Quote of the Week: Dr. Will Happer's blowback to Greenpeace during ambush at Senate hearing today

In case you missed it, earlier today, co-founder of Greenpeace, Dr. Patrick Moore said today that he’s calling in the FBI on Greenpeace for what he perceives as RICO/racketeering violations in their lame attempt to get Dr. Happer “on the take”.

Dr. Happer also said to the Greenpeace “reporter” who ambushed him in the hearing room, Jesse Coleman:

“You son of a bitch, I haven’t taken a dime.”

Russell Cook notes in  the YouTube video comments section:

After 20+ years of failing to come up with evidence that skeptic climate scientists are paid to lie by industry people, nothing telegraphs that failure better than fabricating the evidence out of thin air right now.

 

Watch the video:

Dr. Moore said earlier in his FBI press release that:

I shall also be asking the Bureau to investigate Greenpeace’s sources of funding. It is now an enemy of the State, an enemy of humanity and, indeed, an enemy of all species on Earth.

Given their money, their tactics, and their methods, I’m inclined to agree.

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December 8, 2015 5:38 pm

Reblogged this on "Mothers Against Wind Turbines™" Phoenix Rising… and commented:
Climate Alarmists would do anything to prevent the truth from emerging…

markl
December 8, 2015 5:38 pm

Thank you Dr. Moore for exposing Greenpeace’s illegal activity to silence people. Taking a stand is already a win.

rogerthesurf
Reply to  markl
December 9, 2015 1:34 am

Note. a prominent funder of Greenpeace are the Rockefellers.
See my blog http://www,thedemiseofchristchurch.com
This video is of some interest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL8UOD1gVFE
look at minute 54.12
Cheers
Roger

rogerthesurf
Reply to  rogerthesurf
December 9, 2015 1:39 am
Curious George
December 8, 2015 5:39 pm

Greenpeace now exposed itself as a fossil fuel industry lackey.

simple-touriste
Reply to  Curious George
December 9, 2015 8:05 am

“Greenpeace now exposed itself as a fossil fuel industry lackey.”
The whole radiophobic movement is.

Eli Rabett
December 8, 2015 5:40 pm

FWIW the hearing did not go well for Sen. Cruz, as his colleagues left him to twist in the wind and the Democrats took control.

Reply to  Eli Rabett
December 8, 2015 8:09 pm

Here we have Senator Cruz being attacked by.. a bunny?

Michael Jankowski
Reply to  dbstealey
December 9, 2015 7:09 am

The bunny is just a pseudonym. The person behind it is a professor who seems to hand-out A-grades to students who in turn find him to be pretty bad.
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=543236

george e. smith
Reply to  dbstealey
December 9, 2015 10:16 am

Well I haven’t yet been able to view the video (I’m at work; well my computer is.)
But I have to smile at your assessment that Sen. Cruz’s ” colleagues ” left him to twist in the wind.
I have always regarded Sen. Ted Cruz, as being one of the US senators who has no colleagues.
The rest of the GOP senators are largely RINOs; Sen. Inhofe excepted.
And ‘ left ‘ would certainly be the only direction those RINOs would take.
So I take it you feel that the discussion was quite bipartisan.
We have the very best government that money can buy, and those with their hands out for more taxpayer money, make sure that their marionettes stay bought.
And that includes the leech parasites on both sides of the money spigot.
But I’m going to have to watch the video; because I would have bet that Prof Will Happer simply could not decode what the text message “SOB” even stands for.
He surprised me ! Good for you Prof Happer, I would have used less laudatory words myself.
G

george e. smith
Reply to  dbstealey
December 9, 2015 10:21 am

Probably one of those aquatic attack bunnies, that assaulted Pres. Jimma (nookyewla) Carta.
g

billw1984
Reply to  dbstealey
December 9, 2015 4:39 pm

Meh. RateMyProfessors is not a random survey. They also allow students to rate how sexy their professors are. You can also go in with a false e-mail and rate yourself or your friends.

Reply to  Eli Rabett
December 8, 2015 8:40 pm

Nossir. ICYMI, Mark Steyn and Dr Curry showed what happens when you turn the tables on the inquisitors. Senator Markey looked none too comfortable when he was hit with a bunch of tough science-based questions, and needed to use a lifeline to Dr Titley.
This will be a standard for other skeptic witnesses to follow in future hearings. The Democrats are clearly vulnerable when it comes to answering questions.

Brian
Reply to  Eli Rabett
December 8, 2015 10:16 pm

Your description is delusional, contradicted by Cruz’s summation. Dweam on Wabett.

