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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This guy is a nut job got rich on on a hoax !
Documentary called Pandora s promise has Congress in 1974 talking about global warming do to car exhausts and factories and so on. Exxon started by bringing it to governments attention because they was tracking the carbon when they wasn’t even regulated to yet. The ice age was what would be followed if the earth heated up and the jet stream changed and the water curaints slowed and so on. We are right where the predicted us to be with in a couple years of there model because as a planet we have slowly changed what we was doing in the 70s and how much pollution we have put out. We are no where near what we as humans should be at with cutting back and using more planetary beneficial non pollution means of living. But humans are to hell bent on destruction instead of logic and common sense.
FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yea they have the National Broadcasting Network spreading that hoax.
Really cause I’ve been here 40 years and can see that wear I love the summers and winters have drastically changed. Growing up had snow from Oct to march. Now not till after Jan. Christmas I was wearing shorts this year cause it was 65 70. So what weather history are you looking at that says it’s a hoax? My reality says it’s true.
I find this moron to be more than a paid stuffed stuge. I do remember him saying he was going to blacken the skies with rockets when he was “employed” by NASA at the lowest point in that agency’s history waistin billions on the X33 program. As anyone with a few working brain cells knew lol. But I did get to see and work at the “famous skunk works”. Never worked with such a numb nut bunch of egotistical totally political morons in my life. All under 30 ish. The head politician excluded.
A famous has been leftover from the days when they they did real stuff there, like the SR 7 1. Shoe horned into that position for credibility reasons for “selling” a stupid idea, because that’s what the dim wit gore was told to market while # 2 at the agency. Bottom line don’t argue with moronic politicians, just waist billions of $, better still trillions seeking to give them what they say they want lol. And there is no consequences because the program is nothing more than a “practice training run” at best sad to say. Yawn. Then when you look at how much $ o bummer gave to Iran.
That makes him the best global sponsor of terrorism I know about besides the Saudis of course.
Bible reveals all. They will know in the end.
They used to
The FOOKING Weather !
Not this idiot again.Must be running low on donirs??