CORRECTION: We corrected this article to address inaccuracies brought to our attention after a reader cited fact-checking research by the organization Politifact.
Politifact‘s Jon Greenberg explains that the original source of the news article we referenced was a straightforward petition asking the U.S. government to reject the 1997 Kyoto agreement on global warming. The signatories of the petition rejected the claim there was convincing scientific evidence of global warming caused by human-released greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide or methane. The petition did not mention the notion of a hoax for financial gain:
An article on the News Punch website said that “30,000 scientists have come forward confirming that man-made climate change is a hoax perpetuated by the elite in order to make money.” The source is a well-known petition project.
The key flaw is that the petition challenges the science, but it doesn’t cast human-driven climate change as a hoax aimed at making some people rich. That is pure interpretation by the website.
Greenberg also points out that the statistics presented at the Global Warming Petition Project, which circulated and published the results of the petition, include signatories whose training and accreditation outside the discipline of climate science. Some who signed the petition may not have pursued a career in science, let alone the narrower field of climate science.
The left has long used “environmentalism” as a way to force liberal public policy. They cite the need to protect the Earth as justification for higher taxes, harsher regulations, and bigger government. The theory of global warming may have been the most fruitful blessing the left have ever received from the scientific community.
Many key leftist policies can be linked, somehow, to climate change. They’ve even managed to popularize a derogatory term for those who are skeptical of the scientific theory, “Climate change deniers.”
Unfortunately for the left, some of the “deniers” are well-educated folks who have given the matter sober thought. Among the “denier” ranks are over 30,000 who signed the petition by the Global Warming Petition Project affirming their belief that “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.”
You can read the full petition form on the Global Warming Petition Project site and learn more about the project on their FAQ page.
Politicians and climate-change activists promote the statistic that over 97% of scientists agree with the theory of climate change as if science is a popularity contest in which consensus is more important than discoveries backed up by evidence from repeatable experimentation. This does a great disservice to the real, dedicated scientists who seek to question, observe, and explore the world and to understand phenomena through the results of rigorous experiments.
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We all have been saying that where have you been
some scientiest are not on the “o” and al the w—e gore payroll.
Democratic Party Supports LIARS And Terrorist !
Give back ur millions u jerk.
Hey, “chubby cheeks” Climate change is just a long, natural process.
Have you ever put a slab of cement down and watch what mother nature does to it over time. The earth has the ability to repair itself, the problem isn’t every day people the problem is rich people who fly everywhere they go. Start looking at the real problems in our society. They start at the top and trickle down. Until the rich celebrities and the rich polititions take anything seriously NOTHING CHANGES. LET THEM GIVE UP THEIR PLANES THEIR EXPENSIVE HOUSES AND THEIR EXTRAVAGENT LIFE STYLES. They won’t. You see they want us to do without, while they maintain there lifestyles. Wise up fluctuations in the climate go on all the time and guess what, the world is heating up, it’s the normal progression of our earth and of our sun dying. The ozone was disappearing in the 70 s they were so upset, guess what a few years later the hole had disappeared. Do we have to more cautious about something’s yes. But in reality we have improved the world quite a bit since the 30s, 40s and the 50s. Not to long ago you couldn’t even see pittsburgh because it was the smokey city. As you can see Pittsburgh’s cleared up quite well. Theres to many scientist that disagree with this administrations assumption that there is global warming and we need to stop it now. The data does not back up this theory at all.
Yet we are having the hottest year on record, again…And the plants that thrived here 50 years ago, now wither and die, and must move north or up to survive, and the date of first frost comes later every year, and last frost comes sooner…
Stupid s**t
Great post. But you can’t make Mr Greenjeans believe it.
Al Gore was funded by George Soros, “Nuff said ??”