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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ohio mule sez………99% of folk know Al Gore is a hoax…….
If there were not any climate change, wouldn’t we still be living in the ice age?
So far NOT ONE prediction from the climatological profits of doom has come to pass, and Al Gore has been conspicuous by his silence for the last few years. It looks like he may have “AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH” of his own to deal with. There’s far more money and politics involved here than science. If there is any man made global warming it’s caused by all the money they are burning to perpetuate this farce.
I was told by one blogger that a piece of land equal to the size of a football field was lost to The gulf of Mexico every 15 minutes. I ran the numbers. At that rate a land mass the size of the entire state of Louisiana would be submerged every 6 days. That’s a flood of Biblical proportions! And yet the east, west, and gulf coasts remain dry.
Did you ever notice that the people who scream the loudest about “climate change” are the ones who have the biggest “carbon footprint”? Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, etc.
That’s 30,000 just in the U.S. folks, not counting the rest of the world!
We know it is a Hoax. Due to new regulations .It cut my profits by 30% in the last 5 years. The up coming regulations will cut another 10 to 20 %. Untill 2015. I hauled enough groceries to feed 10, 000 people a month. ( Fresh produce. & Pork, Beef & chicken). I just gave up & retired 8 years early. I grow my own food now. Good luck folks
I believe it is jst a way for him to transfer monies into bogus accounts, f**e studys , and f**e scientist willing to slip a few million in Obamas back pocket. Cash of course, Obama likes to deal in cold hard cash
Al Gore made millions by pushing the need for ‘special’ light bulbs…
Of course it is. Money in politicians pockets.
but what will this fool do for income.
Gore is a scam artist