Pethefin
Reply to  Eli Rabett
December 8, 2015 11:43 pm

Poor Rabbit, while his hole is collapsing as we read Steyn’s testimony:
https://curryja.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/steyn-testimony.pdf
the rabbit seeks comfort in political games

Doug
Reply to  Pethefin
December 9, 2015 8:45 am

Multiple choice chemistry exams? You can’t be serious! Is he trying to perpetuate scientific ignorance?

D.J. Hawkins
Reply to  Pethefin
December 9, 2015 11:00 am


Do not laugh. When I was at Stevens, Prof. Steinmann’s Chem finals were 4 hours of gruesome toil. All multiple choice. You still had to work out the problems, but the good professor helpfully included answers that were a factor of 10 or 100 too high and too low, or involved dividing when you should have multiplied, or taking the incorrect root, etc. Every choice but the right one was a trap designed to make you think you’d nailed it. It was alleged that if you could get a zero on the final he’d give you an “A” for the course. I’d have missed it by 2 points.

george e. smith
Reply to  Pethefin
December 9, 2015 11:11 am

So what is a “multiple choice” chemistry exam ? Which of the following 92 elements combines with Oxygen to produce water ??
Only once in my life, other than drivers licence tests, did I ever take a multiple choice test (not an exam).
I guess the premise is that you are given maybe five answers to a question, and have to choose one. ALL five answers are required to be EQUALLY plausible to someone who knows NOTHING about the subject.
So statistically, you can score 20% in total ignorance. The problem is, that it is not possible to construct five equally plausible answers for selection by a candidate who has a limited, but inadequate knowledge of the subject. Most options can be eliminated with quite weak knowledge of the subject.
The one test I did take with multiple choice questions, was some sort of IQ test.
For some reason, the name Stanford seems to be associated with that test; dunno why.
All I remember about the test was that there were several bullshit questions that had multiple correct answers.
These were typically of the generic type (pictorial) where it is stated, that a certain transformation turned object (a) into object (A). Then apply that transformation to object (b) and pick which of (B,C,D,E.F) results.
Well the dummies that set that test were blissfully unaware that there were multiple possible different transformations, that turned (a) into (A), but would give different results for object (b).
For example, a square with a dot in the top left corner, can be turned into a square with a dot in the top right corner; first by rotating 90 degrees to the right in the plane, (z axis) or secondly by a 180 degree rotation about a centered y axis.
You get two different results for a square with a dot centered on the left hand edge of the square.
Multiple choice exams for a university degree exam, would be the result of a totally lazy professor.
g

catweazle666
Reply to  george e. smith
December 9, 2015 2:14 pm

george e. smith: “Multiple choice exams for a university degree exam, would be the result of a totally lazy professor.”
Or the product of the modern education “all shall have prizes” mindset.

timg56
Reply to  Pethefin
December 9, 2015 12:26 pm

I have always thought multiple choice exams as relatively easy to pass. The one exception was Organic Chemistry. When all of the answers look almost exactly alike, figuring out the correct response is no longer a matter of eliminating the most unlikely answers.
Unless you are one of those individuals who it just clicks with, the way to get through Organic Chem is brute force memorization.

Editor
Reply to  Pethefin
December 10, 2015 5:50 pm

george e. smith wrote:
> For some reason, the name Stanford seems to be associated with that test; dunno why.
The Stanford Binet IQ test is one of the most commonly used tests.
I don’t believe it’s associated with Stanford Univ., but I really have no idea. Not worth checking.

Chuck Bradley
Reply to  Pethefin
December 11, 2015 9:05 pm

To go further down the rabbit hole of multiple choice questions on exams, not all such exams are equal. More than a half century ago, some biology tests at University of Illinois at Navy Pier in Chicago used them.Perhaps 100 or so questions, most with five choices. Zero to five were correct. The score was right minus wrong.

Reply to  Pethefin
December 11, 2015 10:48 pm

Multiple choice exams – Today, I helped proctor an exam made up of 58 multiple choice questions. The last student finished 3 hours after he started. The exam covered topics covered in one week’s worth of material, with a few review questions from previous weeks. The students are midway through a 14 month training program at the end of which they will be licensed to operate a specific nuclear reactor.
“The site-specific examination for reactor operators (10 CFR 55.41) consists of 75 multiple-choice written questions and an NRC-administered operating test (10 CFR 55.45) that includes a plant walk-through and a performance demonstration on the facility licensee’s power plant simulator.” http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operator-licensing/licensing-process.html
Writing effective multiple choice questions is not easy.
Supplemental Guidance for Writing Effective Multiple Choice Questions: http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1328/ML13281A409.pdf

John Whitman
Reply to  Eli Rabett
December 9, 2015 12:19 am

Eli Rabett on December 8, 2015 at 5:40 pm
FWIW the hearing did not go well for Sen. Cruz, as his colleagues left him to twist in the wind and the Democrats took control.

