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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Al Gore is a hoax and a fraud!!!
It’s called a planet, it’s going to do what it wants. Course humans aren’t helping the matter.
Uh, George, you may be right about the aquafers but what does that have to do with Climate Change? Especially the supposition of the effects that human activity is effecting climate. So far the only argument that the Climate proponents have offered is the increase in CO2. Then they quote a 400 PPM level in the green house gasses of which the human factor is only 3% of that. Now putting that into a more recognizable number for the layperson that means the human contribution is a small fraction of 4 molecules for every 10,000 molecules of the benign molecule. For historical reference the concentration of CO2 has been as high as 7000 PPM (70 molecules per 10,000 molecules) with a second high of 1300 ppm. Then there is that pesky problem that if the atmospheric CO2 goes below 200 PPM plant life will start dying. Do you see a problem with this (not to mention the data manipulation that the initial studies were found guilty of.) I know you mean well but don’t compare the proverbial “Apples to Oranges”. 🙂
So do I!
CLIMATE CHANGE IS a hoax in terms of is going to cause what WILL EVENTUALLY HAPPEN. THE RESULTS described as being the result of climate change will take place, but why and how, and who etc. WILL NOT BE THE CAUSE!!! THEY wanted to make money as usual off from those who are not told the truth, by those behind the scenes who do.
Climate change may be a hoax….. Hillary unfit is a fact!
Al is not going to listen to them. He can’t make any money of of it.
Anyone over 65 could tell you that!
If we struggle to see through the motivations fir something as idiotic as trying to control the weather, we’ll end up doing something really stupid…like electing Obama twice… or… [shudder] Hillary.
Al “the crook” Gore…made millions of his hoax about global warming…no such thing.