I spent last weekend at The Annual Australian Environment Foundation (AEF) Conference at Rydges Hotel Lakeside in Canberra. The conference theme was a ‘climate for change’.
But it wasn’t only about ‘climate change’, political analysis Graham Young spoke at the conference about the power of the internet, politics and lobbying and even mentioning this blog. He suggested we were about “community”, “sharing information”, “understanding objections” and also “rehearsing arguments”.
In the context of lobbying Mr Young made reference to the large environment groups’ Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund suggesting they are “successful modern political organisations”.
Outspoken geologist and climate change sceptic, Bob Carter, also made mention of the same two organisations, explaining that Greenpeace with an annual budget of US$272 million and WWF with a budget of US$487 million have more money to spend on lobbying than Australia’s major political parties during a federal election.
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There are photographs of some of the delegates and speakers at the AEF conference at the Community Web pages of this blog.
https://climatelab.com.au/blog/2008/10/aef-annual-conference/
[...] of such climate change advocacy outfits as Greenpeace, $270 million, and the World Wildlife Fund, $487 million), Revkin would have to acknowledge that Heartland’s output is impressive, especially so [...]
People - pleased find the time (you’ll need it) to read what I believe is a seminal ‘paper’ addressed to John McCain that is quite brilliant in it’s demolition of the AGW scam:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/an_open_letter_from_the_viscou_1.html
How very appropriate that a dude calling himself "denialist" can launch into simplistic name calling without a single shred of substance on the points being made by his targets. Says it all really.
The " communists" have a fancy office:) !!!
Check at my blog :
http://annimal.bloggsida.se/diverse/wwf-office-at-ulriksdals-royal-castle
Sid,
It's easier to lump them together as latter communists and to treat them accordingly. It seems all of the environmental groups in the U.S. are basically fund raising machines for the Democrats, so the discussions here are between communist zealots and the rest of using climate science as the interlocutory medium.
That Luke and his mates don't understand the science is besides the point - but its crucial to recognise them for what they are and not to be blind-sided by their specious blather.
Did you have bad week Denialist? Rattling cans on street corners and got the short shift more than usual and so the take was down eh? Better get used to it and maybe dip into your Super a/c to tide you over! Hahaha!
Boo hiss. Bad Greenpeace. Bad WWF. Good AEF. Good IPA. Stupid Hissink. Stupid Mott. Same same and not the slightest bit different after all these years Jen. BORING!!!