Environmental Groups Collect Vast Amounts of Money

If you wonder why you have been hearing and reading endless doomsday scenarios about the warming of the Earth, the rise of the seas, and the disappearance of species and forests for decades, the reason is that a huge propaganda machine is financed at levels that are mind boggling.

It is doubtful that most Americans and others around the world know how vast the organizational structure of the environmental movement is and how much wealth it generates for those engaged in an agenda that would drag humanity back to the Stone Age reports Alan Caruba. (1) More than 26,500 American environmental groups collected more than $10.5 billion in 2014 alone, according to the Giving USA Institute. They collected total revenues of more than $81 billion form 2000 to 2012. The institute also notes that amount of money donated to environmental groups is growing faster than for any other 'charity.' (2) In 2012 the Sierra Club took in $98 million and its foundation took in $47 million. The Environmental Defense Fund listed $112 million in earnings, the Natural Resources Defense Council took in $99 million, and the National Audubon Society took in $96 million. This pays for a lot of lobbying at the state and federal level. It pays for a lot of propaganda that the Earth need saving because of global warming or climate change. Now add in Greenpeace at $33 million, the Greenpeace Fund at $13 million; the National Wildlife Federation at $85 million; the National Conservation association at $26 million; and the Wilderness Society at $25 million. Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection took in $19 million. That's a lot of money to protect something that cannot be 'protected.' (1)

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One truly shocking blind spot; many major environmental groups get nearly half their revenue from private foundations like the Pew Charitable Trust, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Wal-Mart's Walton Family Foundation. Just the top foundation donors (out of 81,777) gave green groups $813 million (2010 figures). Meanwhile, opposition to global warming activism is paltry by comparison. The 91 conservative think tanks only raised $46 million for global warming or environmental related projects according to an analysis by Forbes. That's almost six times less than Greenpeace alone. And speaking of Greenpeace, this organization heavily criticized Koch Industries for allegedly sending a mere $79 million to anti-alarmist groups since 1997. Greenpeace took in three times that amount in a single year. (1) Recent studies showed that the EPA gave itself $31.2 million and $3.65 million in public funds to lead authors to support the scientific case for its Clean Power Plan. Universities typically receive about 50 percent of that money, making them deeply dependent upon federal funding and encouraging them to produce studies which will come to conclusions the government wants. (3) The author who received $3.65 million, Charles Driscoll, even admitted to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette that the result of his study was predetermined, saying 'in doing this study we wanted to bring attention to the additional benefits from carbon controls.' (2) James Taylor sums this up well: “The undeniable truth is global warming activists rise and spend far more money, including for a more untraceable special interest 'dark money', than global warming skeptics.” (4) Jack Dini Livermore, CA References 1. Alan Caruba, “Exposing the green money machine” factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com, November 4, 2014 2. “Enviro groups collected $10.5 billion in 2015,” junkscience.com, December 28, 2015 3. David E. Wojick and Patrick J. Michaels, “Is the government buying science or support?”, Cato Working Paper No. 29, April 30, 2015 4. James Taylor, “Dark money funds to promote global warming alarmists dwarf warming 'denier' research,” forbes.com, January 2, 2014