Jan
WTF now? Greenpeacegate?
Climategate, Glaciergate, Amazongate, Pauchauri…and now comes Greenpeacegate. We can barely keep up. Every time we think we can rest, another global warming scandal comes up. Hey, not that we’re complaining–it’s all falling apart faster than any of us had dreamed.
Let’s just go to Donna Laframboise out of Toronto Canada, the creator of NOconsensus.org, who yesterday broke the story that the IPCC is using the politcal activist group Greenpeace as source for quite a few “facts” in its report; in fact, in at least one case, they were the sole source. She begins:
Considered the climate Bible by governments around the world, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is meant to be a scientific analysis of the most authoritative research.
Instead, it references literature generated by Greenpeace – an organization known more for headline-grabbing publicity stunts than sober-minded analysis. (Eight IPCC-cited Greenpeace publications are listed at the bottom of this post.)
In one section of this Nobel-winning report, climate change is linked to coral reef degradation. The sole source for this claim? A Greenpeace report titled “Pacific in Peril” (see Hoegh-Guldberg below). Here the report relies on a Greenpeace document to establish the lower-end of an estimate involving solar power plants (Aringhoff).
When discussing solar energy elsewhere, the report references two Greenpeace documents in one sentence. Here it uses a Greenpeace paper as its sole means of documenting where the “main wind-energy investments” are located globally (Wind).
[Continue reading her terrific article at her blog...]
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- Two U.S. Congressmen go after EPA on reliance on UN’s climate panel
- IPCC biofuel blending – science ignored, or made up?
and check out the WWF citations at that section of her blog More dodgy citations in nobel winning climate report http://nofrakkingconsensus.blogspot.com/2010/01/more-dodgy-citations-in-nobel-winning.html
on my calculations here are the gates of the IPCC
one is well addressed by Roger Pielke Jr; the concoction of false evidence on the increased likelihood of bad weather events http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2010/castles-built-on-sand html and http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-tangled-web-we-weave.html changing things without acknowledgement or notification.
I call that one ‘ghostgate’ then there’s climategate; glaciergate; Pachaurigate; Amazongate; Sterngate; temperaturegate (the alarming disappearance of gauges from cool locations;) WWFgate and now Greenpeacegate.
Thanks to sites like yours the word is spreading to the public
What is so fun, Al Gore and Bin Laden are now on the same side.
One more organization struck off my annual contribution list.Bye Bye Greenpeace.My past contributions were obtained under very very false pretences.Please arrange an immediate refund.Thanks
I love how all the phony alarmists love to manipulate the true-believers with “peril”. The reefs are in peril, the air is peril, the earth is in peril – the polar bears, gummy bears, sea monkeys… they’re all in peril.
What’s in peril is their legitimacy.
Now that it’s in print that Greenpeace is hyping a lie, this video is even more fun to watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC7bE9jopXE
The glaciers are in peril! Or maybe not.
Penn & Teller show clueless “green” hippies for what they are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw
I’m new to this site so this may be old news to everyone:
The current UK Met Office chairman Robert Napier used to be Chief Exec of the UK branch of the WWF.
The jigsaw pieces fit nicely together
Wow, yes… all the pieces are falling into place, no thanks to the mainstream media who only spout propaganda or stay silent.
It’s thanks to websites like Climategate.com and the few brave reporters who actually investigate, question and report facts. It’s also thanks to commenters like Derrick for providing just one more piece to the puzzle to keep people like me informed.
Igor that Penn and Teller piece is a classic. At my graduation from a S.F. Bay Area college a popular left-wing group was asking graduates to sign a petition promising to “question authority” which is an old Marxist slogan. They gave you a little wallet card with the petition. I asked for the card, tore it into little pieces, and said I was starting the questioning with them. Knowing the quality of the opposition is what makes us so stubborn.
Banning beef by the backdoor and crippling US cattle farming in the process.
Per-cow fee would hurt cattlemen, says Utah Farm Bureau boss
The government would assess a $175-per-cow fee to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_14295570
More fake CO2 insanity, by doubling the price of beef they are putting it out of reach of everyone except the very wealthy.
IT’S just the Marxist Greenpeace trying to educate us into being vegetarians,now thet plan to price us out!
Water vapour is the “new” enemy of climate,cooling towers,kettle boiling,burning 1 lb of gasoline produces 1 gallon of water, plenty to tax us on !!!!!
Bird population falls dramatically where wind turbines are erected.I like birds better than polar bears.
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