Greenpeace Founding Member: 'The Whole Climate Crisis Is Not Only Fake News, It's Fake Science'
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On Tuesday morning, Patrick Moore, a founding member of the environmentalist organization Greenpeace, slammed climate alarmists for promoting a fake emergency. President Donald Trump tweeted Moore's remarks shortly after he made them.
"In fact, the whole climate crisis as they call it is not only fake news, it’s fake science. There is no climate crisis," Moore, author of the book Confessions of a Greenpeace Drop-Out: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist , told "Fox & Friends" Tuesday morning.
"There is weather and climate all around the world. And, in fact, carbon dioxide is the main building block of all life," Moore said. "That’s where the carbon comes from in carbon-based life, which is all life on land and in the sea. And not only that, a little bit of warming would not be a bad thing for myself being a Canadian and the people in Russia wouldn’t mind a little couple of degrees warmer either."
The Greenpeace founding member did not deny that climate change is real, but he insisted that it is not a crisis.
"Yes, of course, climate change is real. It’s been happening since the beginning of time. But it’s not dangerous and it’s not made by people," Moore insisted.
What is climate change, if it's not a man-made imminent crisis? "Climate change is a perfectly natural phenomenon and this modern warm period actually began about 300 years ago when Little Ice Age began to come to an end," he explained. "There is nothing to be afraid of."
As for the alarmists, "that’s all they are doing is instilling fear. Most of the scientists who are saying it’s a crisis are on perpetual government grants."
Yet there is a fundamental contradiction between their claims, Moore insisted. "On one hand they say the science is settled and people like myself should just shut up because they know what’s right. On the other hand, they seem to keep studying it forever as if there is something new to find out. And those two things are completely contradictory," he said.
The Greenpeace founding member even argued that "carbon dioxide is actually a benefit to the world." He promoted the CO2 Coalition, which believes "that carbon dioxide is entirely beneficial to both the environment, to agriculture and forestry and to the climate of the Earth."
If Patrick Moore believes in carbon dioxide as a benefit to the climate, how could he have helped found Greenpeace? He argued that it was the organization that changed from its original mission, not him.
"I was one of the founders doing a Ph.D. in the late '60s, early '70s in ecology. I was radicalized by the Cold War and the threat of all-out nuclear war and the emerging consciousness of the environment and we did a lot of good things," he recalled. "We stopped nuclear testing in Alaska. We have stopped it in the South Pacific. We saved the whales. And we stopped a lot of toxic waste being put into the ocean. And the air."
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He ignorance is vast and Moore was good to point it out.
Truer words have never been spoken in this male dominated world. And yes, the "He ignorance" definitely extends to this guy Moore and most of the ignorant Fox viewers.
"Yes, of course, climate change is real." True.
" It’s been happening since the beginning of time." Also true.
" But it’s not dangerous and it’s not made by people," (insert Price-is-Right losing game sound here).
Higher sea levels will displace millions, longer droughts will put food supplies at risk. Heat waves, heavy downpours and sea level rise pose growing challenges to many aspects of life. Infrastructure, agriculture, fisheries and ecosystems will be increasingly compromised. Changes in the timing of stream flow reduce water supplies for competing demands. Sea level rise, erosion, inundation, risks to infrastructure and increasing ocean acidity pose major threats. Increasing wildfire, insect outbreaks and tree diseases are causing widespread tree die-off. Declining water supplies, reduced agricultural yields, health impacts in cities due to heat, and flooding and erosion in coastal areas are additional concerns.
His comment was like listening to a kid give a school presentation about oranges where he states...
"Oranges are orange in color. They are a fruit and contain vitamin C. They only grow on the moon which is why they are so difficult to harvest...".
Good start, terrible finish.
Juvenile.
Ah, that explains a lot. I'll try to use smaller words then to increase probably comprehension.
Exactly. I didn't hire a spell checker. He should look for other work.
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Moore lied about being a founder of Greenpeace, and has been part of nuclear energy, mining, and other energy companies, he's a consulting hack. Who gets paid to promote their bs. What else does he lie about?
All that doesn't mean anything to the climate ignorants. Wish it would.
Maybe you should bow to people who actually know the truth insead of the lies
It's called google wally as you've been directed to over and over
You could always go to the NASA, NOAA, USGS, NSIDC, NAS, web sites and learn from the experts.
By the way, yes I am a environmental scientist who specializes in climate. What are your credentials?
We've already had dozens of commissions investigating the issue and they all come back with the same answer, yes, climate is changing at a faster pace than ever observed before and human activity has sped it up and continues to do so. So just admit it, no matter how many times climate scientists come back with a conclusion, you're not going to "abide by their findings" unless they tell you what you want to hear. You've already made up your mind about climate change and are just looking for data that confirms your bias while rejecting any data that conflicts with it.
While I don't believe it's a Crisis I do believe Global Warming Climate Change is real and is caused by man. I think Overpopulation is the real Crisis, the Climate is going to change whether we cause it or it happens naturally just as it has many times in the past, it's just our Overpopulation that makes it harder to deal with. The Overpopulation is destroying the world in hundreds of different ways the least of which is Global Warming. Lets stop crying about the symptoms and address the cause, STOP OVERPOPULATION NOW !