Greenpeace Leader Admits Organization Put Out Fake Global Warming Data

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BBC Interviewer calls claim that Arctic ice would disappear by 2030 “misleading information” and using “exaggeration and alarmism”

Greenpeace leader Gerd Leipold has been forced to admit that his organization issued misleading and exaggerated information when it claimed that Arctic ice would disappear completely by 2030, in a crushing blow for the man-made global warming movement.
In an interview with the BBC’s Stephen Sackur on the “Hardtalk” program, Leipold initially attempted to evade the question but was ultimately forced to admit that Greenpeace had made a “mistake” when it said Arctic ice would disappear completely in 20 years.
The claim stems from a July 15 Greenpeace press release entitled “Urgent Action Needed As Arctic Ice Melts,” in which it is stated that global warming will lead to an ice-free Arctic by 2030.

Sackur accused Leipold and Greenpeace of releasing “misleading information” based on “exaggeration and alarmism,” pointing out that it was “preposterous” to claim that the Greenland ice sheet, a mass of 1.6 million square kilometers with a thickness of 3 km in the middle that has survived much warmer periods in history, would completely melt when it had stood firm for hundreds of thousands of years.
“There is no way that ice sheet is going to disappear,” said Sackur.
“I don’t think it will be melting by 2030. … That may have been a mistake,” Leipold was eventually forced to admit.

However, Leipold made no apologies for Greenpeace’s tactic of “emotionalizing issues” as a means of trying to get the public to accept its stance on global warming.
He also argued that economic growth in the United States and around the world should be suppressed and that overpopulation and high standards of living should be combated because of the perceived damage they were doing to the environment, eugenicist rhetoric which will be familiar to our readers and anyone who has watched Alex Jones’ Endgame documentary.

As the Watts Up With That blog highlights, “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.”

Similar claims that the north pole will be “ice free” crop up almost every summer yet are routinely disproved.

Indeed, it was discovered that during August 2007 to August 2008, Arctic ice had in fact grown by around 30 per cent, an area equivalent to the size of Germany.
A new peer reviewed study has also discovered, “Total annual precipitation in Greenland ice sheet for 1958-2007 to be up to 24% and surface mass balance up to 63% higher than previously thought.”

As we reported last year, climate scientists allied with the UN IPCC were also caught citing fake data to make the case that global warming is accelerating, in another shocking example of mass public deception.

In November 2008, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, announced that the previous month had been the hottest October on record. It later emerged that the data produced by NASA to make the claim, and in particular temperature records covering large areas of Russia, was merely carried over from the previous month. NASA had used temperature records from the naturally hotter month of September and claimed they represented temperature figures in October.

Watch a clip from the Sackur- Leipold interview below.
"Greenpeace Leader Admits Arctic Ice Exaggeration"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC7bE9jopXE
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15 comments // Greenpeace Leader Admits Organization Put Out Fake Global Warming Data

  • akamaial
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    • Surprise, surprise...with all this bull-shit HOT-AIR being expelled and the bloviation from all these global warming special interest groups and their in-their-pocket bureaucrats...it's a god-damned wonder the polar ice caps haven't melted already.!.!

    • 7 months ago
  • Ish05
  • RojoGatto
  • idealist
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      idealist  
    • if they did put out fake evidence it was only because the real evidence was being withheld from the people to make democrats look bad.

      for the last hundred years the weather has been been all most exactly the same, untill now we have ice caps melting and breaking up and record heats around the world!

      i wont fall for this b.s. and neither should you!

      SCRUMPS A CHUMP!

    • 7 months ago
  • cantspascua
  • s0uthc0ast
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      s0uthc0ast  
    • Yeah, the globaloney is manufactured, so...... who is really surprised?
      It is winter in the southern hemisphere and in the Andes it is snowing heavily.
      Leipold admitting Greenpeace emotionalizes issues is a perfect example of what all organizations of its ilk do. Find a condition which exhibits some trending behavior, contrive a danger and human cause, extrapolate that trend beyond reason then find some simplistic and compliant politicians and media outlets to sound the clarion call to alarm. Finally, manufacture new excuse to tax a populace for its new sin.
      This is repeated over and over gain for any imagined social evil by the left in this country,

    • 7 months ago
  • trut
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    • Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the principal gas that trees and other plants need to survive, just like oxygen (O2) is the principal gas that humans and other animals require. Trees absorb CO2 and release O2 -- animals inhale O2 and exhale CO2. See how nice this all works! Earth's first, primitive forests made their prolific debut 300 million years ago during the Carboniferous Period. Before then, the atmosphere held far more CO2 but concentrations declined throughout the Carboniferous Period as plants flourished. During the Carboniferous Period the atmosphere became greatly depleted of CO2 (declining from about 2500 ppm to 350 ppm) so that by the end of the Carboniferous the CO2-impoverished atmosphere was less favorable to plant life and plant growth slowed dramatically.

      Today, CO2 concentrations are barely at 380 ppm -- still CO2-impoverished. Many scientists strongly believe that we should be trying to produce more CO2, not less. And for good reason.

      "Carbon is the building block for all life on earth. It provides all of the food and most the energy for the human race. Carbon dioxide is a tiny part of the atmosphere, yet it sustains all life on earth. It is NOT a pollutant. To be anti-carbon is to be anti-life and anti-human". - Viv Forbes, Pasture Manager, Soil Scientist and Geologist

    • 7 months ago
  • Scrump
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    • 7 months ago
  • metalcookiesxy70
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  • metalcookiesxy70
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      metalcookiesxy70  
    • Ah, so, you don't believe in Global Warming eh?

      I just got off of another article saying that Global Warming is alreadly, let I say that again, ALREADY has affected a part of Africa due to that Africa is suffering, because of its location which is in the sun's rays....

      That sir, is definite proof, comparing to this???

      No seriously, its going to happen...Global Warming is no doubt, going to happen...

    • 7 months ago
  • Scrump
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    • 7 months ago

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