This is the face on environmentalism today – publicly issued threats from Greenpeace
We need to hit them where it hurts most, by any means necessary: through the power of our votes, our taxes, our wallets, and more.
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The proper channels have failed. It’s time for mass civil disobedience to cut off the financial oxygen from denial and skepticism.
If you’re one of those who believe that this is not just necessary but also possible, speak to us. Let’s talk about what that mass civil disobedience is going to look like.
If you’re one of those who have spent their lives undermining progressive climate legislation, bankrolling junk science, fueling spurious debates around false solutions, and cattle-prodding democratically-elected governments into submission, then hear this:
We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work.
And we be many, but you be few.
“…but you be few”
Yeah sure, whatever you say. Newsflash to Green Gene from Greenpeace India who wrote this.
Seen the latest US Gallup poll?
Gallup: Americans’ Global Warming Concerns Continue to Drop
Or maybe this one in the UK?
Or How about this one in Germany?
SPIEGEL Survey: How Germans Feel about Climate Change
Or the fact that the French gave up on carbon taxing?
French give up on carbon tax plan – for now
I’d say you and your friends are mightily outnumbered. h/t to WUWT reader “kwik”
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AUTHORNAME. Greenpeace makes threat to skeptics. Greenpeace. 2010-04-03. URL:http://weblog.greenpeace.org/climate/2010/04/will_the_real_climategate_plea_1.html. Accessed: 2010-04-03. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/5oj86Zw5q)
Henry chance (19:26:27) said:
“PETA, ELF and Greenpeace are all subversive groups that alr [sic] willing to break the law and commit eco terrorist acts.”
PETA is not a subversive group, though some of its members (read “officers”) may support subversive groups, and it does not commit eco terrorist acts, though some of its officers have been accused of financing them. Most members of PETA are ordinary people uninvolved in political dirty tricks. The vast majority are kids who love animals and wouldn’t hurt anyone.
I suspect most members of Greenpeace are equally uninvolved in the militant nonsense, and when they realize their organization advocates terrorizing innocent people, they will run the other way. The majority of believers and non-believers in AGW are not violent and crazy. They are just products of whatever information they’ve been taught, and whatever other information they’ve acquired on their own.
What Green Gene fails to realize is that the most outspoken skeptics of AGW today are former believers, and they are not going back to their previous state of innocent credulity. Once they discovered they’d been lied to and manipulated, their future course was set.
By exaggerating, fabricating, and scare-mongering, Greenpeace has shot its own raft, and denouncing everyone else while it’s sinking is not going to plug the hole.
Green Gene appears to be a nutcase, not a template.
They’ve made the threat, now we wait for the action. The logical targets would be anything “fossil fuel” related, which would be a strategic target in terms of Homeland Security.
I say, if you want to be a terrorist, then enjoy the consequences.
Wow. Greenpeace people – take a deep breath and count to ten or attend a meditation seminar on non-violence or something. I mean really. Chill out.
The polar bears are fine; the arctic is fine, CO2 isn’t toxic at 300 or so parts per million; there isn’t a mass extinction going on; and you know what? This is all good news. No need to resort to such intellectual violence. Go find something other than this phony AGW stuff to focus your attention. Threatening people is illegal, ill-advised and uncalled for.
Most people care about parks & natural forests. They used to be able to assume “greens” were looking out for such things. Not any more. “Greens'” former respect for nature has been abandoned in favor of anthropogenic computer fantasies. If asked – “Do you care about the environment?” – many people now answer: “Yeah, I care about climate change.” Conflating computer fantasies & nature (the real thing) is undermining focus on protection of parks & natural forests.
Paul Vaughan, M.Sc.
Ecologist, Parks & Natural Forests Advocate
Whenever you see the phrase “by any means necessary,” used by environmental fanatics, it should prepare you for all kinds of semi-violent, disruptive and truly annoying behavior to come in the near future.
Radicalization is now becoming the norm in our age. Professional, lifelong radicals like the GreenPeace nitwits will not be outdone. Be prepared.
Ah, Greenpeace, Greenpeace, Greenpeace…
Words belie and words belittle, but here’s the truth:
You are neither Green, nor do you herald peace.
Why don’t you just change your name to “Brownwar” or “Blackhate”?
Then your name will accurately reflect your modus operandi, your threats, your thoughts, and your persona.
How terribly sad.
They sound like North Koreans or Iranians.
This just illustrates how contradictory and meaningless the Greenpeace name has become as it adopts an overtly violent agenda to further its extremist ideology. To add insult to injury, this war against CO2 is allegedly being fought on behalf of the natural “green” environment which is absurd since green things tend to thrive under heightened CO2 conditions. So we have yet another contradiction. It’s reminiscent of the “Ministry of Peace” from George Orwell’s famous novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, about which Wikipedia states the following:
So Greenpeace (Newspeak: Greenpax) just needs to find a populace that is enraged enough about CO2 emissions to commit violent reprisals against skeptics and they’ll be in business!
didn’t i read somewhere the leader of greenpeace gets paid 460000 dollars a year, and the organisation takes in 1 billion plus a year ? the eco fascist movement has been clearly alive and well . Nice to see a bit of rain on their parade.
