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In other words, the EU not only writes these people multi-million-dollar cheques, it then invites them to draft the guidelines that will govern their own industry. At the same time that this is taking place, the EREC produces a report with Greenpeace that later becomes a centerpiece of an IPCC document – of which a Greenpeace employee happens to be a lead author.

Evidently there are multiple connections between Greenpeace, the renewable energy sector, and governments – the latter of which is represented by both the EU and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. An incestuous group of people are, in a variety of venues, promoting an approach to energy generation that will end up costing the rest of us a ton of money.

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The IPCC and Greenpeace: Renewable outrage | The Economist

Dr Petersen won’t be drawn on the appropriateness or advisability of Dr Pachauri writing a foreword to a Greenpeace report, one which praised it as rigorous while not specifically endorsing its findings and noting that some experts would disagree with them. But at the Brussels meeting, Babbage put the question to Dr Pachauri himself. Here’s the exchange:

B: Some people are saying the IPCC is too close to Greenpeace

RP: I think that has no basis at all. The IPCC has had industry, we’ve had authors from Exxon Mobil. We keep a balance, going by the level of expertise of people, whether they’re in Timbuktu or this organisation or that organisation.
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RP: I talk to industry groups all the time, I advise industry groups, I don’t think there’s any imbalance there whatsoever. And I think being chair of the IPCC it’s for me to reach out to every section of society and to encourage debate, to encourage discussion irrespective of where it takes place. And I’m not taking any positions.