{"id":322674,"date":"2024-04-25T08:29:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T06:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=322674"},"modified":"2024-04-25T08:29:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T06:29:13","slug":"profits-of-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=322674","title":{"rendered":"Profits of Doom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"322679\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=322679\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0333672.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/author\/benjamin-pile\/\">BEN PILE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"467\" data-attachment-id=\"322676\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=322676\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/02024-04-22-23_53_56-pa-40936309_thev7z.jpg-1056%C3%97749.jpeg?fit=1044%2C674&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1044,674\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"02024-04-22-23_53_56-pa-40936309_thev7z.jpg-1056\u00d7749\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/02024-04-22-23_53_56-pa-40936309_thev7z.jpg-1056%C3%97749.jpeg?fit=723%2C467&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/02024-04-22-23_53_56-pa-40936309_thev7z.jpg-1056%C3%97749.jpeg?resize=723%2C467&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-322676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/02024-04-22-23_53_56-pa-40936309_thev7z.jpg-1056%C3%97749.jpeg?resize=1024%2C661&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/02024-04-22-23_53_56-pa-40936309_thev7z.jpg-1056%C3%97749.jpeg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/02024-04-22-23_53_56-pa-40936309_thev7z.jpg-1056%C3%97749.jpeg?resize=768%2C496&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/02024-04-22-23_53_56-pa-40936309_thev7z.jpg-1056%C3%97749.jpeg?w=1044&amp;ssl=1 1044w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A mainstay of the green lobby in the face of its growing number of critics is that climate sceptics are funded by oil, gas and coal interests. By claiming that commentators such as yours truly are merely the PR front for Big Oil, green campaigners feel that they have excused themselves from the need to make rational arguments. Profit, not reason, they claim, drives scrutiny of the climate agenda. But not only do their accusations lack any evidence, they ignore the much greater flow of money between private interests and green lobbyists. So, what\u2019s in it for them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If only we were funded by Big Oil, perhaps I would be as wealthy as Britain\u2019s top green officials, such as the outgoing Chief Executive of the U.K. Climate Change Committee (CCC), Chris Stark. The civil servant\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theccc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/CCC-Annual-Report-and-Accounts-2020-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">total salary and benefits<\/a>&nbsp;for the financial year 2020-21 amounted to a whopping \u00a3400,000. That\u2019s more than the annual&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk\/charity-search\/-\/charity-details\/4047036\/financial-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">total income<\/a>&nbsp;for the organisation at number one in the green demonology \u2013 the Global Warming Policy Foundation \u2013 for four out of the last five years. The CCC\u2019s former Chairman, John Gummer, restyled as Lord Deben, was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6661513\/Climate-Change-chief-John-Gummer-faces-calls-quit-payments-green-businesses.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a>&nbsp;to have made \u00a3600,000 from his business dealings with green companies, which he failed to declare in the register of interests \u2013 profits that helped him employ a butler, no less, at his Suffolk mansion. Gummer\u2019s predecessor at the CCC, Lord Adair Turner, saves the planet by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/earth\/earthcomment\/charlesclover\/3335947\/Earthlog.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">heating the swimming pool at his country retreat<\/a>&nbsp;using solar power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But as it happens, our alleged fossil fuel overlords are really quite mean. According to green activist sleuths&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/influencemap.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">InfluenceMap<\/a>, the biggest oil companies in the world spend approximately $200 million per year on climate-related propaganda. That\u2019s a lot of money, right? However, despite this being framed as \u2018denial\u2019 by InfluenceMap\u2019s coreligionists, the group\u2019s investigations expose no such thing. Rather than finding receipts, InfluenceMap\u2019s analysis merely&nbsp;<em>estimates<\/em>&nbsp;the costs of its enemies\u2019 advertising and lobbying campaigns \u2013 mere guesswork, in other words, forms the backbone of its research. And rather than finding \u2018denial\u2019, that analysis includes lobbying in&nbsp;<em>support<\/em>&nbsp;of Net Zero policies and global agreements. Using actual receipts, not merely estimates, I counted the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/benpile.substack.com\/p\/the-monolith-of-climate-smear-mongering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">total grants<\/a>&nbsp;made by the organisations that fund InfluenceMap to green campaigning organisations. It amounted to over $1.2 billion per year \u2013 six times more than InfluenceMap&nbsp;<em>guesses<\/em>&nbsp;their enemies allegedly spend. And that is not even a remotely exhaustive survey of the green blob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With so much money sloshing between billionaire philanthropists and ersatz \u2018civil society\u2019 organisations, the question must be, what is the&nbsp;<em>quid pro quo<\/em>? Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, after all. And if one can peddle misinformation on behalf of oil barons, one can peddle great big fat lies for green billionaires too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Real estate<\/strong>&nbsp;is one of the under-explored issues at the centre of green blob business plans. Despite green claims to prioritise \u2018efficiency\u2019, green policies massively decrease the productivity of land. And there is nothing that a rent-seeker values more than scarcity. Consider, for instance, the 1.5km<sup>2<\/sup>&nbsp;physical footprint of Hinkley Point C, the 3.2 gigawatt nuclear power station being developed in Somerset. An onshore windfarm with the same output, albeit unreliable (since the wind is variable), would occupy an area a thousand times larger. Even the&nbsp;<em>Guardian<\/em>&nbsp;recognises the swindle,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/jun\/29\/crown-estate-enjoys-huge-rise-in-profits-thanks-to-offshore-wind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reporting<\/a>&nbsp;that the Crown Estate made \u00a3443 million in 2022, thanks in large part to the seabed it rents out to offshore wind farms. In the 2010s it was pointed out that the then-Prime Minister\u2019s father-in-law, Sir Reginal Sheffield,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/585863\/Samantha-Cameron-father-250-000-wind-farm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">made \u00a3600,000 per year<\/a>&nbsp;from rents charged to two wind farms on his land. The upper classes are so keen on green because the relics of feudalism profit from neo-feudalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Zealots<\/strong>&nbsp;gotta zealot. And society has always had to deal with ideological zealots of one kind or another, who service the interests of their masters by confecting ideological imperatives. As&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Coming-Neo-Feudalism-Warning-Global-Middle\/dp\/1641770945\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joel Kotkin<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/martindurkin.substack.com\/p\/the-new-class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Martin Durkin<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Woke-Inc-Inside-Social-Justice-ebook\/dp\/B08ZXW96PH?r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vivek Ramaswamy<\/a>&nbsp;have all documented in their analyses of the emerging political order, a new clerisy has been established as society\u2019s moral guardians, standing between the eco-billionaires and the rest of us to enforce adherence to green diktats and other elite ideologies. Occupying countless positions across the non-wealth-creating sectors in the Civil Service, civil society, the \u2018third sector\u2019, academia and the news media, these culture war front-liners are nonetheless extremely well paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greenpeace is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.greenpeace.org.uk\/o\/diversity-inclusion-anti-racism-lead-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">currently hiring<\/a>&nbsp;a Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-racism Lead for its London HQ, and will pay up to \u00a366,192 per annum. Climb the greasy green pole to become a director of the \u2018charity\u2019, and you can expect&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org.uk\/about-greenpeace\/board-of-directors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">renumeration<\/a>&nbsp;of \u00a395,000. Last year, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/consumer-affairs\/imperial-college-vice-chancellor-pay-rise-ulez-covid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Telegraph<\/em>&nbsp;revealed<\/a>&nbsp;that the Vice Chancellor of Imperial College \u2013 the source of all dodgy air pollution, Covid and climate modelling \u2013 was paid a basic salary of \u00a3365,000, but earned as much as \u00a3527,400 for overseeing the prestigious institution\u2019s crystal ball-ocks factory. The wellspring of green ideological garbage, the&nbsp;<em>Guardian<\/em>, claims to be supported by its readers, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guardian\/status\/1710218348779196880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">not billionaire backed<\/a>\u201d, and its favourite green godfather, George Monbiot, routinely rails against mega-wealthy conspiracies that threaten to slow our slide into eco-austerity. But the newspaper is supported by a host of philanthropists&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2018\/oct\/02\/philanthropic-partnerships-at-the-guardian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">directly<\/a>&nbsp;and through its own \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/theguardianfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">foundation\u2019<\/a>.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/about\/committed-grants?q=Guardian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bill Gates\u2019s donations<\/a>&nbsp;to the newspaper total an equivalent of $116 per reader of the print edition. And the BBC\u2019s role in reproducing official orthodoxy needs no rehearsal here, nor do its staffers\u2019 generous renumeration packages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suffice it to say that not only are there great rewards available in the public and third sectors in roles advancing the green agenda, there are also significant punishments for those who question it. Don\u2019t expect academic freedom to extend to scepticism of \u2018climate science\u2019 or politics. And don\u2019t expect career advancement in the Civil Service if you believe that democracy is of greater importance than Net Zero targets. Aspiring journalists who express heterodox views won\u2019t get anywhere near the BBC or the legacy news broadcasters, whose commitments to the agenda are plainly stated. And of course, nearly all of civil society is committed to silencing the idea that today\u2019s society is built on affordable energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hegemony<\/strong>&nbsp;is a complex idea, but put simply, political elites need to&nbsp;<em>seem<\/em>&nbsp;to be about something other than power for the sake of power. There is no mistaking the fact that intergovernmental agencies and the institutions of globalism are all aligned with the green agenda. As an earnest and aspiring young globalist wonk explained to me once, \u201cglobal problems need global solutions\u201d. But the reverse of such glibness is also true:&nbsp;<em>global solutions need global problems<\/em>. The World Bank and the IMF, the United Nations and its constellation of agencies, the European Union and more have all championed the cause of saving the planet, more to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2024\/04\/12\/why-is-the-who-asking-doctors-to-lie-to-promote-climate-alarm\/\">bolster or rescue