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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This is PROVEN science!
They want your money, because it will cost them nothing. You give it to them while all along they know there is nothing they can do about the weather changing.
Geo engineering and HAARP are very real and more devastating than any war. Why do you think the Bushes and other Elites have been purchasing up the earth’s water rights. btw Soros funded Gore and “Global Warming”.
Another wicked criminal out for big money the love of money has ruled in Washington too long time for a house cleaning
Michael Novak , Water rising & mining the moon ?
This below is my thoughts….Gene
Hey , Yeah know how all the college educated & PHD’s say we are in a global warming cause the ocean levels are rising at a few centimeters to a inch or so a year……well of course their totally full$#%&!@*& here’s why….
” What happens when you take a bowl of water put some soil in it. Water displacement happens & there’s not as much water as before & there’s more land now creating a island.
Well there have been oh several dozen volcanoes , especially on Ohau /Hawaii blowing it’s top for 35 plus years now.
Oh$#%&!@*guess what ……it has increased the size of Ohau greatly plus the second volcano beside it is creating a whole new chain of islands ……well i’ll be damned …” water displacement “….. ” which will cause the oceans levels across the whole freaking planet too rise “..plus….the heat & sulfuric acid & all other minerals blown sky high & later turn into rain by mixing with the cloud layers turn into ” acid rain “….oh goodness me….the trees are dying ……not really….guess what …it only lasted for 3 years & it cleared up like nature intended it too.
We will have more land on the planet though ….Oh joy …” more freaking real estate brokers ”
So here it is in nut shell……
” There is no Ozone problem by N.A.S.A. shooting off the Columbia through our atmosphere cause as long as we have a ” Sun ” we will have ” Ozone ” …cause the sun replaces it every oh …FREAKING DAY college geniuses of the world !!!!!!
There is no acid rain cause the atmosphere as cleaned it out.
There is no global warming from a car , cow farts , power plants ect.
However oh great geniuses of the world we are in the beginning / middle of a geologic time change & when it’s done you freaking idiots none of us may be here from it & there is not one freaking thing you can do to STOP IT & EARTH WON’T CRY A TEAR WHEN SHE DOSE IT OVER YOU NOT BEING HERE. ” This is as bad as the Georgia Senator saying a Pacific island in the MidWay chain would flip over upside down from building a landing strip & new airport facilities on the island ” ……THAT IS REALLY IGNORANT & STUPIDITY AT ITS BEST !!! You wonder why nothing gets done in D.C. & this was Georgia State only !! REALLY …What school did you go too & get a degree so you could be a Senator …make sure I do not send my kids there !!!!!!
Oh but wait ……Now some really smart idiots want to start ” MINING THE MOON ” …REALLY …HOW DAMN IDIOTIC IS THAT ONE.
For what ….HELIUM 2 which can put out enough energy from a pound of it to light up a city for a year…..
Well these geniuses I guess forgot that the moon is our sister satellite that keeps us in a upward position & running evenly & without it …guess what…” WE WOULD NOT BE HERE AT ALL !!!! ”
( they said on the news they would start mining the moon in 5 years from now…2020 )
So you geniuses go ahead & mine that moon & destroy us & you won’t have to worry about all the above false b******t you started.
And they call us Conservatives dumb Dinosaurs……
Best ,
Michael Novak , LITTLE KNOWN FACT
THE EARTH WILL NEVER,EVER RUN OUT OF FRESH WATER , DUE TO THE
HIDDEN FACT THAT BEING OVER 70% WATER , IT CONSTANTLY
REGENERATES FRESH WATER DEEP WITHIN THE EARTHS CRUST , IN WHAT’S
CALLED THE ” PRIMARY WATER CYCLE ” , THIS IS WHAT ” MUAMMAR GADDAFI ”
TAPPED INTO THROUGHOUT LIBYA .
THE REASON WE WERE TAUGHT OTHERWISE , IN OUR ” ROCKEFELLER ” OWNED
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM , IS SIMPLY DUE TO THE FACT YOU CAN MAKE BILLIONS
OF DOLLARS IF YOU PROMOTE SCARCITY OF A COMMODITY !!
RESEARCH PRIMARY WATER !!!
Michael Novak , Mac before the oil boom.
Here’s a quote from a resident of ft Mac before the oil boom.
“I lived in Fort McMurray from 1963-1965, before big oil moved in. There was 1200 people living in… the Waterways/Fort McMurray area. I can tell you at that time oil was seeping into the Athabasca river and we were told not to eat the fish from it, the Clearwater was okay.
You could tell where the oil sands were located as the trees were stunted, twisted and deformed, and there were tar pits that would trap animals. My sister and I laugh at the environmentalists when they say the oil companies are destroying the region, when in fact the oil companies are cleaning up natures oil spill and returning it to a pristine forest and lakes.
Though I would say that none of these environmentalists were born before the oil companies started to clean it up or even their parents likely never even heard of the oil sands region. When I lived in Fort Mac the only way you could get there was by air or train, there was no highway.
So instead of attacking the oil industry we should applaud them for cleaning up an oil spill from a million years ago… That’s the trouble with these so called green people, they only hear and shout out the propaganda they have been paid for, and know nothing of the past history… Can’t believe there is such a following of the chicken little’s.”
These companies were also a huge part in the rescue and housing of fleeing victims of the Fort Mac fires.
