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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I wish he was only affecting liberals. unfortunately we are all being being hit by his scam
Brad Shawe you said it.. money and power. That is what I saw working with scientists. Many knew the truth but to get grants and gvt contracts.. you had to appease the bureaucrats.
Al Gore is a fraud!
MANMADE GLOBAL WARMING – IS A THEORY THAT LACKS EVIDENCE.
In order for there to be Global Warming there needs to be appreciable warming. According to NASA/NOAA the Earth has warmed 1.53 degrees F since 1880 or 136 years. Another theory is the so-called hockystick equation which predicts that a rise in CO2 will cause the Earth’s temperature to rise exponentially. Again, according to NASA, The CO2 has gone up and the Earth’s temperature has not and therefore this theoretical equation is proven wrong. All the theories have been proven to be without substance and yet we spend BILLIONS supporting so-called renewable sources of energy and killing, and driving up the prices, of our natural resources Coal, Oil and Gas. With a $19,000,000,000,000 National debt, we can not afford to waste money on bad political science.
ANCILLARY TRUTHS:
CLIMATE CHANGE… is what the Earth has always done naturally.
CO2… is naturally occurring and we breath it in every day and exhale it. It is necessary for tree growth where it is absorbed and then produces Oxygen.
OCEANS …Per NASA/NOAA have been rising 0.057 inches per year and that is the thickness of a dime.
POLAR BEARS… According to the World Wildlife fund, were at 8000 in 1950 and are now at 26000. Whatever is happening they love it.
POLAR AND GREENLAND ICE… ice is quite stable. Yearly changes always occur.
THE EARTH… has always and likely will always change, all by itself.
“ONE TEST IS WORTH A THOUSAND EXPERT OPINIONS”
PLEASE CHECK OUT THE DATA
……………….. I DARE YOU………………..
The people spouting climate change are also a hoax!
This guy will make you puke with his BS………………….
HE ACTUALLY WAS BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY SOROS
And he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for this ? Kaluoy pod ni St.
Mother Teresa who was robbed of a much needed funding for her poor children in Calcutta ! He should return the money !!
i never did buy into the global warming hoax