Steve: This IS NOT a legitimate petition. I looked at the list of signers from Minnesota (the list is under investigation here), and it includes nuns, registered sex offenders, politicians, and assorted other non-scientists and medical doctors. It does not include any of the scientists who work on environmental or geological topics at any of the universities or government research labs in the state (except for one who I know who actually did not sign the petition, but appears there anyway). The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine created this petition and the paper, and their website states that they do work in protein biochemistry, diagnostic medicine, nutrition, preventive medicine and aging (that explains the MDs that signed the petition).
I got this petition, the paper entitled "Environmental effects of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide" , and letter from past president of the National Academy of Sciences, Frederick Seitz, several months ago. It was immediately obvious that the paper was not a work of science. The paper starts in out in Figure 1 by stating the the mean temperature of the earth has changed 3 degrees C in the last 3000 years, but it shows a graph of surface temperatures of the Sargasso Sea. The paper goes on with equally ridiculous nonsense throughout. Figure 5, for example, is distorted somehow--it shows temperatures for the U.S. higher during the 1930s than in the early 2000s, and give a link to the NOAA climate monitoring website, which shows the 2000 peak higher than the 1930 peak. Figure 21 attributes wider trees rings to CO2 fertilization, but only shows species of trees growing at tree line that are probably growing faster due to warmer temperatures. The discussion of Figure 22 shows increasing cubic feet of wood in U.S. forests and states that is due to CO2 fertilization, and then cites a summary of FIA (Forest Inventory and Analysis) data from the Forest Service as the source. The FIA unit of the Forest Service does not measure CO2 fertilization effects on forests! The increase in volume is actually due to increasing forest area and age. Etc, etc, etc. This is a really sophisticated attempt to make a bunch of nonsense look like real science, and if I interpret it correctly, it was meant as a joke to see if anyone would fall for it. Lee Steven Springer wrote: > Mike, Ed, All: > > Here is a link to ~31,000 American Scientists > (http://www.oism.org/pproject/pproject.htm ) who would disagree with > the statement "/that any legitimate debate on the subject of global > warming is over/"; there is also the infamous list of 600 World > Scientists (UN affiliation) that also disagree with the Global Warming > theory. > > Sorry, as has been noted in previous posts, the Global Warming theory > is not unanimous among "creditable" scientists, nor is the proof > submitted for support able to substantiate the conclusion of this theory. > > Steve Springer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] on behalf of Edward Frank > *Sent:* Sun 6/7/2009 4:37 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [ENTS] Re: High elevation forest response to climate change > and other factors > > Mike, > > I believe that any legitimate debate on the subject of global warming > is over, but you can disagree. I also agree with you and feel that > many of the "solutions" being pushed in Washington are more for > political show than anything. Some may even make things worse. We > should be striving for better emission standards, more efficient > burning, and whatever else can reasonably be done to lower our > environmental footprint, but sending money to third world countries in > order to pollute more is a useless transfer of wealth that does not > accomplish anything but hurting our own economy. > > Ed > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
