{"id":865,"date":"2014-03-01T11:49:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T16:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.granitestatefutures.org\/?p=865"},"modified":"2014-03-01T11:49:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T16:49:04","slug":"no-proof-of-man-made-climate-change-says-greenpeace-co-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2014\/03\/01\/no-proof-of-man-made-climate-change-says-greenpeace-co-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"No Proof of Man-Made Climate Change, Says Greenpeace Co-founder"},"content":{"rendered":"

No Proof of Man-Made Climate Change, Says Greenpeace Co-founder <\/strong>
\nby Jack Kenny<\/em><\/p>\n

There is no scientific proof of man-made climate change, a co-founder of Greenpeace told a committee of the U.S. Senate, rebutting claims made by environmental activists, prominent politicians, and a steady stream of media reports of a nearly unanimous “consensus” among scientists about “overwhelming” evidence that man-made emissions of greenhouse gases \u2014 mainly carbon dioxide \u2014 are responsible for global warming. <\/p>\n

“There is no scientific proof that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are the dominant cause of the minor warming of the Earth’s atmosphere over the past 100 years,” Patrick Moore said in his prepared remarks<\/a> to members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Tuesday. A Canadian ecologist and business consultant, Moore was a co-founder of the environmental activist group Greenpeace as a Ph.D. student in 1971. Moore left the group in 1986, after it made what he described as a “sharp turn to the political left ” and began espousing policies he could not longer support, though opposition to global warming was not then among them.<\/p>\n