If that was Democrats taking control, then the Democrats have delusions of adequate control.
John

Jeremy Poynton
Reply to  Eli Rabett
December 9, 2015 3:07 am

Predictaquote. Eli, I think you are in fact a mere algorithm.

Venter
Reply to  Eli Rabett
December 9, 2015 3:24 am

Why do you constantly and shamelessly state falsehoods? Don’t you have an ounce of conscience? Are you able to look at yourself in the mirror without wincing, wabbet?

Alx
Reply to  Eli Rabett
December 9, 2015 4:47 am

Rabett is either (due to no fault of his own) unable to differentiate between a square and a circle, or is pathologically dishonest.

george e. smith
Reply to  Alx
December 9, 2015 10:28 am

Well topologically there is no difference between a square and a circle.
Both of them are described by exactly the same equation: x^n + y^n = r^n
Just different values of the parameter (n).
g

Hugs
Reply to  Alx
December 9, 2015 12:53 pm

There is no topological difference between a cup and a donut, but I still don’t want to consume the cup.

RockyRoad
Reply to  Eli Rabett
December 9, 2015 5:54 am

@ Eli Rabett. You, sir, are merely projecting. It was YOUR bunch of nefarious scoundrels that looked like idiots. And you? You obviously won’t tell the truth.

TomRude
Reply to  Eli Rabett
December 9, 2015 9:34 am

Meddling in US politics now after doing Connolley’s dirty job on Wikipedia?

catweazle666
Reply to  Eli Rabett
December 9, 2015 11:05 am

Still making stuff up Rabbit?
That’s naughty, your mummy will be cross.

Eli Rabett
Reply to  Eli Rabett
December 9, 2015 1:52 pm

Like Eli said, the rest of the Rs on the committee, Rubio, Moran, Sullivan and Gardner did not provide Cruz any support and Daines came only to do his EPA is awful bit. That meant that the Ds controlled the time and they hardly asked any questions of Curry, Steyn,Happer and Christy. This does attest to the universal regard that Cruz is held in.
The funniest part was Nelson good friended Cruz.

Ian
December 8, 2015 5:43 pm

Wow. Talk about a set up.
In a hearing on witness tampering and the subversion of justice,
this would make damaging material.

PaulH
December 8, 2015 5:45 pm

Ha! I like how that obnoxious little Greenpeace twerp ran like a scared rabbit when the elderly Dr. Moore stood up to him!

Michael Jankowski
Reply to  PaulH
December 8, 2015 6:40 pm

[Comment deleted. “Jankowski” has been stolen by the identity thief pest. All Jankowski comments saved and deleted from public view. You wasted your time, sockpuppet. -mod]

Dawtgtomis
Reply to  Michael Jankowski
December 9, 2015 8:52 am

That’s why I call them BrownPiece.

Reply to  PaulH
December 8, 2015 7:13 pm

You mean Dr. Happer, PaulH

PaulH
Reply to  Mike Bromley the Kurd
December 9, 2015 6:24 am

Oops, you’re right Mike! Dr. Happer, not Dr. Moore.

Shawn Marshall
Reply to  PaulH
December 9, 2015 5:04 am

looked like Steyn jumped in there too.

Scottish Sceptic
December 8, 2015 5:45 pm

Greenpeace are just scum. They have no ethics no integrity and as far as I can see have a hatred for humanity.

bit chilly
Reply to  Scottish Sceptic
December 9, 2015 1:39 am

https://www.biggreenradicals.com/group/greenpeace/ they sure are. this makes interesting reading regarding what they do with the 350 million plus dollars they receive every year.

Alx
Reply to  bit chilly
December 9, 2015 4:51 am

Well people have given up their ethics and integrity for a lot less than $350 million. Greenpeace’s behavior is not surprising. What is surprising is that they continue to get away with it.

tomwys1
December 8, 2015 5:47 pm

Professor Happer is an attractive target for Greenpeace – a brilliant mind and unquestioned integrity – and thus the Greenpeace effort was doomed to fail. What it shows is the rank stupidity of their choice of target.
The two are on different planes, Greenpeace is mired in the muck and Happer soaring with the angels!

