Greenpeace Co-Founder Patrick Moore: Climate Change Is Not an Emergency

A Greenpeace co-founder exposes what he calls climate fear-mongering, challenging mainstream narratives about CO2, extinction, and environmental activism.

Key Takeaways

• Patrick Moore co-founded Greenpeace in 1971 but left in 1986 due to the organization's anti-science positions
• Current CO2 levels at 400ppm are historically low; plants thrive with higher concentrations up to 1200ppm
• Climate has been warming naturally since 1700, long before significant human fossil fuel use began
• The "97% of scientists agree" climate consensus claim is actually only 0.3% when properly analyzed
• Nuclear energy could replace half of fossil fuel use safely and effectively
• Many environmental "catastrophes" like the Pacific garbage patch and polar bear extinction are fabricated or exaggerated
• Correlation between rising CO2 and temperature doesn't prove causation without considering other factors
• Environmental activism has shifted from humanitarian focus to anti-human ideology since the 1980s
• Current interglacial period will likely continue cooling trend over next 80,000 years regardless of human activity

Timeline Overview

• 00:00–20:00 — Moore's background growing up on Vancouver Island, discovering ecology, and co-founding Greenpeace to protest nuclear weapons testing
• 20:00–40:00 — Early Greenpeace victories against nuclear testing and whale hunting, transition from protest movement to powerful organization with payroll
• 40:00–60:00 — Moore's departure from Greenpeace in 1986 over proposed chlorine ban, shift in environmental movement from humanitarian to anti-human ideology
• 60:00–80:00 — Analysis of climate fear tactics, the psychology behind doomsday predictions, and critique of fear-and-guilt-based environmental messaging
• 80:00–100:00 — Scientific examination of CO2 levels, plant growth benefits, and historical climate patterns showing current warming is natural and beneficial
• 100:00–120:00 — Debunking polar bear extinction myths, explanation of 1973 polar bear treaty that increased populations from 6,000-10,000 to 30,000-50,000
• 120:00–140:00 — Critique of Extinction Rebellion tactics and Greta Thunberg as manufactured figurehead, discussion of nuclear energy advantages
• 140:00–160:00 — Examination of climate emergency claims, historical temperature records, and natural climate cycles including Milankovitch cycles
• 160:00–180:00 — Discussion of sea level changes throughout history, examples of Roman-era harbors now inland, and natural adaptation strategies
• 180:00–200:00 — Explanation of carbon cycle, limestone formation, and how CO2 feeds all plant life while being historically depleted from atmosphere
• 200:00–220:00 — Analysis of soil formation, agricultural sustainability claims, and forest recovery rates contradicting extinction narratives
• 220:00–240:00 — Exposing staged photographs of plastic pollution in seabirds, explanation of bird gizzards and natural plastic ingestion behavior
• 240:00–260:00 — David Attenborough's walrus suicide deception, nuclear energy safety record, and vaccine mandates as medical freedom issue

Early Environmental Activism and Greenpeace Origins

• Moore grew up on a floating village at the north end of Vancouver Island, accessible only by boat until a 75-kilometer gravel road arrived in 1965, giving him intimate connection to pristine wilderness and natural cycles from childhood
• He discovered ecology as an obscure branch of science in the late 1800s while studying biology and forestry at University of British Columbia, realizing it encompassed infinite interrelationships among all earthly factors including life, rocks, air, and water
• As an agnostic, Moore found spiritual meaning in ecology's infinite complexity, stating "I suddenly discovered religion in a non-religious sense in science... the wonder of the infinity of life and the universe"
• Greenpeace began in 1971 when twelve professionals met in a Vancouver church basement to protest U.S. hydrogen bomb testing in Alaska, calling themselves "John Cormack and his 12 disciples" as they took on the world's most powerful military organization
• The group's boat was nicknamed "Green Peace" when someone suggested making "peace" into "green peace" during their farewell, leading to the organization's name and the Greenpeace Foundation by 1972
• Their protest voyage got coverage on Walter Cronkite's evening news and helped change nuclear weapons development at the cusp of the Cold War, successfully stopping nuclear tests on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians
• After nuclear victories, Greenpeace turned to whaling, ending the killing of 30,000 whales per year in the North Pacific through four years of campaigning, with deep-sea whaling banned globally by 1981 through the International Whaling Commission

