Last week one Mark Williams claimed in a letter to the SCMP that the 17,000 scientists who signed the petition organized by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine included Ginger Spice, and a character from the TV series M*A*S*H. The list of scientists who signed the petition is freely available at the website for the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. The list of characters for the cast of M*A*S*H can be found here.
The website also notes that of the 17,000 signatures that were verified there were 2,660 physicists, geophysicists, climatologists, meteorologists, oceanographers, and environmental scientists. They also note that there were 5,017 scientists whose fields of specialization in chemistry, biochemistry, biology, and other life sciences that make them especially well qualified to evaluate the effects of carbon dioxide upon the Earth’s plant and animal life.
Mr. Williams claims are just arbitrary noise. It would take too long to refute every piece of nonsense that comes out of his mouth.
