Job opening for: Environment Program Officer

Al Gore should apply.

* Above all, must possess superior intentions.

$50 million per year
Just one foundation provides $50M per year in funding for climate actions/policies/etc…
Sure dow outshine Big Oil!

How many gas/oil stoves with fuel and/or solar ovens would $350 mil. buy to save the forests of Africa from becoming charcoal???
Maybe they could re-forest the slopes of Kilimanjaro and bring back a healthy ecosystem and help restore the snows!
Oh, that’s right, they want the US/Euro/Aussie taxpayers to fund that through the the UN.
And we all know how efficient they are with program $$$, right???
sarc/off

The Hewlett Foundation has a habit of meddling in Canadian affairs by providing funding to junk science activist groups like Tides Canada and David Suzuki.
“Tides, and the U.S. foundations that fund it, have incredibly deep pockets. A large part of Tides’ funding comes from the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David & Lucile Packard Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. These are The Big Five. They give away about US$1.2-billion every year. If these foundations decide to undermine a foreign industry, they probably can.”
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2010/10/14/u-s-foundations-against-the-oil-sands/
“Based in San Francisco, the Packard foundation is a charity created by a co-founder of tech giant Hewlett-Packard. With $5.6-billion in assets, it is the ninth-largest foundation in the U.S. and grants about $300-million per year.”
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/01/26/packard%E2%80%99s-push-against-b-c-salmon/
“The U.S. foundations that fund Tides are not without their own agenda. Back in 2004, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation paid Tides Canada $70,000 “to develop a strategy to address the oil and gas industry in British Columbia.” Since then, Hewlett has granted $7-million to Tides USA and $2-million to Tides Canada, which in turn fund at least 30 groups that target the Alberta oil industry and seek a federal ban on oil tanker traffic on the coast of B.C.”
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/06/13/junk-science-week-tarred-by-science/

I like it that under “Professional Qualifications”, holding a Degree (of some sort) came only 7th out of the 9 bullets: weird, at least in my world.
Having just read the Wiki entry about the Hewlett Foundation, it seems that a genuinely philanthropic original intent has been hi-jacked after the founders have long gone, and the “science is settled” movement has been discredited.
I don’t know why you’re laughing Mr Tisdale, maybe you could kick some sense/knowledge into them!

Mike Borgelt says:“Is that Hewlett as in Hewlett Packard? If so I’ll never buy another HP product ever.”

Ohhh yeah!
I used to champion HP back in the 80’s for their high tech test equipment and readily recommended their products. That’s the initial reason I favored their printers later and recommended those as well.
No more HP! You won’t be able to wash off that ‘green’ stain very easily when the hammer falls on this scam- we won’t let you. Despite BILLION$ spent by the federal government every year to keep the scam alive, it’s dying because the planet stopped warming over a decade ago. Someday, soon I hope, you and many other companies are going to look awfully stupid to have kowtowed to the socialist and fascist thugs who influenced you to mollify your number one priority as a corporation – make a profit for your stockholders.
So Mike B., I too now avoid HP because I can’t stomach the idea that part of the price I pay for their product is like a ‘green’ tax that will be used to make everything else I buy more expensive and help to downgrade my children’s future.

Anthony Watts says: December 20, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Bob could bury them in graphs.
Anthony, GOOD point and I concur. Besides, the graphs all look alike to me except for the pretty colors.

Seems to me that it is a private foundation, and it can spend and hire however it likes. Of the three main issue areas, I’m not sure how anyone can object.
I think we’ll all agree that studying climate change is important. We all recognize that climate changes all the time. Trying to understand the how, why and the impact of any regional change (regardless of sign) is interesting and important. I think most agree that more study, and study by a wider group of scientists and interested amateurs, is not only necessary, but required.
Clearly energy policy is also important. At 85 mbbl/day world-wide demand, even the median 7 billion bbl ANWAR reserves only last 82 days, assuming one can pump it that fast. There is an end, someday, but the price will grow exponentially as the demand curve grows and the supply diminishes. This, however, is completely orthogonal to climate change. It is something that needs to be addressed now (since any replacement technologies will require current energy technologies to develop and deploy, the more expensive the current energy becomes, the less the EROEI will be for any replacement technology – if there ever comes a point where the EROEI is less than unity; well that will be not good). Nuclear, along with orbital solar seem to be good technologies to be spending time and money on developing as replacements for baseload generation. Synthetic liquid hydrocarbons or alcohol-based fuels for transportation must also be researched, along with energy storage technologies with better energy density than current battery and fuel cell technologies. There is no one energy answer (even if abiogenic heavy hydrocarbon production occurs, the repleneshment rate is unlikely to make up for current and past extraction).
As for the environmental impact on poor communities, I don’t see how anyone who has visited Richmond California can believe that such communities aren’t poorly served from an environmental air and water quality standpoint.
I still remember struggling to breath in Los Angeles (Pasadena) in the early 1980’s, on a saturday, trying to reach first base on a strong single – it is quite clear that some regulation of air quality is clearly necessary. That was a second-stage smog alert day. In 2000, there were no first stage (the mildest) smog alerts (versus 110 in 1975). One cannot argue that the emissions controls for automobiles (and other controls on stationary emitters) didn’t make life better for the residents of the Los Angeles basin (and to a lesser extent Houston, et. al.).
I don’t see CO2 as a problem worth spending any time on, Roherbacher has that one right on point, but then I didn’t see anything in the Hewlett foundation quotes above about CO2.

