Why I am a Climate Change Skeptic
Editor’s Note:
Patrick Moore, Ph.D., has been a leader in international environmentalism for more than 40 years.
He cofounded Greenpeace and currently serves as chair of Allow Golden Rice.
Moore received the 2014 Speaks Truth to Power Award at the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change, July 8, in Las Vegas.
The man is a renegade.
Golden Rice is a GMO rice variant altered to provide Vitamin A, which natural rice does not do.
Here, he writes:
Global warming is natural, much slower than the alarmists say, impossible to prevent, and not very threatening.
Measures proposed to prevent it by alarmists would be economically devastating to the whole world.
It would be much cheaper to just deal with it.
The IPCC is profoundly compromised by its bureaucratic interests.
Also,
[T]here is a powerful convergence of interests among key elites that support the climate “narrative.”
Environmentalists spread fear and raise donations; politicians appear to be saving the Earth from doom; the media has a field day with sensation and conflict; science institutions raise billions in grants, create whole new departments, and stoke a feeding frenzy of scary scenarios; business wants to look green, and get huge public subsidies for projects that would otherwise be economic losers, such as wind farms and solar arrays.
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[T]he Left sees climate change as a perfect means to redistribute wealth from industrial countries to the developing world and the UN bureaucracy.
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