From the “there’s no quality control in climate science” department comes this laughable revelation, via the Australian:
Scientists’ petition on climate crisis blocked over fake signatories
Dozens of signatories including Mickey Mouse and Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore from Hogwarts have been removed from an Alliance of World Scientists declaration of a “climate emergency”.
Access to the 11,000 name-petition that accompanied a statement of concern published in BioScience on Tuesday was blocked on Thursday.
A statement issued by Oregon State University said “an administrative error unfortunately saw the inclusion of a small number of invalid names”.
Josh of course, has a visual opinion about it:
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The petition is meaningless because science is not a democracy and how many people are for or against something is totally insignificant. They did not even record how many people refused to sign their petition.
This is so entertaining:
I did a quick whip through the 11,000 “World Scientists” who apparently endorsed a report..umm not so much. The report is an op ed viewpoint piece https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biz088/5610806 The supplemental lists all signatories. I got through 3795 before giving up in disgust.
Of that count of scientists we have ………………….
1437 Researchers (unspecified research field)
972 Students,
294 Lecturers (various affiliations),
273 Directors, former directors and policy makers of conservation, lobby groups and vaguely climate associated institutions.
379 Biologists (Marine/Conservation/ Research/Wildlife/Associate/Evolutionary/several with ambiguous titles)
304 Ecologists (Marine/Research/Forest/Plant/Pollination/Landscape/ several ambiguous titles)
22 Analysts (2 Environmental/ 1 Ecosystem/ 19 unspecified discipline)
which is dandy, except of that 11000 odd, there are ….only 5 Climatologists, 35 Geologists, 3 Archaeologists, 7 Meteorologists, 64 Atmospheric (Chemists, Scientists, Physicists).
People who should know the climate cycles of the past and hence more than an inkling of what is normal for the planet are in very very short supply here. I’m in the Archaeology camp and can guarantee those 3 are well outnumbered by the silent majority.
Bookmarked. Thank you!
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Alliance of World Scientists report is an op ed viewpoint piece. Zero research. Daniel Patrick Moynihan said: You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.
Not scientists. Lab clerks, undergrads, teachers, etc that want fundamental change to the world economy to help Marxists.
I am saddened by the false endorsements. When the loonie left had fake submissions to the Oregon petition project, and then criticised it for having fake submissions, I felt it reflected poorly on their credibility much more so than those who accepted their claims in good faith.
I feel the same way about this project.
Of course, science is not done by headcount, but it is reassuring that after decades of alarm and institutional incentives, the overly concerned couldn’t raise even half the signatories that the ‘don’t be alarmed’ petition did.
Presumably, there are many honest individuals in that group, and we are actively engaged in a joint exercise with them to establish the nature of the climate rather than to push any political view.
So you object to Mouse, Mickey but not Mousseau, Timothy?
Don’t know Timothy Mousseau?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rAJnIxQgxU
He is Anders Pape Møller’s radiation studies (Chernobyl…) buddy. Rings a bell? It should!
“In the autumn of 2003 Anders Pape Møller (APM) was found guilty in scientific dishonesty/misconduct by the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty, designated UVVU in Danish and DCSD in English.”
http://jorgenrabol.dk/default.asp?show=misconduct
11.000 ?!… As Einstein remarked. «if my theory is wrong one scientist would have been enough»…
Climate science. The original science-fiction.
Sorry, is this a fake article? I cannot find any professor Micky Mouse on the list!
Here is the list, MOUSE MICKEY figures in alphabetic order.
https://wfpquantum.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/2019/36931_Climate-emergency-signatory-list.pdf
►Mouse, Micky
Professor
Micky Mouse Institute for the Blind
Namibia