GreenPeace leader admits to Global Warming lies

Via Big Hollywood:

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. 

“I don’t think it will be melting by 2030. … That may have been a mistake,” he said.

Sackur said the claim was inaccurate on two fronts, pointing out that the Arctic ice is a mass of 1.6 million square kilometers with a thickness of 3 km in the middle, and that it had survived much warmer periods in history than the present. 

The BBC reporter accused Leipold and Greenpeace of releasing “misleading information” and using “exaggeration and alarmism.” 

Leipold’s admission that Greenpeace issued misleading information is a major embarrassment to the organization, which often has been accused of alarmism but has always insisted that it applies full scientific rigor in its global-warming pronouncements. 

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. 

Leipold said later in the BBC interview that 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. 

“We will definitely have to move to a different concept of growth. … The lifestyle of the rich in the world is not a sustainable model,” Leipold said. “If you take the lifestyle, its cost on the environment, and you multiply it with the billions of people and an increasing world population, you come up with numbers which are truly scary.” 

Hmm... so he admits to lying initially... yet then goes on to make ludicrous claims we're all supposed to believe. 

And some will.  You know who you are.

Comments

[chuck aka XtnYoda]

Steven King couldn't write a more profound horror story than these people.

Had to post it.

[Mommynator]

Recently saw some actor or another talking about how polar bears are endangered, showing the cropped videos of a mother and baby on an ice floe, lying about them being endangered when in fact, their population has been increasing and so has the area in which they live.

They have to lie to panic ignorant people who are too lazy to be skeptical and find out what's really true.

By all means, let's not think.

[Danielle]

I have a baby and the thought of all of this scares me and gives me panic attacks. It's just another media outlet causing mass hysteria as always. Then they wonder why half the world is depressed! That's all that's ever on the news. It's seriously one scare tactic after another. I have been on medicine forever to help me deal with this. The more and more I really read into it, how many scientists are really saying it's another fluctuation in temperature that ALWAYS happens? Another way to make money. Give it 50 years and it'll make up something else!

[Der Beobachter Edelweiss]

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[David]

Global warming is fake and sucks

[chuck aka xtnyoda]

And just today in Copenhagen, Gore has said that by 2015 the arctic ice will be gone.

Gore is obviously not listening to Greenpeace.

Even when caught in a lie, admit to lies and misrepresentations... some still continue the same mime, and raise the stakes...???

[Mommynator]

Danielle - the only way to be calm and peaceful about everything is to remember that God rules the universe, that He doesn't make junk and made our Earth to withstand whatever we could do to it until we learn to do well, and that He loves and cares for us on an individual as well as corporate basis.

Yes, be angry and do stuff about it, but don't worry yourself into depression.