It's encouraging to see those in the media beginning to take note of the many attempts by U.S. scientists to voice their opposition to the U.N. Global Climate Treaty ("What warming consensus?" Commentary, Nov. 16).
Since the climate treaty was hatched in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, scientists have shown their dissent with four petitions: the 1992 "Statement by Atmospheric Scientists on Greenhouse Warming," with more than 100 signatures; the 1992 "Heidelberg Appeal," with more than 4,000 signatures; the 1996 "Leipzig Declaration," signed by some 130 prominent U.S. climate scientists, including several who participated in the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); and, this year, the "Oregon Petition," which has been signed thus far by 17,000 U.S. scientists.
Activists promoting global warming regard the last two - the "Leipzig Declaration" and the "Oregon Petition" - as particularly threatening. One Washington-based group, Ozone Action, tried to derail press coverage of the "Oregon Petition" earlier this year by implying that activists had salted the list with phony names. All the names have since been rechecked and verified.
Unlike Vice President Al Gore's "consensus" of 2,500 United Nations IPCC scientists, a complete fabrication, this consensus is real. There is strong opposition in the scientific community against a hasty and misguided effort by international bureaucrats to combat a problem that has yet to manifest itself. El Nino-driven odd weather is not global warming.
CANDACE CRANDALL
Policy Research Associate
The Science & Environmental Policy Project
Fairfax
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