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Sorry I could't resist. I looked up the 'Manhatten Declaration' as I admit I have never heard of it. It runs out that the declaration originated at a conference organised by a right-wing free-market think-tank in the US called the 'Heartland Institue', one of who's major contributors just happens to be Exxon. This what the 'Heartland Institute' have to say on the declaration:
"The "Manhattan Declaration" was proposed from the floor of the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change and was not endorsed by The Heartland Institute, the host of the conference, or by the 50 cosponsors, and does not necessarily express the views of most or all of the people attending the conference. It is being circulated by the International Climate Science Coalition."
The "International Climate Science Coalition" define their endorsers as general public or:
"QUALIFIED ENDORSERS NOT AT CONFERENCE The following individuals, all well-trained in science and technology or climate change-related economics and policy, have allowed their names to be listed as endorsing the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change:"
They list the endorsers to the declaration, their affiliations and qualifications. There are 116 who were at the conference and 604 who were not, but have endorsed later. Of that 720 people there are surprisingly few there with a PhD(less than half at a rough guess), surprisingly many people involved with the mining industry and surprisingly few climatologists. In fact just 18 claim to have any backgrouhnd in climatology. Of those 18, seven are paleoclimatologists, most are retired and a couple work for consultancies. In fact there are NO currently employed climatologists on that list (discounting the couple in consultancies).
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