Keep in mind that Greenpeace has for a long time operated ships which seek out other ships, approach hazardously near, ram, and endanger the crews. Is it outlandish to expect them to behave similarly on the roadways and sidewalks?
How many quatloos are bet for the day and hour when the source is scrubbed from the Internet?
[quote GreenPeace]
cattle-prodding democratically-elected governments into submission
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Dang it! I just went out today and got a brand new cattle prod.
Is it still ok for me to cattle prod China into submission?
I sent the author of that article my name, address and phone number and challenged them to come after me.
Now this.. I find alarming. I’ve been a ‘grassroots’ environmental activist here in BC for the better part of the last 17 years, but paradoxically I’m also a skeptic. Odd position to be in, to be sure, but skepticism served me so well in the past that I’ve never felt the need to set it aside. Everytime Big Oil makes a statement about environmental damage, or whatever flavor of ‘big dirty polluting industry of the month’ makes claims about their eco-friendliness, I’m skeptical. I doubt. I scrutinize. I research, and I do my homework. Unfortunately for Greenpeace (and related organizations), I’ve found a wealth of information here and elsewhere(ClimateAudit in particular), that despite my best efforts I can’t reconcile with the official narrative on climate change. Information that casts (for me) credible and significant doubts upon the validity of the underlying science of climate change, and has long since caused me to retreat to cautious language when discussing the topic with other people on ‘this’ side of the fence. I find it disturbing that others like me can be privy to this same information and (imho) rational contrary analysis and still be anywhere near as confident in their beliefs.
Beyond that, I simply haven’t seen anything over the years that convinced me of the link between mankinds (arguably paltry) CO2 emissions, and the observed temperature rise. That the climate changes, isn’t in doubt, it always has, and for reasons that still haven’t been fully explained. Temperatures go up. Temperatures go down. Ok lately they go mostly up, but they have been since the MWP. The weather isn’t precisely the same from one year to the next. And virtually *none* of these changes are without historical precedent, to my knowledge.
Greenpeace can count me out, they’ve clearly lost the plot and divorced themselves from common sense. There’s something very wrong about all of this, and I intend to find out what. But I have the sneaky suspicion that this was never about helping the planet at all. Call me skeptical.
(Sorry for the long post, been lurking for half a year, and just wanted to get that off my chest.)
Cheers,
Isn’t Greenpeace a tax exempt organization, what taxes they don’t pay are they talking about.
What will there civil disobedience look like they stop flying around the world to protest for reducing carbon emissions?
Turn there own lights off instead of telling everybody else to turn there’s off?
Apologize for been instrumental for the ban of DDT to the developing world.
They finally all move to Cuba,Venezuela or North Korea?
Of topic:
The EPA’s regulations are based on how much global warming there was, for the last few years that would mean we should drive larger cars with higher fuel consumption?
This is why I use my real name. I want them to make no mistake about who I am or where I live.
Skip,
Look out your kitchen window.
The media has ignored ecoterrorism so far, but the situation is ripe for a quick reversal. If Greenpeace acts on their threats, they could see a real tipping point.
Remember when and how the cliche, “going postal” began? Imagine if “going Greenpeace,” gets in the vernacular meaning to be incoherently, criminally insane.
As in, “Ted Kazinsky totally went Greenpeace.” Or, “Earth First went Greenpeace with another Hummer dealership.”
They should be walking on eggshells.
Does this mean I’m going to be thrashed by a twig brandished by a guy in a grubby koala suit?
Bring it on…
I wouldn’t take this kind of threat idly. Remember how opponents of same-sex marriage were publicly identified and harassed in California. The extreme left is entirely capable of extra-legal and even illegal action if is aims are thwarted. It would be wise for public figures on the side of climate realism to lock their doors.
/Mr Lynn
We need to hit them where it hurts most, by any means necessary: through the power of our votes, our taxes, our wallets, and more.
You don’t have anything in your wallet. You’re unemployed. Thus, you don’t pay taxes.
We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work.
But do you know where I keep my super-secret spiral notebook? Didn’t think so.
I went to the publicly issued threat Greenpeace site. They have a place for comments. I left a comment for them, we’ll see if it gets through …
The power of a presidency reveals many things. You would not hear of this a few years ago. But everyone should be very alarmed, and begin NOW to work very hard not just to turn this around, but to CRUSH it into oblivion. This has been simmering in the background, and will leap to the fore every chance it gets. We must Destroy it. It isn’t enough to overwhelm and overrule for a few years. This is a fatal infection. It must be absolutely destroyed, or it will forever return until it destroys us.
Did the author of that GreenPEACE bit even bother to read the name of his own organization?
Someone should let them know that in most of America, people are prone to self-defense and firearms owned by private citizens outnumber the population in total. At nearly any given point in this nation’s geography, you can take a group of 100 people and almost guarantee that at least one of them is carrying a lawful, concealed weapon and has been trained how to use it in defense of person and those around.
So good luck, GreenVIOLENCE. You should count yourselves lucky that now that you and your ilk have been outed, us decent folk didn’t act like you have and decide to have tar and feather parties at your expense.
The beast has been cornered. With science and public opinion no longer on it’s side, this loathsome creature will lash out with all it’s breadth and fury, signifying nothing.