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
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$6.1 billion to The Nature Conservancy. Now you know how oi polloi get roped into this property gobbling scam to stop land development. All those free umbrellas and tote bags for just $10 a year.
As René Descartes theorized centuries ago: “Man is incapable of understanding any argument that interferes with his revenue.”
meaningless Im afraid. Atleast as far as swaying the public. Climategate should have made it clear their was bias in the field, but the believers didn’t bat an eye.
George Soros, Shell Canada, The Nature Conservancy Of Canada and The NC of America. What do they all have in common?
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by eliminating coal as competition, gas and oil will have an effective monopoly on energy production, with profits to follow. energy prices will necessarily skyrocket.
In today’s world, people have determined who and what they pledge their allegiance to, often related to their political affiliation. This creates thought dominating cognitive bias so that they process information pertaining to climate change, the EPA and most other issues based on a subconscious filtering process.
Their brains let in items that support their bias. Their brains discard/reject things that don’t support their bias.
Objectively, including the scientific method rarely exists.
The corrupt EPA and IPCC have been exposed for all to see for quite some time now. Has it mattered?
When will it matter?
Gary Pearse says:
July 30, 2014 at 3:19 pm
Dare we hope that citizenry and even the press are reaching the end of their patience with the Democrats?
Not likely. Most people will never hear those stories. They will not be on the top of the hour radio news or on the TV newscast tonight. The majority of people (over 90%) who rely on “push” media will never hear those stories.
Don’t forget to make clear that this is a “Minority Staff Report”.
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midterm elections and this becomes the Majority Staff Report. we may well have to redefine the term shellacking.
what is especially troubling in BC is the interference by San Francisco based zillionaires in BC politics. Funding local elections to run candidates friendly to US interests. Using environmental groups to limit competition and drive down stock prices to take over competing industries at fire sale prices.
California policies don’t even work in California. It is insanity to try and implement them in BC. But of course money is money, and some folks are more than happy to sell out their neighbors in the name of “doing good”. As they say, they came to do good, and they did very well indeed.
It is amazing that so much “story” exists in the global warming sphere that any enterprising reporter can make a permanent name for himself.. The problem is, any reporter that would report any of this will quickly find himself not a reporter any more. I think any persistence in attempts to report after being silenced would cause oneself to be mysteriously disappeared, The amount of money involved is just staggering.
be fair, it takes a lot of $$$ to save the planet, witness the following!
30 July: NatGeo: Peru’s first-ever high-resolution carbon map could help the world breathe easier
(by Justin Catanoso… an environmental writer based in Greensboro, N.C., and director of journalism at Wake Forest University. His reporting is sponsored by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in Washington, D.C.)
Stanford University scientists have produced the first-ever high-resolution carbon geography of Peru, a country whose tropical forests are among the world’s most vital in terms of mitigating the global impact of climate change.
Released today, the 69-page report to Peru’s Ministry of the Environment could become a tool itself to battle rising temperatures…
The report represents two years of intensive aerial surveying by Greg Asner, a global ecologist with the Carnegie Institute for Science at Stanford University, and his team that operates the Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO).
The CAO is a twin-engine turboprop Dornier 228 filled with more than $10 million in the latest short-wave and infrared sensors. Those tools can scan as much as 100,000 hectares (240,000 acres) a day at a density of just one hectare (2.4 acres)…
“Peru’s minister of the environment can make very good use of this information,” says Enrique Ortiz, one of Peru’s leading conservationists and a senior program officer with the Blue Moon Fund in Washington, D.C., which supports global environmental projects…
Alessandro Baccini, a remote sensing scientist with Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, says that while national carbon maps have been produced before, the technology used by Asner and the Carnegie team allows for greater precision and accuracy…
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/07/30/perus-first-ever-high-resolution-carbon-map-could-help-the-world-breathe-easier/
THIS is the EGA? Sounds powerful.
http://ega.org/about
I have a few comments for those who are saying things will change if republicans take over.
First I think we should keep politics out of these discussion, stick to facts.
Second I made up a list of a politicians priorities after entering office.
1) Secure their reelection
2) Get rid of the previous incumbents appointments(Lessened to a degree if they shared a party)
3) Reward those who supported their campaign
4) Work on their actual agenda
5) Support their parties causes
6) Blame everything going wrong on their opponent and take credit for everything going right
7) Work on the agenda that got them elected
To close most politicians on all sides serve themselves and their parties first and their constituents a distant second.
was the applause for extorting money from Chevron for CAGW programs, or for the Chevron win?
pity the Doctors Medical Center missed out:
30 July: Marin News California: Robert Rogers: Richmond approves massive Chevron refinery project
Chevron’s five year-plus quest to initiate a $1 billion upgrade to its century old refinery, the largest in Northern California, was approved by a divided City Council late Tuesday after the company and city staff hammered out a last minute deal upping community investments and installing safety and piping upgrades as part of the project.
