Climate Change Report

[Jarvan]

From Greenpeace wiki...

"Environmental historian Frank Zelko dates the formation of the "Don't Make a Wave Committee" to 1969 and according to Jim Bohlen the group adopted the name "Don't Make a Wave Committee" on 29 November 1969.[31] According to the Greenpeace web site, The Don't Make a Wave Committee was established in 1970.[32] Certificate of incorporation of The Don't Make a Wave Committee dates the incorporation to the fifth of October, 1970.[33] Researcher Vanessa Timmer dates the official incorporation to 1971.[34] Greenpeace itself calls the protest voyage of 1971 as "the beginning".[35] According to Patrick Moore, who was an early member but has since distanced himself from Greenpeace, and Rex Weyler, the name of "The Don’t Make a Wave Committee" was officially changed to Greenpeace Foundation in 1972.[33][36] Because of the early phases spanning several years, there are differing views on who can be called the founders of Greenpeace."

"Because Patrick Moore was among the crew of the first protest voyage and the beginning of the journey is often referred as the birthday of Greenpeace, Moore also considers himself one of the founders.[33] Greenpeace used to list Moore among "founders and first members" of but has later stated that while Moore was a significant early member, he was not among the founders of Greenpeace in 1970"

'Early Greenpeace director Rex Weyler says on his homepage that the insiders of Greenpeace have debated about the founders since mid-1970's"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace

So was he a founder? Who knows. He was there at what Greenpeace calls "The Beginning". Of course NOW Greenpeace wouldn't call him a founder if it all started in his basement and he paid for it with his pocket change.

So your contention is that all the corporations and interests and front groups on that list are somehow "good"?

It's a long shot, but maybe that's true. But think about what it says about the messenger- he's going to lend his name to ANY DAMN THING. He's not an "expert" in ALL of those fields. Don't be daft.

From hat i saw, he was advising those companies on improving their Eco image, and maybe Eco practices.

You don't need to know Nuclear Physics to advise a company to NOT dispose of nuclear waste in a "bad" way.

Actually.. reading those things you posted... I don't see a single one that says he takes money to promote how awesome an energy company is.

Westcoast Energy and BC Gas 1993-1994 "to design a public consultation process to address greenhouse gas emissions for the natural gas sector in B.C.";

BHP Minerals to facilitate a round table on proposals to use the abandoned Island Copper mine as a landfill site (1993-94);

consultant to the Canadian Mining Association and the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada "on the role of biodiversity in environmental policy in the mining industry," (1996);

consultant to BHP Minerals (Canada) Ltd. to author a paper on the environmental impact of submarine tailings disposal over the 23-year life of the Island Copper Mine on Vancouver Island

The only thing that comes close.. is the fact that he speaks on behalf of Logging companies. Doesn't say exactly why he does.. but could be that he is saying something along the lines of replanting while logging doesn't harm the environment in the long term. -shrugs-

Unless the Logging industry has suddenly become the oil industry, or hell, the energy industry.. Cwolff's and your claims are invalid.

Also... the dude has a PH.D. in Ecology... I think that makes him an expect on the impact of companies on the ecology... Then again, what do I know.