Here we have a press release in 1999 (email 3384) from Environmental Media Services (Fenton Communications, operator of RealClimate.org) sent on behalf of the WWF to help bolster the Kyoto Protocol.
I loved this line:
Cities including New York and Tokyo may face flooding; large swathes of Latin America will suffer from drought and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef may be destroyed unless more is done to stop global warming, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature warned Tuesday.
There’s that weasel word “may” and of course no timeline is given. Here we are a decade later and this press release sounds like it could have been written yesterday for Durban. The gloom and doom hasn’t changed.
The other fun part is this:
WWF commissioned the Climatic Research Unit at Britain’s University of East Anglia to conduct research into various climate change scenarios over the next few decades.
It projected that sea levels would rise between three-quarters of an inch to four inches per decade. This would threaten low-lying U.S. coastal cities such as New York, Boston, Baltimore and Miami with flooding. The Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka among others would also be at risk, it said.
I wonder how that research was accomplished and how much money was involved. “Commissioning” a scientific study usually means a predetermined result. Anyone have any idea what these commissioned studies were?
I’m pretty sure New York, Boston, Baltimore, and Miami are still here. Ditto for Tokyo and Osaka.
Here’s the full email:
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> Copyright 1999 Associated Press
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> AP Online
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> October 19, 1999; Tuesday 11:47 Eastern Time
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>SECTION: International news
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>LENGTH: 441 words
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>HEADLINE: Nature Group Issues Climate Warning
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>DATELINE: GENEVA
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>BODY:
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> Cities including New York and Tokyo may face flooding; large swathes of
> Latin America will suffer from drought and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
>may be destroyed unless more is done to stop global warming, the World Wildlife
Fund for Nature warned Tuesday.
>
> The environmental group urged governments meeting in Germany next week to
> honor earlier pledges to cut emissions of carbon dioxide one of the main
> greenhouse gases by implementing tough energy-saving policies.
>
> ”Evidence for the warming of our planet over the last 200 years is now
> overwhelming,” said a WWF statement. ”With no action to curb
emissions, the
> climate on earth over the next century could become warmer than any the
human
> species has lived through.”
>
> It said China’s Giant Panda and the Arctic polar bear were among the
>species
> at risk of extinction from global warming.
>
> WWF commissioned the Climatic Research Unit at Britain’s University of
East
> Anglia to conduct research into various climate change scenarios over the
>next
> few decades.
>
> It projected that sea levels would rise between three-quarters of an
>inch to
> four inches per decade. This would threaten low-lying U.S. coastal cities
>such
> as New York, Boston, Baltimore and Miami with flooding. The Japanese
>cities of
> Tokyo and Osaka among others would also be at risk, it said.
>
> Large areas of the Amazon would become more susceptible to forest fires.
> Drought would also likely affect Argentina, southern Mexico and Central
>America.
> Rising sea temperatures by 2010 threatened the very survival of the
>Australian
> Great Barrier Reef.
>
> Scientists generally agree that temperatures are rising with 1998
being the
> warmest year on record. But there is no consensus on how much man is to
>blame.
>
> ”Although the precise contribution of human activities to global warming
> cannot yet be stated with confidence, it is clear the planet would not be
> warming as rapidly if humans were not currently emitting about 6.8
>billion tons
> of carbon into the atmosphere each year,” said the WWF report.
>
> Under a 1997 agreement reached in the Japanese city of Kyoto,
>industrialized
> nations agreed to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by five percent
>between
> 2008 and 2012.
>
> Representatives from 150 countries meet later this month in Bonn to
work on
> ways of implementing the Kyoto deal prior to a November 2000 meeting in the
> Netherlands.
>
> While President Clinton signed the Kyoto agreement, he has not sought its
> ratification because of widespread opposition in the Senate. Critics say it
>will
> cost too much to implement while developing countries will be allowed to
let
> greenhouse emissions grow.
>
>
>
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>
>LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
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>LOAD-DATE: October 19, 1999
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___________________________________________
Savitha Pathi
Program Assistant
Environmental Media Services
1320 18th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: (202) 463-6670 / Fax: (202) 463-6671
E-Mail: savitha@ems.xxx
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Follow the money.
So who funds the WWF and Green Peace?
China? Iran? Russia? Open the books. Let’s see who is really pulling the strings. Research with an agenda bought and paid for.
A lot of clueless people fund them:
The WWF, for instance, gets money from Coca Cola and numerous other companies as well as individual donors. Most people think they are giving money to save elephants from poachers and the like, unaware where their money really goes.
Greenpeace is more closely identified with anti-pollution and marine life preservation, fighting against whaling and nuclear weapons tests etc.
I think an investigation of the tens of billions of dollars flowing from private citizens to governments, corporations, NGO’s, universities etc as part of the AGW movement would take a team of forensic accountants years to do.
> Rising sea temperatures by 2010 threatened the very survival of the
>Australian
> Great Barrier Reef.
…and yet it’s still there and doing fine.
I am going to make a prediction… or is that a projection?
