On our Friday Funny, which pointed out that Dr. Michael Mann labeled Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore as a “garden variety troll”, we thought it was funny that Dr. Mann couldn’t make the connection to who he was labeling. But then, something funny happened on the way to the forum; we discovered that Greenpeace had been actively erasing Dr. Moore from their history page.
It’s just like the famous communist propaganda photo series The Commissar Vanishes
Thank goodness for the Wayback machine.
From a comment:
CaligulaJones says: January 24, 2014 at 8:54 am
” David Sanger (@davidsanger) says:
January 24, 2014 at 8:22 am
Well certainly Greenpeace does not think that Patrick Moore was a “co-founder of Greenpeace.”
Unfortunately for the Peas, this is 2014, not 1984, where unpeople are memory-holed:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/about/history/founders
http://web.archive.org/web/20021119050900/http://www.greenpeace.org.au/aboutus/founders.html
And here are the screencaps of those two pages, note that five people in one photo are reduced to three in the later one.
From 2002, five people:
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20021119050900/http://www.greenpeace.org.au/aboutus/founders.html
From 2005, five people:
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20051216000251/http://www.greenpeace.org/international/about/history/founders
From today, just three people:
Source: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/about/history/founders
And even Wikipedia notices the effort to erase Dr. Moore. From this comment (bold mine):
alex says: January 24, 2014 at 9:08 am
From Wiki:
Greenpeace[edit]
According to Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World by Rex Wyler, the Don’t Make a Wave Committee was formed in January 1970 by Dorothy and Irving Stowe, Ben Metcalfe, Marie and Jim Bohlen, Paul Cote, and Bob Hunter and incorporated in October 1970.[6] The Committee had formed to plan opposition to the testing of a one megaton hydrogen bomb in 1969 by the United States Atomic Energy Commission on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. Moore joined the committee in 1971 and, as Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter wrote, “Moore was quickly accepted into the inner circle on the basis of his scientific background, his reputation [as an environmental activist], and his ability to inject practical, no-nonsense insights into the discussions.”[7] From as early as September 2005 until its alteration in March 2007, the Greenpeace International web site included Patrick Moore in a list of “founders and first members”.[8][9][10]
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So, Greenpeace is desperate to re-write their own history…
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore_%28environmentalist%29#Greenpeace
Why would Greenpeace do such a thing, erasing a founding member?
It is likely because Dr. Patrick Moore has become a climate skeptic, and appeared in a skeptic film in 2007. From his Wikipedia page:
In 2005, Moore criticized what he saw as scare tactics and disinformation employed by some within the environmental movement, saying that the environmental movement “abandoned science and logic in favor of emotion and sensationalism.”[30] Moore contends that for the environmental movement “most of the really serious problems have been dealt with”, seeking now to “invent doom and gloom scenarios”.[31] He suggests they romanticise peasant life as part of an anti-industrial campaign to prevent development in less-developed countries, which he describes as “anti-human”.[32][33] Moore was interviewed in the 2007 film documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, in which he expressed similar views. In 2007 The Guardian reported on his writings for the Royal Society arguing against the theory that mankind was causing global warming, noting his advocacy for the felling of tropical rainforests and the planting of genetically engineered crops.
And perhaps most infuriating to the greens, he advocates for improving the third world with the introduction of Golden Rice, which the GMO activists in Greenpeace see as an evil thing.
Since Greenpeace is now a multi-million dollar industry, we can’t have idealistic former founders mucking up what they want their donors to believe. I wonder how long it will be before we hear Greenpeace was actually founded by one person?
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Nice sleuthing! Bookmarked!
I seem to recall someone telling me at least 5 years ago, in a comment somewhere, that Roger Moore had nothing to do with the founding of Greenpeace. So they’ve been working at this for quite some time.
He was never a “true believer” so he must be purged for his own good, right? Isn’t that the way it works in this type of cult?
Memory holes are to the 2010s as bomb shelters were to the 1950s.
I first ventured into sceptical waters when I read , in 2007, that this hero of my youth had received death threats for his honest opinion. Since then the green spiral into totalitarianism has become more and more obvious.
I’m sure that one of Greenpeace’s original ironclad principles was that there should be diversity of opinion, etc.
Patrick Moore is also the only founder with any real science credentials- the rest are lawyers and social workers. He actually has the education and experience to change his mind.
@Otter: I am quite certain that Roger Moore had nothing to with the founding of Greenpeace.
