How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA
A new report was released today by the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, and it is damning. All this time that climate skeptics are accused of being in the employ of “big oil” is nothing more than a projection of their own greed.
Some excerpts:
Over 7.9 BILLION in funding between these groups.
Bill McKibben caught in a lie, he might be “scruffy” be he isn’t nearly broke as he once claimed:
The “epicenter” of funding disclosed:
The NRDC “mafia”
Josh wasn’t far off the mark:
Read the entire report here, then demand action from your legislators.
http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=8af3d005-1337-4bc3-bcd6-be947c523439
No, I think it’s a problem with Wikipedia.
Go to http://www.nature.org/about-us/our-accountability/annual-report/ and look at their most recent IRS Form 990, http://www.nature.org/about-us/tax-form-990-2013.pdf
Line 12 Total revenue 859,133,843
Line 18 Total expenses 752,216,964
Line 20 Total assets 6,168,924,112
Line 21 Total liabilities 762,252,116
The breakdown of the assets is in Part X, pdf page 14.
There’s lots of interesting stuff, in the list of grants, they donated to the National Park Service!
Officer income is mildly interesting. Mark Tercek, the CEO got $646,821, probably pretty reasonable given the size of the organization. Their chief scientist got $290K.
I live in a tract community (circa 1962), my house backs up to a high tension tower right of way.
So, I’ve got 200′ of an open land thruway just out my back door.
The critters love it: deer,fox,skunks,coyote,possum,raptors,rascals and thieves.
You learn to live with them.
Just on the other side of the right of way is commercial property, it is mostly landscapers.
They work their butts off, dawn to dusk.
One landscaper has built a giant pile of wood chips that has spontaneously ignited, now and again.
Just waiting for the next now. The fire department charges the poor guy by the gallon, to pour water on the pile.
If it wasn’t for the smoke, fire, critters, rotting vegetation, dust (seen a really good “devil” come off one of the places), noise, you might not even notice that I live within 3 miles of O’Hare Airport.
Peace.
crosspatch says:
July 30, 2014 at 1:12 pm
“And this mechanism of using government as a cash machine does not seem limited to environmental topics, either. This ALSO broke today:
Charge: ‘Clintons turned the State Department into a racket to line their own pockets’”
Dare we hope that citizenry and even the press are reaching the end of their patience with the Democrats? I thought we might be moving into a one party system with Republicans putting up unacceptable candidates.
wow! One could get rid of all of those. No need for the government to fund such activism …
These people openly disclose all kinds of garbage, but who really go’s looking for it; and what they disclose really doesn’t give you any clues to what it is that they are really about. its a red herring.
According to them:” the individual must take a back-seat to/for the collective”
And as ever typical of evidence for far-left psychological projection, where those folks paint a target on themselves by claiming the skeptics are highly organized and well funded. From my own digging into the smear of skeptics, it is positively stunning to see the level of organization on the part of AGW promoters, and my guesses on how much it takes to finance it all are probably way too low.
“Union of Concerned Scientists
Type: 501(c)(3)518
Total Assets: $8,195,448519
…
Membership Dues: New members must give a gift of $5 or more (suggested $25). It is tax-
deductible.”
Oh, heck. I can afford to sign MY pooch up for that.
This family runs America http://www.rockefeller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/about-jay
In the left side bar is a clickable link about the family fund . If their not sitting on you board of directors, then it’s not worth sitting on.
Speaking of a cash machine, we have this story about the Dept of “Homeland Security:” DHS Raid Home To Seize Land Rover For Violation Of EPA Regulations. This is asset forfeiture, and not part of the drug war, but of unsuspecting people’s property, valued at $65,000! Utterly insane. Here’s a video from the above link:
Remember the scene from “The Verdict” where lawyer Frank Galvin (Paul Newman) is in private conference with the crooked judge? The judge advises Galvin (outraged at being part of the rigged judicial system) “Just stop downstairs and see the Padre on your way out, Frank. He’ll punch yer ticket for you.”
Most of the tree-hugging hippies of the 60s got straight, got careers, and got money, but they feel guilty about being greedy capitalists, so they get their tickets punched by contributing to the Sierra Club or EDF, and sleep like babies.
Steep climate cooling with polar ice expansion. Renewable energy leading to a technical and financial fiasco.
These may be the only things that could save us from an incipient global dictatorship of the far left under the guise of AGW.
Or maybe Russia – again.
This really needs to be tied into Richard North’s excellent work covering the EU angle and the EU’s relationship with green activism:
http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=85039
“Is there is anything wrong with its conclusions?”
Yes, starting with the idea of Congressional Republicans calling anyone else derogatorily a “Billionaire’s club.”
Saying “far left” over and over like a mantra, so they don’t have to think about who profits. Are they imitating Limbaugh here? Most of this report is easily replied with the response “because we care.”
