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 try, Janet, but most of the time I feel like I am swimming upstream.
GORE has gotten rich pushing this hoax.
He lied then and he lies now
has anyone ever heard of the H.A.A.R.P. project?…….that would account for most of the irregular weather pattern that we have……..other countries also have the same devise, like Russia and china!!!….they’re called weather wars…….
Remember Al Gore became pretty wealthy off the climate change ! It is really about making money and achieving power and control !!
It is a political hoax!!!
BHO says otherwise and he said that’s his next step “up.” Is that true? What about “his Hillary” when she loses for “malfeasance in office?” A lot of our friends and members are asking. (Could it be possible she and Bill will join BHO’s new confederation?}
How can that be. He has so many checks from mr soros that said it was true.
Rose Henderson It’s really not hard to find info on it. Actually NOVA did a great documentary on it. Start there. There’s evidence the world over that it’s happened many times before. Last recorded was some 780,000 years ago. Look up the Marinara’s Trench too…. The stripes…. It’s cooled lava that the crystals within align with the Earth’s magnetic poles upon the cooling. It’s formed a stripe patter on the ocean floor. N S N S N S. The info in that Documentary alone will convince you. But there’s info everywhere.
OF COURSE THE GORE EXPLANATION WAS A HOAX, BUT HE MADE MILLIONS, NOW: THERE IS GLOBAL WARMING , AND THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT, THE SCIENTIST KNOW IT, AS THE EARTH SPINS ON ITS AXIS IT IS ALSO TILTING A LITTLE PUTTING The Bikers Code NORTH AND SOUTH POLES TOWARDS THE EQUATOR, LAST I HEARD WAS IT HAD TILTED ENOUGH TO PUT THE NORTH POLE 40 MILES TOWARD WHERE RUSSIA WAS, IN THE LAST 10 YEARS. REMEMBER WE HAD AN ICE AGE MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO , EVER WONDER WHY? MY THIRD GRADE TEACHER TOLD ME SINCE I LIVED IN NEVADA THAT IN 40 YEARS WE WOULD BE HAVING WEATHER LIKE ARIZONA WAS HAVING AT THAT TIME, GUESS WHAT, IT HAPPENED, IM 75 NOW SO I HAVE SEEN AND LIVED THE TIME.