Oregon-Petition
The Oregon Petition is the common name for a declaration against the Kyoto Protocol as part of the climate change policy. The statement was issued by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine ( OISM ) 1999. The OISM - Chairman Frederick Seitz, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and co-founder of the conservative think tank the George C. Marshall Institute, created the impetus for writing the statement.
Signatures
The petition was signed by OISM figures 31,000 times. The catalog includes numerous original also supports duplicate entries, names of persons who can not remember a signature, as well as obvious fun items, but which are now no longer to be found on the list. The Scientific American tried using a non-representative sample of 30 of the 1,400 signatories, who in a tray that has to do with climate research, a PhD to figure out how many climate scientists have actually signed the petition. 11 of these 30 said they still support the petition, while 6 would no longer give their support today and the rest either could not remember the petition can not be found or had died. This closed the magazine that perhaps only roughly 200 signatories to the petition at the Climate Research were involved persons.
Criticism
In an opinion piece for the New York Times, the physicist John Holdren and the ecologist George Woodwell criticized addition to the dubious authenticity of the signatures that the 8-page abstract of the supposedly latest research that accompanied the petition, full of errors and misrepresentations had been and Frederick Seitz no expertise in climate issues possess.
The distribution of the petition was done by Frederick Seitz, who used a comparable with previous publications of the National Academy of Science layout for the first wave of the notice. Due to the numerous requests to the Academy gave this shortly after a release out, in which they made clear their non-participation in the petition and also explained to contradict the content entirely.
Text
The text of the call: Global Warming Petition (declaration on global warming )
We set up the urgent request to the Government of the United States of America, not to sign the Kyoto agreement of 1997, and any similar statement. The proposed limits on greenhouse gas emissions would harm the environment, hinder progress in science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.
There is no convincing scientific evidence that man-made CO2, methane and other greenhouse gases cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and a circulation of Earth's climate today or in the foreseeable future. In addition, clear scientific evidence that a CO2 increase in the atmosphere produces many positive effects on the natural plant and animal world.
English original: Global Warming Petition
We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement did what written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The Proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.
There is no convincing scientific evidence did human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is Causing or wants in the Foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth 's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth 's climate. More -over, there is substantial scientific evidence did Increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.