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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Linda Kachel yes it has many different names but don’t confuse it with research on Planet X. God has used it at least 14 times in the OT and will use it for the astronomical events listed in Revelation.
Frankly, this number is probably deceivingly small compared to the number who really believe it’s a hoax.
Fear = dollars
Oh no
Gore is making millions off this scam
Gore is a hoax.
Fat AL………………..
A recent report I saw says the sea level has actually falled about 1/4 inch in the past ten years, putting the axe to Algor’s prediction taht all the coastal cities would have been flooded over 15 yeras ago !
Just think you people made Al gore rich lol ! If i say we need money to stop the ice cream from melting would you send it to my home ?
All from Texas and now under water like a toilet that it is
Linda Kachel highly recommend Gill Broussard’s research on Planet 7x. He uses biblical and secular data points, archeological, and white paper reports from many different cultures and civilizations to produce a scientific model that actually proves out the stories in the Bible. It brings with it 7 years of famine, asteroids (Wormwood), meteor storms Fiery Hail, plasma discharges (eye of the Sahara, earth tilts (like hezekiah shadow moving back 10 steps and skies bowing to Joseph), crustal shifts (every mountain thrown down, every wall cracked), iron oxide debris (waters turned to blood), rise in earthquakes and volcanoes, 3 hour total global solar eclipses (like Jesus’s crucifixion), delays in earth’s rotation (like Joshua’s long day, day turned into night), dragging the earth out in its orbit (change in 360 to 365 day calendar) and so much more. Only this time it will pass the closest to the earth causing all the astronomical events listed in Revelation for the great tribulation and God’s wrath poured out on man. The rapture is not just a spiritual rescue but a physical rescue from the things coming upon the earth. Jesus said to a final wicked generation only the sign of Jonah will be given. Planet 7x is the Sign of Jonah because it takes 40 days from the time it rounds the sun and passes between the earth and the moon visually appearing at least 50 times the diameter of the moon. Men’s hearts will faint due to the things coming upon the earth.