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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Same old story Al. Get lost!!!!
Can you say “cyclical?!”
Mother nature will do what she wants
what is amazing is that for the time al gore was in office as the veep, he DID NOTHING, and didn’t even mention the enviroment.
F**e!
And why don’t you do the same?
The fact of the matter is the climate has been changing since it started being recorded in the late 1600’s early 1700’s. You can start by researching Marlot whine grapes. Where they originated and why they moved to where they are famous for growing now and thus where they got their name.
I would also like to add in the 70’s they were preaching that the next ice age was coming. That didn’t happen. Then Al Gore came along and said the earth was heating and we would be under water by now. But obviously that hasn’t happened. Now it’s called Climate change. Well as I said the climate has been changing since it’s been recorded . Now the scientist arguing against the climate change scientists generally aren’t arguing that the climate isn’t changing. Their arguing on the models used is failed and skewed.
he’s correct on the climate…..but he betrayed out country in the early 80″s when he sold Fighter Plane software to the Chinese via Motorola Corp…….he should be hung for treason.
Made al gore rich
You mean to tell me that God was smart enough to create a universe where hairspray and environmental waste doesn’t completely shut her down… How bow dat???
The left is using the false climate change theory to kill capitalism and to lower the influence of the USA by driving our economy down. They must be exposed as the Socialist/ Communist they are.