"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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Over 17,000 scientists had signed a petition saying, in part, "there is no
convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide,
methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable
future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and
disruption
of the Earth's climate."

That's quite a different statement than "there's no such thing as global
warming".