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Originally posted by sns3guppy:

Greenpeace has done so. https://www.greenpeace.org/usa...statement-on-patric/

Greenpeace was founded by Jim Bohlen, Phillip Cote, and Irving Stowe. Moore applied to join a year later.

It plays well for Moore, however, to sell his services as an environmentalist, if he can say he is the cofounder of Greenpeace. He's spend most of his "environmental activism" lobbying for energy companies, and a very small part of it actually associated with environmental activism or Greenpeace. His selling point is his claim to legitimacy: if a true environmentalist like the founder of Greenpeace can say it, then it must be strong stuff. Except that he's not what he claims to be. This isn't his cause: it's his income. It's his business: pretending to be an environmentalist while instead a paid shill for energy companies.

I'm not making a statement regarding the correctness of his material, nor on the subject of climate change, but regarding Moore himself and his claim. The sensationalism isn't nearly as sensational, given his deceptive practice.

Moore still maintains he was a cofounder in his official bio:

1971 - 1986
Joined Greenpeace as founding member in 1971 and served as director and international director until 1986. President of Greenpeace Canada, 1977-1986. Leader of many Greenpeace campaigns including voyages to save the whales, expeditions to stop the seal hunt, end uranium mining, protest nuclear warships, halt toxic waste discharges, and restrict supertanker traffic. Participant in development of environmental policy, the constitution of Greenpeace International, and strategy for raising mass awareness of environmental issues.

http://ecosense.me/bio/


It would seem that if he is lying, that would be actionable.

I don't know; it may just be a case of "he said/he said" between erstwhile colleagues now in opposition to one another. We already know the Left has zero conscience about lying to further the cause.

BTW, even Greenpeace cannot agree on its own founding date, which isn't surprising. This is from their website:

Irving Stowe died of pancreatic cancer on 28 October 1974, aged 59 – only two years after Greenpeace was founded.

https://www.greenpeace.org/arc...ut/history/founders/



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Moore may be somewhat questionable in his bona fides, but he is correct in what he says. I have read (don't remember where) that botanists are deeply concerned with the low level of CO2 in the atmosphere, saying it is not enough to properly sustain the green plants on the Earth now, and we need more.

flashguy

further proof of the hoax can be gleaned from the leaked emails from East Anglia where trying to run the model they got the wrong answer

so they had to delete the data points that would have shown no appreciable increase, and the emails said they had to use a highly parsed data set that would only run on one specific model to give the answer they were looking for

its also sort of odd that no other model ever generated the 'hockey stick curve' with the suppressed origins

the whole thing stinks of corruption and collusion on the parts of the 'researchers' and their agenda

I met Dr. Moore last year while he was visiting a mutual friend in the area. Looked at his stuff on You-Tube and it all makes sense to me.

To support 60+ ton land creatures there would have had to have been a shitload of green stuff and green plant stuff need lots of CO2.

As far as his founding claims. I was not there, so hard to know whom to believe since Greenpeace is a sack full of liars anyway. Perhaps this is the entry card in to the Greenpeace club - being a lying sack of shit.

Beg to differ, sns3guppy but from Greenpeace archives prior to them rewriting history to diminish his contributions;


The Founders of Greenpeace

There's an old joke that in any bar in Vancouver Canada you can sit down next to someone who founded Greenpeace. In fact, there was no single founder, and the name, idea, spirit, tactics, and internationalism of the organisation all can be said to have separate lineages. Here's a few facts.
In 1970, the Don't Make A Wave Committee was established; its sole objective was to stop a second nuclear weapons test at Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.

The committee's founders and first members included:

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Paul Cote, a law student at the University of British Columbia
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Jim Bohlen, a former deep-sea diver and radar operator in the US Navy
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Irving Stowe, a Quaker and Yale-educated lawyer
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Patrick Moore, ecology student at the University of British Columbia
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Bill Darnell, a social worker
Darnell came up with the dynamic combination of words to bind together the group's concern for the planet and opposition to nuclear arms.  In the words of Bob Hunter, "Somebody flashed two fingers as we were leaving the church basement and said "Peace!" Bill said "Let's make it a Green Peace.  And we all went Ommmmmmmm."  Jim Bohlen's son Paul, having trouble making the two words fit on a button, linked them together into the committee's new name: Greenpeace.

Marie Bohlen was the first to suggest taking a ship up to Amchtka to oppose the US plans. The group organised a boat, the Phyllis Cormack, and set sail to Amchitka to "bear witness" (a Quaker tradition of silent protest) to the nuclear test. On board were: 
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Captain John Cormack, the boat's owner
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Jim Bohlen, Greenpeace
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Bill Darnell, Greenpeace
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Patrick Moore, Greenpeace
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Dr Lyle Thurston, medical practitioner
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Dave Birmingham, engineer
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Terry Simmons, cultural geographer
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Richard Fineberg, political science teacher
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Robert Hunter, journalist
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Ben Metcalfe, journalist
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Bob Cummings, journalist
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Bob Keziere, photographer
Stowe, who suffered from sea-sickness, stayed on shore to coordinate political pressure. Cote stayed behind too, because he was about to represent Canada in an Olympic sailing race.
Bob Hunter would take the lessons of that first voyage forward and improvise upon them to the point that he, more than anyone else, invented Greenpeace's brand of individual activism.
The Amchitka voyage established the group's name in Canada. Greenpeace's next journey spread their reputation across the world.
In 1972, David McTaggart answered an ad placed in a New Zealand newspaper by Ben Metcalfe, calling for a ship to go to Morouroa Atoll to protest nuclear weapons testing there.  McTaggart chose the following crew:
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Nigel Ingram, ex-Royal Navy
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Roger Haddleton, ex-Royal Navy
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Grant Davidson, a good cook
Their ship was rammed, and on his return the next year McTaggart was beaten by French commandos to the point where he lost vision in one eye.  An epic battle played out in media around the world as a tiny ship challenged one of the greatest military forces on Earth.
For the next two decades, McTaggart would vie with the French government over nuclear weapons testing at sea and in the courts,  and rise to the leadership of Greenpeace worldwide.  At a point when separatist Greenpeace national and regional entities were taking legal action against one another, the successful businessman and athlete stepped in and settled the arguments by founding Greenpeace International.

David McTaggart died in a car crash in Italy 23 March 2001. 



https://web.archive.org/web/20...out/history/founders

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