Uber-Environmentalist Laments Green Corruption and Ignores Climate Record

Writer Johann Hari would not seem such a hyper-Alarmist if the underlying science were true. But it's clearly not. Set that aside for the moment and immerse yourself in his article that roasts every major environmental group. Why? Because they're not doing much at all, and,

If we exceed the safe amount of warming gases in the atmosphere, then the earth will release its massive carbon stores and we will have runaway warming. After that, any cuts we introduce will be useless.

Forget that at the present we have no skill or credibility at predicting future warming and that the past record only points to catastrophic cooling as a plausible scenario and enjoy The Wrong Kind of Green or here http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100322/hari and mentioned here The Real Climategate: How America's Conservationists Have Been Bought .

Environmental groups used to be funded largely by their members and wealthy individual supporters. But Jay Hair--president of the National Wildlife Federation from 1981 to 1995--was dissatisfied. He identified a huge new source of revenue: the worst polluters.
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The Copenhaven UN climate summit ended with no binding agreement for any country to limit its emissions of greenhouse gases, and a disregard of the scientific targets. Given how little time we have, this was shocking. [David Donniger, the policy director of the climate center at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)] was indeed furious--with the people who were complaining. He decried the "howls of disaster in European media, and rather tepid reviews in many U.S. stories." He said people were "holding the accord to standards and expectations that no outcome achievable at Copenhagen could reasonably have met--or even should have met." This last sentence is very revealing.

He makes a case that the goals of the green groups are not achieved by the staggeringly expensive proposed cap and trade legislation. They don't go far enough he says because if it's too radical, it won't get the votes. In other areas of green activism, he shows that those programs are ineffective as well.

Although he decries local actions to protect a patch of forest here, a city's clean air there by green groups as too little too late, this is where we strongly disagree. Love them or hate them, it is the one area where activists have been proven to be effective and to abandon it is to render themselves completely irrelevant. We are misreading the signs in nature when the past climate record only points to cooling from the current temperatures and we can't explain why. Instead, scientists on the same bandwagon blindly predict temps rising evermore. For environmental groups to pursue lofty global carbon goals is to chase a fleeting phantom, with no possibility today of stating that this is the issue at all and no way to measure whether we had an effect after taking action.