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Inside The Climate Change Money Machine

by Dr. Jay Lehr
November 22, 2019, 2:38 PM
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green money machineFor far too long the public has been deluded into believing that groups whose titles indicate their efforts to protect our environment are the Davids in a battle with the Goliath industrial complex of our nation.

They tell a story of protecting our air, our water, our forests, and our wildlife.

In the past 20 years with few exceptions, a central theme on which their fundraising letters and advertisements depend is the need for money to stop the existential threat that a rising temperature from the carbon dioxide emissions from the use of fossil fuels is causing.

Ron Arnold and Paul Driessen, authors of the 2018 book Cracking Big Green, learned to read IRS form 990 included in the annual reports of non-profit organizations.

They focused on the readily available year 2012. You can be sure the dollars they found to have been received that year have increased in the more recent years of climate-change hysteria.

Here is what they found to have been the incomes of some of the major well-known groups in 2012 alone.

  • The Sierra Club took in $97,757,678
  • The Sierra Club Foundation took in $47,163,599
  • The Environmental Defense Fund took in $111,915,138
  • Natural Resources Defense Council $98,701,707
  • National Audubon Society $96,206,883
  • National Wildlife Federation $84,726,518
  • Greenpeace USA $32,791,149
  • National Parks Conservation Association $25,782,975
  • The Wilderness Society $24,862,909
  • Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection $19,150,215
  • But those are the medium-sized incomes, here are the biggies:
  • The Nature Conservancy $949,132,306
  • Greenpeace International $406,000,000
  • Wildlife Conservation Society $230,042,654
  • World Wildlife Fund $208,495,555

The picture the green groups make of the big bad energy companies like Exxon-Mobile and BP is that of gigantic sums of lobbying money to keep the government on its side. This is not true.

They do not spend even a small fraction of the sums listed above in an effort not to be driven out of business.

These companies and their competitors, rather than battling the Green Ideology, spend money to join them by embracing wind and solar energy, even energy from bacteria as well as efforts to pump CO2 emissions underground.

But the money the above environmental groups take in is not the whole story of their gigantic power.

They work their magic through a program of lawsuits against the government which the government settles rather than going to court and thereby giving the groups success in their goals without reducing the funds in their coffers.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s report “Sue and Settle: Regulating Behind Closed Doors, shines a long-overdue light on the back-room manipulations that are now common between Big Green and the Environmental Protection Agency.

It works like this.

A private environmental group sues the EPA to issue new regulations by a date certain. The agency and the environmental group meet behind closed doors.

In the typical case, the government agrees to do whatever the activist group wants because for decades the EPA has been peopled by men and women who have long had a relationship with the ideology of the activist groups.

There are no messy congressional hearings, no public comment period, no opportunity for parties that will be adversely affected by the deal, to have their day in court.

Still better for them, in most cases, you the taxpayer are paying the litigators legal fees.

In addition, the international banking community is a major part of the green money machine. It has financed the world’s rush to solar and wind projects regardless of there dim future in providing economic energy across the globe.

Germany’s Deutsche Bank, Switzerland’s Credit Suisse, America’s Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Saks and nearly all their competitors are knee-deep in the billions of dollars spent by the global warming industry.

F. William Engdahl, in a perceptive essay titled ‘Climate and the Money Trail’ in the Journal NEO, published on September 25, 2019, said:

“The links between the largest financial groups, central banks, and global corporations, to the current push for a radical climate strategy to abandon the fossil fuel economy in favor of a vague unexplained Green Economy, it seems, is less about a genuine concern to make our planet a clean and healthy environment to live.

“Rather it is an agenda, intimately tied to the UN Agenda 2030 for a “sustainable” economy, and to developing literally trillions of dollars in new wealth for global banks and financial giants who constitute the real powers that be.”

We must recognize that today’s radical environmentalists are not attempting to solve problems but instead are calling for changes in our political system, in the reach of our laws, our methods of agriculture and industry, in the structure of capitalism, the profit system, international relations and definitely in education.

They are now working toward these goals with the best-financed lobby in our history. Global warming and climate change just turned out to be the very best mechanism to achieve these goals.

Portions of this article were excerpted with the permission of the authors and publisher of Cracking Big Green by Ron Arnold and Paul Driessen. It is a stunning expose of the modern environmental movement and its hidden financial masters.

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Comments 7

  1. JayPee says:
    6 years ago

    All that has to be done is

    Shut off the grant money spigot !

    When there is no more freely flowing
    grant money,

    There will be no more talk of the

    Climate Change LIE

    Global Warming LIE

    Greenhouse Effect LIE.

    Just shut off the money
    and
    You’ll never hear about it again.

    Reply
  2. David Lewis says:
    6 years ago

    The huge budgets of the environmental groups has another dimension. These groups pay their staffers excessively high salaries. If the climate change fraud fizzles, their donations will dry up and so will the money for their over paid staff.

    Reply
  3. Private Citizen says:
    6 years ago

    Non-profit and charitable donations are surely abounding BUT the real money is what the nuclear industry is spending to make climate change a reality in the minds of the voters and policymakers.

    Reply
    • Steve Bunten says:
      6 years ago

      Say what? What you wrote is pure bullcrap without a single iota to back it up. Where is the evidence? Methinks it doesn’t exist.

      Reply
      • Gerry says:
        6 years ago

        Educate yourself…

        https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Big-Green-Save-Earth-ebook/dp/B07BSQG2C6

        Reply
      • Dave of Reedy Creek, Qld. Aust. says:
        6 years ago

        Mate, you must be totally naive to write asking for evidence? Have you been asleep for the last 20 years? Media manipulation on a gargantuan scale, UN claiming to be doing what is best for us while pumping out mountains of fake facts and figures. I will give you just one…sea level rises. The Pacific Islands are all supposed to be sinking BUT when a real investigation was carried out recently, almost every one of them was growing! The ones shouting for money the loudest are people who are breeding themselves out of house and home, mostly one religion only. Here in Aus. Sydney Harbour has one of the oldest gauges and it shows minimal change in millimetres, not metres. Why would Al Gore, Barak Obama and our own Tim Flannery live right on the water yet promote this rubbish.

        Reply
  4. Spurwing Plover says:
    6 years ago

    And yet these same Eco-Freaks a re sending out their usial junk mail urging us to cut back on our Carbon Footprints while they leave Carbon Footprints the size of 250 Football Fields Just face it their favorite Wildlife pictures come on the big checks they get from the usial suckers dumb enough to fall Hook,Line and Sinker for their scam and Hollywood’s full of those suckers

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