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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No, climate change is not a hoax it is a natural occurrence but what is a grand hoax is the claim that it is man made,it is a trillion dollar scam.
9 out of 10 doctors admit the other doctor is not on the pay roll.
Climate change is real it’s very real it has been happening for millions of years and there is nothing the EPA can regulate and tax to change that………
I agree !!!!
Hoax
Hes a liar too.
I agree.
There goes that numbers game of touting numbers, percentages, and so on, yet again. Not saying anything directly to this specific topic. Just find it amazing and frustrating that one group touts their numbers on a topic, while another group, on same topic, touts different or amazingly different numbers. So look beyond their touted numbers and search for their basis of facts for what they’re saying.
Michael Novak , Global Warming 1922
Unreal for 93 years they’ve been screaming global warming ….Gene
1922 – THE SKY IS FALLING ! 1922 !
This report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post – 93 years ago
The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulate, at Bergen, Norway Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone.
Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.
Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm.
Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.
Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.
This must have been caused by the Model T Ford’s emissions. 93 years later they are still trying to sell it to you ———————>>Ozone/Global Warming /Nuclear wast
Ozone/Global Warming /Nuclear wast
1985 on ozone disappearing …As long as we have the sun ..We have ozone layer around the earth. They said aerosol cans & a.c. units were causing ozone depletion & NASA c/ rocket launch’s & cows farting , really..we as a species out number cows & we fart a lot lol………It was b******t too…..
Acid rain killing trees by humans….This was by volcanoes …well the northern volcanoes stopped 30 years ago. volcanoes produce sulfuric dust from that comes sulfur acid & hydrogen gas comes together & makes hydrochloric acid. So when the Volcano’s stopped no more acid rain……
Global warming is b******t cause it too is volcanic in nature from over the last 50 years of volcanic activity & some is still going on in the Hawaii chain of islands………but guess what …we still are freezing our$#%&!@*s off like normal. Proof in this is the history of the ” Little Ice Age”…1300 till 1835 or so Tambora blew its top that caused new food changes/drinks & there was winter in July thru the next 500 year almost. This almost caused extinction of humanity in Europe
Then the e-mails between England & America on weather change were found out to be bogus & the truth finally came out……If you doubt that , you can look up Dr. Joe Bastardi he is a hell of a Meteorologist & he will give the facts for sure.
All of the above is for MONEY for Al Gore & company….not you / me . Believe me when this planet starts another geologic change & it will ….she’ll kill you & not shed a tear over it. Just like the mega fauna that’s not here anymore(Mastodon /Saber Tiger/Mammoth …..!!!!!!
Oh , you’ll say ,…” Nuclear has wast”…well if the great Pres. Jimmy Carter would’ve never screwed over Westinghouse on keeping the re-charging of the rods in house like it was designed/engineered to do, instead he/Jimmy decides to bury it in Yucca Mountain , real smart. The French in house re-charge right in their plants & never have to screw with burying anything, THAT’S SMART & We were going to do that. Every Green Energy Investment has been fraudulently handled & money lost , our tax payers money at that. These are facts & you look them up. All have a nice day & a safe year…..Gene……
But it made the right people billionaires! And pt the wrong people out of business! That’s all that matters…