Greenpeace is a thoroughly discredited and thuggish organisation. I’ve seen its thugs in action. Of course it is loved by the BBC, one of its first ports of call for the “facts” on anything to do with climate change or the environment.
arthur4563 says:
“I’m sure that one of Greenpeace’s original ironclad principles was that there should be diversity of opinion, etc.”
It is in their Open Information Policy, if you can believe it (pdf) http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/other/Open%20Information%20Policy%20Approved%20SGC%20Board%20250912.pdf
Otter (ClimateOtter on Twitter) says:
January 25, 2014 at 11:10 am
Roger Moore? But then they were both Saints in their own way.
Well they disappeared me.
“We do not want to see you back here, “vietnam vets like you are not welcome” , your ideas are just wrong about John Kerry. If you know what is good for you do not come around talking like you do.
Nice bunch of commie thugs in fact.
The Greenpeace history page you cite does mention Moore:
Marie Bohlen was the first to suggest taking a ship up to Amchtka to oppose the U.S. plans. The group organised a boat, the Phyllis Cormack, and set sail to Amchitka to “bear witness” (a Quaker tradition of silent protest) to the nuclear test. On board were:
• Captain John Cormack, the boat’s owner
• Jim Bohlen, Greenpeace
• Bill Darnell, Greenpeace
• Patrick Moore, Greenpeace
• Dr Lyle Thurston, medical practitioner
• Dave Birmingham, engineer
• Terry Simmons, cultural geographer
• Richard Fineberg, political science teacher
• Robert Hunter, journalist
• Ben Metcalfe, journalist
• Bob Cummings, journalist
• Bob Keziere, photographer
Stowe, who suffered from sea-sickness, stayed on shore to coordinate political pressure. Cote stayed behind too, because he was about to represent Canada in an Olympic sailing race.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/about/history/founders/
He started the group
Then said “Mission Accomplished”
He then disappears
mucking up what they want their donors to believe–it’s not just donors Anthony and the key word is in fact believe. Everything going on in education globally now (I have UNESCO’s blueprint and planned curricula and end beliefs and desired mindsets so I am not exaggerating) in K-12 plus higher ed plus law schools and business management schools (UN has founded PRME-Principles for Responsible Management Education) are all guided by altering beliefs to influence perception.
Reality can supposedly now be ignored unless it is politically compelling in desired ways because the theory goes if you can change beliefs and values you can alter the future reality. And that’s as concise a definition of what dialectical materialism really means as we are likely to find. GreenPeace is a huge part of gaining these transformative mindsets and skeptical founders are barriers to creating a uniformity in what is believed.
@Akatsukami ~ Oooops……!
But… are you sure one is not acting like he’s the other?
” … It’s just like the famous communist propaganda photo series The Commissar Vanishes …”
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Infamous, surely 🙂
It’s refreshing to hear an environmentalist admit that many environmental problems have been solved.
Yep, Greenpeace erases things. Back in a 2010 AmericanThinker piece of mine, I linked to the bio page for Greenpeace’s Executive Director Phil Radford, which noted his ties to Ozone Action ( http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/12/the_case_of_the_curious_climat.html , 8th paragraph), the organization I have termed the “epicenter of the smear against skeptic climate scientists”. In a revist to the page in November 2012, I checked the link, and had to get an update placed in my article, because Radford’s revised bio erased his Ozone Action job title.
Current Greenpeace bio for Radford, sans Ozone Action: http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/media-center/experts/Phil-Radford/
And thank heavens for the Internet Wayback Machine, scroll down this page for the original format, where Radford’s section says he was “field Director of Ozone Action from 1999 to 2001”: http://web.archive.org/web/20100817224309/http:/www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/media-center/experts/
Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?
Greenpeace meets the requirements under RICO for prosecution.
The criminal groups laws in Canada.
Also truth in advertising, as a business, statutes.
Watermelons plain and simple.
Wrapped in the green ethos, they worship every behaviour the communists discredited.
Anti-humanist ecosystem destroyers.
Or if their lack of activism on certain fronts is any indication, they are paid propagandists.
Whores to who-ever pays them off, or puts them in prison.
Eco-whores and Presstitutes, what a worldview.
I wonder if UNSW will disappear Turney in the same way 🙂
Yet another example of how the slippery slope from idealistic advocate to obseesive totalitarian can occur.
The real lesson is that this is a human foible, not a facet of a specific ideology. Any of us can fall into the institutional corruption that Greenpeace is now demonstrating. Even skeptical groups and blogs.
They should rename themselves.. Watermelons,… green on the outside, red on the inside!
A very similar chain of events to this is described in Animal Farm, complete with one of the original founders becoming an ethereal external threat to the new regime with a re-written backstory to boot.