"Big Climate"

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We have an incredibly beautiful world that we should protect and cherish.

A number of readers are unhappy when I refer to "Big Climate." Here's some information that will clarify why I choose to use that term:

"According to E&E News, the CEO of the World Wildlife Fund, Carter Roberts, takes home a nifty $1.2 million each year in compensation. Similarly the president of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) gets close to one million each year, and the head of the Nature Conservancy gets three-quarters of a million. It takes half a million dollars to get the chief of the “Rainforest Alliance” to turn up for work, and $415k to feed the account of the president of the Wilderness Society. The two co-directors of Greenpeace USA get about $330,000 a year each."

You can read more here. These aren't charities in the traditional sense of the term. They demand your money, your votes and your loyalty. They propose to change the weather 20 years from now -- more than enough time for you to forget what they were promising in 2024. They use misleading phrases such this: 

The world is in deep trouble on climate change, but if we really put our shoulder to the wheel we can turn things around.

That statement simply isn't true. The weather is better than it was 150 years ago. The overwhelming evidence of the truth of that statement is here. Today's changing climate is turning the Sahara green. 

World Wildlife Fund via Jo Nova
Among the public, there is a tremendous amount of magical thinking that goes on when the subject is climate change. Here are the facts: climate is a bare knuckles business where money and power reign supreme -- issues directly related to climate are a distant third, if those even that high.

Perhaps in the beginning, many of the people at these organizations were motivated by science. Now, it is marketing tools like focus groups, press releases, lobbying Congress and obfuscation. Don't believe me? Ask one of these people, as I have, "What does success fighting climate change look like?" Instead of patiently answering (after all, they are requesting your money), they get angry. Why? Victory would be the end of the gravy train and we can't have that!

With the election coming up, these are issues worth considering. 

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