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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DAMMED YOU BAsTads
Larry Hill people drill wells and when you drain an aquifer the natural result is a sink hole. If it is near a wetlands that drains the wetlands and contributes to localized effects. The wetlands dry and the wind can move the dirt. It’s just one more domino effect
Greed !
If their tenure and funding wasn’t being used as leverage against them it would be a higher number.
Waste of taxpayers money another$#%&!@*clown that should have retired long ago
A hoax that made him rich!!
Always been a hoax as has Gore.
Alisha Annie Oakley Silba all due respect Ma’am, we still studied the constitution when I went to school. When I raised my right hand and swore to uphold it against all enemies foreign and domestic, I knew I was taking a vow that would end only at my grave regardless of my current enlistment status. Our current administration is walking a thin line on the question of being a constitutional domestic enemy and global climate change, though it started as a money making scam for Al Gore, is currently a weapon in the arsenal of the “one world government ” enemies of our nation. I still read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights at least quarterly and I anger every time Obama exceeds his authority, congress fails to live up to their responsibilities, or the Supreme Court makes law rather than rules on the constitutionality of law as written. Three percent of the population took this British colony and made it an independent nation. Perhaps another three percent will be needed to put her back on her constitutionally directed course.
TRUMP/PENCE!