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Is $26 million worth the reputation of a venerable, 1.4 million member environmental group ? The Sierra Club may be about to find out. the 120-year-old organization’s hushed financial marriage to the natural gas industry — and its just-as-secretive divorce — have left some long-time supporters feeling angry, betrayed or misled. The news cut especially deep for activists who have spent years fighting the spread of shale gas drilling in states like New York and Pennsylvania. The Sierra Club quietly accepted $26 million in donations from gas industry interests from 2007 to 2010 — years when the group’s national leaders...

The president raised some eyebrows this week speaking well of fracking and drilling and getting more of those nasty fossil fuels to use. The greens had conniptions. Meanwhile, the proof, as they say, is in the pudding. The Akron Beacon Journal reportsthat FirstEnergy Corp. has announced will will shut six coal-fired power plants, including four in Ohio, because of stricter federal anti-pollution rules. That would be stricter Obama rules. . .

There was a time when being a charity meant doing something real, something tangible. Operating a soup kitchen. Providing medical help to those in need overseas. Helping orphans here in Canada. Providing valuable goods or services. That’s real charity work. No longer. Now it appears that hyper-political lobbying can count as charitable work too. Yes, you can be a full-time whiner, and that counts as charity work! There’s actually a veritable industry of these professional moaners, these full-time nit-pickers. The green fundamentalists are perhaps just the most vocal example of this phenomenon. There’s no shortage of radical greens getting generous...

This will drive the Enviro-weenies nuts! http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3425246

Greenpeace International has ended a long-running campaign calling on Facebook to “unfriend coal” as a source of energy for its data centers, after Facebook agreed to promote clean and renewable energy, the two organizations said. In late October, Facebook announced plans to build a new data center in Lulea, Sweden, using hydroelectric power for the servers and relying on the local climate to cool the data center for free. At the time, though, Facebook made no commitment to use clean and renewable energy in its other data centers. Greenpeace rated Facebook’s existing data centers as among the dirtiest on the...

As environmental activists fly to Durban, South Africa to attack Canada’s climate change position at the UN climate change talks, I can’t stand idly by while false allegations continue to be made about one of Canada’s most innovative and important industries: The oil sands. Canadian oil is no “dirtier” than any other oil. When the full life-cycle is calculated, oil from the Canadian oil sands emits between 18 percent higher and 8 percent lower greenhouse gases compared to other sources of crude oil. I strongly favour reducing our dependence on fossil fuels by adopting technologies that use less of them....

Environmentalists are staging a two-week oil-pipeline protest outside the White House to boost their importance to President Barack Obama’s political calculations in the 2012 election season. But there’s little evidence so far that progressives’ disappointment with Obama’s environmental policies threatens to reduce their turnout on election day, or that it pressures White House officials to make additional concessions to environmentalists during a political season dominated by the public’s demand for additional jobs. Monday’s colorful, TV-ready protests against the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada’s oil fields to U.S consumers took place in Lafayette Park, in front of the White House. The...

Let’s revisit the year 1993 – or the year when Greenpeace hysterics launched their evil dinosaur car adverts. Not they were trying to scare the s**t out of kids. But Rod Frey reported: The picture opens on a fog, with a disembodied voice whispering, “It’s coming... Prepare yourself for the most significant event in automotive history.” Then, to the grating sound of twisting metal and coughing engines, a giant dinosaur constructed entirely of wrecked cars roars to its feet. Soon it begins to hack and cough, and eventually crashes to the ground and dies. “It’s coming,” concludes the voice, “The...

DUBLIN — Environmentalists are scuttling to courts to stop a modern-day gold rush at the top of the world, as the United States and four other countries scramble to stake claims to potentially vast oil riches under the frozen waters of the Arctic Sea. Environmental activists such as Greenpeace are opposed to any resource extraction in the region. “Greenpeace has been protesting on all Arctic ice drillings since 2000,” said Truls Gulowsen, program director of Greenpeace Nordic. “We believe it’s high time to put some bars on the industry’s push into the area. It’s too vulnerable, and there is no...

An OPEC billionaire has publicly said what everyone long suspected, but just hadn’t heard out loud before: Saudi Arabia doesn’t want the world to develop unconventional sources of oil, like Canada’s oilsands. Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, the world’s 26th richest man, worth more than $19 billion, told CNN he’s worried if oil prices stay around $100 a barrel, the West will look for other sources of oil and Saudi Arabia would lose its dominant position. “We don’t want the West to go and find alternatives,” he said, “because, clearly, the higher the price of oil goes, the more they...