The Left's Hijacking of Environmental Movement

• By the mid-1980s, Greenpeace had become wealthy and powerful with significant payroll obligations, attracting political leftists who were "more clever at politics than we were" and ultimately hijacked the organization's direction
• Moore remained the only director with formal science education from 1979-1986 during Greenpeace International's formation, yet found himself outnumbered by five other directors lacking scientific background when dealing with complex chemistry and toxicology issues
• The breaking point came when other directors agreed to launch a campaign banning chlorine worldwide, despite chlorine being essential for public health in drinking water, swimming pools, and 85% of pharmaceuticals, with 25% actually containing chlorine molecules
• Moore explains the fundamental toxicology principle that "the poison is in the dose," using table salt as an example of how essential nutrients like sodium chloride become toxic only at high concentrations, not at normal exposure levels
• The environmental movement shifted from its original humanitarian focus of preventing nuclear war to an anti-human ideology where "humans are the enemies of the earth" and "the enemies of nature," treating humans as the only evil species on the planet
• This transformation represented a reinvention of original sin for environmentalism, similar to extreme Christianity's belief that humans are born with inherent evil, which Moore categorically rejects as destructive self-loathing projected onto environmental issues
• Moore attributes this shift to fear of death projected onto the universe, explaining that doomsday predictions throughout history stem from people believing "when they die the world will end because they think they're so bloody important"

Climate Fear Tactics and Psychological Control

• Environmental activists use fear and guilt as powerful control mechanisms, making people afraid they're killing their grandchildren by driving SUVs and emitting CO2, which is actually "the main food for all life on earth"
• The claimed 97% scientific consensus on climate catastrophe is a fabrication, with Christopher Monckton's re-analysis showing only 0.3% of climate scientists actually declared humans will cause climate disaster, while most simply acknowledged some human role in climate change
• Scientists hide behind politicians who fund them, getting their money through bureaucrats in what Moore calls "the deep state," while politicians, media, and activists serve as the "bull horn" or "megaphone" amplifying fear-based messaging globally
• Doomsday predictions have occurred throughout history for over 10,000 years, yet predictors are "batting zero on end times," making current climate emergency claims just another iteration of apocalyptic thinking with scientific veneer
• Moore doesn't fear his own death, explaining "there's one thing that you must do in life is not to worry about things you can't do anything about because then you'd be worrying about way too many things and you'd never get anything done"
• The terminology has escalated from "climate change" to "climate crisis" to "climate emergency" with no more extreme word possible, yet Moore sees no emergency when looking at his healthy, glacier-topped mountain environment on Vancouver Island
• Truth "doesn't matter one bit anymore" in climate discussions, with activists making up stories like polar bear inbreeding due to lack of ice, when polar bear populations have actually grown four to five times since 1973

CO2 Science and Historical Climate Context

• Current CO2 levels at 400ppm are near the lowest in Earth's 4.6-billion-year history, dropping to just 180ppm during the last glaciation 22,000 years ago, only 30ppm above the level where plants begin dying
• NASA has verified up to 30% increased photosynthesis due to increased atmospheric CO2, called "the greening of the earth," making this the primary known effect of rising CO2 levels rather than temperature increases
• The world has been warming naturally since 1700 when the Little Ice Age ended, with a 40-year period of faster temperature increase occurring before 1850, especially from 1690-1730, predating significant fossil fuel use
• Central England temperature records from 1660, the world's longest thermometer record, show steady one-degree Celsius rise over 320 years, demonstrating gradual natural warming rather than catastrophic change
• For 250 million years until 2.5 million years ago, Earth was consistently warmer than today, with CO2 levels around 2000ppm compared to current 400ppm, proving current conditions are unusually cold historically
• Commercial greenhouse growers worldwide inject CO2 to 800-1200ppm levels because plants grow faster with higher concentrations, and submariners safely survive at 20,000ppm for three months underwater
• Moore emphasizes that "no scientist who actually wanted to retain any credibility would claim that the correlation between rising CO2 and rising temperature at this very tiny piece of time is proof of causation"

Climate patterns follow complex cycles within cycles, with thousand-year fluctuations occurring during the current interglacial period. The Medieval Warm Period, Roman Warm Period, and Minoan Warm Period all occurred at roughly thousand-year intervals when Earth was warmer than today. These natural warming periods created conditions where Roman harbors now sit miles inland, and ancient coral reef limestone islands show 12-foot undercut erosion patterns from higher historical sea levels.

