Donna Laframboise has an excellent piece on how the IPCC has been assimilated by influence from the WWF.
Apparently hawking the threat of dead panda bears is quite lucrative, Donna writes:
It is important to understand that while the WWF might once have been a humble, shoestring operation this is no longer the case. It has grown into a business entity with offices in 30 countries that employs a staff of 5,000 (see the last page of this PDF). The US branch of the WWF alone employs:
- a Managing Director of International Finance
- a Vice President of Business and Industry
- a Senior Vice President of Market Transformation and
- a Government Relations Program manager
That same branch also includes a:
- a Director of International Climate Policy
- a Managing Director of Climate Change
- a Managing Director of Climate Adaptation
- a Director of Climate Change Communications
- a Senior Scientist, Climate Adaptation and
- a lead specialist on Climate Change
In 2010, the WWF’s US arm had operating revenues of $224 million – just under a quarter of a billion dollars. Yes, that’s a B.
By way of comparison, operating revenues for Amnesty International’s US affiliate amounted to $36 million – one-sixth that amount (see page 29 here).
According to its 2010 annual report, the WWF’s international network had operating revenues of €524,963,000. Converted to US dollars that’s just shy of three-quarters of a billion. In one year.
Read it here. Well worth a read.
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That thing is a fiscal monster.
This is where I usually pipe up and point out that the actions of greenpeace are indistinguishable from those of a terrorist organization.
Wade says:
There should be.
These leftist/communist created “charities” need to be harshly and strictly restricted… their funding and activities dragged into the bright light of day for all to see, their goals and leadership exposed. I doubt anyone would ever voluntarily contribute to them if the actually knew what they were doing. Well, a few democrats would.
WWF / Greenpeace == White Collar Terrorists (Hipster edition)
Bit ironic that the panda is now doing fine. They need a new logo.
The WWF has been lying and exaggerating for decades. It is one of the core institutions using the junk pseudoscience called Conservation Biology – which is WORSE than AGW climastrology.
Mikael Pihlström says:
September 26, 2011 at 10:23 am
“Smokey, I suggest you gather all your force and take a giant leap. Cause, you are
about hundred years behind. Even the World Bank uses the concepts: economic, social,
human and natural capital.”
A clear sign of a communist coup at the World Bank. No doubt Van Jones is their chief adviser.
Dave Wendt says:
September 26, 2011 at 10:02 am
“The panda is the perfect emblem for this organization as it represents so precisely the eternal triumph of style over substance. Over the years more millions have been spent to preserve this species than almost any other, based solely on the fact that they are cuter than a pair of lace panties on Scarlett Johansson. From the beginning it has been intuitively obvious that pandas are an evolutionary deadend. Even in unmolested natural environments they are reproductively incompetent.”
Why does this remind me of Al Gore? Style over substance? More millions have been spent to preserve this species? Cuter than a pair of lace panties on Scarlett Johansson? Evolutionary dead end? Reproductively incompetent? Or is it just knowing that Al is dying to get in on this scam?
No, he isn’t. He is a crusader attempting to apply economic methods to the valuation of “Nature”, whatever that might mean. His goal is to provied an economic fig leaf to the CAGW crowd to justify their policies on economic grounds.
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So, who died and left the WWF a contolling interest in Nature? I don’t recall anyone from WWF asking my opinion of their stewardship supposedly for my benefit. I can’t see much good coming from an organization that uses eco-thuggery to extort money from private business. “Ye shall know them by their fruits.” Which, oddly enough, appears in a warning against false prophets.
And to think that as a school boy I did voluntary work for WWF……….
In the 1980’s I thought they cared about the planet.
I still do, but they gave it all up for corporate greed
Theo Goodwin says:
September 26, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Why does this remind me of Al Gore? Style over substance? More millions have been spent to preserve this species? Cuter than a pair of lace panties on Scarlett Johansson? Evolutionary dead end? Reproductively incompetent? Or is it just knowing that Al is dying to get in on this scam?
I was pretty much with you until you decided to include that Scarlett Johansson line in your analogy. Algore? Cute? Poor Al’s stuck with his Poley Bears, which Coke may be able to CGI into Christmasy cuteness, but Al has only been able to make look pathetic. A cruel calumny on a noble but extremely deadly beast. Al may be jealous of WWF’s ability to generate income but, though the climate pickings may be getting slimmer for him, he’s still doing incredibly well off his very productive scam.
Can part 2 be anything about WWF’s ambitions for the future?
Donna Laframboise is far more articulate than me – so you might want to wait. However, here is my take. 🙂
http://manicbeancounter.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/wwf-aims-for-world-domination/
Dave Wendt;
Your “no extinctions!” comment reminds me of a little scenario I retro-projected for myself a while ago.
Imagine that a fleet of spaceships full of alien Greens was in the vicinity of Earth when it got plastered with the K-T asteroid. In horror, they observe the imminent dying off of all those lovely vigorous dinos, etc., and spring into action. The sequester and protect as many species with breeding groups as possible, meanwhile implementing several geo-engineering projects to return the environment to its previous benign state as quickly as possible.
