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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Rob LMR
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de meeste namen op die lijst zijn nauwelijks serieus te nemen aangezien ze geen klimaatwetenschapeprs zijn. en hoe hun namen op die petitie terecht gekomen zijn is een andere vraag :
Dr. Gordon E. Swaters, a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Alberta says that he was told he was signing a petition asking that the federal government devote more energy to research on climate change. Instead, the letter - given prominent play last week in the
National Post - suggested that climate change is unproved and that any effort to create policy to address the problem would be "irrational."
"I regret signing that damn petition," Dr. Swaters said Tuesday (April 18, 2006). the accomplished mathematician said he believes that "There are still a lot of mechanics and dynamics about climate change that we don't know about and a lot of subtleties that we need to unravel." But "signing this petition should not be seen as an attempt to indicate that climate change is not occurring."