Bribes Offered to Deny Global Warming

[Dardedar]

And again, from Feb 6, posted earlier in this thread:

Open Kyoto to debate

Sixty scientists call on Harper to revisit the science of global warming

Special to the Financial Post
Published: Thursday, April 06, 2006

DAR
Oh, and just one more note about this list of sixty (again I am reminded of creationists who make lists of assorted "scientists" who believe in creation but almost without exception having specialities which have nothing to do with evolution):

"a few days after Prime Minister Harper received that letter, he had another, from 90 of Canada's most senior climate scientists and oceanographers. This second letter cited "an increasing urgency to act on the threat of climate change", and called upon the government to develop a national policy on climate change and strategies to adapt to what it said was "the inevitable changes that will affect us all". link

Scientists urge PM to fund national climate strategy

So with who knows how much effort and time, the GW deniers cobble together a hodge podge list of retired and non-specialist people who would sign this GW denier list. Within days, we have a list of 90 people who are specialists in this field and much more likely to know what they are talking about.
Reminds me of the evolutionists who responded to this same tactic of the creationists. Project Steve

"Project Steve is a list of scientists with the name Stephen or a variation thereof (e.g., Stephanie, Stefan, Esteban, etc.) who "support evolution". It is produced by the National Center for Science Education as a "tongue-in-cheek parody" of creationist attempts to collect a list of scientists who "doubt evolution", poking fun at such endeavors in a "light-hearted" manner to make it clear that "We did not wish to mislead the public into thinking that scientific issues are decided by who has the longer list of scientists!"[1] However, at the same time the project is a genuine collection of scientists, and despite its restriction to only scientists with names like "Steve", which the organizers claim restricts the list to roughly 1% of the total population[2], it is longer and contains many more eminent scientists (and in particular biologists) than any creationist list."

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DAR
Oh, and if I may, just ONE more update (third time) regarding this list of sixty in the list referred to above:

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Signatory Bails on Anti-Climate Science Petition

18 Apr 06

At least one of the 60 "accredited experts in climate and related scientific disciplines" who signed an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper denying the reality of climate change has recanted, saying that he was misled as to the content of that letter when he offered his name.

Dr. Gordon E. Swaters, a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Alberta says that he was told he was signing a petition asking that the federal government devote more energy to research on climate change. Instead, the letter - given prominent play last week in the National Post - suggested that climate change is unproved and that any effort to create policy to address the problem would be "irrational."

"I regret signing that damn petition," Dr. Swaters said Tuesday (April 18, 2006). the accomplished mathematician said he believes that "There are still a lot of mechanics and dynamics about climate change that we don't know about and a lot of subtleties that we need to unravel." But "signing this petition should not be seen as an attempt to indicate that climate change is not occurring."

The letter was presented as a consensus of Canadian "experts," but included only 20 Canadian names out of the total of 60. The remainder were largely well-known climate change "skeptics" from around the world, including high-profile energy industry apologists such as Richard Lindzen and Pat Michaels.

The petition also included the name of Dr. Art Robinson, of Cave Junction, Oregon. The founder of the "Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine," and a former colleage of Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, Robinson is now a self-styled expert in civil defence and the purveyor of conservative Christian home-schooling packages for kids. Robinson last made the news in 1998, when he organized a widely discredited anti-climate science petition of 2,100 "scientists" in the United States. That petition contained such names as John Grisham, Michael J. Fox, Drs. Frank Burns, B. J. Honeycutt, and Benjamin Pierce (from the TV show M*A*S*H), an individual by the name of "Dr. Red Wine," and Geraldine Halliwell, formerly known as pop singer Ginger Spice of the Spice
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DAR
Looks like more dishonesty and misrepresentation from the same type of folks that gave us the Oregon Petition.