Reply to  tomwys1
December 9, 2015 2:29 am

That’s pretty well put. Happer has in spades all of the qualities a good environmentalist should have – sublime intelligence, integrity, honesty and indefatigable courage. Greanpeace just managed to highlight these features of the man perhaps better than anyone else could have.

PR
December 8, 2015 5:48 pm

Can you provide a little more context please for folks who are not watching this leftist conspiracy daily? For example, what was Mark Steyn’s involvement in this video? Explainin’ ain’t losin’ …contrary to some pro politician’s beliefs.

Reply to  PR
December 8, 2015 6:23 pm

Senate hearings. Check some of the other postings made here today.

George W
Reply to  PR
December 8, 2015 6:36 pm

See Judith Curry’s blog (http://judithcurry.com/) for information about the hearing and Mark Steyn’s testimony. See Roy Spencer’s blog (http://www.drroyspencer.com/) for details about Dr. Happer and Greenpeace. (posts for today for both blogs)

Jeremy Poynton
Reply to  PR
December 9, 2015 5:37 am

Do pay attention!

David
December 8, 2015 5:48 pm

Any idea how long before we hear the FBI’s reply?

John F. Hultquist
Reply to  David
December 8, 2015 7:37 pm

When, and only if, the US gets a GOP president.

Bruce Cobb
Reply to  John F. Hultquist
December 9, 2015 5:53 am

Big if now, with the front-runner, Trump in the process of self-destructing. His biggest enemy is his own big mouth.

george e. smith
Reply to  John F. Hultquist
December 9, 2015 10:42 am

Well Bruce; if that is self destructing; I would commend to you the tale of ” The Sorcerer’s Apprentice “.
Each explosion seems to result in many more little Trump cards.
And when Trump simply voices an idea that is already engraved in US Law of long standing, (and which the MSM is totally ignorant of); he just makes his detractors just that much more foolish looking.
I actually once applied for a USA immigration visa (green card version), and one of the questions I was asked was whether I belonged to any organization that wanted to overthrow the USA (Constitutional) Government.
That would see be the core tenet of the mohammedans. Their instruction book is completely incompatible with the US Constitution. So they would ALL have to lie on that question. (and that too is in their instruction book.)

ghl
Reply to  John F. Hultquist
December 9, 2015 4:18 pm

If you can’t keep the gun away from Mahomet, keep Mahomet away from the gun.
And the targets.

Gregory
Reply to  David
December 9, 2015 3:10 am

Jan 21, 2017

jim2
December 8, 2015 5:49 pm

Compare this ENSO chart on WUWT
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/teleconnections/eln-f-pg.gif
to the one on the web site. The WUWT one is showing a much warmer El Nino. Was WUWT hacked?
The web site :
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/teleconnections/enso/indicators/sst.php

Editor
Reply to  jim2
December 8, 2015 6:36 pm

jim2, I explained the reason for the difference in NINO3.4 data in a reply to you on the ENSO update thread. If you had read the post and my reply to you, you would have understood that you’re looking at two different sea surface temperature datasets, both from NOAA.
Second, why are you now raising this off-topic on this thread?
Third, why do you assume there was some type of hack at WUWT? Did you bother to look at the link to the source data and see that my data presentation was correct? Additionally, you obviously didn’t bother to click on the graphs and find they were posted at my website. All you’ve managed to do by belaboring this is expose your failure to read the post and the posts linked to it.

jim2
Reply to  Bob Tisdale
December 8, 2015 6:40 pm

Sorry, Bob. I didn’t see your reply. I’ll check it out.

jim2
Reply to  Bob Tisdale
December 8, 2015 6:43 pm

OK, I looked on the ENSO thread and don’t see these exact charts. Did you notice they are labeled exactly the same way? How am I supposed to tell the difference??

benofhouston
Reply to  Bob Tisdale
December 9, 2015 6:18 am

Jim, look at the dates. The one on the link you have ends in 1960

Editor
Reply to  jim2
December 8, 2015 7:31 pm

Please move this discussion back to the ENSO update thread where it belongs.

jim2
December 8, 2015 5:50 pm

Sorry, here is the right gif:comment image

troe
December 8, 2015 5:52 pm

Greenpeace is what it is. A band of watermelons willing to say and do whatever it takes. They revel in that.
It’s unlikely that the boy confronting Dr. Happier has to good brain cells firing much less understands the testimony.
Give as good as you get and then some. Go there.

