Michael Fuller: A little more digging would reveal how few climate scientists actually signed petition

Re “31,000 scientists deny warming” (Letters, July 18): With a little more digging around, the letter writer might have found the Wikipedia article about the so-called Oregon Petition, which cropped up in the late 1990s and includes 31,000 signatures. That article claims that “Myanna Lahsen said, ‘Assuming that all the signatories reported their credentials accurately, credentialed climate experts on the list are very few (39 at last count, it would seem).’”

And the writer doesn’t seem know, or care, what peer-reviewed journals are. I’m still baffled over what “human release of … methane, etc.,” is. Flatulence?

This story was originally published July 31, 2017 at 2:52 PM with the headline "Michael Fuller: A little more digging would reveal how few climate scientists actually signed petition."