[Dottore]

Facts:

1. The article comes from an evangelical Christian right-wing web site well known for it's badly researched polemic.

2. The originator of the petition is one Fred Seitz - a well known charlatan. Here's what the Times said about him in his obituary:

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Seitz argued that predictions of harmful climatic effects due to future increases in greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, were wrong “and do not conform to current experimental knowledge”. He believed that increased carbon dioxide was beneficial, increasing plant growth rates. The US National Academy of Sciences, of which Seitz had been a former president, took the very rare step of rejecting his position on global warming.

Most climatologists disagreed with him at the time. Even more do so now.

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Seitz's main qualifications were that he was a long time consultant to R.J.Reynolds Tobacco and NATO. and a Board member of the American Society of Mining, Mettalurgy and Petroleum Engineers.

3. And the petition? It's taken 15 years to collect these signatures through massive direct mailing efforts targeted at small Christian colleges in the southern US. Only 9,000 of the respondents have PhD's - and most of these are in engineering (read petroleum engineering). Most of the respondents have a Bachelors of Science degree - nothing more, and again the single largest group of these are in engineering.

This is the kind of junk I've come to expect from this poster.

Yup, Al Gore is on the run.