Lord Crow or Z or whoever you are...
Congrats. The petition I listed may very well be a piece of garbage. But it does have a list of every person who has signed it. And spare me picking the first name on the list alphabetically...that guy is a loon. We can agree on that. And there are probably several loons on a list of 30,000+ people. And I'm not going to investigate all of the names. You can if you want.
But from the same site you linked...
Outlined below are the numbers of Petition Project signatories, subdivided by educational specialties. These have been combined, as indicated, into seven categories.
(Only 39 "climatologists" but several fields that bear relevance in the topic at hand. Keep in mind that most all of the "studies" are based on computer modeling...especially the atmospheric ones. And that most all climatologists are funded by governments or organizations that would cut funding if they appeared on a list like this)
Atmosphere, Earth, & Environment (3,805)
1. Atmosphere (579)
I) Atmospheric Science (112)
II) Climatology (39)
III) Meteorology (343)
IV) Astronomy (59)
V) Astrophysics (26)
2. Earth (2,240)
I) Earth Science (94)
II) Geochemistry (63)
III) Geology (1,684)
IV) Geophysics (341)
V) Geoscience (36)
VI) Hydrology (22)
3. Environment (986)
I) Environmental Engineering (487)
II) Environmental Science (253)
III) Forestry (163)
IV) Oceanography (83)
Computers & Math (935)
1. Computer Science (242)
2. Math (693)
I) Mathematics (581)
II) Statistics (112)
Physics & Aerospace (5,812)
1. Physics (5,225)
I) Physics (2,365)
II) Nuclear Engineering (223)
III) Mechanical Engineering (2,637)
2. Aerospace Engineering (587)
Chemistry (4,822)
1. Chemistry (3,129)
2. Chemical Engineering (1,693)
Biochemistry, Biology, & Agriculture (2,965)
1. Biochemistry (744)
I) Biochemistry (676)
II) Biophysics (68)
2. Biology (1,438)
I) Biology (1,049)
II) Ecology (76)
III) Entomology (59)
IV) Zoology (149)
V) Animal Science (105)
3. Agriculture (783)
I) Agricultural Science (296)
II) Agricultural Engineering (114)
III) Plant Science (292)
IV) Food Science (81)
Medicine (3,046)
1. Medical Science (719)
2. Medicine (2,327)
General Engineering & General Science (10,102)
1. General Engineering (9,833)
I) Engineering (7,280)
II) Electrical Engineering (2,169)
III) Metallurgy (384)
2. General Science (269)
So if there is any truth to the list at least they aren't a bunch of uneducated idiots. And many have degrees in related fields.
But let's say you are 100% right about the whole thing being falsified and none of the people on that list even exist. Fine. Chalk one up for Z. I don't care. You are right that I don't study this topic in depth. I am merely trying to find a voice for the other side. A voice not clouded by the main stream media or by political agendas or by government funding. Searching for the truth instead of just accepting what the alarmists are saying.
So let's say the list is a fraud...fine. Let's move on to the things you so conveniently glossed over in my last post...
Like the 97% number. OK, in response to my post you said you don't focus on that number...but then just a few posts up from this one you say that you have "97% of the scientists with expertise on my side". So which is it? Do you focus on the 97% or not?
Don't bother answering that question because nobody here gives a rats *** what you think or what I think. That's a given. But everyone else in the free world does focus on that 97% number. Why? Because it's all over the media and Obama quotes it religiously. There's been hearings in congress based on that number. Hell, our Federal budget has been shaped by that 97%. So that's what the public hears day in and day out...97%. Why? Because that is a huge number and it freaks people out. And yet...it is basically a fabricated number that doesn't focus on the main questions that are relevant.
That 97% only counts those in the field who think man-made carbon emissions have an effect (any effect) on the climate. But there are plenty among that 97% that don't think that effect is at the catastrophic levels that the alarmists claim. To be frank, I am surprised the number isn't 100%. It should be. I think any rational human being would say that man has some effect on the climate and more specifically in the form of man-made carbon emissions.
Soooo let's move on...The REAL questions that need to be answered then become: (1) How much of an effect? And (2) To what extent is that man-made contribution catastrophic to our existence?
There is no "settled science" or whatever you want to call it on these questions. There is no 97% agreement on these questions. And if you polled ALL of the scientists in the organizations from your lists then you would get a wide variety of answers. And that's the whole point. None of it is settled...not on the 2 questions listed above.
Also, you glossed over the Professor Robert Stavins incident by saying it was taken out of context. When he was directly quoted as saying that he was coerced by policy makers (i.e.. politicians) to rewrite the study's results to fit the agenda of the policy makers.
My question to you is how can you take a scientific report seriously if it is shaped and molded, drastically reduced and summarized, with some of the scientific conclusions being omitted at the request of the policy makers to fit their agenda?
That is very misleading and shameful. Especially when it is coming from what is considered to be a reliable scientific source world wide. And there is nothing "scientific" about the overall report if it has been comprised in that manner. It looses all credibility...just as Professor Robert Stavins (who is on your side) said it does. And he was one of the co-authors of the report.