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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As f**e as the news nowdays
We also had record cold in Alaska last year
It’s not so much a hoax as highly exaggerated. Billions of cars on billions of miles of non reflective asphalt that heats up and insulates millions of square miles of the earths surface is going to make a difference. Add billions of buildings heated in winter and air conditioned in summer are going to have some effect. Undeniably the power required to make all these things and to make them work has some effect. I can continue but nobody would listen! Our American global warming representative egore flies daily in his giant inefficient jet when he isn’t at his giant inefficient house without solar panels or grey water system. Yep nobody really cares it’s just a money machine in process.
300 lies like you no such thing as climes change ducks like you should give the people there money back to you took from for the lie of climes change .
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The north west had a very bad winter. The year before perhaps you remember Boston being buried under snow an eight foot snow fall in Buffalo. The north half of the country has been hammered with epic winters while the south has had relatively mild winters
Al about the money for him
Funny how it actually started before Al. This started in the 70s
We just set a world record for heat this year. I forget where but I believe they said it was 125 or 135. Every year we set a new record for the high and the low