Al Gore is NOT being sued by 30,000 scientists!!!!!
This post is complete B.S.
It's the claim of a wacky, right wing TV weatherman, who ran the Weather Channel for one year. Even in the video he claims they've SIGNED a petition - NOT SUING. And that number is not even true.
In 1998, the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine began circulating a deceptive "scientists" petition" on global warming.
Their website enables people to add their names to the petition over the Internet, and by June 2000 it claimed to have recruited more than 19,000 scientists. The institute is so lax about screening names, however, that virtually anyone can sign, including for example Al Caruba, a pesticide-industry PR man and conservative ideologue who runs his own website called the "National Anxiety Center."
When questioned in 1998, the OISM's founder Arthur Robinson admitted that only 2,100 signers of the Oregon Petition had identified themselves as physicists, geophysicists, climatologists, or meteorologists, "and of those the greatest number are physicists." This grouping of fields concealed the fact that only a few dozen, at most, of the signatories were drawn from the core disciplines of climate science - such as meteorology, oceanography, and glaciology - and almost none were climate specialists.
Even in 2003, the list was loaded with misspellings, duplications, name and title fragments, and names of non-persons, such as company names.
The NAS issued a blunt formal response to the the petition drive. "The NAS Council would like to make it clear that this petition has nothing to do with the National Academy of Sciences and that the manuscript was not published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences or in any other peer-reviewed journal," it stated in a news release. "The petition does not reflect the conclusions of expert reports of the Academy."
In fact, it pointed out, its own prior published study had shown that, "even given the considerable uncertainties in our knowledge of the relevant phenomena, greenhouse warming poses a potential threat sufficient to merit prompt responses. Investment in mitigation measures acts as insurance protection against the great uncertainties and the possibility of dramatic surprises."
AND - The OISM markets a home-schooling kit for "parents concerned about socialism in the public schools" and publishes books on how to survive nuclear war, including Nuclear War Survival Skills (foreword by H-bomb inventor Edward Teller), which argues that "the dangers from nuclear weapons have been distorted and exaggerated" into "demoralizing myths." Arthur Robinson also co-authored Fighting Chance: Ten Feet to Survival, in collaboration with Gary North, who like Robinson is a conservative Christian. North is also a prolific author of doomsday books with titles such as None Dare Call It Witchcraft, Conspiracy: A Biblical View, and Rapture Fever.