Industry lobbyists behind ‘scientific’ claims in IPCC press releaseThe entire world will soon depend on renewable energy so governments ought to start subsidizing these industries immediately. So said the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in a report released Tuesday. The study’s conclusion was such a blockbuster that the panel issued a press release last month previewing the finding. “Close to 80 percent of the world’s energy supply could be met by renewables by mid-century if backed by the right enabling public policies a new report shows,” it proclaimed. Since this statement was supposedly based on actual scientific...

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Anthony Watts Steve McIntyre has uncovered a blunder on the part of Pachauri and the IPCC that is causing waves of doubt and calls for retooling on both sides of the debate. In a nutshell, the IPCC made yet another inflated claim that: …80 percent of the world‘s energy supply could be met by renewables by mid-century… Unfortunately, it has been revealed that this claim is similar to the Himalayan glacier melt by 2035 fiasco, with nothing independent to back it up. Worse, it isn’t the opinion of the IPCC per se, but rather...

Without doubt, Fukushima will also rate as one of the world's worst nuclear accidents, but all indications are that it is not nearly as severe as Chernobyl. The radiation emanating from Fukushima has been considerably lower, while exposures to emergency workers and local populations have been far better managed. Amazingly, despite the devastation of the site, there have been no radiation-related deaths at Fukushima so far, and only two workers have been hospitalised as a precaution. The only people to have perished at Fukushima were a man who became trapped in the console of a crane during the earthquake and...

I just bumped into a Greenpeace activist on my lunch break. My question du jour was this: "So do you honestly think that man can't stop nature from suddenly wiping out 25,000 Japanese people in under 15 minutes, but he can control the climate?" "Well, not so much control...er, ah, eh, ummmm....."

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – A handful of Greenpeace activists was outside Facebook headquarters on Wednesday, calling on the social network to "unfriend" coal energy for powering data centers and other operations. Members of the international environmental group set up a large computer screen to display comments streaming in from around the world in response to a Facebook post urging the firm to join an energy revolution. "We want them to 'unfriend' coal and 'Like' green energy," said Greenpeace spokesman Daniel Kessler, who estimated that a dozen volunteers greeted Facebook employees as they arrived the startup's campus in the Silicon Valley...

Nuclear power is always unsafe, says Greenpeace * From: AAP * March 14, 2011 10:22AM ENVIRONMENTALISTS say the possibly catastrophic failure of a Japanese nuclear reactor shows that nuclear power can never be safe. Two reactors at the Fukushima plant in north-eastern Japan have been damaged by the devastating earthquake which struck nearby on Friday, and at least one is in danger of meltdown. Radiation has been released into the air after an explosion at one reactor, and although authorities have said it is not intense enough to affect human health, they have ordered evacuations of people living within 20km....

Patrick Moore, co-founder of the environmental organization Greenpeace, isn’t too hot about global warming. Appearing on Fox Business Network with Stuart Varney on Thursday, he said global warming is a “natural phenomenon,” there’s no proof of man-made global warming, and suggested that “alarmism” is driving politicians to create bad environmental policies. He also said he’s not the only environmentalist that believes like him: Moore is the author of the book, “Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist,” in which he exposes the green movement and explains why he left the organization.

Talking to Stuart Varney.

“Let's talk about what that mass civil disobedience is going to look like. "If you're one of those who have spent their lives undermining progressive climate legislation, bankrolling junk science, fueling spurious debates around false solutions, and cattle-prodding democratically-elected governments into submission, then hear this: We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work. And we be many, but you be few.”

Today, Virginia taxpayers, a state lawmaker and a public interest law firm are asking the University of Virginia to produce important "global warming" records under that state's Freedom of Information Act. These are records the school no longer denies possessing but nonetheless refuses to release, even to Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. They address one of the most high-profile claims used to advance massive economic-intervention policies in the name of "global warming." In response to a previous FOIA request, U.Va. denied these records existed. However, during Cuccinelli's pre-investigation under the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act ("FATA"), a 2007 law passed unanimously...

Before last night’s U.S. Senate campaign debate in Kentucky between Rand Paul and Jack Conway, a fracas ensued when a left-wing activist approached Paul wearing a blond wig and carrying an anti-Paul sign. The activist accosted the Republican candidate, upon which she was wrestled to the ground and had her head stepped on by some overzealous and hypersensitive Paul supporters. Interestingly enough, the activist – whose name is Lauren Valle – seems to have spent some time in Louisiana earlier this year. And Valle picked up a citation for rather uncivil conduct during her stay in the Sportsman’s Paradise. Per...