The vote passed 5-0, with two abstentions, and triggered a raucous applause from the crowd…
Like the July 22 hearing, Tuesday’s meeting was held at the Richmond Memorial Auditorium because of the large expected crowd. More than 600 turned out…
Chevron also announced that it would increase its community investments into local nonprofits and green jobs programs from $30 million to $60 million over the next decade. In the package approved Tuesday, the number swelled to $90 million, including money for college scholarships for local kids and donating land for a solar panel field…
Several expressed dissatisfaction that no money was included for Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo, the largest emergency room in the area and the one that treated most of the people who sought treatment after the 2012 fire. The hospital is expected to close or be drastically downsized due to financial troubles…
Council approval does not clear the way for Chevron to begin construction, however. The company said it will have to return to a Contra Costa County court that halted a previous version of the project in 2009 to get that judgment lifted.
http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_26244423/richmond-approves-massive-chevron-refinery-project
This post doesn’t say what the “EGA” in the highlighted text is. From the linked report:
No mention of the Joyous Foundation????? Why?
Reblogged this on gottadobetterthanthis and commented:
Contact your congressional representative and your Senators. We must repeal the necessary laws to eliminate the EPA, and we must replace it with a small, targeted, and limited agency with no executive authority. Limit its duration from the beginning.
I like this extract from the report.
An example showing who is driving what and why.
“EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy recently told Congress that the Agency’s proposed Existing Source Performance Standards for coal fired power plants, which is widely believed to be the death knell for coal as an industry, was, in fact, an opportunity for economic growth: “The great thing about this proposal is that it really is an investment opportunity. This is not about pollution control. It’s about increased efficiency at our plants, no matter where you want to invest. It’s about investment in renewables and clean energy.”418 In fact, multiple sources, including the New York Times, have attributed the authorship of the proposal in large part to the “NRDC mafia,” including David Doniger, Daniel Lashof, and David Hawkins.419
As this report reveals, NRDC obtains a significant amount of donations from the Energy Foundation, which is heavily funded by Sea Change Foundation, whose major donors are heavily invested in renewable technologies. This report offers a new perspective on the “opportunities” McCarthy was referring to which are the economic opportunities of millionaires and billionaires who are part of the far-left environmental machine heavily invested in helping EPA advance such regulations. It is surely not an opportunity for Americans living in Appalachia or the Powder River Basin who depend on coal for their energy supply and livelihood, nor is it an economic opportunity for Americans already struggling to pay their energy bills.
Cheers,
Roger
http;//www.thedemiseofchristchurch.com
“While it is uncertain why they operate in the shadows and what they are hiding…”
Really? Try some internet research.
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Mervyn says:
July 30, 2014 at 9:01 pm
No mention of the Joyous Foundation????? Why?
Not a happy ending? ;(
The HUGE money in AGW would have to be in a carbon tax/carbon trading scheme in tax for governments and fantastically leveraged trading contracts for Big Money……The Central and Investment Bank Cartel…….Big Money also owns Big Oil…….think Rockefeller’s………they own BOTH ends of it…….Warmist’s that use the Big Oil/Big Money argument seem to know very little about markets and finance or even where the big money is to be made in the scheme…..they dont even realize that Big Money ALSO owns Big Oil!!
Carbon Tax/Carbon Trading would just create another huge incredibly leveraged bogus market to exploit for people like the Rockefellers they wont lose anything on their oil holdings
I cant find it now but I saw a story about a Rockefeller non profit that supported Obama in his State Senate run…..several Rocky’s were on it’s board……seems contradictory, no?
Not really……
There’s Corruption On Their Escutcheon !
The US Senate and EVERYBODY should read this report !
GLOBAL CORRUPTION REPORT: CLIMATE CHANGE
The Global Corruption Report is the first comprehensive publication of its kind to explore the corruption risks related to tackling climate change. From international policy-making to national level mitigation and adaptation strategies and with a special focus on the forestry sector, the GCR draws on the expertise of more than 50 experts and practitioners from the anti-corruption movement and the climate change field. Report is 400 Pages Long.