Success! In a few k-years, the biosphere is well established again, and things carry on as before. They depart, with many google-bytes of heart-warming 3D and 4D documentation.
The Rise of the Mammals and of pestiferous Mankind are averted. Hooray!
Dave Wendt says:
September 26, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Sorry, it’s just that I have always wanted an excuse to write ‘Scarlet Johansson’ on the internet. I just did it again.
The EU has been feeding WWF for years. The EU sees global warming as a justification for the EU elite’s power and role, as a reason why Europe needs the EU to act on matters that affect all of Europe.
My theory is that the EU and the Global Warming Scam will collapse together. If the Euro goes first, probably because of Greece, then the EU elites will be so hated that Europeans won’t listen to their rubbish about Global Warming. Talking about using more debt to build windmills will just make people angry. When the Germans find out how much Merkel has committed them with guarantees, they won’t be listening to talk of spending on windmills. Or the scam could end first. This winter is likely to be very cold in Europe. Germany has shut down nuclear power stations. Britain relies on power from France as Britain has no spare capacity for cold weather. France’s nuclear power stations can’t supply France, Britain, Spain and Germany during a freeze. If there are extensive brownouts and blackouts this winter, no-one will be in a mood to listen to the EU elites. Talk of giving money to the PIGS while factories are shut and people freeze due to power outages will make people angry.
Either way, this northern winter should be the end of the Euro and the Global Warming Scam. The scary bit is what the EU elites will do to hang onto power. Will they try a fascist power grab, silencing all criticism, as part of an emergency?
The EU, the Euro, and the global warming scam are all the one thing, as in Tim Blair’s Blair’s Law “the ongoing process by which the world’s multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force”.
The EU elites use the Euro to justify their role in a “uniting Europe”, and they use the global warming scam in the same way.
“a Managing Director of Climate Change”…
How can you be a managing director of climate change? It can’t be managed and it can’t be directed? …by anyone?
“It is important to understand that while the WWF might once have been a humble, shoestring operation …”
That’s where you’re wrong.
http://stefzucconi.blogspot.com/search?q=wwf
I once read something more indepth (maybe one of the linked articles) about the origin of the WWF, but can’t find it at the moment.
Threw me off too. “Al Gore” and “panties” shouldn’t be used within a few hundred paragraphs of each other.
Although if he were to don a pair, I suspect he would look like a Poley Bear in panties.
Hilarious, but not pleasant thought.
Carl Chapman says: @ur momisugly September 26, 2011 at 4:01 pm
“The EU, the Euro, and the global warming scam are all the one thing, as in Tim Blair’s Blair’s Law “the ongoing process by which the world’s multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force”.
The EU elites use the Euro to justify their role in a “uniting Europe”, and they use the global warming scam in the same way.”
Unfortunately the EU is now seen as a template for the future by the “Elite”. This is a quote from an article written by Pascal Lamy, Director, World Trade Organization (WTO): http://www.theglobaljournal.net/article/view/56/
It offers the political reason for the popularization of CAGW, environmentalism and sustainablity (Agenda 21) All three are seen as being GLOBAL problems needing GLOBAL solutions and therefore advance the GLOBAL governance agenda (Also see Global Governance 2025: http://www.acus.org/publication/global-governance-2025 )
Pascal Lamy:
“I define global governance as the system assisting human society to achieve common objectives in a sustainable (i.e., fair and just) manner. Growing interdependence means that our laws, standards, and values, as well as the other social mechanisms that shape human behaviour, need to be analyzed, discussed, understood, and articulated in the most coherent way possible. This, in my opinion, is the condition for truly sustainable development in economic, social, and environmental terms…..
….the European Union, the very incarnation of an international organization of integration in which Member States have agreed to relinquish sovereignty in order to strengthen the coherence and effectiveness of their actions….
Our challenge today is to establish a system of global governance that provides a better balance between leadership, effectiveness, and legitimacy on the one hand, and coherence on the other….
A new paradigm of global governance exists, and its name is Europe.
If there is one place on earth where new forms of global governance have been tested since the Second World War, it is in Europe. European integration is the most ambitious supranational governance experience ever undertaken. It is the story of interdependence desired, defined, and organized by the Member States…..
Today, globalization is a major challenge to our democracies, and our systems of governance must address this challenge. If our people feel that global problems are insoluble, our democracies risk being weakened and eroded from within by populism with xenophobic tendencies…..”
These two documents put CAGW in the context of todays politics:
“…The final lesson for global governance that we can derive from European integration is that insofar as the demos policy is essentially national, the legitimacy of global governance would be greatly enhanced if international issues were more integrated into the national political debate, i.e., if national governments were held accountable for their behaviour at the international level. To establish the legitimacy of international organizations, it is not enough that states are represented by elected governments at the national level, nor that decisions within an organization are taken by consensus on the principle “one state, one vote,” as is the case at the WTO. It will require erasing the borders of democracy between the local, national, and global. National actors—political parties, civil society, parliaments, trade unions, and citizens—must ensure that the issues relevant at the global level are debated at the national and local levels. The good news is that many of these issues are already being examined and we need not wait for a big bang in global governance. The economic crisis we are experiencing has accelerated the transformation of global governance toward a new architecture…..”