On October 7 Godfrey Bloom, a member of the United Kingdom Independence Party slammed a Greenpeace stunt taking place outside of the European Parliament. Bloom says the protesters are “armed with two ounces of brain matter”, “never had a job in their lives”, and are the “worlds most dangerous people.” Bloom filmed the statement in front of the group blocking the building and doesn’t hold back any criticism. He hits the nail on the head all within a one-minute clip. This is not the first time Bloom has been vocal on the issue. In 2009, Bloom slammed global warming saying...

A former Sea Shepherd activist on Thursday accused the militant conservation group of deliberately sinking one of its own ships as a publicity stunt after a collision with a Japanese whaler. New Zealander Pete Bethune labelled Sea Shepherd's leadership "morally bankrupt" for allegedly ordering the hi-tech trimaran "Ady Gil" to be scuttled after it collided with a Japanese whaler last January in the Southern Ocean. Bethune, the Ady Gil's captain, said Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson ordered the ship's sinking to "garner sympathy with the public and to create better TV" in the publicity battle against Japan's Antarctic whaling program....

You have just released a video which has entered history as the most emetic, ugly, counterproductive eco-propaganda movie ever made. Believe me this thing is going to go viral beyond your wildest dreams. But unfortunately that virus is ebola. (Hat tips: Barry Woods/Tom Dalton/Pete Hayes/Old Goat/half the civilised world….) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSTLDel-G9k

While nuclear power presents itself as the largest low carbon source, its potential role in carbon mitigation is very limited and is not worth taking, given all its risks and costs. The International Energy Agency published in 2008 an analysis, Energy Technology Perspectives 2008, which illustrates this point very well. This scenario assesses what energy mix could achieve a 50% reduction in carbon emission by 2050.

It’s not just a band of flannel-shirted environmentalists any longer; it’s become a big-money, major player in Washington power politics and American elections. Starting today, the Washington Examiner is publishing a five-part special report in association with Pajamas Media on “Big Green�: the alliance of the Democratic Party, environmental groups, and activists in the progressive movement. It’s not just a band of flannel-shirted environmentalists any longer; it’s become a big-money, major player in Washington power politics and American elections.In this first of our five-part series in coordination with the Examiner, we consider how the consensus for environmental regulation in the...

Greenpeace activists had occupied an oil drilling ship anchored off the Shetland Isles to push for a ban on deepwater drilling in the North Sea, the environmental group said Tuesday. Two activists used speedboats to reach the 228-metre (750-foot) long "Stena Carron" ship and climbed up the rungs of the anchor chain before hanging off the side in tents suspended on ropes. One of the Greenpeace protesters, Anais Schneider, said: "The Shetlands are so beautiful and an oil spill here could devastate this area and the North Sea. "It?s time to go beyond oil. Our addiction is harming the climate,...

WJLA-TV, the local D.C. area affiliate of ABC, has fired longtime anchorman Doug McKelway for "insubordination and misconduct" after (or during?) an April report on left-wing oil spill protesters . In his piece, McKelway said the sparsely attended event attracted protesters "largely representing far-left environmental groups." [He cited Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth.] He went on to say the protest "may be a risky strategy because the one man who has more campaign contributions from BP than anybody else in history is now sitting in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama..." McKelway added that the Senate was unlikely to...

TOKYO – A Japanese court on Monday convicted two members of the environmental group Greenpeace of stealing whale meat they claim was intended for illegal consumption. The Aomori District Court gave suspended sentences to the activists after finding them guilty of stealing 50 pounds (23 kilograms) of whale meat from a delivery service company's warehouse in April 2008. The meat came from whales killed during Japan's government-backed research hunts.

...the Couric/Palin chronicles part XXVII: news of the leaked video showing CBS anchorwoman Katie Couric mocking Sarah Palin (no surprise) has swept across the virtual world. As if Couric's credibility needed another hit, she goes on in the video to mock Palin's kids. This is nothing new for airhead Couric, who was caught before doing a similar mocking of former CBS anchor Dan Rather. Is it any wonder her ratings have plummeted? Can there be any remaining doubt about Couric's agenda going into the famous hatchet-job interview with the former VP candidate? The truth is, no matter who the Republicans...

Activists disable some London BP petrol stations LONDON (Reuters) - Protesters from environmental group Greenpeace disabled some of BP's 50 petrol stations in central London on Tuesday in protest at the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Greenpeace said its activists had managed to close down 47 service stations in the capital. BP confirmed 30 had been forced to close temporarily. The company branded the demonstrations an "act of vandalism" and said it would reopen the sites as soon as it was safe to do so. The protests coincided with BP's second-quarter results where the oil company reported a $17 billion...