Crispin in Waterloo but really in Bishkek
Reply to  troe
December 8, 2015 9:00 pm

People frequently accuse others of what they are themselves doing. Several (to say the least) scientists have been producing climate alarm puff pieces on time and on budget. Paid shills who want to drag others into their murk. It is not that it happens, it is the sheer scale of it that amazes.

graphicconception
December 8, 2015 6:00 pm

It was very thoughtful of them to video their false allegations.
Bullets in both feet at the same time!

Reply to  graphicconception
December 8, 2015 6:42 pm

Nothing like making one’s own damning video evidence of one’s own criminal behavior .
Tampering with a Federal witness IN the friggin’ Senate hearing room?
Good one, you morons.

Jfisk
December 8, 2015 6:06 pm

Can we know the name of the guy making the false accusation and when is he being arrested along with his GreenPeace sponsors for trying to corrupt a hearing?

Editor
Reply to  Jfisk
December 8, 2015 7:47 pm

He introduces himself as “Jesse Coleman, Greenpeace.”
The end of the video refers to “polluterwatch.org.”
http://polluterwatch.org/princeton-climate-denier-william-happer-loses-his-cool-when-confronted-about-fossil-fuel-funding says in part:

Submitted by Jesse Coleman on Tue, 12/08/2015 – 15:51
William Happer is a physicist and professor at Princeton University. A Greenpeace investigation revealed that he was secretly taking money from the fossil fuel industry, including coal company Peabody Energy, for his work denying climate change. Read about the investigation here.
The incident occurred in the Senate building directly before a hearing called by Senator Ted Cruz.

So to answer your questions, yes, we can know his name and verify the proper spelling. I doubt he will be arrested as the hearing had not started.
Everyone – Please do a little more research before you comment here. In this case, I didn’t have to “Let me Google that for you” – all the links were right there.

December 8, 2015 6:10 pm

Prof. Happer is an atmospheric physicist, and one of the world’s leading experts on how CO2 absorbs and emits infrared radiation. He gave an enlightening physics seminar at UNC last year, which I have on my web site here:
http://sealevel.info/Happer_UNC_2014-09-08/
(Sorry about the mediocre audio quality!)

katherine009
December 8, 2015 6:15 pm

That smarmy POS, so smug. It looked like he was trying to provoke Dr. Happer into taking a swing at him. Which I think he richly deserved.

FTOP_T
Reply to  katherine009
December 8, 2015 6:33 pm

I am sure he will head back to his “safe zone” on some echo chamber that fronts as an institution of higher learning

Dog
December 8, 2015 6:21 pm

This is yet another example of how Greenpeace operates: provocateuring

Douglas
Reply to  Dog
December 9, 2015 12:27 am

Yes over at Bishop Hill their resident ‘troll’ has been venting his spleen. I sent the ‘bish’ this to remind the troll that he is not convincing anyone.The troll is a well known ‘spokesperson for Greenpeace in the UK
https://youtu.be/deJjqaDOXHo

Douglas
Reply to  Dog
December 9, 2015 12:27 am

Yes over at Bishop Hill their resident ‘troll’ has been venting his spleen. I sent the ‘bish’ this to remind the troll that he is not convincing anyone.The troll is a well known ‘spokesperson for Greenpeace in the UK
https://youtu.be/deJjqaDOXHo

Ric Haldane
December 8, 2015 6:22 pm

Perhaps now would be a good time to repay Will for a lunch last year. A good time to show some respect and offer a hand.

John Coleman
December 8, 2015 6:23 pm

A brave, powerful move by Dr. Moore. However, this is only “the tip of the iceberg”. We need a top notch researcher to find the millions of our tax dollars being awarded to the global warming/climate change promotional organizations that then take extensive efforts to the discrediting of honorable skeptics.

John F. Hultquist
Reply to  John Coleman
December 8, 2015 7:42 pm
Editor
December 8, 2015 6:41 pm

Once again, Greenpeace has shown they are willing to use any slime-ball tactic available.

601nan
December 8, 2015 6:58 pm

Wow! I hope that Son of a Bitch from Greenpeace gets [trimmed] a Budweiser Beer Truck.
On another plane of existence we could have “rendered” and “sequestered” him!
[trimmed]

Pamela Gray
Reply to  601nan
December 8, 2015 7:10 pm

Outside of the pail comment. That ball on your head is made for more than just something to hang your ears on. Geesh.