It is clear that we are being herded toward a Global superstate similar to the European Union. CAGW and the financial crisis are parts of the tricks used to do the sheep herding. And yes the financial crisis WAS a trick.
The collapse of the US economy can be traced to the ratification of NAFTA, WTO and the signing of five banking acts into law. (see: http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/important/index.html ) This included laws repealing the McFadden Act of 1927, the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 and the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 leading to the Formation of interstate Mega Banks (To Big to Fail.) The Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 was responsible for marginal mortgage loans and the worst of the bunch, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act allowing banks cleanup big time if they could force those loans into foreclosure with taxpayers footing the bill through the AIG bailout. (See: http://www.realtytrac.com/content/news-and-opinion/how-the-aig-bailout-could-be-driving-more-foreclosures-4861 )
I Really, Really hate feeling like a Sheeple with a wolf pack herding me towards a cliff but that is the present state of world politics. Science has nothing to do with CAGW and that is why Climategate has not killed CAGW and the silencing of honest scientists is part of the agenda.
Baa Humbug says: September 26, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Hear! Hear! But, dammit, you beat me to it, Baa Humbug 🙂
Anyway, while folks are waiting for part 2 (and the book!) … I followed some of Donna’s links to WWF’s “Climate Witness Program”, including the “interview questionnaire” for climate witness wannabes. Brian H’s “scenario”:
seems to be quite in keeping with their venture into the realm of science-fiction! Details at:
ET please call WWF
Nothing about the initial founder of WWF, Prins Bernard of the Netherlands and his background.
Do some research and find out there is nothing new about WWF.
WWF is a driving force behind the new GLOBAL (ECO) DICTATORSHIP
Abuse of science and the misuse of the meaning of words is typical for any totalitarian doctrine.
And this is the biggest doctrine in our history.
http://green-agenda.com
Tony Mach says: @ur momisugly September 26, 2011 at 4:48 pm
” “It is important to understand that while the WWF might once have been a humble, shoestring operation …”
That’s where you’re wrong.”
This gives a good look at exactly WHO started WWF: http://www.ogiek.org/indepth/whit-man-game-wwf.htm
WWF has never been a “Humble, shoestring operation” it has been Royalty and the rich (1001 Club) from the get go.
Also read this CFP article about Agenda 21 and Open Government to understand how the First Global Revolution described in detail at http://green-agenda.com looks like.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/40686
My point however was that the operating costs of WWF are peanuts in relation
to the task they perform.
The WWF’s task, apparently, is to seize political power and then hold on to it.
Donations to political parties aren’t tax-deductible.
Of course the IPCC is influenced by the WWF. What would you do if you woke up in the middle of the night and found a panda’s head in your bed?
A number of years ago every other day and for some time everyday for at least two months I got a plastic sticker sent from WWF. I never asked them to send them. I suspect they just sent them out. It was clear to me that the WWF was not a true environment organization otherwise they wouldn’t waste so much paper and plastic. The WWF is nothing more than a fund raising organization.
James Delingpole’s Water Melons
R. de Haan says: @ur momisugly September 26, 2011 at 6:01 pm
“Also read this CFP article about Agenda 21 and Open Government to understand how the First Global Revolution described in detail at http://green-agenda.com looks like.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/40686 “
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Another trigger word is “Harmonization” That is laws being harmonized through out the world to facilitate trade and “Globalization”
An excellent example is a recently passed law that handed control of our food supply over to the World TRADE Organization and the food cartel (Monsanto, Cargill, Louis Dreyfus, Bunge and Born, André, ConAgra, IBP, Nestlé, Unilever, Philip Morris and ADM/Töpfer) It is no coincidence that ADMs CEO, Dwayne Andreas, was the biggest political donor to both the Republican and Democratic parties for years contributing millions of dollars to both parties. Or that Cargill’s VP Dan Amstutz wrote the WTO Agreement on Ag and the USDA and FDA are headed by Monsanto puppets.
The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010 was rammed down our throats during a lame duck session of Congress. The act expressly puts the WTO in control:
SEC. 404. <> COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS.
Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) shall be construed in a manner inconsistent with the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization… http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/FSMA/ucm247548.htm
The documents, SHIELDING THE GIANTS and Legislators overlook serious flaw in USDA’s HACCP food-safety system shows the dirty politics used to hoodwink Americans into thinking they needed this law that compromises their food supply.
Illness and death of children is considered the “collateral damage” needed to put in place the law and policies for the up coming US farm land grab. I plotted the food borne illnesses (CDC) for the five years before and after WTO/HACCP and found the illness rate more than doubled.
See: Farmageddon: America’s War Against Small Farmers and Rogers and Soros are snapping up farmland