Greenpeace co-founder says there is no proof climate change is man-made, compares the movement to a “religious cult”

 One of the co-founders of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore (who has since left the group), had some interesting things to say last week, including the claim that there is no proof that climate change is man-made:

A co-founder of Greenpeace told lawmakers there is no evidence man is contributing to climate change, and said he left the group when it became more interested in politics than the environment.

Patrick Moore, a Canadian ecologist and business consultant who was a member of Greenpeace from 1971-86, told members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee environmental groups like the one he helped establish use faulty computer models and scare tactics in promoting claims man-made gases are heating up the planet.

“There is no scientific proof that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are the dominant cause of the minor warming of the Earth’s atmosphere over the past 100 years,” he said.

Even if the planet is warming up, Moore claimed it would not be calamitous for men, which he described as a “subtropical species.”

  Of course we have known for quite some time the computer models were faulty, Climategate proved the corruption within the environmental movement, and the movement’s use of scare tactics cannot be denied, but it is refreshing to see someone as high profile as this actually confirm what we already knew to be the truth.

  Shortly thereafter Mr. Moore appeared on Sean Hannity’s show and had more to say:

It is a powerful convergence of interests among a very large number of elites, including politicians who want to make it seem as though they are saving the world, environmentalists who want to raise money and get control over very large issues like our entire energy policy, media for sensationalism, universities and professors for grants – you can’t hardly get a science grant these days without saying it has something to do with Climate Change.

  The grant issue is interesting and it is something that I have written about in the past, there is no doubt in my mind that grants are awarded for political reasons and those who toe the line will get the grants while those that do not will not. And we are supposed to blindly believe what we are being told about this settled science?

  But then he went on to say this:

It is a kind of nasty combination of extreme political ideology and a religious cult all rolled into one. And it’s take over way too much of our thought process and way too much of our priorities. There are millions of children dying every day from preventable vitamin deficiencies and diseases and we’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars on a problem that may not exist.

  There he makes the same connection many of us have made; climate change is a religious movement whether or not the believers want to admit it. It has a god–the earth–it has sin against the environment, and it has repentance through cap and trade.

  You would think that when one of the co-founders of Greenpeace speaks out like this it would draw national attention and it would be all over the news but you would be wrong. It does not fit the agenda so it is move along, nothing to see here…..

  And when you remember that the Democrats are pressuring the media to include  more climate change propaganda in their newscasts  I would not have expected it to be any other way.