Monday, March 15, 2010

*This* is your consensus?!

List of Signers - Open Letter from U.S. Scientists on the IPCC
Over 250 scientists have already signed this open letter and signatures are still being collected. On Friday, March 12, 2010, the letter was sent to federal agencies. The vast majority of the signers are climate change scientists who work at leading U.S. universities and institutions.  [I think this is yet another outright lie]. They include both IPCC and non-IPCC authors. Additional signers include professionals from related disciplines, including physical, biological and social scientists.
I noticed that the list of signers contains names and affiliations, but not occupations or titles. I Googled a few names at random, and quickly found a lot of people like this:

Nina Chaopricha - LinkedIn
Environmental Studies graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Karen T. Litfin, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science
University of Washington
Dr. Greg Möller, University of Idaho
Professor
School of Food Science
I hope someone out there has the time and inclination to Google each of the 250 or so current signers, then report on the results.  

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't know if it will make it onto the list, but I signed it 'Norman Bates, Psychological Drama Studies.'

~ Otter

eyoule said...

Tamim Younos,

Associate Director

Associate Director of the Water Center and Research Professor of Water Resources, Department of Geography

Anonymous said...

It seems that the usual suspects, Mann, Jones, and Hansen have not put their names to this. Neither has Erhlich, who is supposedly coordinating this effort.

I wonder why the Realclimate crowd aren't signing it?

athlete said...

Let me know when the list reaches 31,486.

athlete said...

I just randomly selected 12 names and didn't find anyone remotely close to a climatologist. Francine L Dolins (#44) has a PhD in Experimental Cognitive Psychology and Behavioral Primatology which makes her a leading candidate to replace Rajendra Pachauri as head of the IPCC.

Peter Wilson said...

I did google two names at random. I got:

Gabriela Kütting holds a D.Phil degree in International Relations from the University of Sussex

Karen Litfin (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1992) is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. She specializes in global environmental politics

Of course, I'm sure ALL the others are climate scientists.

sdcougar said...

Random check:
236 Mort David Webster, MIT, Engineering--dissertation about decision-making and climate policy,

221 Philip Terrie. Professor Emeritus, American Culture Studies & English

212 Anthony W. Strawa, NASA, Atmospheric Physics Branch

198 Laurence Simon, Brandeis University, School for Social Policy and Management

197 Robert J Santoro , The Pennsylvania State University, Professor of Mechanical Engineering...seems to specialize in fuels

174 Michael Roden, University of Georgia, Geology--meteorites focus

166 Thomas Piechota, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Office of the Urban Sustainability Initiative, prof. civil engineering

137 William R Moomaw, Tufts University, School of Law and Diplomacy

135 Ronald B Mitchell, University of Oregon, Public Policy

129 Brock R McMillan, Brigham Young Universi Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences