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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"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."
'The Greenpeace founding member'
LIE
He is not a Co-Founder of Greenpeace. He was a consultant. HE DID NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH FOUNDING GREENPEACE
He was a founder. He was listed as so on Greenpeace's website. YOU ARE WRONG.
Even the other co-founders considered Moore a co-founder. See Wikipedia's articles about Greenpeace and Moore.
Greenpeace Statement On Patrick Moore
July 6, 2010
Patrick Moore often misrepresents himself in the media as an environmental “expert” or even an “environmentalist,” while offering anti-environmental opinions on a wide range of issues and taking a distinctly anti-environmental stance. He also exploits long-gone ties with Greenpeace to sell himself as a speaker and pro-corporate spokesperson, usually taking positions that Greenpeace opposes.
Patrick Moore Does Not Represent Greenpeace
Patrick Moore has been a paid spokesman for a variety of polluting industries for more than 30 years, including the timber, mining, chemical and the aquaculture industries. Most of these industries hired Mr. Moore only after becoming the focus of a Greenpeace campaign to improve their environmental performance. Mr. Moore has now worked for polluters for far longer than he ever worked for Greenpeace. Greenpeace opposes the use of nuclear energy because it is a dangerous and expensive distraction from real solutions to climate change.
Greenpeace and the Green New Deal
In 2019, Mr. Moore has been misrepresented as a Greenpeace spokesperson on the Green New Deal resolution, sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA). In contrast to Mr. Moore’s comment, please see Greenpeace’s response to the Green New Deal .
Patrick Moore Did Not Found Greenpeace
Patrick Moore frequently portrays himself as a founder or co-founder of Greenpeace, and many news outlets have repeated this characterization. Although Mr. Moore played a significant role in Greenpeace Canada for several years, he did not found Greenpeace. Phil Cote, Irving Stowe, and Jim Bohlen founded Greenpeace in 1970. Patrick Moore applied for a berth on the Phyllis Cormack in March, 1971 after the organization had already been in existence for a year. A copy of his application letter and Greenpeace’s response are available here (PDF) .
Patrick Moore is a Paid Spokesperson for the Nuclear Industry
In April 2006, the Nuclear Energy Institute, the principal lobby for the nuclear industry, launched the Clean And Safe Energy Coalition and installed former Bush Administration EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman and Mr. Moore as its co-chairs. The Clean and Safe Energy Coalition was part of a public relations project spearheaded by the public relations giant Hill & Knowlton as part of its estimated $8 million contract with the nuclear industry. (1)
Patrick Moore Has Provided Inaccurate Information on Nuclear Power
In 2004, Mr. Moore published an article in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) journal entitled “Nuclear Re-think.” According to Mr. Moore, “Three Mile Island was a success story. The concrete containment structure did as it was designed to do: it prevented radiation from escaping into the environment.” (2)
Contrary to Mr. Moore’s claim, the damaged reactor spewed radiation into the environment for days. It appears that Mr. Moore didn’t even bother to check his facts. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s fact sheet on Three Mile Island (TMI) acknowledges that the meltdown resulted in “a significant release of radiation…” (3)
Even the International Atomic Energy Agency, which published Mr. Moore’s article, acknowledges that the TMI meltdown released radiation into the surrounding community. As a result, the IAEA ranks the accident as a Level 5 on a scale of 7, an Accident With Wider Consequences. (Only Chernobyl & the Soviet nuclear waste tank explosion in 1957 rank worse than the Three Mile Island meltdown.) (4)
According to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 10 million curies of radiation escaped the damaged reactor core. However, nuclear engineers who reexamined the accident estimate that as much as 150 million curies of radiation may have escaped from the reactor. (5) The meltdown at Three Mile Island turned a multimillion dollar asset into a multibillion dollar liability overnight and helped seal the fate of nuclear power in the United States. To claim otherwise is nothing but public relations spin.
Unfortunately, Mr. Moore’s pro nuclear spin is not confined to the Three Mile Island meltdown. While praising the Bush Administration for rejecting the Kyoto Protocol (6) , Moore promotes nuclear power as a solution to global warming because,”(i)t produces no harmful greenhouse gases…” (7)
However, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) already determined in 1999 that the Nuclear Energy Institute’s claims touting nuclear power’s supposed environmental benefits were misleading because it did not disclose the fact that the production of nuclear fuel produced greenhouse gases. The FTC concluded that NEI’s claims could not be substantiated, “(s)ince there is not yet any permanent disposal system for radioactive waste and since the process of uranium enrichment that fuels nuclear reactors emits greenhouse gases…” (8)
Patrick Moore’s Own Words
Consider Patrick Moore’s own words when considering his claims and those of the nuclear industry: “It should be remembered that there are employed in the nuclear industry some very high-powered public relations organizations. One can no more trust them to tell the truth about nuclear power than about which brand of toothpaste will result in the sexiest smile,” (9) he wrote before becoming a spokesman for polluters.
References
1. “False Fronts.” Columbia Journalism Review. April, 2006. ( )
2. Moore, Patrick. “Nuclear Re-Think.” IAEA Bulletin. Vol. 48, No. 1. September, 2006. p. 56-58. ( )
3. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “Fact Sheet on the Three Mile Island Accident” ( )
4. International Atomic Energy Agency and OECD Nuclear Energy Agency. “INES – The International Nuclear and Radiological Scale.” ( )
5. Allen, Scott. “Findings underplayed disaster, 3 say” The Boston Globe. March 28, 1999. ( )
6. Morano, Marc. “Former Greenpeace Co-Founder Praises US for Rejecting Kyoto” CNSNews.com . December 8, 2005.
7. Whitman, Christine Todd and Patrick Moore. “Nuclear should be a part of our energy future.” The Boston Globe. May 15, 2006. ( oped/articles/2006/05/15/nuclear _should_be_a_part_of_our_energy_future/)
8. Bernstein, Joan Z (Director, Federal Trade Commission). Letter to Joseph Colvin, President and CEO, Nuclear Energy Institute, December 15, 1999. ( )
9. Moore, Patrick. “Assault on Future Generations.” Greenpeace Annual Report, 1976.
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Greenpeace International Statement on Patrick Moore .
'He was a founder. He was listed as so on Greenpeace's website. YOU ARE WRONG.'
Prove it
A link would be nice, considering that there are 27 regional Greenpeace organizations all with their own websites.
and the USA website pretty clearly says he was not a "founding" member.
They have a whole page dedicated to him.
Really?
Aren't you allergic to anything from Wikipedia?
Perhaps you should have researched your Greenpeace link more thoroughly.
founders /
You're welcome.
When the footnotes are accurate, it is perfectly acceptable to use Wikipedia.
See comment 1.1.8 for further verification.
founders /
You're welcome.'
This is nowhere to be found on the link you provided Jasper
The Founders
You're welcome
Yes DMAWC was formed in 1970
Their first charter to Alaska was in 1971, so are you implying that everyone that was aboard is a founder because of the labeling of the website file hierarchy?
Here is his letter asking to join the group and the type written reply from Mr. Paul T. Cole, one of the actual "founders".
Moore was an early and significant member, not a founding member.
But I think you know that.
That's nice.
Can't help but wonder why that would be relevant since Moore insists:
Conservapedia is a much better source.
The alternate facts source
In his link if you click on the "Founders" tab to the right it brings up the part he cut and paste, but isn't what he says it is. The actual founders are listed on the same page:
"The committee's founders were Dorothy and Irving Stowe, Marie and Jim Bohlen, Ben and Dorothy Metcalfe, and Bob Hunter. It's first directors were Stowe, Bohlen, and a student named Paul Cote."
