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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Marc McDonald I had read an article a few weeks back about the polar reversal. I wasn’t sure if this was just another coverup by NASA or not, but if you have found more evidence, I am more likely to believe it. Scientists have been measuring the amount of ice and came to the conclusion that the pole is growing, not melting anymore!
The whole liberal agenda is a hoax.
Yeah they have made millions from this scam
Austin Farrell, this is one reason I don’t believe in the global warming – in addition to others – like all the solutions involve gov’t dictating our lives and taxing us to fix a non-problem
Evil is being brought out in the open for all to see. I always thought climate change was a hoax. The globalist left is being shown for the evil totalitarian bastards they are.
at least not ‘man caused’ – volcanoes release tons more CO2 in one blast than we do in all our lifetimes with all the cars we drive in 100yrs
Here is the problem no global warming enthusiast can explain away for me. The slight variations in our global temperature have been monitored very closely for years. So have the temperatures of the moon, Mars and a few other surrounding planets. Why are the temperature variations on these surrounding planets proportionally IDENTICAL to Earth’s? Could it be that ZERO models used by the global scientists backing global warming take into affect “sun spots” or “spikes” in the suns temperature? They all wrongly assume the sun burns at a constant temperature and they are wrong and they know it. We can and should develop alternative cleaner renewable energy sources but the way the lobbiests have tried to scare the$#%&!@*(money) out of people is ridiculous.
God is in charge of the climate. Man, in his pride, would usurp the authority of God.
Gore should pay back all the money he scammed the people and the government.
Climate change has been going on since this mostly water covered asteroid became into existence.