| Petition Project |
During December,
Access to Energy mailed a letter to the 19,500 (including 17,500 scientists) signers of the Petition Project petition, which urges the United States government not to ratify the global warming energy rationing treaty. The letter asked signers to support the Science and Environmental Policy Project (which is working actively and effectively against the warmers), to support the Petition Project, and to subscribe to Access to Energy. Earlier, we donated a use of this list to the Marshall Institute and the Greening Earth Society, who used it to raise funds for their own antienviro, protechnology efforts.About half of the resources used for the Petition Project so far have come from individual donations and about half were obtained by the profits from subscriptions to
Access to Energy. None were provided by the hydrocarbon industries or others with related economic interests.We hope now to finance a campaign to increase the scientist signers to over 20,000 before the Senate considers ratification of the global warming treaty that the Clinton Administration signed last month.
Judging by the frequent mention of the petition in antiglobal warming treaty articles and by the many attacks upon it by pro-global warming propagandists, it is still doing a good job of depriving the enviros of their "perceived consensus'' on this issue. That is, of course, the point of the project. Scientific truth is never determined by polls, petitions, or votes. The global warming scam rests, however, on the false perception that most scientists agree with the warmers. We have definitively proved that this perception is fallacious. It is entirely a self-serving myth created by the pseudoenvironmentalists.
As in so many other issues, our enemies attack the petition with outright lies, since the truth is not favorable to them. We are routinely said to be secretly financed by the oil industry and to have created the list from bogus names of people who have not signed. This latter refers to one false name that was planted on the list by a faked petition submitted by the enviros and to a word search they conducted for common names in the list. We have verified more than 95% of the signatories and checked each common name advertised by the enviros - without finding any errors. For example, the enviros crow that Perry Mason (the well-known TV investigator) is on our list of signers. He is - in the person of Perry Mason, a Ph.D. chemist who resides in Texas.
Honesty is just not of interest to these people. In the case of the one false name, "Ozone Action,'' the enviro group that planted the name, immediately disrupted a Congressional hearing, bragging that they had found this "bogus'' name on the petition.
Remarkably, the enviros have not managed to offer any rebuttal at all to the basic arguments presented in the petition or its underlying scientific support. So, the only opposition to which we can reply is this childish nonsense about oil industry machinations and bogus names.
We have taken away their "perceived consensus'' (which, of course, never existed except in their own propaganda). This has already hurt them severely. As the Senate focuses its attention on the global warming treaty, this effect will continue to increase.