17,000+ Scientists sign Global Warming Petition Project

From my comment on a previous thread:

A link to the Wikipedia article on the "Oregon Petition" (which incidently, is over five years out of date and only more climate science has pointed towards anthropogenic climate change since). Quoted there-in, from Scientific American:

Scientific American took a sample of 30 of the 1,400 signatories claiming to hold a Ph.D. in a climate-related science. Of the 26 we were able to identify in various databases, 11 said they still agreed with the petition —- one was an active climate researcher, two others had relevant expertise, and eight signed based on an informal evaluation. Six said they would not sign the petition today, three did not remember any such petition, one had died, and five did not answer repeated messages. Crudely extrapolating, the petition supporters include a core of about 200 climate researchers – a respectable number, though rather a small fraction of the climatological community.

The National Academy for the Sciences also made the following statement regarding the paper and petition:

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 also said "The petition does not reflect the conclusions of expert reports of the Academy.

…which should be no surprise as it clearly contradicts the understanding at the time (not to mention current knowledge). The entire event was misleading and represented nothing more than a movement to try and confuse the issue of global warming and what policy actions to take regarding it.