Greenpeace activist 'harpooned' while freeing tuna in the Mediterranean A GREENPEACE activist trying to free tuna from a commercial fishing net in the Mediterranean was harpooned through the leg by fishermen on a French boat, the environmental group said. "In a non-violent action, Greenpeace activists in zodiac boats attempted to lower the side of a purse seine net with sand bags to free the fish," said Isabelle Philippe of Greenpeace France. "At that moment, fishermen violently attacked the activists, harpooning one of them through the leg," she said. The injured man, a British national identified by the group as Frank...

Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Police sirens and the smell of tear gas filled the streets around Greece's parliament building Wednesday after protests against government spending cuts turned violent, then deadly. Three people died and four others were trapped when a fire bomb hit a bank in central Athens, the Greek fire brigade told CNN. The victims, two women and a man, were bank employees, they said. Bins and cars were set on fire around the city. Two public buildings were on fire and a fire truck was ablaze near the Temple of Zeus, the fire brigade said. Riot police in...

The climate fascists are getting restless...Emerging battle-bruised from the disaster zone of Copenhagen, but ever-hopeful, a rider on horseback brought news of darkness and light: "The politicians have failed. Now it's up to us. We must break the law to make the laws we need: laws that are supposed to protect society, and protect our future. Until our laws do that, screw being climate lobbyists. Screw being climate activists. It's not working. We need an army of climate outlaws." The proper channels have failed. It's time for mass civil disobedience to cut off the financial oxygen from denial and skepticism....

1. Attack World Hunger and Poverty as if Our Life Depends on It: It Does. Anchor our foreign policy in the compassion for the poor that unites all the world's religions. Reduce the debts of impoverished countries. Shift foreign aid from buying weapons to feeding people. 2. Champion the Rights of Every Child, Woman and Man. Make America stand for justice, not expediency. Stop turning a blind eye to governments that abuse their own people. Ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. If punishing a foreign tyrant means,...

Considered the climate Bible by governments around the world, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is meant to be a scientific analysis of the most authoritative research. Instead, it references literature generated by Greenpeace - an organization known more for headline-grabbing publicity stunts than sober-minded analysis. (Eight IPCC-cited Greenpeace publications are listed at the bottom of this post.) In one section of this Nobel-winning report, climate change is linked to coral reef degradation. The sole source for this claim? A Greenpeace report titled "Pacific in Peril" (see Hoegh-Guldberg below). Here the report relies on a Greenpeace document...

A new Movie is being displayed in Public schools (communist indoctrination centers.) And your children have no choice but to sit down and watch it whether you or they want to or not. Paid for by taxpayers. The new movie is called the story of stuff. It is an environmentalist and Marxist propaganda film being shown in schools all over the country. The premise: Your cell phone, Lego's, Ipod, computer, car, Styrofoam ETC is toxic and harmful and is killing you and the planet and its all being sold to you thanks to slaves in the third world! My how...

Japanese vessel smashes into Sea Shepherd anti-whaling boat Ady Gil in Aussie waters. Sea Shephard wants police in Antarctica. Videos

Over the past few months, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has witnessed the nation's energy secretary applauding companies for leaving the group, activists masquerading as its officials to hold a mock press conference, and now, protesters attempting to take over its building. And this is all because the group doesn't agree that global warming is man-made and that federal cap-and-trade policies are the answer to stopping it. Last Thursday, Greenpeace brought ladders to the chamber's D.C. headquarters, located directly across from the White House, to wrap yellow "crime scene" tape around the building. Roughly a dozen protesters descended on the...

I take it all back. Copenhagen was worth it, after all – if only for the sphincter-bursting rage its supposed failure has caused among our libtard watermelon chums. (That’s watermelon, as in: green on the outside, red on the inside). As Damian reports, on Twitter they’re all planning to cleanse Mother Gaia of their polluting presence Jonestown-style. The Great Moonbat is sounding more unhinged than ever: "Goodbye Africa, goodbye south Asia; goodbye glaciers and sea ice, coral reefs and rainforest. It was nice knowing you. Not that we really cared. The governments which moved so swiftly to save the banks...

Not even the Green Peace nuts believe that any more. Green Peace leader Gerd Leipold recently admitted that his organization’s claim that the Arctic Ice will disappear by 2030 was “a mistake.” But, today Al Gore attacker denier Sarah Palin for not believing his global warming junk science. MSNBC reported: In an interview that will air on MSNBC at 1:00 pm ET today, Al Gore rebutted Sarah Palin’s Washington Post op-ed and Facebook postings that question the science on climate change given the “Climate-gate” controversy. In response, Gore said that “the deniers are persisting in an era of unreality. The...

