Greenpeace hits back at Trump tweet on climate change denial

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Greenpeace has hit back against President Donald Trump for tweeting a climate change denial from a former member of the environmental group.

Mr Trump quoted Patrick Moore, who he claimed was a founder of Greenpeace, as saying: "The whole climate crisis is not only Fake News, it's Fake Science."

Greenpeace said Mr Moore was not a founder, but a nuclear lobbyist who does not represent the group.

The Republican president has frequently cast doubt on climate change science.

This is not the first time Mr Trump has questioned climate change. After a report from his own government warned of devastating effects, Mr Trump said: "I don't believe it."

As a candidate, Mr Trump called climate change "a hoax", though he eventually walked back that statement.

Since taking office, his administration has pushed pro-fossil fuels policies while Mr Trump has accused climate change scientists of having a "political agenda".

In a statement, Greenpeace said Mr Moore "frequently cites a long-ago affiliation with Greenpeace to gain legitimacy in the media, and media outlets often either state or imply that Mr Moore still represents Greenpeace. He does not."

The environmental group went a step further, referencing the Green New Deal as "a vision for the future of this country with more equality, justice, fairness, & frankly, more common sense".

"Climate deniers are trying to delegitimise it, the truth is that most people in this country support the #GreenNewDeal & support policies like ending fossil fuel subsidies."

"Although Mr Moore played a significant role in Greenpeace Canada for several years, he did not found Greenpeace," the organisation said. "Phil Cotes, Irving Stowe, and Jim Bohlen founded Greenpeace in 1970."

The group eventually voted him out of leadership roles and Mr Moore left Greenpeace in 1986.



So add this one to long list of lies from Donny Dumbo
 
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Moore, who is not a climate scientist but who has degrees in forest biology and ecology, played a significant role in Greenpeace Canada for several years early in the organization's existence, according to Greenpeace's website, but he did not help found it.
"He also exploits long-gone ties with Greenpeace to sell himself as a speaker and pro-corporate spokesperson, usually taking positions that Greenpeace opposes," the group said in a statement in 2010.
But the incorrect facts about Moore's past and credentials pale in comparison to the incorrect facts in the quote the President chose to tweet.
'There is no climate crisis'
According to Moore, "there is no climate crisis."
But according to Trump's own government's report from November, "the impacts of climate change are already being felt in communities across the country."
The National Climate Assessment, which was a collaboration of 13 federal agencies and over 300 leading scientists, found that the US economy could lose hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century because of climate change.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/12/us/trump-climate-change-tweet-patrick-moore/index.html


So add this one to continuing stupidity and ignorance of the illiterate Donny Dumbo
 
I wouldn't trust anything greenpeace says. I used to live in SF and I've actually been to one of their offices there. They had this scam where they "hire" young people to go door to door asking for donations to "save the whales" or whatever new crisis they had that year. The pay scale was that the person got to keep 80% of whatever they collected. Greenpeace would get the other 20%. How much of that 20% actually went to saving the whales after all their office costs and advertising and hourly staff do you think? IIRC correctly the kids were collecting an average of $130 per day from knocking on doors. They basically manufactured crisis to get donations and of course, climate change is the biggest money maker of them all.
 
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I wouldn't trust anything greenpeace says. I used to live in SF and I've actually been to one of their offices there. They had this scam where they "hire" young people to go door to door asking for donations to "save the whales" or whatever new crisis they had that year. The pay scale was that the person got to keep 80% of whatever they collected. Greenpeace would get the other 20%. How much of that 20% actually went to saving the whales after all their office costs and advertising and hourly staff do you think? IIRC correctly the kids were collecting an average of $130 per day from knocking on doors. They basically manufactured crisis to get donations and of course, climate change is the biggest money maker of them all.
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So Greenpeace is lying when it says that Moore, who is not even remotely a climate scientist, was not a co-founder?
 
