Geez, ican and Fox are really reaching now. Fred Seitz, Willie Soon, same old one-note voices. No matter how often they're shown up, somebody quotes them again. Just goes to show you once again that nothing false ever dies on the internet.
Fred Seitz did his first version of the same petition in 1998, and the National Academy of Sciences, America's most prestigious organization of scientists essentially disowned him:
"The mailing is clearly designed to be deceptive by giving people the impression that the article, which is full of half-truths, is a reprint and has passed peer review," complained Raymond Pierrehumbert, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Chicago. NAS foreign secretary F. Sherwood Rowland, an atmospheric chemist, said researchers "are wondering if someone is trying to hoodwink them." NAS council member Ralph J. Cicerone, dean of the School of Physical Sciences at the University of California at Irvine, was particularly offended that Seitz described himself in the cover letter as a "past president" of the NAS. Although Seitz had indeed held that title in the 1960s, Cicerone hoped that scientists who received the petition mailing would not be misled into believing that he "still has a role in governing the organization."
The NAS issued an unusually blunt formal response to the petition drive. "The NAS Council would like to make it clear that this petition has nothing to do with the National Academy of Sciences and that the manuscript was not published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences or in any other peer-reviewed journal," it stated in a news release. "The petition does not reflect the conclusions of expert reports of the Academy." In fact, it pointed out, its own prior published study had shown that "even given the considerable uncertainties in our knowledge of the relevant phenomena, greenhouse warming poses a potential threat sufficient to merit prompt responses. Investment in mitigation measures acts as insurance protection against the great uncertainties and the possibility of dramatic surprises."
http://www.ecosyn.us/adti/Corrupt_Sallie_Baliunas.html
And Sallie Baliunas and her loyal henchman Willie Soon base most of their PR stuff on a paper they wrotethat relied heavily on proxy data in an attempt to prove that temperature change was due only to solar variation, which paper was promptly blasted by most of the scientists, whose proxy data they had used, as basically misusing and misinterpreting that data.That's the same Willie Soon who said (correctly) that climate simulation models say that the Arctic is the early warning site--that change will be apparent there first, and then went on to say (incorrectly) that there was absolutely no evidence of change there--two years before it became clear that Arctic sea ice has decreased by more than 20% in the last decade or two and the entire Arctic ice cap may soon melt, that the Greenland ice cap is melting at twice (now three times) the rate it has ever been known to melt and that at this rate by the end of the century ice that has been there for more than 6000 years will be gone, and that permafrost which has been there unmelted for the three thousand years or so that the Inuit and their ancestors have been in the Arctic, is now mmelting fast. THAT Willie Soon.
Living down to your usual standards, I see, ican.
