From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
As reader Brian RL Catt factors out, AEP, together with many different media sources, depends on an outfit referred to as Carbon Transient for his so-called info:
The impression we’re fed with implies that Carbon Transient are some form of dependable, scientific supply.
In actuality, nothing may very well be farther from the reality. In actuality, Carbon Transient are not more than a political, local weather foyer group, set as much as promote the local weather alarmist agenda.
Its director is Leo Hickman, one time editor on the Guardian, which alone ought to erase any suspicions about its objectivity. Different members of the staff additionally put into query Carbon Transient’s reliability as an neutral, truth primarily based useful resource. The staff contains such neutral luminaries as Zeke Hausfather, Simon Evans, and former Unbiased “journalists” Daisy Dunne and Josh Gabbitas. Then there are the Contributing Editors, like Piers Forster, Richard Allen, Gabriele Hegerl, Simon Lewis, Tim Osborn, Camille Parmesan and Peter Stott.
The concept any of this lot would give neutral recommendation on local weather points is an insult to the intelligence of anyone with an IQ above single figures.
However most of all, let’s see who funds this cornucopia of local weather propaganda:
Sure, our outdated associates the European Local weather Basis, or ECF.
And simply who’re the ECF? That is what David Rose needed to say about them just a few years in the past:
On the coronary heart of the Blob is a single establishment – the European Local weather Basis (ECF) – which has places of work in London, Brussels, The Hague, Berlin and Warsaw.
Yearly it receives about £20 million from ‘philanthropic’ foundations in America, Holland and Switzerland, and channels most of it to inexperienced marketing campaign and foyer teams.
It refuses to reveal how a lot it provides to every recipient, and doesn’t publish its accounts. Nevertheless it admits that the aim of those grants is to affect British and EU local weather and vitality coverage throughout a broad entrance.
Essentially the most vital supply for the ECF’s thousands and thousands is a physique referred to as Local weather Works – a personal basis which channels colossal sums to local weather campaigners worldwide.
The Local weather Works manifesto was set out in 2007 in a doc entitled ‘Design to Win: Philanthropy’s Function within the Struggle Towards World Warming’. It stated that to be efficient, a marketing campaign to vary authorities insurance policies on vitality and emissions would wish no less than $600 million from donors.
It was pushed by the idea that with out radical motion, ‘we may lose the struggle in opposition to international warming over the following ten years’.
It advocated the giving of beneficiant grants to native campaigners in international locations comparable to Britain who had detailed data of the way in which their political techniques operated.
In addition to higher vitality effectivity, carbon taxes and emissions caps, they need to ‘promote renewables and low emission alternate options’. Utility firms have to be given ‘monetary incentives’ – in different phrases, monumental subsidies from tax and invoice payers – to make this occur.
Local weather Works quickly achieved its formidable fundraising goal, with a grant in 2008 of $500 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Basis, which spends the fortune amassed by the co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard pc agency. This was adopted by additional grants of as much as $100 million, and donations of $60 million from the sister Packard basis. In July, a report by a US Senate committee named the Hewlett basis as a key aspect in a ‘billionaires’ membership’ which successfully managed the environmental motion, pumping greater than half a billion {dollars} a 12 months into inexperienced teams world wide.
It claimed these ‘rich liberals absolutely exploit the advantages of a beneficiant tax code meant to advertise real philanthropy and charitable acts’, however as a substitute have been transferring cash to ‘activists’ to ‘promote shared political targets’.
One of many US-based Local weather Works’s first acts was to arrange and fund ECF as its European regional workplace. All ECF’s important funders are represented on ECF’s board, together with Charlotte Pera, who can also be Local weather Works’s CEO. Susan Bell, ECF’s vice-chairman, was previously the Hewlett basis’s vice-president.
It’s onerous to evaluate the ECF’s full affect for a easy motive – though it publishes the names of a few of the organisations it funds, it doesn’t state how a lot it provides, nor precisely how this cash is used.
The ECF’s Tom Brookes stated: ‘The initiatives we fund all fall throughout the general mission of the Basis to help the event of a affluent low-carbon financial system in Europe.’
He wouldn’t clarify why no quantities have been said, saying solely that ECF’s annual report ‘describes the aims of every ECF programme space and its vital grantees.
‘We’re assured that it is a enough degree of element to supply perception into the work of the Basis… Our coverage on the data we publish displays our duties to our grantees and donors.’
However, it’s clear from the data that’s accessible that the checklist of ECF funding recipients is a Who’s Who of the inexperienced motion, together with Associates of the Earth, Greenpeace, the WWF, Consumer Earth, Carbon Transient, the Inexperienced Alliance, and E3G, the elite foyer group that persuaded the Authorities to arrange the £3 billion Inexperienced Funding Financial institution.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/how-the-eciu-is-funded/
Briefly, far left political foundations, funded primarily by US billionaires, have been utilizing their cash to affect public coverage for years, each right here within the UK and in Europe.
Simply why naive idiots like AEP are shopping for into what is kind of clearly a propaganda train is as much as them to elucidate.