The Climate Fail for the next decade will be worse than we thought.
Oh no the very survival of the Great Barrier Reef by 2010. 2010 dateline – Barrier Reef – stlll great, Domesday prediction – not so great!
For the billions that have been thrown at climate research, they have really done very little. Where in h*ll does all the money go? These guys should be millionaires.
Thanks WWF and CRU/UEA for your worry, but no problem here.
ONE THING THAT SCARES THE POLITICIANS THAT HAVE SUPPORTED THE CAGW POLICY’S, IS EXPOSURE THEY WERE IN ON THE SCAM ALL ALONG = THE 7z HIDDEN FILES?
http://joannenova.com.au/2011/11/pointman-a-dead-mans-hand-detonator-on-hidden-emails-may-protect-climategate-whistleblower/
Climategate 2
Pointman — A dead man’s hand detonator on hidden emails may protect ClimateGate 1 & 2 whistleblower FOIA
He points out there are no emails released yet between key scientists and people in power
We do not have a single one of those high-level political emails but they must of course exist.
I strongly suspect we now have them in our possession.
In the high-powered risky game of whistle blowing there are ways to make the Climategate 2 leaker a less attractive target.
Pointman analyzes the ClimateGate whistleblower’s tactics and explains why he, she or they probably released those other 200,000 emails but kept them hidden behind the 4000-8000 character almost unbreakable password.
He points out there are no emails released yet between key scientists and people in power, hence the worst, most damaging emails may be kept under a ” dead man’s hand detonator”. If politicians are afraid of what might be in those released-but-hidden emails, they may not want to expose or attack the whistleblower for fear of unleashing the other emails. The hidden emails buy the whistleblower protection.
Jo
Seeing as this was written in 1999 and here it is nearly 12 years later and not a hint of any of their predictions has come to pass, it would lead one to believe these people at Environmental Media Services (Fenton Communications, operator of RealClimate.org) are no better at precognition than the throwers of bones or the readers of entrails (though, I think I actually have more faith in the latter).
So we should give their words any credence today, why, again?
johnq, I’d put my money on the usual suspects: George Soros, the Tides Foundation, Peter Lewis and the Ford Foundation for starters.
Hmmm … here it is, nearly two years later, and the last I heard the Great Barrier Reef is still in place. Guess they forgot to keep its demise in some vague, nebulous near future.
Tides Foundation is a major source of funding. Major funds from Tides come from people such as the Heinz Foundation (John Kerry’s wife’s family foundation of the Heinz food fortune) and George Soros among many other foundations of various people.
Tides Foundation is interesting because its purpose is to “launder” donations so that your name isn’t attached to the donations to the target organizations. What you can do is to make a donation to Tides for them to use as they see fit to their “progressive” causes or you may “earmark” your contribution to go to specific groups. At regular intervals, Tides takes your donations, bundles them up with the donations of others, and makes lump sum donations to the target organizations.
In this way the target organization shows only a donation from Tides, not from the actual donors. Tides only shows amounts donated to it by people, not how they earmarked their donation. So in this way one may donate a large sum of money to a radical organization such as “Code Pink” but not have their name associated in any way with that organization or leave a paper trail back to them. It provides a mechanism for laundering donations. That is its primary purpose for existing.
This is how Soros and others can pump millions of dollars into various “causes” without having their name directly on the books.
This is gonna be a good one, but to be honest I don’t think that any of these countries fund Green peace or the wwf.
I don’t think that any of these countries fund green peace or the wwf, but guess we´ll have to wait to see what happens
if u read Bishop Hill’s thread and comments, u will see some of the wide-ranging (spooky) connections of mr. verolme. i posted a few updates on the guy in the comments and no doubt there is more online if one keeps digging:
Bishop Hill: Hans Verolme: your taxes at work
Hans Verolme, a Dutch national, was recruited into the UK’s diplomatic service in 2000, having previously worked for a Dutch environmental group called Ecooperation.
Verolme appears several times in the CG2.0 emails…
Verolme left the service of the British taxpayer in 2004, taking up the position of head of climate change at WWF…
http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/11/30/hans-verolme-your-taxes-at-work.html
sharpest and well-read?
30 Nov: UK Daily Mail: Michael Hanlon: Climategate RIP
(Michael is Britain’s sharpest and most well-read newspaper science journalist.
As well as writing science features and comment for the Daily Mail, he is the author of five popular science books including ‘Ten Questions Science Can’t Answer (Yet)’ and ‘Eternity – our Next Billion years’ (Palgrave Macmillan).
With his support of nuclear power and dismissal of alternative medicine, Michael has never been afraid to court controversy, and he has managed to enrage both climate change sceptics and believers)
Then, last week, we had Climategate 2. I have deliberately waited a few days to blog about this because I wanted to see if I was right in thinking that this time the fuss would die down quickly. And it has…
This time they got their act together. The professor at the heart of the alleged scandal, Phil Jones, not only made himself available to the media he got on a train to London to address a press conference, at which he addressed every single awkward question the hacks threw at him. He came across as a bit fed up with the whole thing (as well he should be) but honest and very open. We all came away believing that there was no story here.
