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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Keep reporting facts not what people think there is plenty of science that shows how off base they are and here’s a picture that might help over 100 years water levels in Sydney Harbour have not changed
Climate change has happened throughout the history of the planet. The magnetic poles have switched ends as well. I don’t think we had anything to do with it then and/ or now either.
Al Gore. What a guy. Biggest lies and hoaxes of all time.
…farce. al gore is a crook and most liberals following his b******t are stupid.
Actually, I believe that climate change is much more sinister. There are people on the left that this country has no right to exist, that we don’t deserve our superpower status. This is due to how Long Island was acquired from the Native Americans (with pretty stones), other examples of the treatment of the Native Americans, slavery has well has other actions of the white man. Their goal is to permanently take this country down a peg or two by imposing a carbon tax on this country. A carbon tax would accomplish this and would have permanent results. Ever wonder why a carbon tax is only to be imposed on the United States which has a cleaner environment then other countries and regions of the world, Eastern Bloc countries in Europe, China and the Middle East. Countries that pollute much more then we do.
This is a b******t article 30,000 scientist do not agree climate change is f**e they support thatbit is very real. Get your facts straight mate cause even micho kaku states it’s real and he is one of the most intelligent minds on this planet.
Climate change made Al Gore wealthy. No proof of climate change.
Jamie Juron
This$#%&!@*needs to be in front of a firing squad!!!
Al Gore is a lying POS. Climate change is a $cam