This is the sort of stuff that just makes you want to scream.
From Oil Sands Fact Check, comes this interview with Bill McKibben: http://oilsandsfactcheck.org/2014/09/25/video-the-truth-about-the-anti-keystone-xl-rockefeller-brothers-fund/
Excerpt:
Timed to coincide with the anti-fossil fuel march in New York City over the weekend, the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation (RBF) led a press conference of groups announcing a pledge to divest from fossil fuels. Given that board members of RBF are heirs to the Rockefeller oil fortune, the media was led to believe that divestment from fossil fuels was a drastic change in practice for the foundation. Yet anyone who knows the least bit about RBF is well aware that foundation has given millions to groups that oppose fossil fuels for years.
In fact, RBF is credited for providing the financial support to launch 350.org. How do we know that? Because Bill McKibben himself reluctantly gave away those details in a little-watched YouTube video (full version of interview here) from three years ago with a news outlet called Climate Challenge.
From the transcript:
Climate Challenge: So you don’t get money from Pew or Rockefeller or any of those big foundations?
McKibben: No we did. Rockefellers Brothers fund gave us some money right when we were starting out that’s been useful too.
Climate Challenge: But they no longer fund you?
McKibben: Uhh I don’t know. I don’t have that sort of… funders sitting in front of me.
Climate Challenge: Really? That’s usually something that people know.
McKibben: Rockefellers is one of our… is a great ally in this fight.
So now the question becomes just how much money has RBF pumped into 350.org over the years? Vivian Krause, writing in the Financial Post looked into that early last year and found the number to be in the millions. In a piece out just today, Ron Arnold digs into the actual investments. No wonder McKibben was reluctant to divulge the information.
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And here, in plain public view, with an easy to find simple search, is the answer to Bill McKibben’s “Uhh I don’t know.” moment.
h/t to Vivian Krause via Twitter
Yes.
I was hoping there was going to be a poll to go along with this headline 🙂
In other words 350.org is funded by big oil.
Hilarious!
both
Search Results were limited to 5. Could there be more?
Wonder why he was too scared to admit to the truth.
Receiving funding from the Rockefellers is not necessarily something to be proud of. They have funded some rather unfortunate causes in their time.
Rockerfeller was 350.org’s 2nd largest single donor in 2012, probably hard for a president to remember the second largest, if only they had given $300,001!
http://threefifty2pt0.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/fy2012_350.org_form_990_public_disclosure_copy.pdf
If you are asking for an opinion then yes to all three and I would toss in misinformed and irresponsible as well. If you want solid facts the answer is nobody knows. We do know that carbon deniers kill people with the kiss of progressive global concern. Carbon deniers in this case being those who deny passage of so-called death trains carrying coal to market and who deny cheap fossil fuel powered electrical energy to starving populations in large parts of the world. It is not limited to the third-world. How many more elderly Brits must die from the bitter cold each winter because of misbegotten green energy policies advocated by these carbon deniers? How long before society does the right thing by putting them behind bars?
The Rockefellers are a brainless familiy that has spent a lot trying to atone for their antecedent’s bad deeds. Nelson was as stupid as they come.
Amazing hypocrisy!
You can’t make this stuff up.
One wonders how that makes his following feel……..or if they even have the ability to process the thought in context.
Steyer, Soros, Rockefeller, etc. I just threw up in my mouth a little. It seems that we should change from the term “hockey team” to “projectionists”.
“McKibben: Rockefellers is one of our… is a great ally in this fight.”
Maybe weepy Bill is using Bill Clinton’s definition of “is”.
This just makes you want to cry.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/08/06/the-weepy-bill-mckibben-effect-study-links-emotionalism-and-global-warming/
Stupid or evil. Whats the difference if it leads to the same outcome.
For the last 39 years, yes since the last time before present the persons and group beloning to the AWG-group put forward their thesis re. CO2, I have been saying: Follow the money.
adding the question: “Where have all the money gone?
And now
when some followed the money so we know where they came from,
we still don’t know where the money gone.
There are so much money “placed” by investors who want the AWG-believers to be believed to be true,
that neither Theories of Science is on the agenda before a paper of those believers are presented,
nor do we know how much of the pre-view paper’s writers, editors and other have had of said money,
nor do we know how much of the money gone into other pockets not associated with science at all, neither with so called science or real sound science….
Reblogged this on Canadian Climate Guy and commented:
Busted!
So old scary eyes Mckibben gets $800.000 given to him over 5 years and he comes up with uhh I don’t no, I have not got the info in front of me.Despicable liar on this subject and his so called global warming crap.What I cannot believe is how the rockerfellers are taken in by this fool.
Someone should inform the independent auditors of the Rockefeller Foundation that one of their recipients is not keeping accurate donor records and should be dropped from the grants list.
350, 400, 450, whatever.
& Naomi Oreskes in her capacity as the GMMPSPHMCCC*** should be informed immediately that we found out that it looks like McKibben is a double agent in the CAGW team being paid by both big oil and by green NGOs.
*** GMMPSPHMCCC means the ‘Grim Mistress of the Ministry of Public Safety for the Protection of the Heroic Mythology of the Climate Change Cause’
John
And how many times has McKibben parroted that line about how “all deniers are funded by big oil”?
Anthony, where’s YOUR $800,000?
Hypocrites.
Not the word I would have used, but I understand this is a family-centered blog.
Nice climate movement. A bunch of sleazy characters and connivers in cahoots.
Divesting from fossil fuels is a image move, it doesn’t have any real effect. For example, Exxon Mobil traded over 14 million shares today with a value of 1.4 billion And Rockefeller isn’t listed a major holder.
We expected what? Honesty? Integrity?