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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Raise your hand if you are educated or getting educated in STEM related fields? *raises hand* here is what I learned, climate change means out of the normal climate. Not just the rotation of the earth(seasons). Fossil fuels are made from fossils, the limit is near. Obtaining said fossil fuels takes a whole lot of fuel, clean water that is unusable after fracking, the pollution(air, water, and animals or meat) from the fracking causes heath defects, and ice caps are melting. That causes more Co2 to be released. Just because its not hot right now, doesn’t mean it not going to be hot tommorow.
Trump needs to put this dog down!!!.. I’ve been on this planet long enough to know.. That the only change is tomorrow ..
It’s a liberal,socialist boondoggle but they want a hell of a lot more than your money!
If the mouthpiece for Climate change is so scared and worried about global climate change and carbon footprints, why is he not only richer but huge and his carbon footprint is 1000 times bigger than anyone elses.
I wonder how many law enforcement officers would agree that you are a charlatan.
What’s in your cauldron today, Al? A new plague, a cure for sanity?
The so called climate change has been nothing more then a money maker for the U N.
AL, YOU HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE. EVERY YEAR THE WEATHER CHANGES. THAT IS WHY, IT IS CALLED CLIMATE CHANGE. BACK WHEN I WAS A YOUNG GIRL, ONE YEAR WE WOULD GET BAD WEATHER NEXT YEAR NOT. THERE WERE NOT BUT A HAND FULL OF AUTOMOBILES THAN. BEFORE THAT ,JUST HORSE AND BUGGIES.NOT MANY PEOPLE BACK THAN. BUT, WE STILL HAD A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER.BAD SOME TIMES, SOME TIMES NOT. ITS REALLY NOT THE PEOPLE, OR THE COWS LEAVING FARTS. THE YOUNG PEOPLE NOW DAYS ARE SO NIEVE. THEY BELIEVE ANYTHING THAT IS BEING TOLD TO THEM. THAT IS CALLED, BRAIN WASHED. NO ONE CHECKS THINGS OUT FOR THEMSELVES. TRUST THE OLDER PEOPLE,THE WEATHER IS ACTING THE SAME ,AS, 80 YEAR’S AGO. IT RAINS, IT SNOWS, HURRYCAINS, EARTH QUAKES, TORNADOES, VOLCANOES. YOU NAME IT IT WAS HERE BACK IN THE BIBLE DAYS. BUT, A LOT OF YOU WOULDMT KNOW THAT, YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT A BIBL LOOKS LIKE LET ALONE READ IT. RIGHT?
They can’t control what God is in control of.
YOU ARE A F**E AL.