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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Let me re-phrase my first sentence.
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Here is another archive page. Would it be correct to say that Moore was not on the 1970 committee but was on the committee when it was launched as Greenpeace making him a founding member of Greenpeace?
Here is Dr. Moore’s side of the history.
http://greenspiritstrategies.com/who-are-the-founders-of-greenpeace/
The revision of history seems to be something the left feel obliged to do. Take Clooney’s latest effort, it’s on the same level as that Enigma rubbish.
Down the memory hole it all goes….
In 2006, Moore became co-chair (with Christine Todd Whitman) of a new industry-funded initiative, the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, which promotes increased use of nuclear energy.
I’m sure this didn’t win him many friends
BBC Greenpeace`s mouthpeace in the UK did a similar job on Dr David Bellamy.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CDgQtwIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-2266188%2FDavid-Bellamy-The-BBC-froze-I-dont-believe-global-warming.html&ei=6FflUv7XJeLT7AbC2oHYBA&usg=AFQjCNHfeCiQrVo-wjA_kxMLG0kHHtB7_g&sig2=2Mx1jRbS6CcxzZYdX_BFfw&bvm=bv.59930103,d.ZGU
Reblogged this on Climate Ponderings.
Insightful parallel. I wasn’t aware of “The Commisar Vanishes”.
Nice parallel and clearly shows the watermelons as what they are 🙂
“Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished?”
Winston Smith, 1984
So, can we expect Cook’s Blog to ‘vanish’ Mann’s existence in CAGW as it rewrites CAGW history to remove its failed science/scientists?
Next week would be a good time to vanish his now inconvenient contribution to the ’cause’. Right?
John
Reblogged this… as a cartoon!
http://itsnotclimatescience.com/0010.html
Ironic it’s the only guy with any kind of a science background.
Easy there people…..easy. Both Green Peace and Moore are controlled opposition. Either that or Moore is an idiot. Does he really think he is any better, when he himself is trying to persuade the world of the so-called benefit of GMO. , ha.. that’s so typical of THEY to always use the fear tactic, because that’s what they are- “A FEAR FACTORY”. When you spend your whole life studying the body and its relation to diet, then you can talk-Morre
Steve C, re: Serallani retraction. This also relates to the request by Science Mag instituting “a new policy requiring authors of preclinical studies to state their statistical plans (sample size estimation, treatment of outliers, etc).” Publishing a paper on the danger of tumors from GMOs, and then subsequently having to retract it, can become furtive ground for activists to insert a big conspiracy by Mansanto, as Elesevier found out.
Elesevier should have taken responsibility for publishing a scientific study that had an incredibly low sample size with a particularly tumor prone rat.
How many studies have been conducted regarding the safety of GMOs? 1783 studies. Not settled science, but not exactly virgin territory either.
refs: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/11/28/science-self-corrects-bogus-study-claiming-roundup-tolerant-gmo-corn-causes-cancer-to-be-retracted/
Study or no study, it doesn’t matter! If people want to keep doing studies on GMO, then i think they are playing a dangerous game. The answer is not in your skull, but in the heart- intuition my man ……..intuition.
Studies do matter. If a scientist, or an expert, or an academic (or even a person who gets a lot of [traffic] on Youtube) makes a claim, there are ways to verify or to falsify their statements.
And in some cases, you may find that not enough is known to make a definitive claim with any certainty. That is an interesting result of studies also.
What this poster is attempting to apply is not “intuition,” or even “the heart,” it is called the Precautionary Principle.
The Precautionary Principle states that if any doubt regarding environmental harm, or a threat to human “health” can be imagined, even without scientific basis, then a technology or advancement must be halted or reversed by politicians.
Many of us reject the Precautionary Principle, and its synonym, “sustainabiltiy,” because there is no political or expert class that has the right or power to judge whether a new technology or scientific advancement is “sustainable” or not. Not only that, it is already a farce and an abysmal failure in Europe, where the European Union has passed laws against Co2 emissions, cinnamon, olive oil on restaraunt tables, and home-made jam at charities.
Disappearing web pages and/or content within is beginning to become more frequent. UPC renewables and their affiliates (UPC/IVPC/Evergreen/ First WInd et. al.) have suddenly been ‘updating’ (removing content) from their numerous web pages as well.
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/media-center/news-releases/greenpeace-statement-on-patric/
When cats hiss & spit upon a wall, the fence-sitters will surely fall;
Those cats that sit in Schroedinger’s Box, shall live, or die, or get the pox.
When Into the Box I duly peer, I think, outside of it, so feel not queer,
That only shadows therein flit, where once a cat did solemnly sit.
The Russians should have kept those nutters in prison.
I am amazed. No one here seems to know that Patrick Moore wrote a book reelaing what happened to Greenpeace, entitled “Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist.” Beatty Street Publishing Inc. It is available on Kindle.
It is informative and a good read.
Moore was not only one of the founders, but in the spring of 1977 he actually became President of Greenpeace.
Its this idea that you need gmo , that’s what bothers me. Man will create another problem just to solve another.
Those people were much better off prior to European intervention. White men create the problem; then a poor and displaced people is the reaction; white man then offers the solution-GMO.
Yeah right! I say blow it up your you know what. Gods creation need no correcting.
@Zeke at 9:55 am:
“Many of us reject the Precautionary Principle, and its synonym, “sustainability,” because there is no political or expert class that has the right or power to judge whether a new technology or scientific advancement is “sustainable” or not.”
Zeke, you are almost right. But not quite. I have one for you, one that is coming down the road, and it IS sustainable.
Liquid fluoride thorium reactors.
No carbon emissions. (Not that they really matter.)
Uses more than 100 times as much of the available energy as light water reactors. 99%+ versus 0.7%.
That means that nuclear waste will be cut down to 1% or less than is created..
WILL be used to use up 99%+ the existing nuclear waste. And make more energy than the light water reactor got out of it. Yucca Mountain will be emptied over time.
Cannot do a Fukushima.
Can be shut off in minutes – and started up just as quickly.
Can be sized so that remote towns can have their own reactor. Or factories. Or cruise ships. Or space ships.
It is essentially free energy for water desalination plants – meaning that desert countries like Namibia and Saudi Arabia can cultivate their deserts from sea water.
Thorium can be used as it comes out of the ground. No centrifuging. No yellowcake.
The fuel cannot be used for nuclear weapons.
Proven reserves of thorium are so plentiful that we have enough fuel for tens of thousands of years.
The total thorium for a person’s entire life is the size of a racquetball. Not the court. The ball.
Google it or look at some videos on YouTube.