Reply to  Pamela Gray
December 8, 2015 7:16 pm

+100

John Whitman
Reply to  Pamela Gray
December 8, 2015 7:18 pm

Pamela Gray,
Probably pale.
John

Reply to  Pamela Gray
December 8, 2015 10:06 pm

Pale.
The pale was a sort of “separation fence” around Dublin, to keep the Irish away from their English rulers and their collaborators.
So “beyond the pale” means beyond civilization, where an Irish peasant might take a swipe at you with his shillelagh. Horrors!
Oh my, I’m in a pedantic mood today, Take no notice Pamela

Jeremy Poynton
Reply to  Pamela Gray
December 9, 2015 5:49 am

Smart Rock,
You are correct. Indeed, my father was a Dubliner, and I have his shillelagh. It’s a club &/or walking stick made of blackthorn.comment image&sp=031f83b3706b35d7f3840ece82720f3a

Dawtgtomis
Reply to  Pamela Gray
December 9, 2015 9:07 am

Pamela, a ‘pail’ comment would be:
“Gaston! Bring monsieur another bucket! …and perhaps a hose…
(Monty Python’s Meaning of Life- Mr. Creosote skit)

RACookPE1978
Editor
Reply to  Dawtgtomis
December 9, 2015 9:25 am

But any spillage of such white-washed trivia would be truly, beyond the pale.

John Whitman
December 8, 2015 7:09 pm

Am I now inspired by Dr. Happer to call out the warming biased press as sons (and daughters) of bitches?
No, I am not inspired to do that. But I am inspired to call them out as journalism’s prostitutes. Prostituted journalists of both the male and female kind.
John

Eugene WR Gallun
December 8, 2015 7:13 pm

Dr. Happer says, “You son of a bitch! I haven’t taken a dime!”
Now that is poetry to my ears! Dr. Happer you are da man!
Eugene WR Gallun

george e. smith
Reply to  Eugene WR Gallun
December 9, 2015 11:27 am

Having exchanged a couple of delightful (for me) e-mails with Professor Happer (about atmospheric physics); what I would have thought he might say to Jesse Coleman (izzat a guy or a gal), was something more along the lines of:
My Dear Mr(s) Coleman; when you go home tonight, I do hope that your mother runs out from under the verandah, and bites you on your arse. !!
Or something in a similar vein.
g

Steve Oregon
December 8, 2015 7:18 pm

All of the recent behavior is the tantrum produced by alarmists realizing they’re about to be humiliated by COP21 ending without anything.
The amp up is also preparing to blitz blame skeptics.

markl
Reply to  Steve Oregon
December 8, 2015 7:29 pm

Steve Oregon commented: “…All of the recent behavior is the tantrum produced by alarmists realizing they’re about to be humiliated by COP21 ending without anything…. ”
Except that hasn’t stopped them before. Expect an even more perverse…. if that’s possible…. run up to the next “Climate Summit”. Unless I’m wrong, there’s been more countries dropping out of the AGW circus than joining it since it began. Correct? Also, no one, even goody two shoes UK has met their last “promises” to save the world except for the smart few who pledged what they already accomplished, have they?

Steve Lohr
December 8, 2015 7:29 pm

ummm, ummm, dang, that was fun to watch!

December 8, 2015 7:30 pm

Did these murderous clowns even WATCH the video they posted? (I say murderous because of all the people who’ve died from malaria or gone blind from vitamin A deficiency thanks to post-Moore Greenpeace.)

December 8, 2015 7:45 pm

Greenpeace exposes sceptics hired to cast doubt on climate science
Guardian 7 hours ago
Over the course of their investigation, Greenpeace posed as the representative of a Middle Eastern oil and gas company and an Indonesian coal company. In the guise of a Beirut-based business consultant they asked William Happer , the Cyrus Fogg Brackett professor of physics at Princeton University, to write a report touting the benefits of rising carbon emissions, according to email exchanges between the professor and the fake company.
So Greenpeace acknowledges that it believes in dogma: there are many benefits of higher CO2, but they’re not compatible with the religion. Are they that stupid? They can’t disappear all of the published science to accuse Dr Happer of bias.

Reply to  cassidy421
December 9, 2015 11:19 am

The story is from the Guardian, so who knows if it’s accurate…
Greenpeace exposes sceptics hired to cast doubt on climate science
Sting operation uncovers two prominent climate sceptics available for hire by the hour to write reports on the benefits of rising CO2 levels and coal
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/08/greenpeace-exposes-sceptics-cast-doubt-climate-science

December 8, 2015 8:23 pm

It’s difficult to imagine how delusional this activist is. A nobody (probably un-educated) accusing a renowned and respected physicist like Dr Happer of being ‘on the take’ simply because Dr Happer has the guts to stand up to their pseudo-science!

bit chilly
Reply to  Charles Nelson
December 9, 2015 1:45 am

probably another trustafarian ,living a so called activist lifestyle off the back of daddys money made in the big bad capitalist way.

