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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NASA wasn’t always on the take. I worked with them in the 70s on, of all things, weather. The people I worked for studied weather for a very practical purpose for the gvt. Anything we have in the air or others do, is affected by it; planes, satellites, rockets, missiles, space stations, and things falling in to our atmosphere, etc. Lorellyn is correct. man has little to do with it. the sun is the cause. Natural changes on both the earth and sun affect what is happening here. People say it is happening faster and that is the result of man. Not so. It is the result of changes that science is just starting to piece together. No one knows what all the conditions were millions of years ago before and after the ice ages. There is a reason why there are theories and why theories have changed over time. Man thinks they have the answers when in fact they are just learning the questions.
He needs to be with Hillary Clinton and Obama belongs in jail
So it takes 30,000 scientists say this was a hoax. When Normal citizens who read about archaeologist on numerous networks show how climate his change naturally for a thousand years. Normal people would look at that and say this climate change that the media and Al Gore are pushing it is wrong. Well I guess we were not wrong after all. And we are not rocket scientist either. Democrats and the media half$#%&!@*care agenda going for them. We know the media and Democrats so real educated people cannot be fooled.
Revelation 16:8-9 KJV
And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. [9] And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
so are the democrats .
—Of course it is a HOAX. Almighty God controls the weather.
The biggest advocators of climate change are the same people who are benefitting from it the most!
THE EARTH DOES ITS THING AND ALWAYS REPAIRS ITSELF. ITS ABOUT SCAM SCAM AND MORE SCAM TO MAKE MONEY, SIMPLE.
The fact that this pompus, blovating, lard assed two faced maggot has an estate on a beach in California tells me all I need to know about his “global warming”, oops, that didn’t work so now it’s “Climate change”
CLIMATE CHANGE AND AL GORE ARE TOTALY A SCAM TO FLESSE THE FLOCK.!!!!!!! TOTAL HOAX ON PEOPLE WORLD WIDE. AND USA SUPPORTS IT. SHAME ON US.