Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Monday, February 01, 2010 1:50:09 PM
Last Month, the IPCC came out to retract their assertion of massive glacial melt on the Himalaya's, and glacier disappaerance by 2035.
Now we find out that the WWF, or the World Wildlife Fund has been getting funded by the European Union to the tune of around 8 million euro's a year.
For exactly what sort of activist organization is WWF? It is commonly assumed that it is a private advocacy organization funded by donations from the public: in other words, a “non-governmental Organization” or “NGO.” But closer inspection of WWF’s finances reveals that the “NGO” moniker is here — as indeed in so many cases — a misnomer. It would be more accurate to describe WWF rather as a “PGO”: a para-governmental organization. In fact, WWF receives massive funding from states. Moreover, it receives massive funding not from just any states, but from precisely that federation of states that has made combating supposed “global warming” into one of its highest policy priorities, if not indeed its highest priority — namely, the European Union.
According to European Commission data, WWF was awarded nearly €9 million in EU support in 2008 alone. In 2007, the figure was over €7.5 million.
But what is even more revealing is this:
Indeed, Debbie Framboise has turned up dozens of citations of WWF in the IPCC’s 2007 “Fourth Assessment Report,” on everything from “mudflows and avalanches” to the allegedly destructive effects of climate change on “marine fish and shellfish.” Richard North of the EUReferendum blog has uncovered yet another dodgy WWF-referenced claim on the alleged effects of climate change on the Amazonian forests.
That the IPCC’s assessment would rely so heavily on the claims of an activist organization raises obvious questions about its objectivity.
I can't say it enough: This is why you can't trust anything that comes from the U.N. and especially the IPCC.