By Paul Chesser on 9.29.10
From this morning’s edition of the Washington Examiner’s weeklong series on Big Green:
The median salary among all 15 of the highest-paid Big Green environmental officials (the nonprofits like Environmental Defense Fund, Nature Conservancy, etc.) is $261,295, while the median total compensation for the 15 is $308,465....
You know—these are the leaders of the groups who constantly wail that nature is under unrelenting assault by Big Oil, whose money and influence they say is the Goliath to the enviros’ David.
Meanwhile:
[Big Green] opposition nonprofits analyzed by The Examiner included the Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, Cato Institute, Concerned Women for America, Americans for Prosperity, Americans for Tax Reform, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Citizens Against Government Waste, National Taxpayers Union, and the American Conservative Union.
An Examiner analysis found a median salary of $228,703 among the opposition groups, or nearly $33,000 less than that received by the environmental executives. The gap is even wider when media total compensation figures are compared, with top executives at environmental opponents receiving $254,605, or nearly $54,000 less than the top 15 environmental executives.
Wait a minute?! Aren’t these largely the same conservative nonprofits that Greenpeace says are in the back pockets of the pollution-loving Big Oil (specifically, the Koch brothers)?
But then again, those Climategate guys were also sucking up to the Big Oil companies for cash themselves. And, believe it or not, so were the Big Green groups, as Amy and David Ridenour noted in June:
According to published reports, major environmental advocacy organizations that accepted major gifts from BP in recent years include the Nature Conservancy, the World Wildlife Fund, the World Resources Institute, various branches of the Audubon Society, the Wildlife Habitat Council and others....
BP also was a founding member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, contributing substantial funding to the climate-change-related lobbying efforts of the environmental groups within it, which include the Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, the Nature Conservancy and the World Resources Institute.
So the likes of Environmental Defense’s Fred Krupp ($496,174 in 2008 compensation) and the World Wildlife Fund’s Carter Roberts ($509,699 in 2009 compensation) are greedier fatcats soaked with Big Oil money than are the “climate deniers!” Read more here.
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It’s still the same old radical California agenda
By Paul Chesser
America’s first Earth Day, in 1970, was supposedly inspired in part by Sen. Gaylord Nelson’s tour of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill.
As he flew to San Francisco, the Wisconsin Democrat—who had already developed a following for his passionate environmental advocacy and liberal politics—read an article about college campus teach-ins being conducted across the country.
“If we could tap into the environmental concerns of the general public and infuse the student anti-war energy into the environmental cause,” he said, “we could generate a demonstration that would force the issue onto the national political agenda.”
Meanwhile in Northern California, a collection of radical leftists labored to put their principles—incorporating the newfound eco-passion—into print.
Read the rest here.
By Nicholas Ballasy
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.) told CNSNews.com at a “Sustainability Education Summit” hosted by the U.S. Education Department on Tuesday that environmental education in schools can “promote the agenda” of climate change and population growth through the influence it has on children.
“Like I keep saying over and over again, if you get young people invested in those ideas early on, that will result in those kinds of positive policy developments,” Sarbanes told CNSNews.com. “So, whether it’s climate change, whether it’s population growth, whether it’s all these factors that impact the health of our world, raising that awareness early among young people is only going to promote the agenda.”
CNSNews.com interviewed Sarbanes after he spoke at a U.S. Department of Education event--"Sustainability Education Summit: Citizenship and Pathways for a Green Economy"--hosted by Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
Sarbanes also said; “If we can provide them with a framework and help promote educational opportunities, in the beginning as I said, at the earliest stages, they’ll just grab hold of it and take it from there. So in a sense it’s a wonderful partnership where the adults can create this policy framework and help support it with grant funding and other kinds of initiatives and then the young people are going to take that, and they’re the ones that are really going to push it to the next level.”
When asked if students should be taught that global warming is a threat, Sarbanes said: “If you’re promoting outdoor education, building that into educational programming, they [students] can’t help but understand about climate change because they’re going to see the effects of it. They’re going to go to a local science center, right, and they’re going to learn about the effect that global warming is having right in their own communities.
