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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Sherry Rowlands , Mac before the oil boom.
Here’s a quote from a resident of ft Mac before the oil boom.
“I lived in Fort McMurray from 1963-1965, before big oil moved in. There was 1200 people living in… the Waterways/Fort McMurray area. I can tell you at that time oil was seeping into the Athabasca river and we were told not to eat the fish from it, the Clearwater was okay.
You could tell where the oil sands were located as the trees were stunted, twisted and deformed, and there were tar pits that would trap animals. My sister and I laugh at the environmentalists when they say the oil companies are destroying the region, when in fact the oil companies are cleaning up natures oil spill and returning it to a pristine forest and lakes.
Though I would say that none of these environmentalists were born before the oil companies started to clean it up or even their parents likely never even heard of the oil sands region. When I lived in Fort Mac the only way you could get there was by air or train, there was no highway.
So instead of attacking the oil industry we should applaud them for cleaning up an oil spill from a million years ago… That’s the trouble with these so called green people, they only hear and shout out the propaganda they have been paid for, and know nothing of the past history… Can’t believe there is such a following of the chicken little’s.”
These companies were also a huge part in the rescue and housing of fleeing victims of the Fort Mac fires.
Water rising & mining the moon ?
This below is my thoughts….Gene
Hey , Yeah know how all the college educated & PHD’s say we are in a global warming cause the ocean levels are rising at a few centimeters to a inch or so a year……well of course their totally full$#%&!@*& here’s why….
” What happens when you take a bowl of water put some soil in it. Water displacement happens & there’s not as much water as before & there’s more land now creating a island.
Well there have been oh several dozen volcanoes , especially on Ohau /Hawaii blowing it’s top for 35 plus years now.
Oh$#%&!@*guess what ……it has increased the size of Ohau greatly plus the second volcano beside it is creating a whole new chain of islands ……well i’ll be damned …” water displacement “….. ” which will cause the oceans levels across the whole freaking planet too rise “..plus….the heat & sulfuric acid & all other minerals blown sky high & later turn into rain by mixing with the cloud layers turn into ” acid rain “….oh goodness me….the trees are dying ……not really….guess what …it only lasted for 3 years & it cleared up like nature intended it too.
We will have more land on the planet though ….Oh joy …” more freaking real estate brokers ”
So here it is in nut shell……
” There is no Ozone problem by N.A.S.A. shooting off the Columbia through our atmosphere cause as long as we have a ” Sun ” we will have ” Ozone ” …cause the sun replaces it every oh …FREAKING DAY college geniuses of the world !!!!!!
There is no acid rain cause the atmosphere as cleaned it out.
There is no global warming from a car , cow farts , power plants ect.
However oh great geniuses of the world we are in the beginning / middle of a geologic time change & when it’s done you freaking idiots none of us may be here from it & there is not one freaking thing you can do to STOP IT & EARTH WON’T CRY A TEAR WHEN SHE DOSE IT OVER YOU NOT BEING HERE. ” This is as bad as the Georgia Senator saying a Pacific island in the MidWay chain would flip over upside down from building a landing strip & new airport facilities on the island ” ……THAT IS REALLY IGNORANT & STUPIDITY AT ITS BEST !!! You wonder why nothing gets done in D.C. & this was Georgia State only !! REALLY …What school did you go too & get a degree so you could be a Senator …make sure I do not send my kids there !!!!!!
Oh but wait ……Now some really smart idiots want to start ” MINING THE MOON ” …REALLY …HOW DAMN IDIOTIC IS THAT ONE.
For what ….HELIUM 2 which can put out enough energy from a pound of it to light up a city for a year…..
Well these geniuses I guess forgot that the moon is our sister satellite that keeps us in a upward position & running evenly & without it …guess what…” WE WOULD NOT BE HERE AT ALL !!!! ”
( they said on the news they would start mining the moon in 5 years from now…2020 )
So you geniuses go ahead & mine that moon & destroy us & you won’t have to worry about all the above false b******t you started.
And they call us Conservatives dumb Dinosaurs……
Best ,
Gene Coniglio Like I’m really going to watch any propaganda put on youtube by Globalist. Good try though and I’ll keep my flashlights charged.
Sherry Rowlands , Water rising & mining the moon ?
This below is my thoughts….Gene
Hey , Yeah know how all the college educated & PHD’s say we are in a global warming cause the ocean levels are rising at a few centimeters to a inch or so a year……well of course their totally full$#%&!@*& here’s why….
” What happens when you take a bowl of water put some soil in it. Water displacement happens & there’s not as much water as before & there’s more land now creating a island.
Well there have been oh several dozen volcanoes , especially on Ohau /Hawaii blowing it’s top for 35 plus years now.
Oh$#%&!@*guess what ……it has increased the size of Ohau greatly plus the second volcano beside it is creating a whole new chain of islands ……well i’ll be damned …” water displacement “….. ” which will cause the oceans levels across the whole freaking planet too rise “..plus….the heat & sulfuric acid & all other minerals blown sky high & later turn into rain by mixing with the cloud layers turn into ” acid rain “….oh goodness me….the trees are dying ……not really….guess what …it only lasted for 3 years & it cleared up like nature intended it too.
We will have more land on the planet though ….Oh joy …” more freaking real estate brokers ”
So here it is in nut shell……
” There is no Ozone problem by N.A.S.A. shooting off the Columbia through our atmosphere cause as long as we have a ” Sun ” we will have ” Ozone ” …cause the sun replaces it every oh …FREAKING DAY college geniuses of the world !!!!!!
There is no acid rain cause the atmosphere as cleaned it out.
There is no global warming from a car , cow farts , power plants ect.
However oh great geniuses of the world we are in the beginning / middle of a geologic time change & when it’s done you freaking idiots none of us may be here from it & there is not one freaking thing you can do to STOP IT & EARTH WON’T CRY A TEAR WHEN SHE DOSE IT OVER YOU NOT BEING HERE. ” This is as bad as the Georgia Senator saying a Pacific island in the MidWay chain would flip over upside down from building a landing strip & new airport facilities on the island ” ……THAT IS REALLY IGNORANT & STUPIDITY AT ITS BEST !!! You wonder why nothing gets done in D.C. & this was Georgia State only !! REALLY …What school did you go too & get a degree so you could be a Senator …make sure I do not send my kids there !!!!!!
Oh but wait ……Now some really smart idiots want to start ” MINING THE MOON ” …REALLY …HOW DAMN IDIOTIC IS THAT ONE.
For what ….HELIUM 2 which can put out enough energy from a pound of it to light up a city for a year…..
Well these geniuses I guess forgot that the moon is our sister satellite that keeps us in a upward position & running evenly & without it …guess what…” WE WOULD NOT BE HERE AT ALL !!!! ”
( they said on the news they would start mining the moon in 5 years from now…2020 )
So you geniuses go ahead & mine that moon & destroy us & you won’t have to worry about all the above false b******t you started.
And they call us Conservatives dumb Dinosaurs……
Best ,
Metorlogist Joe Bastardi on Global Warming
This Metorlogist tells it like it is & has been…..Gene
Joe Bastardi Global Warming Stance: Where Does Climate …
http://www.newsmax.com/…/joe-bastardi-global-warming…/6...
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Dec 18, 2014 – Joe Bastardi is a professional weather forecaster, meteorologist, andclimate change pundit, and he is known for his outspoken opinions when …
A Darwin Award to all the “climate deniers”…do you think they actually walk upright?
Someone get all the nature nazis a hankie Bye
Not true!
According to this bozo,we should all be treading water by now !!! Nothing but a bogus money maker !!!!
A cash cow created out of greed. Smdh