

um can you please explain to me wat the heck the global warming petition project is cause i wanna noe im only 16 but maybe i can influence and persuade a lot of ppl and help out how would you qualify and why you needqualifications for a petition please let me noe and sry tht instead of answering your question im actually asking but maybe i can help out because it means as much to me as im sure ut means as much to you!!!!! Thanx!!!!!!!

Answer 3

You could only say that if you produced a simular paper with proponents who wanted something done.  I for one am skeptical about the ALARMIST or CATRISTROPHIC global warming and too have an engineering degree.  I am not going to sine that list as it probalb means more work for engineers and you never know when you interview with a greenpeace person.  

As an engineer do you not find it apauling how little the AGW people do with the Thermodynamics?

Have you ever seen charts with heat transfer go up like a smile, reather than go up like a frown?

Answer 4

That's really the key question, because all the 'skeptics' are getting out of this is that wow, 31,000 is a big number!

Of course, there are literally tens of millions of Americans with BS (or higher) science degrees.  If just 10% of the population has these degrees (a reasonable estimate), then the Oregon Petition constitutes 0.1% of the scientific degree population.

Besides which, who cares what some random guy who got a BS in biology 30 years ago thinks about global warming?  I know lots of people with BS degrees, and a lot of them know diddly squat about global warming.  Having a BS degree does not make you informed on the subject.

The Oregon Petition is a joke.  It was a joke the first time around, when they had such notable names as "Dr. Geri Haliwell" (Spice Girl).  Twice.  It was so bad they had to come out with this second version, but they kept the same ridiculous criteria.  It's just stupid.  The only hoax is that this list means anything.

Answer 5

Uh, no. It reflects a lot of educated individuals who are able to think for themselves and realize a scam when they see it.

You may also want to peruse some of these people. They are in the field and disagree with the doom and gloom predictions.

http://newsbusters.org//blogs/noel-shepp...

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?F...

http://billwangard.blogspot.com/2007/05/...

http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?op...

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/...

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/ne...

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.h...

And as far as a consensus, that was a blatant lie started here:

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckt...

There has never been a consensus. It may seem that way as the main stream TV only presents one side of the issue.

Answer 6

Poll's, samplings, and petition's...hmm you get more from the omissions then the facts.