“I mean, for example, the National Audubon Society has an initiative now where they are highlighting the fact that state birds all across the county are actually migrating out of the states that they’re the state bird of because the climate is changing,” said Sarbanes. “Well, a young person’s going to understand that if they are engaged in environmental education. So, it’s going to raise that awareness of climate change that, in turn, I think, can make them stewards, stakeholders in policy changes we have to make to try to address climate change going forward and so, another wonderful result that you can yield if you do this environmental education.’
John P. Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology co-authored an essay for the World Bank on “The Meaning of Sustainability” that said that human race must face up to a “world of zero net physical growth,” reduce material consumption and limit population growth. CNSNews.com asked Rep. Sarbanes if he thinks those ideas would help the U.S. economy.
“I think the more you focus on the environment, the need to preserve the environment, protect the environment, the more it’s going to lead to sensible policies going forward,” he responded.
Rep. Sarbanes continued, “Sure, there’s so much we can do in terms of reducing our consumption of natural resources and that’s the lowest hanging fruit right? To implement conservative measures and so forth and again young people are in a position to help drive that new way of thinking.” See more here. See the comments which represent the anger of most Americans tired of being told how their children or grandchildren should be brainwashed. Tired of being told if we don’t agree we must be mentally inferior. That Sarbanes, Kerry, Waxman, Markey, Boxer, Reid, Pelosi, Lieberman and the rest of the 15% APPROVAL CLUB in congress and their equally unpopular mainstream media know what’s best and so take we need to just accept their expertise and take our medicine. Not a chance.
Dr. Bob Carter passes on this, the most recent US attempts to indoctrinate children and citizens with AGW hysteria. He notes: “Sadly, the NSF used to be a high-quality, independent funding agency for high quality research, but no more; like all government agencies it is now corrupted on this issue. The cognitive dissonance between (i) the propaganda machine and the real science; and (ii) the views of the businessmen, bureaucrats and politicians who are determined to implement the Green AGW dream and Joe Voter is absolutely remarkable, and daily gets wider.”
U.S. Education Secretary Vows to Make American Children ‘Good Environmental Citizens’
(CNSNews.com) - U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan vowed on Tuesday that his department would try to make American children into “good environmental citizens” through federally subsidized school programs that teach children about climate change and prepare them “to contribute to the workforce through green jobs.”
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National Science Foundation Grant Promotes the Pacific Island Climate Change Education Partnership
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $998,994 to Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) to establish a Phase I Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) in collaboration with WestEd and the University of Washington.
which will serve the U.S.-affiliated Pacific Island region (USAPI): American Samoa; the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI); the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM: Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap); Guam; the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI); and the Republic of Palau.
Other core CCEP partners include the Pacific Curriculum and Instruction Council (PCIC), comprised of regional C & I Chiefs, and consulting learning scientists from Technical Education Research Centers (TERC) and Northwestern University.
The vision of PCEP is to educate through modern science and local environmental ecosystems, to address the urgency of climate change, and to honor indigenous cultures. Students and citizens within the region will gain knowledge and skills to advance these understandings, mitigate the extent of climate change, and adapt to its impacts.
The specific goals of PCEP Phase I include strategically planning for a culturally responsive adoption of high-quality, K-14 climate change educational programs and resources; involving local communities in developing those educational initiatives; and collaborating with other CCEP projects as a member of the NSF-coordinated network that plays a leadership role in climate change education.
By the end of the 2-year project, the partnering institutions expect to (1) develop a multidisciplinary K-14 climate change science education framework, and (2) create processes that facilitate the adaptation of existing curricula to the Pacific region’s climates and cultures. Both objectives intend to combine the best attributes of western science and indigenous cultures. The most comprehensive outcome will be a Pacific region strategic plan, which the partnership network can implement using the tools, resources, and commitments they develop.
More information about this project is available by contacting Andrea Jeong
Please if the spirit moves you write Andrea and tell her how you feel about the appropriateness of their support for enviro advocacy instead of research dollars to determine the real total climate story. This ‘brainwashing’ of our children is not limited to climate. The history has been rewritten - most of you would not recognize what the text books are telling our children about America’s proud history and role in the world and about religion. The NSF, NAS, AAAS, AGU, AMS have all abdicated their roles as objective science organizations after infiltration by environmental leaders and opportunists.