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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Money making hoax for liberals.
Al shut the hell up you are crazy and make millions from selling your book with lies .man just live us alone you are fat and have dementia.we do not want to hear your opinion keep it for yourself.or we belive all you are saying when you give us your money and help the poor to eat and close them with all your millions .but you obama clinton polowski al cartoon are just talking$#%&!@*and making tuns of million from ignorants who belive in you and not God.you did not make this earth and create zero why we should listen to you? You suffer depression bad when you where v president from so much coroption.you had the muslim tv al jazira and sold w millions and you preach us global worming? Your brains are not in line they get hot alright from your depresion medication
You guys crack me up. You do understand the same methods cigarettes companies used in the 70s to cast doubts on the fact it causes cancer are the same methods they use on global warming?
And actually new York doesn’t get close to the snow it use to. Buffalo use to get snowed in 2 or 3 times a year. So that little 8 feet snow storm was the only one they really got. I grew up with snow from end of oct up to almost March. Now we don’t get snow till usually after January. So no are winters are not as bad as 1 8 foot blizzard sounds
But Al has gotten rich off it.
Jim Pollard all you have to do is look out side And pay attention for a couple years to see that$#%&!@*has changed dramatically. You don’t need some government played scientists to say something.
Climate Change hoax has made AlGore a very rich man.
I’m actually some places they do.
Nothing burger swine fly waste fraud science pusher
That was decided a while back. And yet Obama and Gore wants us to pay how much to the Paris agreement.