Do cons realize the global warming petition has been debunked years ago?

Question

Here is the website. You don't need to have done any research on the subject. You don't even need a degree. Apparently you don't even have to use a real name. All you have to is print the form, sign it, and send it in and you're a scientist against global warming.

http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p37.htm

While the petition has been portrayed by global-warming skeptics as authoritative evidence that many scientists reject the catastrophic scenario of global climate change, Robinson acknowledged that little attempt was done to verify credentials of those who responded.

Several environmental groups questioned dozens of the names: "Perry S. Mason" (the fictitious lawyer?), "Michael J. Fox" (the actor?), "Robert C. Byrd" (the senator?), "John C. Grisham" (the lawyer-author?). And then there's the Spice Girl, a k a. Geraldine Halliwell: The petition listed "Dr. Geri Halliwell" and "Dr. Halliwell."

Asked about the pop singer, Robinson said he was duped. The returned petition, one of thousands of mailings he sent out, identified her as having a degree in microbiology and living in Boston. "It's fake," he said.

"When we're getting thousands of signatures there's no way of filtering out a fake," Robinson, 56, said in a telephone interview from Oregon.

http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=2748308&date=19980501&query=jokers+petition

Answer 1

Repubs live in an alternate reality. You can't take too much of what they say as truth. They love to make up facts.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I know that it's REALLY difficult for the young democrats to understand that MOST republicans have been around a lot longer, have a better sense and clearer picture of reality than you give us credit, so you feel the need to point out that another internet petition is a fraud. Thank you.
I was around long before Al Gore invented the internet. And I recall back in the day, when most scientists were screaming that we were headed for another ice age and had all of these "facts" to prove it as well. Yeah, we republicans, you know you cannot trust us. We make up things just to get you to agree with us. Never mind the facts. Facts like Jimmy Carter gutted the CIA and the funding to the CIA -- leaving us working in the dark to figure out what is going on in parts of the world that aren't so nice and friendly towards us. Or, that Ronald Reagan sold WMD to the Iraqis and that all indications were that ol' Saddam wanted to build more -- he'd used what we sold him on his own citizens...
So, I suppose Dr. Bell, the nation's leading scientist when it comes to forecasting hurricanes is an idiot because he said Al Gore is full of crap on Global Warming... Yep, thanks for the heads up.

*later*, Ok, it took a while (actually had to go do some work -- imagine that!), but I now remember from where I saw that list of names you've got listed as a petition... It's the same list of names the DNC came up with in 2000 down in Miami - Dade, and Broward Counties!

Answer 4

Who cares? This subject is old and has been going on for way too long. So what exactly do you want to do about it? Do you want to stop all technology that mankind has created and go back to living like cavemen, and hope global warming will just go away? Get real. Nothing is being done about it. It's just something for people to do a lot of talking about and split up parties even further. Here's something for you. Why does one party want to blame the other party when both sides are just as guilty when it comes to this subject? Just shut up and move onto a new subject.

Answer 5

Global warming isn't happening. The earth is quite stable and will continue to get hot and cold into the future. The problem is ocean warming which puts large amounts of moisture into the atmosphere. When there is large amounts of moisture in the atmosphere when the earth gets cold then the ice age begins again. We will not die by fire but by ice! No Global warming.

Answer 6

I don't know why I should care about this petition. I've never even heard of it before. I've definatley never heard anyone use it as proof of anything. There are enough real scientists coming out questioning global warming that this petition is just a distraction.

Answer 7

And no one has bothered to check the credentials nor the motives of those stating that global warming is our fault and that they just want a piece of the pie along with those who are trying to partake in the elite job of controlling the world through more and more government controls.

Answer 8

Why has the temperature not changed in the last 8 yrs. Why were the 1940's hotter than the are now. Why can these scientists tell me the ocean will rise 20ft, but not tell me what the temperature will be this 4th of July. Why. Why. Why?

Answer 9

All I can tell you is that without global warming, last week's temperatures would have been 16 degrees colder than normal instead of 15. I can live with that.

Answer 10

Do libs know Global Cooling has been debunked?


What will you do if Global Warming is?

Is it even possible in your tiny little horse blinder minds?

You know the libs who are enlightened with all the grey in all issues/questions/decisions Who deem the GW and mans contribution as completely BLACK and WHITE. Wow consistency in your logic is not your strength.

Answer 11

Of course this whole GW thing is a bunch of crap. The idea that my driving a car can control the temperature of the sun is just idiocy