Greenpeace Leader Admits Organization Put Out Fake Global Warming Data
BBC Interviewer calls claim that Arctic ice would disappear by 2030 “misleading
information” and using “exaggeration and alarmism”
Paul Joseph Watson
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Greenpeace leader Gerd Leipold has been forced to admit that his organization
issued misleading and exaggerated information when it claimed that Arctic ice
would disappear completely by 2030, in a crushing blow for the man-made global
warming movement.
In an interview with the BBC’s Stephen Sackur on the “Hardtalk” program,
Leipold initially attempted to evade the question but was ultimately forced to
admit that Greenpeace had made a “mistake” when it said Arctic ice would
disappear completely in 20 years.
The claim stems from a July 15 Greenpeace press release entitled “Urgent Action
Needed As Arctic Ice Melts,” in which it is stated that global warming will
lead to an ice-free Arctic by 2030.
Sackur accused Leipold and Greenpeace of releasing “misleading information”
based on “exaggeration and alarmism,” pointing out that it was “preposterous”
to claim that the Greenland ice sheet, a mass of 1.6 million square kilometers
with a thickness of 3 km in the middle that has survived much warmer periods in
history, would completely melt when it had stood firm for hundreds of thousands
of years.
“There is no way that ice sheet is going to disappear,” said Sackur.
“I don’t think it will be melting by 2030. … That may have been a mistake,”
Leipold was eventually forced to admit.
However, Leipold made no apologies for Greenpeace’s tactic of “emotionalizing
issues” as a means of trying to get the public to accept its stance on global
warming.
He also argued that economic growth in the United States and around the world
should be suppressed and that overpopulation and high standards of living
should be combated because of the perceived damage they were doing to the
environment, eugenicist rhetoric which will be familiar to our readers and
anyone who has watched Alex Jones’ Endgame documentary.
As the Watts Up With That blog highlights, “Leipold’s admission that Greenpeace
issued misleading information is a major embarrassment to the organization,
which often has been accused of alarmism but has always insisted that it
applies full scientific rigor in its global-warming pronouncements.”
Similar claims that the north pole will be “ice free” crop up almost every
summer yet are routinely disproved.
Indeed, it was discovered that during August 2007 to August 2008, Arctic ice
had in fact grown by around 30 per cent, an area equivalent to the size of
Germany.
A new peer reviewed study has also discovered, “Total annual precipitation in
Greenland ice sheet for 1958-2007 to be up to 24% and surface mass balance up
to 63% higher than previously thought.”
As we reported last year, climate scientists allied with the UN IPCC were also
caught citing fake data to make the case that global warming is accelerating,
in another shocking example of mass public deception.
In November 2008, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), run by Al
Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, announced that the previous
month had been the hottest October on record. It later emerged that the data
produced by NASA to make the claim, and in particular temperature records
covering large areas of Russia, was merely carried over from the previous
month. NASA had used temperature records from the naturally hotter month of
September and claimed they represented temperature figures in October.
Watch a clip from the Sackur- Leipold interview below.
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