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1. Hollywood Screams Climate Change, Only to Discredit Itself

   May 25, 2016 12:51 pm Leave a Comment

   Hollywood celebrities have long warned us about warmer weather and melting ice caps. “Climate change is real, it is happening right now,” Leonardo DiCaprio proclaimed in his 2016 Oscar acceptance speech. “It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.”

   But that’s exactly what he’s doing. This month, DiCaprio proudly picked up an environmental award at the Riverkeeper Fishermen’s Ball in New York City. How did he get there? The actor used his private jet to fly from the Cannes Film Festival to New York and back again to France for a glitzy fundraiser one night later. DiCaprio’s trip accrued 8,000 miles in just a few days’ time, leaving quite the carbon footprint.

   It’s nothing new: The “Catch Me if You Can” star routinely flies around the world and travels aboard luxury yachts. In 2014, he spent his World Cup vacation on the fifth largest yacht in the world—owned by Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a billionaire oil tycoon.

   And Leo’s certainly not alone. Actor-turned-environmental-activist Mark Ruffalo is reportedly exploiting the contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan to promote his colleague’s sponge business. Ruffalo’s green charity, Water Defense, employs someone named Scott Smith as its “chief scientist,” who claims his sponge product “Aquaflex” is the only way to detect ongoing contamination in Flint. There’s just one problem: Smith isn’t a scientist. He claims to have a bachelor’s degree in economics and a business degree, but neither points to any scientific expertise whatsoever. So Smith is essentially using his connection to Ruffalo to promote a money-making scheme. And Ruffalo is gladly appearing on cable news networks spreading inaccuracies about the Flint water crisis—which even liberal outlets have acknowledged.

   One thing is clear: Big Green Hollywood doesn’t do itself any favors.

2. Greenpeace Doubles Down on “False Claims”

   March 23, 2016 1:17 pm Leave a Comment

   The public is starting to catch on that Greenpeace is anything but the innocent, peace-loving organization it claims to be. But that’s not stopping the radical environmental group from spreading false information to advance its extreme agenda.

   The group’s latest victim is Resolute Forest Products, a Canadian timber company. In 2012, Greenpeace claimed Resolute violated forestry practices the company had agreed to follow. When Resolute threatened a defamation lawsuit, Greenpeace retracted its claims—yet kept promoting those same claims and even added new ones to delegitimize the company. According to The Wall Street Journal, it allegedly showed video footage of Canadian trees ravaged by an insect outbreak hundreds of miles away from Resolute’s lands, only to claim the timber company was responsible for the damage.

   Greenpeace is now defending itself from charges of “defamation, malicious falsehood, and intentional interference with economic relations.”

   It’s become standard procedure: Greenpeace has been kicked out of Canada, India, and New Zealand in the past for “falsifying balance sheets” and “promoting an anti-development agenda” among other reasons. Resolute’s mother country of Canada even declared the organization has “no public benefit.”

   Judging by the group’s tactics, it’s easy to understand why. Just harken back to Greenpeace’s infamous press release of 2006: “In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world’s worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE].” It seems even Greenpeace gets the joke—internally at least.

   Too often, businesses cave into fact-challenged activist groups that are anything but reasonable. It’s nice to see one that is, well, resolute in its convictions.

3. Environmental Groups Linked to Russian Oil Tycoons

   December 10, 2015 7:28 pm Leave a Comment

   Our new video “From Russia With Love?” shows that radical environmental groups such as the Sierra Club and League of Conservation Voters might be receiving millions of dollars from Russian oil tycoons—who have a serious self-interest in slowing American energy production.

   The video is based on a recently updated report of the same name, which found that Russian oil and gas executives funneled over $20 million to a Bermudian corporation, Klein Ltd., redirecting funds to the California-based Sea Change Foundation—a nonprofit organization that sent roughly $100 million to activist U.S. environmental groups in 2010 and 2011.

   Klein, which “only exists on paper,” is based out of a Bermuda law firm linked to Leonid Reiman, a longtime friend of Vladimir Putin’s. The law firm, Wakefield Quin, is also home to a hedge fund operated by the Moscow investment firm Marcuard Spectrum—one of Marcuard’s founders now chairs Russian-owned oil giant Rosneft.

   Big Green radicals have long interfered with American energy independence. It seems that they’ve found a willing ally in Mother Russia.