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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We have known that for 15 years
Oops… it’s just another f**e cause – another way for the Dems to enrich themselves without having to work!
It’s changing, you dumbasses, and we are polluting every secound.
DO THE MATH.
It is called “weather cycles” dumb ass! Do the history research!
As my math teacher would say show me your work.Can’t come up with a answer without showing your work. Saying it doesn’t make it fact.
Your an idiot you dumbass. The only thing changing is your deeper level of stupidity. Everyone knows about pollution and the necessity to clean up. Don’t try mixing it with the fantasy of global warming. You are unable to do unbiased research, otherwise you’d be talking about how much b******t the farce of global warming really is.
Shut up Lorrie. Another ignorant liberal brat.
What’s a secound?
Hmmm, You have no idea what you’re talking about and you have no argument so you insult those of us that do know what they are talking about.
Wow you’re such an intellectual left-wing nut-job.
Sorry stupid, but sometimes one good turn deserves another.
Aye ?
Sommers, would you kindly explain how “doing the math” will explain pollution. !
The problem with the climate change theory is that they believe that it is caused by man. No inclusion of Radiation from the sun or other conditions that made it happen before. Yes the climate is changing, but to say man is responsible is the fraud.
Questionable source!
Not that any of you will care, your “alternative facts” have rotted out your Cerebrum