Juan Slayton
December 8, 2015 8:43 pm

Is it true that Kenji is demanding a retraction of this unwarranted slur on his family? He reportedly objects to the guilt by association with jackals.

Reply to  Juan Slayton
December 8, 2015 9:08 pm

Quite so.

BruceC
December 8, 2015 8:47 pm

Just as well ‘Buz’ Aldrin wasn’t in the room or on the panel. 😉

Jeff B
December 8, 2015 9:28 pm

I’m sure it won’t be long until the Alarmists start resorting to violence. They are getting pretty desperate.

CaligulaJones
Reply to  Jeff B
December 10, 2015 8:06 am

Indeed. They are loud because they are angry, and they are angry because they are losing.
Violence is the next step.
BTW, Greg Renouf is tracking the often very close links between anarchists and environmentalists in Canada:
http://www.genuinewitty.com/

AJB
December 8, 2015 9:59 pm

Coleman is one of the P&G nine.
Arrest Record: http://ohio.arrests.org/Arrests/Jesse_Coleman_16901056
Compare with this record then read the ridiculous baying at psuedo-science central.

AJB
December 8, 2015 10:03 pm

Hmm, not sure why that link failed, maybe the trailing slash …
http://ohio.arrests.org/Arrests/Jesse_Coleman_16901056/

Reply to  AJB
December 8, 2015 10:10 pm

One of his ancestors must have been a coal man though.

AJB
Reply to  Smart Rock
December 8, 2015 10:27 pm

Or like mustard, got left on the side of a plate.

-1= e^(i pi)
December 8, 2015 10:21 pm

The watermelons refuse to identify when the earth’s past climate was ideal. It’s getting slightly warmer. I like it. I call the change Climate Milding. The mean global temp last year was 14.7 C. San Diego is 17.7. People love San Diego climate: it has been called the best climate in the world. The current global mean temp is below optimal.

Nigel S
December 8, 2015 10:39 pm

Not a good plan to annoy Mark Steyn too!

Editor
December 8, 2015 10:46 pm

I just sent Professor Happer a note advising him not to touch anyone from Greenpeace.
It looked to me as though Coleman was goading Happer into attacking him, making things look like how the godless Westboro Baptist Church tries to be assaulted (i.e. “unwanted” touching). A lot of their operation money comes from suing people for assault, suing police departments for lack of protection, etc.
I passed on these URLs describing some of the tactics:
http://kanewj.com/wbc/
http://www.vocativ.com/culture/religion/how-westboro-baptist-church-make-its-money/
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/times-we-beat-the-westboro-baptist-church

Reply to  Ric Werme
December 9, 2015 5:03 am

I read this guy’s analysis…very interesting and compelling. You might be right about Greenpeace’s motives. You touch one of their people and they will have a field day with it…probably help raise LOTS of money.

Alberta Oil Guy
December 9, 2015 6:57 am

I wrote a cheque a number of years ago through my oil and gas exploration company to the Alberta based Pembina Institute, an Alberta Greenpeace/Sierra Club affiliate that protests everything fossil fuel related. They had no problem cashing the cheque. Ironic, eh?

Alan Robertson
December 9, 2015 7:22 am

If that was the plan, then the Greenpeace guy definitely failed the courage test. Dr. Happer clearly asked the guy to step closer… GreenGuy wanted to keep his teeth.

Alan Robertson
Reply to  Alan Robertson
December 9, 2015 7:32 am

My comment was in response to, and should have been attached to Dr. Roy’s comment at 5:03am.

December 9, 2015 7:25 am

And Mark Stein was right there at the end of the video backing Happer up! Go Mark!!!

Reply to  Mike
December 9, 2015 8:44 am

I think that if this had gone on another minute, Mark would have lifted the little twerp up by his ears and thrown him back down the hole he popped up from, something the twerp’s mother should have done long ago. As an expert in musicals Steyn is tougher than he looks.

