A project of the monthly publication Access to Energy gathered over 31,000 signatures from technical scientists and engineers who disagree with the claim that human activities are causing global warming. Details about the petition and the signers can be found at www.petitionproject.org . Over 9,000 of the 31,000-plus signers were Ph.Ds.

To sign the petition, an individual had to have earned a bachelor of science degree or higher in a physical science -- e.g., chemistry, geology, or engineering. In other words, they had to be in technical fields rather than social sciences such as psychology or sociology.

So how can the United Nations and others such as Al Gore claim there is a consensus among scientists that humans are causing global warming? They could not if they would be truthful, even some of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change members disagrees. Quite a few of the 600 members on the IPCC have resigned as a result of U.N. misrepresentations of their work -- e.g., rewriting their conclusions and never allowing them to see the rewrite before publication.

So what is behind claims of human-caused global warming when the facts do not support such a conclusion? It is simply a ruse to grab power and money by misleading people into thinking there is an approaching crisis.

To avoid that crisis, people will allow establishment of government agencies to ration energy, charging everyone hefty fees to do so of course. In order that they will not have to limit their use of energy, these behind-the-scene power brokers will establish carbon credits they can buy, as if that somehow helps the environment.

The way to stop this power grab is to expose these people and their fraud with facts. Will the people expose it, or will they swallow this fraud?