Gore is a joke. Always was
Michael Novak , Yeah know Dino’s meat rots & the bones are everywhere ect ect !! So think about this yourself ! We had discussions of this in Geology /Physics Class ! Yes I believe in this 100%——————————————————–>Oil is NOT a fossil fuel / by Peter J. Morgan / —————————————————————————– ####
To recapitulate, Stalin’s team of scientists and engineers found that oil is not a ‘fossil fuel’ but is a natural product of planet earth – the high-temperature, high-pressure continuous reaction between calcium carbonate and iron oxide – two of the most abundant compounds making up the earth’s crust. This continuous reaction occurs at a depth of approximately 100 km at a pressure of approximately 50,000 atmospheres (5 GPa) and a temperature of approximately 1500°C, and will continue more or less until the ‘death’ of planet earth in millions of years’ time. The high pressure, as well as centrifugal acceleration from the earth’s rotation, causes oil to continuously seep up along fissures in the earth’s crust into subterranean caverns, which we call oil fields. Oil is still being produced in great abundance, and is a sustainable resource – by the same definition that makes geothermal energy a sustainable resource. All we have to do is develop better geotechnical science to predict where it is and learn how to drill down deep enough to get to it. So far, the Russians have drilled to more than 13 km and found oil. In contrast, the deepest any Western oil company has drilled is around 4.5 km.
A team consisting of Russian scientists and Dr J. F. Kenney, of Gas Resources Corporation, Houston, USA, have actually built a reactor vessel and proven that oil is produced from calcium carbonate and iron oxide, as detailed on the Gas Resourceswebsite. This is what Dr Kenney has to say about how he came to be involved: “In the first instance, the articles on this website are dedicated to the memory of Nikolai Alexandrovich Kudryavtsev, who first enunciated in 19511 what has become the modern Russian-Ukrainian theory of deep, abiotic petroleum origins. After Kudryavtsev, all the rest followed. Secondly, these articles are dedicated generally to the many geologists, geochemists, geophysicists, and petroleum engineers of the former U.S.S.R. who, during the past half century, developed modern petroleum science. By doing so, they raised their country from being, in 1946, a relatively petroleum-poor one, to the greatest petroleum producing and exporting nation in the world today. These articles are dedicated specifically to the late Academician Emmanuil Bogdanovich Chekaliuk, the greatest statistical thermodynamicist ever to have turned his formidable intellect to the problem of petroleum genesis. In the Summer of 1976, during the depths of the cold war and at immeasurable hazard, Academician Chekaliuk chose to respond, across a gulf of political hostility, to an unsolicited letter from an unknown American chief executive officer of a petroleum company headquartered in Houston, Texas. Thenafter and for almost fifteen years, Academician Chekaliuk was my teacher, my collaborator, and my friend. [JFK] 1. Kudryavtsev, N. A. (1951) Petroleum Economy [Neftianoye Khozyaistvo] 9, 17-29.”
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Needless to say, the last people to tell us the truth about oil will be the oil producers and oil companies, for they of course have a vested interest in perpetuating the myth that oil is a fossil fuel and that it will soon be exhausted, in order to ratchet up the price for as long as they can. And don’t look to the Russians to enlighten the world with the truth about oil either, for they are surely laughing now that the oil price is approaching $US150 a barrel.
A US Public Service Radio interview with Dr Kenney may be heard on the Gas Resources website.
Some may ask “How come all of this isn’t commonly known?” For the answer, one needs to consider what happened to Galileo when he first put forward the hypothesis that rather than the conventional wisdom that the sun revolved around the earth, the earth revolved around the sun. He was branded a heretic and locked up! You are invited to read an excellent article entitled “Cognitive Processes and the Suppression of Sound Scientific Ideas”, by J. Sacherman 1997.
Some may say “Well, even if oil is a renewable resource, mankind should not burn it because the carbon dioxide so produced causes global warming.” My answer to that is that the idea that mankind’s production of carbon dioxide causes global warming is merely a hypothesis, and this has been thoroughly discredited by Prof. Robert Carter and numerous other scientists.
You are invited to listen to a recording of a brief radio interview with Prof. Carter, where he succinctly explains that after spending billions on researching the topic, no climate scientists have ever succeeded in finding any scientifically valid link between man-made carbon dioxide and global warming.. He makes the point that whatever effects mankind’s production of carbon dioxide have on earth’s climate, they are immeasurably small and are swamped by the changes in climate that occur naturally.
You are also invited to view a video of Prof. Robert Carter’s demolition of the “mankind’s production of carbon dioxide causes global warming” hypothesis at where you will see Prof. Carter illustrate five examples of verifiable science that refute the hypothesis. Prof. Carter makes the point that truth in science is never decided by consensus, but if you prefer to believe the pronouncement by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that “2,500 scientists of the United Nation’s IPCC agree that humans are causing a climate crisis”, which is repeated ad nauseam by environmentalists, the press and governments around the world, including ours, then you are invited to read an article where Tom Harris and John McLean tell the truth about this deception and point out that “an example of rampant misrepresentation of IPCC reports is the frequent assertion that ‘hundreds of IPCC scientists’ are known to support the following statement, arguably the most important of the WG I report, namely “Greenhouse gas forcing has very likely caused most of the observed global warming over the last 50 years.”
Explain to me why we just had the hottest July and August in recorded history? Why is the polar ice cap disappearing? Why are we having epic droughts? Why are warm weather bugs showing up in Alaska? Inquiring minds want to know. I’m not a fan of Gore. These are just my personal observations.