indefatigablefrog
December 9, 2015 7:35 am

Funny, the alarmists accuse skeptical scientists of “having links to Big Oil”.
But, when Lord Oxburgh steps in to provide an whitewashing “independent review” of the climategate revelations, all the alarmist clones are satisfied that it’s case dismissed, nothing to see here.
Suddenly they cherish the views of Lord Oxburgh.
Well, nobody can sensible accuse Lord Oxburgh of “having links to Big Green”.
Because HE IS BIG GREEN!!!
I could have made the same observation about our friend Mr Gore. But just look at the head of the “independent” review that “cleared” the climategate crew:
“Oxburgh has paid directorships of two renewable energy companies, and is a paid advisor to Climate Change Capital, the Low Carbon Initiative, Evo-Electric, Fujitsu, and an environmental advisor to Deutsche Bank. Last month we revealed that Oxburgh had failed to declare his directorship of GLOBE, an international network of legislators with ties to the Club of Rome.”
BUT APPARENTLY – THAT’S ALL FINE. And we are to accept that the climategate villains were thus exonerated of all misdemeanors.
Because, we must assume that in the topsy turvy world of the eco-fascists – being paid giant amounts of cash money for your role in bleeding the regular energy consumer of enforced and unnecessary tariffs/taxes for over-priced bullshit – that’s all well and good. The work of angels, indeed.
I picked on Lord Oxburgh – but we could list many other examples:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100044687/how-lord-oxburgh-of-persil-washed-the-climategate-team-whiter-than-white-pt-2/

December 9, 2015 8:08 am

Is it possible that Prof. Happer could get a restraining order on Mr Coleman and Greenpeace? Would it hold across State lines?

Bruce Cobb
December 9, 2015 8:21 am

Greenpus are the lowest of the low, the-ends-justify-the-means cadre of eco-fascists. Somehow I doubt they’ll be investigated though, at least not under the Obama regime.

December 9, 2015 8:59 am

Sorry to belabour the point.
The Alarmed Ones, professional planet savers and self appointed do-gooders are beyond parody.
A sane rational person could not write fictitious characters as FUBARed as these creatures are in reality.
The Emperors New Clothes, describes human behaviour, unchanged in centuries.
Now as we mature, we mostly come to realize that we can’t cure stupid.
But you can’t allow stupid to steer in shoal waters.
Greenpeace is a bureaucracy, has been a useful tool for extorting taxpayer moneys for years.
They believe they are untouchable and protected.
Of course they are above the law, they are special, in their own eyes.
Professional protesters are pretty special too, never having had to produce anything useful to their fellow man, they are career politicians, who fear the “peoples choice”.

December 9, 2015 9:01 am

You could only agree with Moore – Greenpeace is an enemy of humanity.
https://thepointman.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/the-big-green-killing-machine-what-is-vad/
Pointman

December 9, 2015 10:00 am

Don’t forget Greenpeace’s campaign’s attempt to invalidate the Oregon Petition:
Only one false name has ever appeared on the petition. It was put there by Ozone Action (now Greenpeace USA) and removed immediately thereafter.
Art Robison
oismdotorg/news

John Whitman
December 9, 2015 11:08 am

I am impressed by Happer and Moore. Look how they faced the Greenpeace’s tactic of entrapping Happer with intent to discredit him and thereby attempt to neutralize his devastating skeptical critique of the CAGW hypothesis.
Happer and Moore wonderfully went into IAO** mode.
** IAO = Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
Note: thanks to that line by character Sgt. Gunny Highway, it was the first I heard of that old US Marine saying.
John

timg56
Reply to  John Whitman
December 9, 2015 12:36 pm

The concept is drilled into you during USMC Recruit Training.

Brett Keane
December 10, 2015 2:34 pm

Watching the video, I was disgusted by the warmist politician’s shouting down of Dr Curry exercising her right of reply. Because she was cutting him to pieces, and of the two, only she has the expertise. As for that greenpeace interloper, words fail me. Though they did not fail Prof Happer, while the greenpeace invitee was a no-show.. Just shows ya. Bye bye Bunny, just keep digging that hole through to. China, where a stewpot awaits. Same in Texas….

Larry Nicholas
December 10, 2015 8:05 pm

Good show by Mark Steyn as the twerp is leaving.
http://www.steynonline.com/7351/markey-mark

Kerry McCauley
December 12, 2015 2:48 am

Admiral Titley, flattered without shame by Markey (D-MA) comparing him to Galileo, as if Titley were a brave honest man speaking truth to power, did a Gruber.

Sallie jäger
December 13, 2015 8:36 pm

I am thrilled to see that Senator Cruz
Is not a proponent of global warming

December 14, 2015 11:14 am

The coal industry is faced with extinction based on phoney science. If a scientist is hired by the coal industry to defend its existence, the scientist is automatically guilty of corrupting science for pay. Meanwhile, the majority of ‘climate scientists’ take the easy route. They are well paid with tax deductible donations from communist billionaires who profit from crony capitalist ‘green’ energy and by ‘progressive’ government politicians who have quid pro quo agreements with said billionaires.