More than 31,000 scientists across the U.S. – including more
than 9,000 Ph.D.s in fields such as atmospheric science,
climatology, Earth science, environment and dozens of other
specialties – have signed a petition rejecting “global warming,”
the assumption that the human production of greenhouse gases is
damaging Earth’s climate. “There is no convincing scientific
evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other
greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future,
cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and
disruption of the Earth’s climate,” the petition states.
“Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that
increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial
effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the
Earth.” The Petition Project actually was launched nearly 10
years ago, when the first few thousand signatures were
assembled. Then, between 1999 and 2007, the list of signatures
grew gradually without any special effort or campai