Debunking Polar Bear and Extinction Myths

• Polar bear populations grew from 6,000-10,000 to 30,000-50,000 since the 1973 international treaty restricting unrestricted hunting, when wealthy people could easily fly to the Arctic and hire Inuit guides for polar bear rugs
• The treaty was implemented because hunting had become "too easy" with modern transportation and high-powered rifles, turning the odds in favor of hunters against naturally dangerous polar bears who "will kill you if you don't watch out"
• Claims of polar bear inbreeding due to lack of ice are scientifically meaningless since inbreeding is both necessary within species and used in plant and animal breeding to maintain desirable characteristics, making it a "political term rather than a scientific term"
• Regarding extinction claims, the UN estimates 8.7 million total species exist based on only 1.7 million identified species, creating "seven million unreal species that we don't know about" from which they predict one million extinctions
• The main cause of species extinction is agriculture and habitat change, not hunting, which is why most species recovery programs focus on habitat preservation rather than hunting restrictions
• Since 1920 when the passenger pigeon became extinct, decreasing numbers of observed species extinctions have occurred as humans became more conservation-conscious, contradicting claims of accelerating extinction rates
• Agriculture necessarily creates monocultures incompatible with biodiversity, yet flying across agricultural areas reveals forests interspersed among farmland, maintaining habitat corridors naturally
• Europe went from less than 10% forest cover 250 years ago to 43% today through scientific forestry practices developed when wood depletion first occurred in human history around 1750

Nuclear Energy and Environmental Deceptions

• Nuclear energy could easily replace half of current fossil fuel consumption, providing reliable, cost-effective power while conserving precious fossil fuels for essential uses like aviation where liquid fuels remain irreplaceable
• Germany emits nearly twice the CO2 per capita of France because France generates over 50% of electricity from nuclear power, yet Germany is praised as a "green" model while France is criticized for nuclear dependence
• Almost no one has died from nuclear power except at Chernobyl, which used a flawed Soviet reactor design from plutonium production facilities that could theoretically go critical like "a slow nuclear bomb"
• Three Mile Island caused no deaths or harm despite core meltdown, and no one died at Fukushima from radiation, confirmed by the Radioactive Effects Research Foundation studying Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors
• The Fukushima disaster resulted from cultural differences where Japanese operators ask the president what to do during emergencies, unlike Western operators who immediately inform leaders of their remedial actions
• Over 2,000 people died from the Fukushima evacuation itself when five intensive care wards were moved to gymnasiums without proper facilities, while the actual radiation posed no danger requiring evacuation
• Moore witnessed "the beginning of fake news" during Fukushima coverage when CNN showed headlines like "Nuclear crisis deepens as bodies wash ashore" while showing backlit water vapor labeled as carbon dioxide emissions
• David Attenborough and other environmental celebrities push fabricated stories like walruses committing suicide due to lack of ice, when the walruses actually fled from 20 polar bears and fell to their deaths from a designated walrus sanctuary

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch represents another manufactured environmental crisis, with Moore challenging anyone to find genuine photographs without mountains in the background, since no mountains exist in mid-Pacific locations where the garbage patch supposedly floats. Similarly, staged photographs show albatross carcasses filled with inappropriate plastic items like clothespins and lighters, when seabirds actually use small plastic pieces as digestive aids in their gizzards, naturally regurgitating them before fledging along with other hard objects like squid beaks and pumice.

Moore concludes that environmental activism has devolved into "evil" manipulation using staged imagery and fabricated crises to maintain political power and funding. The shift from legitimate conservation efforts to anti-human ideology represents a fundamental betrayal of Greenpeace's original humanitarian mission to prevent nuclear war and protect civilization itself.