their authority than to deliver any actual<\/a>&nbsp;benefits. Stories that serve that political agenda are required, lest the rhetorical phrases of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, like \u201cglobal boiling\u201d and \u201ccode red for humanity\u201d, be made to look like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xmdBbs3O1g4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">extremely ridiculous unscientific hyperbole<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ESG&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 Environmental, Social and Governance \u2013 is the successor to the notion of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that businesses should be about more than profit. But more than CSR, ESG has become a tradeable commodity in its own right, as well as a near quasi-religious movement. In its simplest form, ESG is about rehabilitating the public image of billionaires, corporations and hyper-accumulations of capital \u2013 hedge funds. To me, at least, billionaire virtue-signalling was always implausible. The Rockefellers, for example,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2020\/07\/01\/environmentalism-a-racist-ideology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">are alleged to have funded<\/a>&nbsp;both Nazi eugenics research programmes and the United Nations\u2019 Third World population reduction programmes in the early days of the green agenda, but now claim to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockefellerfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">promote the well-being of humanity<\/a>\u201d. Similarly, currency speculator George Soros&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/ask\/answers\/08\/george-soros-bank-of-england.asp#:~:text=Soros%20bet%20against%20the%20pound,currency%20or%20leave%20the%20system.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bet against the pound<\/a>&nbsp;in the 1990s, leading to recession and a wave of unemployment, but now his foundation claims to help solve the world\u2019s problems, including by funding the ironically-titled&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Open Democracy<\/a>&nbsp;media platform. In the same vein, British billionaire hedge funder Christopher Hohn, with the assistance of a young Rishi Sunak,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/new-chancellor-rishi-sunak-cashed-in-on-fund-that-helped-break-banks-rb7zgfqkz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">helped to bring about the collapse of RBS<\/a>, leaving Hohn and Sunak with a fortunes in their pockets, and the public with a \u00a345 billion bail out bill. But just four year later, he was&nbsp;<a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Ben\/Downloads\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/media\/5a7dfe3e40f0b62302688795\/Birthday_Honours_FCO_Notes_on_higher_awards.pdf\">knighted for services to philanthropy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such billionaires, and Michael Bloomberg and Richard Branson too, have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into funding organisations that promote ESG. For the most part, this involves generating hype around the idea that ESG products, being perfectly in tune with \u2018nature\u2019, are likely to yield a better return than investments in dirty brown hydrocarbon energy. But it also involves generating fear both of climate change itself and of the consequences of failing to respond obediently to the encroachment of ESG into policymaking. As a result, ESG campaigning organisations corral sheep-like investors into acting as a force for activism, in turn making corporations the instruments of ESG lobbyists. The most notable victim of this mobilisation was Nigel Farage, who was debanked by Coutts\/RBS (the same RBS bailed out by the U.K. taxpayer) \u2013 a problem which has seen reported incidences increase by 44% over the last year,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2024\/04\/21\/farage-debanking-banks-complaints-surge-ombudsman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to the U.K. Financial Ombudsman<\/a>. Individuals, small businesses and even corporations are thus policed by financial institutions, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IwvGlF9_fpw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new and unaccountable form of governance<\/a>, which is in turn able to decide who may and who may not make money, and on what basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So there we have it \u2013 four key ways in which the unimpeachable cause of saving the planet is in fact driven by the same old lust for money, power and influence. The stories are much deeper and broader than can be covered here, of course \u2013 this article could be 100 times longer. But what I hope it shows is that whereas green mythology posits a somewhat 19th Century view of climate sceptics defending particular interests against progressive policymaking, those same arguments can be held against the bastions of green ideology, too. That includes their favoured news media channels, institutional science, public broadcasters, charities, NGOs and think tanks. For if an oil baron may not fund a public project, why should an eco-billionaire be free to turn civil society into a constellation of corporate lobbying outfits?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The balance of evidence, as measured by pounds and dollars, suggests that the green lobby has been doing precisely what it has accused the reliable energy sector of doing. Meanwhile, there exists little more than unfounded conspiracy theory to back up green claims that private interests drive scepticism. After all, even those infamous deniers, the Koch Brothers, were revealed to have billions of dollars invested in green tech by Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Planet of the Humans<\/a>. The world is not as simple as wacky green fear-mongers like Chris Packham would have BBC audiences believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Subscribe to\u00a0Ben Pile\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>The Net Zero Scandal\u00a0<em>Substack\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/netzeroscandal.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mainstay of the green lobby in the face of its growing number of critics is that climate sceptics are funded by oil, gas and coal interests. 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