“Imagine the reaction, for instance, if a government had produced a fossil-fuel friendly report based on work by an oil sands engineer, without revealing the source, and had paid the same engineer to write its own summary of his initial work.”
That was the question Lorne Gunter (National Post) asked, and we know the reaction: all hell would have broken loose.
As it was, it was only Greenpeace, so it’s left to Steve McIntyre to expose them, again:
Canadian researcher Steve McIntyre discovered earlier this week that the IPCC’s recent report on alternative energy — which asserted that it was possible to convert the world to 80% green energy by 2050 if politicians would simply tax conventional sources and spend billions on alternative sources — was lifted largely from Greenpeace reports.
The lead author of the IPCC report turns out to be Sven Teske, a Greenpeace climate and energy campaigner, who the IPCC does not identify as such in either the report or its media releases. Mr. Teske is also the author of much of the Greenpeace material on which the IPCC report is based, in effect making him a peer reviewer of the validity of his own material.
Nice work if you can get it.
Cross-posted to the right-wing liberal
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Our wonderful BOS here in Loudoun paid $250K for the exact cookie-cutter report given out to a number of Counties by Owen’Corning….and it even contained a plug for the source who sold it to them. Basically, we paid for a copy of a copy….and one that included free advertising for the authors.
But wait, there’s more on a related front: It also happens that two people who’ve participated in the long term smear of skeptic scientists are also involved in the IPCC. One worked at the same enviro-activist group (which merged into Greenpeace USA in 2000) in 1996 that also employed Al Gore’s current spokesperson. The other co-authored a book with the same out-of-context phrase from a leaked memo that Gore has repeatedly, and incorrectly, said someone else discovered. Please see my American Thinker article:
“There is a Cancer Growing on the IPCC and Al Gore” http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/there_is_a_cancer_growing_on_the_ipcc_and_al_gore.html