> There are tons more fun ones, like:
> It's crystal-clear this is just 15k+ random people signing a feel-good petition
It's ok everyone, it's ok! Relax. Turns out not all the 15000 people are climate scientists. Therefore we can all just take it easy, safe in the knowledge that the earth is fine, and we can go back to consuming resources like there no tomorrow.
> It's crystal-clear this is just 15k+ random people signing a feel-good petition. Any claim that these signatories are "scientists" in general, much less ones in appropriate fields to make authoritative comments about the subject matter, is unadulterated horseshit.
I call bullshit on your horseshit. Scanning the list, there's a lot of PHD's, professors - that sounds like scientists to me. Also re field of study, the vast majority of them look like they are natural sciences, which is totally appropriate. Sure there are some that don't list the field or the level, or else list something which is in an unrelated field, but that seems like it's pretty rare in the list actually.
If you did filter the list down to just those with post-graduate qualififations, and also in natural sciences, at rough glance it seems like the list would still have at least 10000 people. Why is the list with extra people any less convincing?
Then again, I'm guessing in your case either list would still not be convincing.