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Exxon Plays Greenpeace
 
... Like a Fine Violin
 
Greenpeace is convincing the world that global warming scepticism is a mouthpiece forExxonMobil.(1) Superficially this seems plausible, but it does not stand up to scrutiny undercloser inspection. Greenpeace has a website calledwww.exxonsecrets.orgwhich lists all theglobal warming-sceptic organizations which Exxon has connections with or has directlyfunded. Absent from the list is The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, which in 1998obtained 17,000 signatures to a petition claiming that the global warming hypothesis wasnot based on sound science.(2) Over half of the signatories were scientists with relevantqualifications in the fields of physics, geophysics, climate science, meteorology etc.(3) TheScience and Environmental Policy Project initiated a much smaller petition in 1997.According to Greenpeace, it received two grants from Exxon, $10,000 in 1998 and $10,000in 2000. (4) So, in the last six years, Exxon's funding for organizations conducting surveyson scientific opinion on global warming has averaged $3333 per year. Exxon is clearly thehidden hand behind global warming-scepticism says Greenpeace.
 
Were Exxon serious about funding scientific studies debunking global warming, or aboutcanvassing scientific opinion, they would perhaps provide a little more investment. It wouldbe easy for Exxon to counter the argument that the Oregon petition lacks credibility becauseit is run from"a tin shed", by moving the Institute into a New York skyscraper and havethem produce glossy brochures. It has not done so.Token five figure grants from Exxon to some of the 100 plus global warming-scepticgroups does not constitute a credible opposition. Most of these organizations are nothousehold names. Their pronouncements on global warming do not affect the balance of public opinion because their voices are crowded out by the hugely influential environmentalorganizations like Greenpeace. Total funding for the environmental movement in the U.S. isestimated at $4 billion annually. Exxon's objective is to smear global warming scepticism bythrowing it a few crumbs and declaring itself an ally. Who would trust a petition ormovement supported by an oil company? And so it's guilt by association, trumpeted byGreenpeace and others which enters public consciousness. The science presented by theOregon Institute receives little media attention.Even Greenpeace's factsheets cannot disguise which side Exxon is really on. Theirfactsheet on Stanford University reads :On November 20, 2002 Exxon Mobil announced it would give $100 million to agroundbreaking Stanford University project dedicated to researching new options forcommercially viable, technological systems for energy supply and use which have thecapability to substantially reduce greenhouse emissions." Other corporate sponsors to TheGlobal Climate and Energy Project included General Electric and Schlumberger.....
The project is not intended to further explore climate science,
instead focusing ondevelopment of new energy technology and carbon sequestration technology
(5)The same ruse was used in 1913 to get Congress and the public behind the plan for theFederal Reserve System. Unknown to the public, the Federal Reserve Act was drawn up insecret by Wall Street in 1910. Rockefeller and friends knew that there was great publicmistrust of Wall Street 's involvement with the Glass-Owen Bill placed before Congress.The only way to swing public opinion in favour of the Bill was for Wall Street to come out inthe press
vehemently against
 
it
. And so anti-establishment feeling helped to win the day forWall Street.(6). This is a warning from history that Rockefellers deny with their lips whatthey are doing with their hands.
 
So what are they doing with their hands, or more importantly with their wallets? Besidesthe Stanford University example, under the umbrella of Rockefeller Family Fund 136foundations formed the Environmental Grant makers Association (EGA) in 1987 which hasgrown to over 200 by the end of the twentieth century. It donates hundreds of millions of dollars annually to environmental groups. In a dazzling display of raw power, foundationswith interlocking directorates funded the Nature Conservancy in 1996 to the tune of $203,886,056, or 60 percent of its annual revenue. The Earth Charter, written by StephenRockefeller is the Ten Commandments for the Green Religion. It was a development of anearlier Rockefeller initiative, the 1972 Rockefeller Brothers Fund report entitled
Use of Land:A Citizen's Policy Guide to Urban Growth.
This was a bench-mark publication on subjectingproperty rights to government censure.(7)
 
The truth is that the big oil companies are controlled by the same people who financethe environmental movement through tax exempt foundations. Their objective is tomonopolize the world's fossil fuel reserves and
turn the tap off.
They want to charge you £1a mile to drive your car, whilst they traverse the globe in private jets and helicopters. Withtheir vast holdings in banks, pharmaceuticals and media companies, the Rockefellers arenot going to have one less creature comfort or any less political power if their oil company isworth $100 billion rather than $200 billion. Exxon may even grow in size if oil pricesincrease exponentially whilst consumption falls. Either way, the Money Trust will massivelyincrease their power over the rest of us by reducing our standard of living.(8)
 
Greenpeace has swallowed Exxon's bait hook, line and sinker. And thanks toGreenpeace, the public have swallowed global warming whole.Michael Nield
 
September 2004
 
1. Greenpeace's "Don't' Buy Esso/ExxonMobil" Campaign
 
http://www.stopesso.org/
 
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/listorganizations.php
 
2. The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, Global Warming Petition Project, 1998
 
http://www.oism.org/pproject/
 
3. Boston Globe:
Scientists don't agree on global warming
By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist, 11/05/98
 
http://www.oism.org/news/s49p725.htm
 
4.
Factsheet: Science and Environmental Policy Project
, SEPP, Greenpeace.
 
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=65
 
5.
Factsheet: Stanford University GCEP,
Greenpeace
 
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=81
 
6.
The Creature From Jekyll Island
, G. Edward Griffin, American Media, 2002, pp. 464, 469
 
7.Dr Michael Coffman,
Why Property Rights Matter
,
 
http://www.discerningtoday.org/PropertyRights2.pdf 
 
See also The Environmental Grant Makers Association website.
 
http://www.ega.org/
 
8.
The Police State Road Map
, Michael Nield, 2004, chapter seven, "The EnvironmentalMovement",http://policestateplanning.com/chapter_7.htm#7_5
 
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