The ability and flexibility to travel extensively.

Carbon sin! Shame!

The Hewlett Foundation is very well known in Canada:
http://fairquestions.typepad.com/rethink_campaigns/90-million-hewlett-packard.html
Suzuki, Tides, Greenpeace, Pembina, Endswell -the supposedly Carol Newell charity that is suspected of being the slush fund for Vancouver Mayor’s campaign…-
Indeed, NEVER buy a Hewlett Packard product!

Mike M says:
December 20, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Mike Borgelt says:“Is that Hewlett as in Hewlett Packard? If so I’ll never buy another HP product ever.”
So Mike B., I too now avoid HP because I can’t stomach the idea that part of the price I pay for their product is like a ‘green’ tax that will be used to make everything else I buy more expensive and help to downgrade my children’s future.
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Do you have any recommendations for a heavy-duty laser printer (black and white)? I use still use HP even though I know I shouldn’t because the machine I have works well. However, I cringe whenever I have to replace a cartridge knowing where the money is going (not to mention the extortionate expense.) There’s a host of reasons beyond the CAGW fiasco this company and its charitable foundation should be avoided – definitely it’s an anti-human organization.

“The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes a diverse pool of candidates for this search.”
Which actually means “…white, hetrosexual males need not apply unless you have already received the nod from senior management…”
Believe me, it does.

A wee glimpse into the fat world of Climate Disruption Mitigation advocacy. The money flows like water …

ferd berple says:
December 20, 2011 at 7:34 pm
Re: Two mad cows, surprised you included that scam too on a sceptical site.
(How many died from BSE? How many children die every day in USA from picking up guns left lying about the house? You have two cows, one dies from the ricochet perhaps?)

@ ferd berple
You crack me up!! Absolutely nailed it.

I won’t buy another HP product again primarily because all they produce now is crap. Part of the reason is that I have a Laserjet 4P printer that I bought in 1993 and it still functions very well. The print cartridges are made by a non-HP manufacturer and print far more pages than the page-limited HP cartridges for their newer printers. At some point HP decided that making good products was not a viable business strategy and I stopped buying HP products. Now I have an even better reason to never again buy an HP product.
What I’m hoping is that the Canadian government introduces similar legislation to what the US has to prevent foreign organizations from funding political campaigns in Canada. I first found out about the US legislation when I was prevented from donating to the NRA during the 2008 presidential race because I resided outside of the US. Now that we have Sun TV in Canada, campaigns like the Chiquita banana company to not use oil-sands derived gasoline to transport their bananas have led to a growing boycott of their product in Canada. The Tides foundation message may resonate with Vancouver moonbats but is resented in the interior of BC where a surprising number of people are employed in oil-sands related work.

I wonder where the capital that produces the Hewlett Foundation’s funding flow is invested.

Herein lies a structural problem in our Constitutional Republic: through the tax code, we allowed tax-exempt foundations to have eternal life, and to have an unaccountable voice to advocate for policies they favor. Foundations do not have shareholders who can vote for a new Board of Directors, they do not have customers who can boycott to force a change in direction or attitude. What they do have is a self-sustaining, self-appointing Board. Further, if a foundation is sufficiently endowed, if it earns more in investment income than it is required to give away each years (only 5%), then the foundation has eternal life.
The solution is to make foundations mortal again. Raise the 5% payout to 7 1/2%. Foundations will then eventually spend themselves out of business. We will benefit from the increased tax revenue that generates. We benefit as a nation. The founding fathers never envisioned unaccountable voices in the public square, let alone ones exempt from all taxation.

Roger Knights [December 21, 2011 at 3:02 am] says:
“I think it’s much lower once suicides are removed. The reason that they aren’t is to mendaciously let readers get the impression that “gun-related deaths” are accidental deaths or deliberate murders.”

Right you are.

“Highly motivated with intellectual curiosity, approachability, and openness to input…”
They really had me until they finished the sentence with:
“…from all levels of staff”

I worked at HP for 13 years from the end of the “Bill & Dave” era (when it was an engineering company) through John Young up to Carly. I think the first blow to HP came in the mid 80’s when in the effort to “Downsize” but still stay true to “The HP Way” they offered a very attractive voluntary severance package that drained a lot of the real talent and left those who were (mostly) good at facilitating meetings and then the MBA crowd started to change things, by the time Carly took over (and I left for the lure of start-ups) there were fewer engineers than MBA’s

Well many HP fans or at least former fans, believe that Bill and Dave took the HP Way with them when they left. So the Hewlett foundation would not be the first or last foundation endowed by technology giant’s great enterprises while here on earth to be co-opted by the very enemies of everything the founders stood and worked for. Not that I am suggesting any malfeasance here; but I somehow doubt that Bill Hewlett, thought that catastrophic climate change disasters were in our future, or that we could do anything about that.
Just remember what the Ford foundation used to be; and where Henry Ford put his efforts to benefit mankind.