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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That man needs a swift kick in the$#%&!@*to wake up.True story evil.
IT’S ALL ABOUT MONEY – OUR TAX DOLLARS – THEY USE TO CALL IT GLOBAL WARMING UNTIL THAT WAS PROVED FALSE – OUR CLIMATE CHANGES ALL THE TIME – HAS FOR BILLIONS OF YEARS – WE LIVE IN A VAST SPACE OF WHICH WE KNOW JUST A TINY BIT ABOUT – OUR UNIVERSE WILL CALL THE SHOTS TOTALLY OUT OF OUR HANDS – 2/3 THIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES AT ONE TIME WAS UNDER ICE BILLIONS MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO FROM ALL THE TOP SCIENTIST TELL US SO – THE CHANGE OF WEATHER GAVE US MOST OF THE LAND WE LIVE ON NOW
It’s a big hoax to push their new world order BS
BAD JUDGEMENT? IF you vote for Hillary and Kaine, I hope you know the answers to these questions?1. When did Hillary know her husband was a serial abuser, and does she feel guilty for destroying his accusers?
2. Explain precisely the trades made in the Cattle Futures scandal where $1,000 was turned into $99,000 in a matter of weeks?
3. Why didn’t she do anything to protect the Americans in Benghazi?
4. Who is Saul Alinsky and why was he her mentor?
5. When she was working on Watergate, why did her boss Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, call Hillary a “liar” and “an unethical, dishonest lawyer” and have her fired?
6. What really happened with Travelgate?
7. What really happened with the Rose Law Firm?
8. What really happened with WhiteWater?
9. What gave Hillary the right to see private FBI files of her political enemies in FileGate?
10. Why won’t she turn over her illegal server with state department e-mails to congress?
11. Why does your foundation accept money from avowed terror states?
12. What is her take on the Vince Foster “Suicide”?
13. Why did she think she was entitled to steal the White House furniture when she left?
14. Why do you lie even about things that mean nothing: lying about being under sniper fire in Bosnia, lying about being named after Sir Edmund Hillary, or lying that your grandparents were immigrants.
15. Should America be concerned that in ChinaGate, the 22 people that were convicted of fraud or for funneling Asian funds into the DNC were associates of Bill Clinton?
16. Did selling stays at the Lincoln Bedroom to political donors make you feel like a wh)o(re?
17. Does Hillary think Juanita Broadrick lied when she said on national news that Bill Clinton raped her?
18. Is she still okay that Bill goes to pedophile island with Jeff Epstein?
19. Why are there so many murdered and suicide people in the Clinton’s immediate circle?
20. Doesn’t the fact that the Clinton Foundation has to amend 5 years of its tax returns for improper reporting imply that you were involved in an illegal RICO enterprise?
21. Doesn’t approving the Russian-owned Uranium One deal as secretary of state–because of illegal contributions to your foundation–in fact make you a traitor to this country?
22. Was it wise to have at least four Clinton Foundation board of directors that have either been convicted or charged of the financial crimes of bribery and fraud?
23. Why, Hillary, did you pay your female senate staffers 72% of what you paid your male staffers?
24. When you represented an accused pedophile rapist, why did you laugh when you got him off even though you believed him to be guilty?
25. She said she had one e-mail address, it came out that she had two; She said she had one device, it came out that she had two: She said none of her e-mails on her private server was classified, but when the State Dept handed over 300 e-mails the FBI redacted large sections of one, proving again she was wrong. Thus, Ms. Clinton, are you incompetent or just a congenital liar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-xjiXfJ58Q&feature=youtu.be
Call it what it is. It’s a scam. A scam the like of Bernie Madoff was never bold enough to consider.
They are trying to tax rule Americans and want to drive out the American farmers and beef so we can’t feed ourselves
Al is an idiot.
This is Gore’s “get rich” scheme.
And this guy is a joke, always has been and always will be.
Global warming is the biggest scam and job killer in history