300 Scientists Tell Trump to Leave UN Climate Agreement?

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Suzanne Johnson <fuhn () pobox com>
> Date: February 27, 2017 at 2:26:29 PM EST
> To: "DAVID J. FARBER" <farber () gmail com>
> Subject: 300 Scientists Tell Trump to Leave UN Climate Agreement?
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> If you read the headlines, it might have seemed impressive: “300 Scientists Tell Trump to Leave UN Climate 
> Agreement.” Wow, 300 scientists. That’s a lot right? Actually, it’s a pitiful list.
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> First of all, hardly anyone on the list was a climate scientist; many were not even natural scientists. It is almost 
> as though anyone with a college degree (and there are about 21 million enrolled in higher education programs just in 
> the USA) was qualified to sign that letter.
>
> Okay but what about the signers of the letter? Surely they are experts in the field? Not so much. It was very 
> difficult to find the list of signers online however I was able to acquire it with some help. See for yourself - 
> Google “300 scientists letter climate change” in the past week. You will see many stories in the press, but try 
> finding the actual letter or the list of names. The version I obtained was dated February 23, 2017 which helps narrow 
> your searching. In an era of Dr. Google, it is unbelievable that the letter itself was not made more available.
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> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/feb/27/just-who-are-these-300-scientists-telling-trump-to-burn-the-climate
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