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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30,000 out of of 25 million est. Is .12% of scientists disbelieve climate change. .12% .
Google 30000 scientists and read just how much of this story is B******t. And when you have finished reading ask yourself who is behind these f**e news stories and Why do they do it? If you complete this task as directed when you are finished we will have a Bubble Breaking Party for you. We will ceremoniously pop the bubble you have been living in where all news is f**e news and Donald Trump is a good President. Please Gary, there is still time left for you to breath in some reality..
This has been proven to be made up of mostly false and very misleading information. All that was needed to sign this petition was an undergraduate degree in a science related field. The petition has been in existence since 1998. So it is just more B******t backed by business that only cares about next quarters profits. TRUTH AND ACTION? How about LIES and FICTION….
Only MOTHER NATURE decides our climate.
Hypocrite traitor like Obama
The inventor of the internet fails once again.
How much money did this guy make touting this hoax?
FACT.
Yep!
It says 30,000 american scientists, then it says 31,000 and then after that states that only 9,029 have phd’s… So, not 30 thousand scientists, just 9 thousand…. And again, only american scientists… I guess the rest of the world’s scientists don’t matter