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Moore, who is not a climate scientist but who has degrees in forest biology and ecology, played a significant role in Greenpeace Canada for several years early in the organization's existence, according to Greenpeace's website, but he did not help found it.
"He also exploits long-gone ties with Greenpeace to sell himself as a speaker and pro-corporate spokesperson, usually taking positions that Greenpeace opposes," the group said in a statement in 2010.
But the incorrect facts about Moore's past and credentials pale in comparison to the incorrect facts in the quote the President chose to tweet.
'There is no climate crisis'
According to Moore, "there is no climate crisis."
But according to Trump's own government's report from November, "the impacts of climate change are already being felt in communities across the country."
The National Climate Assessment, which was a collaboration of 13 federal agencies and over 300 leading scientists, found that the US economy could lose hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century because of climate change.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/12/us/trump-climate-change-tweet-patrick-moore/index.html


So add this one to continuing stupidity and ignorance of the illiterate Donny Dumbo
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Yeah, bottom line is that Moore is a nobody with no expertise in climate and a whore for the industries he represents. All he has is a tenous relationship with Greenpeace. So he's widely admired by the Donny Dumbo and dumb right wingers for his views on climate and typical of the fringe fools that deniers hang their hat on.
 
Right, the Greenies Are Lying – Patrick Moore Did Co-Found Greenpeace
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President Trump has tweeted in support of Greenpeace co-founder turned arch climate skeptic Patrick Moore.

Donald J. Trump

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Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace: “The whole climate crisis is not only Fake News, it’s Fake Science. There is no climate crisis, there’s weather and climate all around the world, and in fact carbon dioxide is the main building block of all life.” @foxandfriends Wow!


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So naturally, the Climate Industrial Complex has responded as only it knows how.

Not, of course, by trying to refute Moore’s arguments. (That would be tricky: the truth is that there is no climate crisis and the great global warming scare is Fake Science)…

…but by trying to airbrush Moore out of Greenpeace’s history by claiming that he was not one of the founders of the organisation.


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Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace: “The whole climate crisis is not only Fake News, it’s Fake Science. There is no climate crisis, there’s weather and climate all around the world, and in fact carbon dioxide is the main building block of all life.” @foxandfriends Wow!


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Patrick Moore was not a co-founder of Greenpeace. He does not represent Greenpeace. He is a paid lobbyist, not an independent source. His statements about @AOC & the #GreenNewDeal have nothing to do with our positions.
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There’s just one problem with Greenpeace’s lie. It’s a lie.

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This should pretty much put to bed the bogus @Greenpeace claim that Patrick Moore #ecosensenow was not a Greenpeace founder. h/t @MikeBastasch


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But then, lying is what Greenpeace does best. It’s a great big green lie machine.

For further details you should read the fascinating report produced for the Heartland Institute, co-authored by Moore, which dissects Greenpeace’s lie-driven business model. Greenpeace makes stuff up because that’s how it generates the environmental scare stories – the current one being plastic pollution – which persuade the gullible to contribute to its $400 million per annum budget.

This is why Moore left Greenpeace. Not because he stopped caring about the environment – but because he cared so much about it that he couldn’t bear to be associated any more with an organisation which was simply exploiting the environment in order to advance a left wing agenda.

This is also the reason why Greenpeace keeps trying to disappear Moore from the honor roll of co-founders.

Tragically for Greenpeace, the internet never forgets…
 
The Commitees cofounders and MEMBERS. It does not say he was a cofounder. He was a member. Another reading comprehension fail by the deniers.

Bottom line, this is not about Greenpeace. It's about idiot Trump quoting another unqualified idiot and they are both wrong. Who gives a shit what the senile old fool Moore says about the climate. He's forgotten how to tie his shoes. Every actual expert on earth and common sense says he's wrong.
 
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The Commitees cofounders and MEMBERS. It does not say he was a cofounder. He was a member. Another reading comprehension fail by the deniers.

Bottom line, this is not about Greenpeace. It's about idiot Trump quoting another unqualified idiot and they are both wrong. Who gives a shit what the senile old fool Moo re says about the climate. He's forgotten how to tie his shoes. Every actual expert on earth and common sense says he's wrong.
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