The environmental activism group Greenpeace, no stranger to controversy, is at it again. In conjunction with the start of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Denmark, the group has teamed up with TckTckTck to plaster the Copenhagen airport with advertisements featuring drastically altered images of famous world leaders participating in the summit. Though some industry observers have labeled the campaign "lame" and "dour," the group says the reaction to the ads thus far has been "phenomenal."

Nineteen Greenpeace activists have been arrested after breaching security and climbing the roofs of two Parliament Hill buildings this morning to protest climate change. But red-faced police and parliamentary security representatives have offered no explanation as to how the activists were able to so easily walk on to Parliament Hill laden with gear, scale the Centre Block and West Block buildings and unfurl large signs and banners. Some of the protesters stayed atop the West block for almost three hours before they were removed and arrested. “That’s not something I can talk about right now,” said RCMP spokeswoman Caroline Poulin,...

Londoners turn blue for climate protestUpdated: 07:30, Sunday December 6, 2009 Thousands of people have painted themselves blue and marched through central London to call for action on climate change. Two days before a crucial climate summit begins in Copenhagen, protesters decked themselves out in blue facepaint, eyeshadow, wigs and stockings and converged on Big Ben on a grey Saturday afternoon. Organisers said 40,000 people took part while the Metropolitan Police put numbers at 20,000. Demand action until blue in the face,' one placard read, while others said quit dirty coal'. The peaceful protest stopped traffic as it moved from...

Gerd Leipold, the outgoing leader of Greenpeace, admitted that his organization's recent claim that the Arctic Ice will disappear by 2030 was "a mistake." Greenpeace said in a July 15 press release that there will be an ice-free Arctic by 2030 because of global warming. BBC reporter Stephen Sackur on the "Hardtalk" program pressed Leipold until he admitted the claim was wrong. http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=6933

The media is chock full with articles of scientists, environmentalists and Carbon Billionaires (Al Gore) – stating how mankind is destroying the planet with our use of fossil fuels and other contaminents. The fact that industry is causing ecological and environmental damage is without doubt, but are we really the cause of the high greenhouse gas levels, or should we be more concerned with natural causes such as melting permafrost. We also take a look at why the ex Leader of Greenpeace lied on national television regarding Arctic ice disappearance and then defended the fact that Greenpeace had released inaccurately...

November 9, 2009 Volume 87, Number 45 p. 12 Clorox To Stop Using Chlorine Plant Security: Bleach maker will end shipment of hazardous chemical Michael McCoy Citing a desire to improve security, Clorox says it will stop making its namesake bleach out of chlorine and sodium hydroxide. Instead, the big household-products company will purchase high-strength bleach of up to 15% concentration and dilute it to household strength of 6%. The company will convert its Fairfield, Calif., plant within the next six months and switch its six other U.S. plants over the coming years.Clorox’ announcement came three days before the House...

Greenpeace is taking credit for taking climbers to the West End and Fort Pitt bridges this morning to unfurl banners stating "Danger — Climate Destruction Ahead. Reduce Co2 Emissions Now." Pittsburgh police and River Rescue crews swarmed the bridges where an estimated 20 protesters assembled. A banner was unfurled from the West End Bridge, but police intervened at the Fort Pitt Bridge to stop a simultaneous attempt there, said Mike Crocker, a Greenpeace activist who said he was the team leader coordinating the event from the North Shore near Jerome Bettis' Grille 36.

In addition to putting solar panels on “Mama Sara’s” roof, the activists put them on the “Senator Barack Obama School” in Kogelo Village as well. These activities were combined with a 20-day workshop to teach Kenyan youth “how solar photovoltaic panels generate electricity, about their installation and maintenance and the fabrication of self-assembling solar lamps and their marketing potential,” according to Greenpeace. The workshop involves youth from the Kibera Community Youth Program as well as community members of Nyang’oma Kogelo — 25 people in total. A thankful Mama Sara said: “I am very pleased that my home has been improved...

It's incredible the way much leaders of the "Church of Global Warming Moonbats" build their case on fuzzy data. .... The Grand Poobah of warming screwed up the numbers. It was actually a quite average month. Ranked 70th in the last 114 years. And guess what? Its wasn't the first time Hansen has screwed up his numbers. A study published in the Journal of Nature Geoscience last month discovered that the model to predict Global Warming was was all wrong. According to the Article: ..... around 55 Million years ago there was a major incident of Global Warming. This warming...