No linkage of the economic interests at all between the groups and their agendas. Only make some vague statements about wanting to harm America.
They only follow the money so far. I did like the reveal about McKibben.
When they start analyzing why their revered corporate heroes support or oppose cap and trade, oppose “fracking” because they have no resources to frack themselves, why JFKerry is going around the world pushing CAT schemes, etc. etc.
The big question is who profits and how.
This report is basically an information rich yet total cop out. All these players listed are just like the players behind the Republican party…everything big is done for the profit. Chanting “far left” over and over is amateur hour.
Kleptocracy replaces democracy as the voters sleep and education is run by the thieves.
“Chanting “far left” over and over is amateur hour.”
No. You need to chant “far left, millionaire/billionaire, progressive democrats” over and over…
The election in November is going to clean out some of the progressives but not all, unfortunately…
FTM says:
July 30, 2014 at 4:25 pm
It seems you have 2 major complaints against the report:
1. Politicians engage in politics. Even when they write a report.
2. The report is rich in information but it doesn’t say everything it could.
Did I get it right?
Frank K. says:
July 30, 2014 at 4:41 pm
“The election in November is going to clean out some of the progressives but not all, unfortunately…”
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And their replacements will be better……. how ?
Just ask’n.
Anthony,
I am amazed! I pulled down the “Minority Report” at 4:00 PM Eastern Time.
Before reading the document, I checked in with WUWT and read this post. I’ll read the full report.
With that said, WUWT is a real source of news.
This DOC must be read in full.
Great job Anthony!!!
Pedantry alert: I wish people wouldn’t use epicenter in a non-tectonic sense – “the funding epicenter of the environmental movement.” So many think it’s some sort of augmentative of center, i.e., somehow even more intensely central than plain old center. But “epi,” as Wikipedia tells us, is from “ἐπί (epi) on, upon, at,” as in epidermis or epitaxy. The epicenter is the point on the earth’s surface directly above the center of an earthquake. Since the surface could be thousands of feet above the source of the disturbance below, it’s actually a diminutive – less intense than the actual earthquake center.
So how are you enjoying this Suppository? This whole MESS has been a Mutation that began with H.R. 3534 “The Clear Act” this was intended to take-over our Common Property being the Seas, Lakes, Rivers, Water Shed and such. Then gave these areas over to the U.N. it included a 30 year $900 million/yr. Trust Fund for them to buy up Land only to put No Trespassing Signs up. This action would take our SOVERIEGNTY of these Areas away. Mind you this was in the version before the BP Gulf Spill “A Planet Altering Event”. H.R. 3534 didn’t make it.
Enter Obama one Man an Executive Order “The Obama Ocean Policy” It may say Ocean but it means the Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Water Shed, and more. He couldn’t get his Bill passed so he took it on his own. That is he took our Common Property and if you give him the U.N.’s “LOST” so will go our SOVERIEGNTY.
There’s a lot at stake here he already Euthanized the Fisheries with the help of Dr. Jane Lubchenco PhD she stole the idea of Sectors and Catch Shares from New Zealand and DESTROYED the FISHERIES here. Oh and BP she green lighted “COREXIT” despite the fallout from Corexit use in the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill.
Back to “The Obama Ocean Policy” he plans to grid off these Area and lease large Tracks of it. Wind Farms, Oil, Gas, Minerals, Mariculture, and more. Keep in mind this is all of our Water or will it be.
Tax Shelters and the Wealthy, more like Future Funds. Check out the Huffington Story about the Walton Family Trusty Tax Shelters.
I do realize this is about the EPA but it’s just another acronym in this RICO SCHEME.
“Did I get it right?”
No.
Thank goodness that Nature is going to do its own thing. Even the Greenish politicians faced with a colder world will have to accept that they, or to be correct someone else got it all wrong, and that they were badly advised.
So the concerned scientists will change tact, as they did before, and will all want money, ours of course, so that they can study the coming Ice Age, and they will then advise the government. Who knows they may even advise the greater use of fossell fuel so the CO2 can warm up the freezing world, Hi.
As that French saying goes, “The more things change, the more they stay the same”.
Michael John Elliott.
Dear readers, pardon this OT note, but many of you have been following the kerfluffle in the “EPA Document supports 3%…” thread and the author of the paper in dispute Ms. Denica Bozhinova has just weighed in http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/07/29/epa-document-supports-3-of-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-is-attributable-to-human-sources/#comment-1697886
FTM says:
July 30, 2014 at 5:18 pm
Well, I reckon the impenetrability is what turns your contribution into professional hour then.
These scum bags use a social cause like the environment, or healthcare and tie it to business interests to make big money. It is the easiest way to make money, off the backs of taxpayers. The real problem is never solved, but they still enrich themselves.