Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic

New submitter PensacolaSlick writes that [Patrick Moore a], co-founder of Greenpeace, and seven-year director of Greenpeace International, with other very pro-environmental credentials, has come out with a brief rationale for why he is "skeptical that humans are the main cause of climate change and that it will be catastrophic in the near future." He argues instead that in a historical context, human activity has saved the planet, declaring that "at 400 parts per million, all our food crops, forests, and natural ecosystems are still on a starvation diet for carbon dioxide." (Consider the source, which according to the New York Times is "the primary American organization pushing climate change skepticism.") Moore breaks with what might be expected of a Greenpeace founder as well in that he is currently chair of Allow Golden Rice.

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Re:Hasn't been involved with Greenpeace since 1985

[camg188]

On the other hand, the wallets of people working for IPCC are dependent on global warming. If global warming is not a problem, the IPCC goes away and they are all looking for new jobs.

The rest of your post is pure speculation.

Re:Hasn't been involved with Greenpeace since 1985

[blue trane]

Lincoln learned. He supported compensated emancipation, which the right-wingers of the day rejected for budgetary reasons, mainly; and ended up spending at least as much on the Civil War.

Calhoun's point of view is pretty much the same as the righties running today. The same rhetoric about "appeasement", the same paranoia about their way of life being destroyed. That is the essence of the right, and it is hopelessly backwards, on the wrong side of history.

Re:Hasn't been involved with Greenpeace since 1985

[dryeo]

Perhaps you should join ISIS, a government as far right as you can get. There's also Saudi Arabia, a shining right wing paradise. Me, I'd rather live in the evil left wing Scandinavian countries.