Download the report as a PDF File FREE of Charge – 3.3MB.
http://files.transparency.org/content/download/103/415/file/2011_GCRclimatechange_EN.pdf
Balloon Burst Now
Anyone who still supports this tosh is either an imbecile or corrupt themselves.
QED
@Zap & others
Rockefellers > Kissinger > Brzezinski > Obama
In the video below, Rockefeller protégé and operative Henry Kissinger calls for the United States and the authoritarian government of China to work together to create a globalist totalitarian government.
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Kissinger – “Obama Will Create A New World Order”
“Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be
used as pawns in foreign policy”-Henry Kissinger
🙁
We will never win a war against environmentalism per se. Nor do we want to. Environmentalism is motherhood and apple pie. It is a given that the quality of the earth’s natural environment, its biosphere and species inventory must be preserved as much as possible.
The straw-man argument put in our mouths by the greens is “actually we do propose to devastate earth’s environment and leave nothing for our grand-children”. We must be careful not to give the opposition easy grounds for making that straw-man argument. They are skilled at spinning to the general public the idea that we skeptics are anti-environment. Thus we need to avoid certain arguments such as “nothing that humans do has ever or could ever conceivably damage the environment, the world is too large and we are too small.”
No – the way to “win” in this debate is not to oppose environmentalism but to propose an alternative environmentalism. The issue we have is very specific. It is the notion that “humans-burning-stuff-releases-CO2-which-makes-the-world-hotter-in-a-bad-way”. We must challenge this scientifically but at the same time make an equal effort to propose an alternative paradigm for the preservation and optimization of the environment, and show that we share the universal ideal to cherish the environment as humanity’s heritage.
The main points to promote are
(a) Climate by its very nature is always changing with no need of human input
(b) CO2 causes only very minor or negligible warming
(c) CO2 is in fact good for the biosphere promoting plant growth and the greening of marginal habitats
(d) CO2 ocean acidification is utter crap (communicated in a nice way)
(e) Economic growth supported by affordable energy eventually leads to a level of development where both environmental pollution and population growth are reduced and controlled to sustainable levels (so sabotaging economic growth on a false CO2 premise is a disastrous own goal).
In summary, environmentalism is good, but in wrongly targeting CO2 as an environmental problem, the greens are “throwing out the baby with the bathwater”. CO2 is the (black) baby that is being unnecessarily – and counter-productively – thrown out. Thus an alternative CO2-friendly brand of environmentalism could be called for instance “baby environmentalism” with maybe a smiling black baby as an icon. This relates subliminally to the racist element of AGW that seeks to suppress economic and technical development in the developing world, satisfying the nostalgic racist supremecism of ageing westerners for a bygone colonial-imperialist era, this point should be made but with subtlety.
“Baby environmentalism” or some such carefully constructed alternative environmentalism is the weapon to use against CAGW, not a disorganized chorus of angry opposition to green issues as a whole, many of which are correct.
phlogiston says We will never win a war against environmentalism per se.
This issue is NOT about environmentalism. This IS about professional eco fraud.
This climate crap has been carbon copied from the anti fishing play book of the Pew Charitable Trust, started way before Al Gore decided to capitalize on the use of well prepared dogma created by Pews bought and paid for brigade of ecologists that have destroyed the lives and reputations of fishermen in the US, and around the world. The sensationalism continues today.
This is about money and power.
These people are not environmentalists.
They are slick army’s of lawyers, constantly suing the government we pay for.
They are the Enviro Capitalists, ruining lives.
Privatization. Consolidation. Intoxication for the week minded that are not knowledgeable.
A couple of links to illustrate these points. I hope you read them, and realize the connection.
Pew’s Conquest Of The Ocean
INTRODUCTION
This is the story of how a handful of scientists set out from Oregon with an unshakable belief that they knew what was best for the rest of us. They ended up conquering the world (or at least the watery portions of it) and got rich along the way, while the fishermen and their families only worked harder and got poorer. When their scientific dogma connected with nearly unlimited resources, the earth quaked and the resulting tidal wave swept aside all the usual checks and balances. It carried along the media, the politicians, the government agencies and the non-governmental organizations with such force that seemingly no one could stand against the tide.
http://fisherynation.com/pews-conquest-ocean
The Big Green Money Machine – how anti-fishing activists are taking over NOAA
“Oh what a tangled web we weave….” Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17.
http://www.fishtruth.net/
I pray that through this group reading this report will fan the flames of exposure.
I have stock in American Electric Power and the quarterly reports show the sierra club’s constant lawsuits/lawyers pretty much control what AEP does. It’s astonishing & even frightening how thoroughly AEP has caved in.