SCANDAL: Climate activists secretly on public payrolls

They pop up everywhere on blogs, spouting their absolute belief in global warming and humanity's central role in it, but now the London Telegraph has found taxpayer cash is being funnelled to pay for this seemingly citizen-driven propaganda 'debate':

"More than £3.5 million (about NZ$9mil) has gone on recruiting a worldwide network of young "climate activists" in over 70 countries to engage in climate change propaganda – what Marxists used to call agitprop – and to pressure their politicians to join the worldwide struggle. Under a programme called Challenge Europe, £1.1 million has been paid out to fund young "climate advocates" in 17 countries across Europe, including Britain itself. But £2.5 million has been spent on a more ambitious project to recruit a global network of 100,000 activists in 60 countries across the world, led by 1,300 young "International Climate Champions", to participate in "international peer networks, both in person and online, to share ideas, projects and experiences".

Strangely enough, this publicly undisclosed (in the sense your average climate activist doesn't declare who's yanking their chain most of the time) robbery of tax dollars to brainwash taxpayers is only the tip of the iceberg, because we already have evidence of similar schemes elsewhere, as I blogged several months ago:

We're sitting here at Investigate magazine on video news footage from one of the agencies we are affiliated to, and a story about how 90 "opinion-setting" climate bloggers were brought on an all-expenses paid junket to Copenhagen so they could learn how to spin climate change on the internet and "save the planet" ahead of the conference proper next month.

"[23-Sep-2009] Ahead of COP15, the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen in December, 92 young climate bloggers from all over the world visited Denmark to get a perspective on the climate related efforts in the country. Bloggers from 40 countries visited, among other things the eco village of "Dyssekilde" in the north of Sealand. The future climate journalists are building up impressions for a web-debate leading up to the summit. Available material includes soundbites from the young bloggers..."

Who paid for it? Well, you'll read and see more on that in due course. There is also a plan to further indoctrinate youth leaders on global warming belief:

The contribution from the Netherlands enables 50 youthful delegates from developing countries to attend the Copenhagen climate summit in mid December. Ten children from what are known as the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) will head to Copenhagen. Rising sea levels directly threaten the very existence of these countries, including Fiji and Haiti. Five children from the developing countries will participate in the Children's Climate Forum. In addition, 25 young reporters from developing countries will have a workshop on climate change issues.

So next time Soros' paid minions at global warming websites take a poke a skeptics, remember that they are hypocrites funded or helped by cynical PR companies and UN agencies to brainwash the public and further the positions of "green" companies who, like Al Gore, stand to make (collectively) trillions of dollars if carbon trading becomes compulsory.

And of course, we already know who's making money from climate change.

Comments

[Fletch]

Gore has also been targeting religious groups in the hope of spreading the warming gospel, as he told Newsweek -

Gore tells Newsweek magazine in a pre-publication interview, that he has been adapting his fact-based message – now put out by hundreds of volunteers – to appeal to those who believe there is a moral or religious duty to protect the planet.

“I’ve done a Christian [-based] training program; I have a Muslim training program and a Jewish training program coming up, also a Hindu program coming up. I trained 200 Christian ministers and lay leaders here in Nashville in a version of the slide show that is filled with scriptural references. It’s probably my favourite version, but I don’t use it very often because it can come off as proselytising,” Gore tells Newsweek.

[Maurice J]

This Man Made Climate Change Sceptic will not believe the AGW Pushers, unless they provide Empirical Evidence to support their Null Hypothesis.
I will however accept that there is Mann Made Global Warming, with the assistance of Briffa,Hansen & Jones et alii, although the Mann et alii warming bears no resemblance to the real world...MWP...LIA...etc.
And to put the blame on CO2 (Plant Food) is not only madness, it shows a level of understanding below that of ancient cavemen, if that is possible.

[CM]

It's official. The best scientific minds reside here in this blog. If only the world knew......arrrrghhh the anguish!

[Mack]

One small lie for Mann
One giant fraud for mankind.