Posted on 8/19/2009, 6:28:11 PM by rvoitier
The outgoing leader of Greenpeace has admitted his organization’s recent claim that the Arctic Ice will disappear by 2030 was “a mistake.” Greenpeace made the claim in a July 15 press release entitled “Urgent Action Needed As Arctic Ice Melts,” which said there will be an ice-free Arctic by 2030 because of global warming.
Under close questioning by BBC reporter Stephen Sackur on the “Hardtalk” program, Gerd Leipold, the retiring leader of Greenpeace, said the claim was wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...
“Arctic ice has already disappeared,” Gerd Leipold claims.
Dumber than a box of rocks-—with apologies to a box of rocks.
Worse than dumb: knowingly false.
Personally, my solution to this is to issue every member of Greenpeas with a suicide kit. Thus we will raise the average IQ very slightly, properly harness the lemming factor and grant the rest of us a reduction of the noise generated by these publicity hounds.
Remember in 2000 how Gore's musings were compared to the Unabomber's and no one could tell the difference?
Too bad they put the wrong one in a Federal Maximum Prison.
Such people used to be called luddites.
The guys on Deadliest Catch in the wrap up show said this year’s opilio crab season in January was the coldest and most ice filled in twenty years.
According to Greenfleece, lying is OK because the organization is, after all, RIGHT and needs to make people believe that. Evidently the former head is going to become some sort of Hussein czar!
Feed him to a hungry polar bear.
“Although he admitted Greenpeace had released inaccurate but alarming information, Leipold defended the organization’s practice of “emotionalizing issues” in order to bring the public around to its way of thinking and alter public opinion.”
This is SOP for so many of the left’s claims that none of them are to be believed. The end justifies the means.
"...there is an urgent need for the suppression of economic growth in the United States and around the world. He said annual growth rates of 3 percent to 8 percent cannot continue without serious consequences for the climate."
Haning lied about the potential damage, he confirmed that "suppression of economic growth" ramains their goal.
Bookmark for later use
But their intent is pure. /s
Their arrogance is stupefying!
Liepold taking a cue from the Dan Rather school of journalism.
currents Antarctic ice image... 
Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap. ...- FoxNews
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