"Marie Bohlen was the first to suggest taking a ship up to Amchtka to oppose the U.S. plans. The group organised a boat, the Phyllis Cormack, and set sail to Amchitka to "bear witness" (a Quaker tradition of silent protest) to the nuclear test. On board were:"
Then his list that includes "Patrick Moore". So Patrick was not a founding member but was "on board" their first "bear witness" protest.
Easy.
Next conspiracy theory please?
He was a founder. Greenpeace listed him so. Sorry.
No, he wasn't and I am not sorry,
he joined 13 months after they were "founded" and incorporated in British Columbia.
You really can't write a letter asking to join something that you "founded", a year after the fact,
capiche?
Greenpeace was formed in January of 1970 as "Don't Make a Wave". The name was changed to Greenpeace in 1972.
He was aboard the boats that stopped nuclear testing in Alaska in 1972 and a save the whales campaign in 1975.
Moore joined the group in 1971 and was quickly accepted into the inner circles of leadership
and was aboard when they incorporated Greenpeace Canada in 1975 so there is some confusion as to what constitutes a founding member. Although he may feel that he was integral to the early success of Greenpeace, Greenpeace strongly disagrees.
Moore left the group in 1986 and quickly became a sworn enemy, eventually becoming an energy policy advisor at The Heritage Foundation.
The Heritage Foundation and The Heartland Institute are much preferable to the pseudoscience at Greenpeace.
The Heritage foundation is a modern model of worthless capitalism which creates nothing but opinion and sells that opinion to the great delight of a few dozen people at the Heritage Foundation who like
Rev Caldwell and Rev Osteen laugh all the way to the bank every week thanking their "god" for the sheeples who enrich them.
The Heritage Foundation is a great American think tank and research organization. https://www.heritage.org
It is the ultimate American Capitalist Bullshit
It produces no tangible product and yet makes money by pandering to the fears and hatred of many people.
Kudos for whoever came up with this scheme.
They launder 100 million a year and pay the current CEO quite well.
(FYE 12/2016)
I hope you contribute to these asses as well.
Hard to believe that with all of the hard data and empirical evidence of anthropogenic global warming and climate change that the Heartland Institute is still spending money on their longstanding war on science. Their decades long disinformation campaigns at the behest of the fossil fuel and tobacco industries will hopefully, sooner than later, come back to bite them hard in the ass.
Has to be getting pretty lonely out there for the small handful of science deniers still left.
I stand proud and tall with them and in total defiance of the so called self labeled pro science as defined elsewhere and mock them and those who would censor differing opinion to their faces. We shall see what the Presidential commission has to say once it has been formed. Global warming is a hoax and man dominated climate change is a fraud. Eco freakery is simply socialism by other means.
It's a given what a Presidential Commission will determine when it is picked by Trump/supporters who do not believe in it.
You continue to misuse the word socialism in the oddest possible ways.
Next we'll have Trump appoint Ken Hamm to "get to the bottom " of evolution.............
oh No! It’s pseudoscience on the attack! Let’s bash Green Peace now for departing from so called pro science orthodoxy. Of course the gentleman in the seeded article is correct. Bring on the censors!
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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.
When will Al Gore sell his coastal mansion he bought after warning of rising sea levels that would some day flood it?
Juvenile.
Ah, that explains a lot. I'll try to use smaller words then to increase probably comprehension.
That is rather amusing. I comprehended his post to not mean the SIZE of the words used but rather the content of the post.
Exactly. I didn't hire a spell checker. He should look for other work.
What do you think "I'll try to use smaller words then to increase probably comprehension." means?
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Moore is right and the other position on the issue is that of fear mongering ignorance.
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.
All hail the wise and awesome Heartland Institute.
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?
No one lies about climate change and mans role in it more than Dave Van Zandt.
The President of the United States 🇺🇸 of America is appointing a commission to investigate this issue. We will abide by their findings.
Like the one the turd did to investigate President Obama's birth certificate? We're still waiting on those findings.
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 !