Another Silly Climate Petition Exposed

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In the realm of silly petitions, manufactured by a small, agenda-driven group and leveraged to extend the fiction of a legitimate scientific controversy, no document has ever been studied to thisย degree.

Thanks to John Mashey, a technology consultant, entrepreneur, member of the American Physical Society and tireless researcher, this document lies completely exposed as another phony front group play forย attention.

Masheyโ€™s own explanation begins likeย this:

โ€œThe American Physical Society (APS) was petitioned by 206 people, about 0.45% of the 47,000 members, to discard its climate change position and declare decades of climate research non-existent. The Petition was โ€œoverwhelminglyโ€ rejected, but this anti-science campaign offers a useful case study. The Petition signersโ€Ÿ demographics are compared to those of APS inย general.

Then, the social network behind the petition is analyzed in detail, person by person for the first 121 signers. This might seem a grassroots groundswell of informed expert argument with the existing position, but it isย not.

Rather, it seems to have originated within a small network of people, not field experts, but with a long history of manufacturing such things, plausibly at the Heartland Instituteโ€˜s NYC climate conference March 8-10, 2009. APS physicists can, do, and will contribute strongly to solving the 21st centuryโ€Ÿs conjoined climate+energy problem, but this petition was a silly distraction, and rightly rejected. However, its existence was widely touted to theย public.โ€

The whole, exhaustive document is attached. Fred Singer should beย embarrassed.

For another take on this story, check out Adam Seigelโ€™sย  article: APS says โ€œIn your faceย deniers!โ€

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