By Paul Homewood
As reader Brian RL Catt pointed out, the AEP, along with many other media sources, relies on an outfit called Carbon Brief for its so-called information:
The impression we get implies that the Carbon Summary is a kind of reliable, scientific news source.
In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, Carbon Briefing is more than just a political, climate lobbying group, set up to advance the agenda of climate alarmists.
Its director is Leo Hickman, one-time editor of the Guardian, the company alone will remove any doubt about its objectivity. Other members of the group also questioned the credibility of Carbon Brief as an objective, fact-based source of material. The team includes fair-minded celebrities like Zeke Hausfather, Simon Evans, and former Independent “journalists” Daisy Dunne and Josh Gabbitas. Then there are Contributing Editors, such as Piers Forster, Richard Allen, Gabriele Hegerl, Simon Lewis, Tim Osborn, Camille Parmesan and Peter Stott.
The idea that any of these are going to give objective advice on climate issues is an insult to the intelligence of anyone with an IQ higher than the single numbers.
But above all, let’s see who is sponsoring this climate propaganda:
Well, our old friends are the European Climate Organization, or ECF.
And who is ECF? Here’s what David Rose had to say about them a few years ago:
At the heart of the bloc is a single organization – the European Climate Organization (ECF) – with offices in London, Brussels, The Hague, Berlin and Warsaw.
Every year, the organization receives around £20 million from ‘charities’ foundations in the US, the Netherlands and Switzerland, and transfers most of that money to green lobbying and advocacy groups.
It refuses to disclose how much it gives to each recipient and does not publish its accounts. But it acknowledges that the aim of these grants is to influence UK and EU climate and energy policy on a large scale.
ECF’s most important source for millions of people is an organization called Climate Works – a private organization that provides huge sums of money to climate campaigners around the world.
The Climate Works Manifesto was launched in 2007 in a document titled ‘Design to Win: Charity’s Role in the Fight Against Global Warming’. It said that to be effective, a campaign to change government policy on energy and emissions would need at least $600 million from donors.
It is driven by the belief that without radical action, ‘we could lose the war against global warming in the next ten years’.
It advocates giving generous grants to local campaigners in countries like the UK who have detailed knowledge of how their political systems operate.
In addition to better energy efficiency, carbon taxes and emissions caps, they must ‘promote renewable energy and low-emissions alternatives’. Utilities companies must be ‘financially incentivized’ – in other words, huge subsidies from taxpayers and billers – for this to happen.
Climate Works soon hit its ambitious fundraising goal, with a $500 million endowment in 2008 from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which went to the co-founder of computer maker Hewlett-Packard. This was followed by other grants of up to $100 million and a $60 million donation from the Packard sister fund. In July, a report by a US Senate committee named the Hewlett foundation as a key ingredient in the ‘billionaire’ club that effectively controls the environmental movement, pumping more than half a billion dollars a year for green groups around the world.
It claims ‘these affluent liberals fully exploit the benefits of a generous tax code that promotes genuine philanthropy and philanthropy’, but instead transfers the money to ‘given donors’. works’ to ‘advance shared political goals’.
One of the first activities of Climate Works based in the US was the establishment and funding of ECF as its European regional office. All major ECF funders are represented on the ECF board, including Charlotte Pera, who is also the CEO of Climate Works. Susan Bell, vice president of ECF, formerly vice president of the Hewlett Foundation.
It’s difficult to gauge the full impact of the ECF for one simple reason – although it does publish the names of some of the organizations it funds, it doesn’t state how much it brings in, nor exactly how much money it brings in. How is this used.
ECF’s Tom Brookes said: ‘The projects we fund are all part of the Foundation’s overall mission to support the development of a prosperous low-carbon economy in Europe.’
He wouldn’t explain why no amount was stated, just saying that ECF’s annual report ‘describes the goals of each ECF program area and its key grantees.
‘We are confident this is a sufficient level of detail to provide insight into the Foundation’s operations… Our policy regarding the information we publish reflects our responsibility to those sponsors and sponsors.’
However, it is clear from the information obtained that the list of ECF grant recipients of the green movement’s Who Is Who, includes Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, WWF, Client Earth, Carbon Brief, Green Alliance and E3G , the elite lobbying group convinced the Government to set up a £3 billion Green Investment Bank.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/how-the-eciu-is-funded/
In short, far-left political platforms, mostly funded by US billionaires, have been using their money to influence public policy for years, both in the UK and in Europe.
Why naive idiots like the AEP buy stuff is quite clearly a propaganda exercise is up to them to explain.
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