The global warming Petition Project continues to erode the myth of a "scientific consensus'' spread by the warmers. At the recent Rio de Janeiro United Nations annual warmer lovefest, the Clinton Administration signed the global energy rationing treaty. Perhaps the coming Senate vote on Clinton's removal from office should be held simultaneously with the Senate ratification vote on this promise to turn off one-third of America's energy supplies.

At this U. N. meeting, copies of Petition Project materials, including the letter from Frederick Seitz, the 8-page review article, the Wall Street Journal editorial, the Petition, and a summary of the signatories, were hand distributed to every official delegate. As a result, Stephen Schneider (the mediocre Stanford professor who first sought fame as a global cooler, but has now hit the big time as a global warmer), who had wangled 15 minutes to address the assembled mob, found it necessary to devote his entire speech to trashing the Petition.

The newest craze among global warming "scientists'' is a "cliff effect.'' For this, the calculations are jiggered so that little or no human-caused change of temperature or climate is observable in the early years (corresponding to the failure to find their beloved "greenhouse signal'' in real experimental data), but in later years there is suddenly a catastrophic effect. Since this entire prediction is not testable in the present, this hypothesis frees them from experimental refutation.

The warmers are now grousing that we have not given them sufficient detail about the Petition signers and their fields of specialization. We never will! But - when the time arrives that a maximum effect on the Senate vote is necessary - this information (all one thousand pages of it) will be hand delivered personally to every U. S. Senator.