Scientists are people, not robots. They say things in emails which, quoted in the light of day and out of context, can sound damning, dishonest even. Saying something along the lines of ‘blimey, we’d better hope this climate change stuff is real or we’ll be strung up!” is the sort of thing I can imagine any climatologist saying after a few beers at a conference. It doesn’t mean there is a grand conspiracy, any more than it does if a tired MP confesses he has not always seen eye-to-eye with his party leader.
My guess is that Climategate is over. No doubt the hackers, whoever they are, have more emails to release, and I do not doubt that they will contain snippets which could be construed as interesting, damning even. But I do doubt whether Dr Jones will bother to take the slow train down from Norwich when it happens.
http://hanlonblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/11/climategate-rip.html
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A couple of weeks ago I was fishing on parts of the Great Barrier Reef. I can confirm it’s still there!
Plenty of fish. Plenty of coral (in water 1 metre deep down to 40m, which was the maximum we were fishing in). Nice cool sea breeze blowing.
More like paradise than an acidic, overheated, man-made death zone.
“Mr Turnbull had predicted evil consequences, both in the House and out of it, and was now doing the best in his power to bring about the verification of his own prophecies.” Anthony Trollope and the opening quote of Sir Karp Popper lecture on Science: Conjecture and Refutations. With special relevance to Australia even if the present government losses in the next election.
aaahhh I’m reminded of the timeless wise words of the Late Great John L Daly
http://www.john-daly.com/banner.htm
Ah, Jennifer Morgan – additional important detail here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/24/the-scandal-deepens-ipcc-ar4-riddled-with-non-peer-reviewed-wwf-papers/#comment-298859
misterjohnqpublic says:
November 30, 2011 at 7:59 pm
Follow the money.
So who funds the WWF and Green Peace?
The EU is a significant contributor to both WWF and Greenpeace.
First day of summer and it’s 20C. The GBR is thriving, our dams are 80% full and the Murray Darling system has been overflowing for a year. AGW is not following the script.
These CG2 emails are more damaging than the first yet Phil and the Team have shrugged them off. Durban struggles on and our Climate Commission has released the latest scary predictions. No one seems to give a ****. I just hope FOIA has a few really big ones up his sleeve.
Lawrie Ayres says:November 30, 2011 at 11:07 pm
It’s early days, Lawrie … CG2 has five times the number of emails to digest as CG1; and, (from what I’ve seen), far more context that will cause the prime Climateers and their merry band of doomsters to twist and choke on their very own words.
CG1 was a “thumbnail” … and IMHO, CG2 is the “big picture” from which many are drawing (much to the increasingly shrill dismay of the Climateers – and their acolytes and lesser lights) some unequivocal and incontrovertible conclusions.
My hat’s off to FOIA (whom I prefer to call The Saint) for implementing such a brilliant course of well-timed disclosures.
re post by: Dave says: November 30, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Ah, yes, speculation is an amazing thing. Heck, for all we know, FOIA didn’t release the password because he/she doesn’t actually have it! Many years ago a friend of mine who had just finished her first year at vet school (far more competitive and difficult to get into than med school) took a year off. She only told the dean (had to of course, to ensure that she could take the year and still return), and one friend, where she was going – and asked that friend to faithfully report any and all rumors stated as fact about her disappearance.
As you can imagine, the rumors were pretty amazing. She’d met an extremely wealthy Spanish nobleman who had wisked her off to his yacht in the Mediterranean (or some luxurious locale anyhow). She had gotten pregnant with an illegitimate child that the father would have nothing to do with, and skulked off to hide the pregnancy until she gave birth and gave the child up for adoption. She had gotten pregnant by a wealthy man who wouldn’t consider allowing his wife to be to work or be a veterinarian. She had been convicted of a crime and was in jail…. and on and on it went.
Where was she really? She was working on a horse farm mucking out stalls, turning out horses, etc., a lot of really hard work and long days, in return for riding lessons. She was also most unglamorously living in the horse farm owner’s basement with a bunch of other girls who also worked there at the farm.
Not one of the rumors over that entire year came anywhere close to the actual truth, but a lot of people were sure convinced they knew where and why she’d disappeared!
Who knows just how much of interest there may or may not be in those encrypted emails – or why FOIA released them in this particular fashion. Lots of good possibilities can be imagined – but it’s all nothing more than guesses and speculation.
pat @ur momisugly November 30, 2011 at 9:46 pm
Yeh, no problem with your thoughts and or you point.
My point?…. They influenced people into beleiving by citing evidence that is dubious, by massaging data, my hiding data.
Millions has been spent, resources diverted away from more useful purposes, like stopping people starving, and the killer? They’re WRONG!
A very effective way of drawing attention to the political nature of RC would be to refer to it as Fenton’s RC at all times within the blogsphere. This would remind people that it is not the impartial bastion of true climate science that it sets itself up to be, but simply the mouthpiece of a wider political conspiracy to extort money from the masses in the cause of left wing agendas.