Just take a good look at MV Esperanza, one of the ships of Greenpeace. Yes, you noticed right. That's sooty black smoke you are spotting! You may say it can't be but that afraid is what it really is. This 72-meter, three-engined diesel electric propulsion giant, which can cruise at 16 knots is a former Russian fire-fighting and emergency response ship. Needing to cut through ice, its designed with a very thick and heavy hull. Having a need to respond to emergencies, its also designed to be extremely fast at the same time.
So no surprise here. MV Esperanza is one hell of a guzzler of marine diesel, which is similar to ordinary diesel but comes in much cheaper, heavier and dirtier! Yet in India, Greenpeace activists have the thick skin to gherao (encirclement - a typically South Asian way of protest) offices of Airtel, India's top telecom provider. Why? Apparently, Greenpeace wants Airtel to switch off diesel!
That’s not all. Their hypocrisy does not stop there. Anyone who expresses scepticism of global warming is accused by Greenpeace of being in the pay of oil companies, global corporations. Greenpeace campaign is oriented to convince the world that global warming scepticism is a mouthpiece for ExxonMobil and other oil companies. So it maintains a website that "exposes" donations of Exxon/Esso to various U.S. think-tanks. Dr Willy Soon, world renowned astrophysicist, attached to the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics is their latest victim. The latest Greenpeace report, "Case Study: Dr. Willie Soon, A Career Fuelled by Big Oil and Coal," reveals that $1.033 million of Dr. Soon's funding since 2001 had come from oil and coal interests.
So let us apply the same standards that Greenpeace used and examine it with their own track record. Four significant issues immediately then can be raised.
So no surprise here. MV Esperanza is one hell of a guzzler of marine diesel, which is similar to ordinary diesel but comes in much cheaper, heavier and dirtier! Yet in India, Greenpeace activists have the thick skin to gherao (encirclement - a typically South Asian way of protest) offices of Airtel, India's top telecom provider. Why? Apparently, Greenpeace wants Airtel to switch off diesel!
That’s not all. Their hypocrisy does not stop there. Anyone who expresses scepticism of global warming is accused by Greenpeace of being in the pay of oil companies, global corporations. Greenpeace campaign is oriented to convince the world that global warming scepticism is a mouthpiece for ExxonMobil and other oil companies. So it maintains a website that "exposes" donations of Exxon/Esso to various U.S. think-tanks. Dr Willy Soon, world renowned astrophysicist, attached to the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics is their latest victim. The latest Greenpeace report, "Case Study: Dr. Willie Soon, A Career Fuelled by Big Oil and Coal," reveals that $1.033 million of Dr. Soon's funding since 2001 had come from oil and coal interests.
So let us apply the same standards that Greenpeace used and examine it with their own track record. Four significant issues immediately then can be raised.
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